[ I'm very thankful and excited to share that I will be joining CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, an institution within the Helmholtz Association, as a tenure-track faculty member in October 2025! A big thank you to everyone who has helped me, especially my advisor! 😊 ]

I recently finished my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan School of Information and Department of Computer Science & Engineering. My advisor was the incomparable Kentaro Toyama.

I am a Human-Computer Interaction researcher. I design and build digital systems that center the consent of users—who often hold less power than system creators—to better support users’ nuanced needs around agency, privacy, and safety. Consent is fundamentally about ensuring individuals—especially those who tend to be vulnerable—have full agency to decide whether and how an interaction should occur.

Ultimately, my goal is to build systems that give users stronger agency over their online interactions and data—especially as emerging technologies are designed or used in ways that increasingly threaten users' agency. I strongly believe that within ethical realms, any individual, regardless of demographics or socio-economic status, should be able to freely carve out the interpersonal interactions they want on a system, or have a say over how tech companies use their data.