Service · Teaching · Awards

Activities.

Selected service across research, peer review, and academic life — beyond the writing:)

01 — Graduate Research Assistantship✦
Department / KU School of Architecture & Design

Supported faculty projects across conversational AI, VR, architectural history, fabrication, and sustainability. Produced literature syntheses, experimental study protocols, data and automation pipelines, prototype tools, and draft manuscripts.

Contributed to an interdisciplinary collaboration with the KU Medical Center to develop a Human Brain Cutting Matrix using digital fabrication and 3D scanning — outcomes progressing through KU tech-transfer and patenting workflows.

Focus / Unity prototyping · Human–AI collaboration · Study design · Applied fabrication

02 — Engagement✦
Conferences

Participation

Presenter, attendee, and community member in VR, HCI, and architectural-education research; engaged with communities around conversational AI in immersive environments and design cognition.

Volunteer

IEEE VR · ISMAR

Student volunteer at IEEE VR and ISMAR. Presented interactive VR showcases across University of Kansas campuses through hands-on demos.

Studio

Prototype development

Built Unity-based VR prototypes that integrate conversational AI and modern LLM and VLM pipelines, including RAG and fine-tuning with QLoRA. Studied how embodiment and dialogue style shape reasoning and learning outcomes.

03 — Peer review service✦
Journals

Reviewing for

  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • The Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development
Conferences

Reviewing for

  • IEEE ISMAR
  • CAADRIA
  • IEEE Frontiers in Education
  • ICHELT
  • IEEE Digital Education and MOOCs Conference
04 — Awards✦