I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Sensing Lab in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I have the opportunity to work under the supervision of Dr. Fernando De la Torre and Dr. Lori Holt.
I completed my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. During my time there, I had the privilege of being advised by Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency as part of the MultiComp Lab in the Language Technologies Institute. I also had the unique opportunity to work alongside interdisciplinary teams from McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the world's highest-ranked psychiatric institution, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, an international leader in healthcare research across a broad range of medical specialties. My dissertation focused on multimodal and intra-/interpersonal modeling and analysis of the social interaction between mental health professionals and their clients, aiming to better track psychological symptoms and reduce client dropout rates.
My research interests include...
Social Signal Processing: advanced modeling of social interaction, cognitive-affective modeling frameworks, and multimodal communication analysis for both retrospective and real-time applications.
Multimodal Machine Learning: integration of verbal and non-verbal modalities, development and implementation of novel probabilistic and causal modeling techniques, and temporal sequence modeling for dynamic data interpretation.
Affective Computing: emotion recognition systems, predictive modeling of affective states, and enhancement of human-computer interaction through emotion-adaptive interfaces.
Artificial Intelligence: personalized user modeling and adaptation, comprehensive multimodal behavior analysis, and development of explainable and transparent AI systems.
Healthcare & Learning Technologies: AI-driven diagnostic support tools, innovations in computational psychiatry, adaptive intelligent tutoring systems, and the development of personalized learning environments.