highlights-archive

An archive of highlights.

Apr 15, 2024 Luminate is now available to try! It is also open-source.
Jan 18, 2024 “Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation” is accepted to CHI 2024.
Nov 22, 2023 I am giving a talk titled “Expanding the Thinkable Territory by Building AI Tools Inspired by Optical Instruments” at KAIST (Dec. 15), Naver (Dec. 20), and Seoul National University (Jan. 8th, 2024).
Nov 6, 2023 Received “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2024 papers
Oct 9, 2023 After a wonderful year at the Design Lab and Creativity Lab @ UC San Diego, I am joining DGP Lab @ University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Aug 9, 2023 Talk @ Microsoft Research, Cambridge - “Sensecape: Enabling Multilevel Exploration and Sensemaking with Large Language Models”
Aug 4, 2023 “Sensecape: Enabling Multilevel Exploration and Sensemaking with Large Language Models” is accepted to UIST 2023.
Apr 28, 2023 “Metaphorian: Leveraging Large Language Models to Support Extended Metaphor Creation for Science Writing” is accepted to DIS 2023.
Feb 1, 2023 Talk @ Design Lab and Interactive Computing Seminar (02.08) - “Toward Meaningful Interaction with Complex Information”
Nov 8, 2022 Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2023 papers
Oct 31, 2022 Presented CodeToon at UIST 2022! [Talk]
Oct 13, 2022 CodeToon was covered in TechXplore! [Article]
Aug 5, 2022 “CodeToon: Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Structure Mapping for Code-Driven Storytelling” is accepted to UIST 2022.
Jun 13, 2022 Our DIS 2022 paper received Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!🎖
Jun 8, 2022 Taught Experiment Design at University of Toronto’s Human-AI Interaction Research School
Apr 27, 2022 Talk @ Google - “Creating Opportunities to Move Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction”: Generating Comics from Code with Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Generative AI
Apr 5, 2022 “PrivacyToon: Concept-driven Storytelling with Creativity Support for Privacy Concepts” is accepted to DIS 2022.
Mar 15, 2022 Successfully defended my PhD thesis!
Feb 10, 2022 Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2022 papers
Jan 18, 2022 “Leveraging Generative Conversational AI to Develop a Creative Learning Environment for Computational Thinking” is accepted to IUI 2022.
Nov 15, 2021 Awarded LITE Grant to work on “Developing Curriculum and Guidelines for A New Approach of Teaching and Learning Programming with Comics”
Nov 6, 2021 “CodeToon: A New Visual Programming Environment Using Comics for Teaching and Learning Programming” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2022
Apr 21, 2021 Excited to present recent Coding Strip projects at UWTL 2021!
Mar 16, 2021 Presenting paper and CodingToon at SIGCSE 2021!
Jan 21, 2021 Selected as finalist for Adobe Research Fellowship!
Dec 16, 2020 My coding strip research is covered in press! [Article] [Twitter] [UWaterloo News] [ACM TechNews]
Nov 20, 2020 “CodingToon: Using Authoring Tool to Create Concept-driven Comics for Programming Comics” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2021
Oct 9, 2020 “Using Comics to Introduce and Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1” is accepted to SIGCSE 2021
Aug 11, 2020 Attending and presenting at VL/HCC 2020
Aug 10, 2020 Coding strip website has been revamped!
Apr 28, 2020 “Coding Strip: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching and Learning Programming Concepts through Comics” is accepted to VL/HCC 2020
Mar 23, 2020 “How Do We Design for Concreteness Fading? Survey, General Framework, and Design Dimensions” is accepted to IDC 2020
Feb 11, 2020 “Curiosity Notebook: A Platform for Learning by Teaching Conversational Agents” is accepted to CHI 2020
Jan 6, 2020 Teaching CS105 - Introduction to Computer Programming this term
Dec 16, 2019 Completed Comp-II and now a Ph.D. Candidate
Aug 11, 2019 Attended ICER’19 Doctoral Consortium in Toronto! Had an amazing time!
Jan 3, 2019 Awarded Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Full Grant for my 2-year research project on programming education [description] [proposal]