research experience

Outsourcing emotional labor to AI

June 2025 - present

research assistant in EECS' Social Computing Lab project studying how people use generative AI to make sense of emotionally complex or ambiguous situations requiring subjective interpretation, like a tarot reading.
the first half of the study is qualitative; wrote recruitment survey questions, leads participant interviews, conducts thematic analysis on interview data.
the second half of the study will be quantitative, and will use a web app -- which we have built -- to give participants tarot readings, some of which with embedded AI interpretations, and measure their responses. I currently assist in fine-tuning and developing the methodology for the quantitative study.

Influencers and self-employment: exploring influencer's potential impact on self-employed workers' career journeys

February 2024 - June 2025

research assistant in UMSI project assessing the potential relevancy and impact that self-employed influencers and their content have on both aspiring and current self-employed workers.
conducted interviews and wrote recruitment survey questions; conducted qualitative (thematic) analysis on both interview content and social media posts shared by interview participants. wrote and revised sections of research paper and assisted in the submission process.

Optimizing Spotify users' experience: UX research project

August 2024 - October 2024

an independent human-centered research project; conducted Spotify user interviews, applied thematic analysis techniques to interview content in order to determine which of Spotify's features were/were not adequately meeting the needs of users. for more details about the project, click here

Hazel @ FPLab

May 2024 - September 2024

contributed to ongoing programming language research via Hazel, a "live functional programming environment that is able to understand, manipulate, and even run incomplete programs, i.e. programs with holes."