I am a Ph.D. student in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, where I am advised by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani. I am also an AI researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and I collaborate closely with the groups of Profs. Jonathan Gratch and Maja Matarić. My research themes are primarily human-centered, and I am particularly interested in Contextual Analysis, Social AI, and Human Communicative Behavior Understanding using multimodalities. My research is supported by the USC Annenberg Fellowship.

I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Over my journey, I am fortunate to have worked with Prof. Fernando De la Torre from the CMU Robotics Institute as a Research Associate, with Prof. David W. Jacobs from the University of Maryland during my Master's, and with Prof. Ngan Le from the University of Arkansas during my research internships.

*I am happy to discuss and collaborate on the relevant research!*