I received a 2026 Young Investigator Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
The three-year award provides $450,000 to support my research. [Program]
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Two of our papers received Honorable Mention Awards at CSCW 2026.
The papers are Shaping Collaborations with Algorithms: How Agency and Heterogeneity Criteria Influence Team Formation and Outcomes and “Feeling that I was Collaborating with Them:” A 20-year Scoping Review of Social Virtual Reality Leveraging Collaboration. [Awards]
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CoBranchMR accepted to CSCW 2026
Our paper CoBranchMR: Supporting Parallel Design and Conflict Resolution in Mixed Reality was accepted as a demonstration paper at CSCW 2026.
CoBranchMR supports distributed collaborators in branching, editing, and merging shared mixed-reality objects while resolving conflicts during collaboration. [Paper]
Our article Leveraging the Study of News Articles with Language Models: An Approach to Employ Artificial Intelligence in Journalism Studies was published in Digital Journalism.
The article presents an approach for using language models to support the analysis of news articles in journalism research. [Paper]
Our paper Leveraging Team Formation with Social Networks: The My Dream Team Recommendation System was published in Connections.
The paper presents the My Dream Team system and examines how social network dynamics shape team formation and teammate selection. [Paper]
Karla Badillo-Urquiola and I received a Notre Dame Jerusalem Research Development Grant.
The project will support a collaborative research initiative with Notre Dame Jerusalem and its ADAM pre-college program. [Announcement]
Our paper Creating Common Virtual Ground: Protocols to Democratize Open VR Research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
This collaborative work proposes protocols for interoperability, procedural standardization, and data sharing to support more open and reproducible VR research. [Paper]
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MultEval accepted to CHIWORK 2026
Our paper MultEval: Supporting Collaborative Alignment for LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation Criteria will appear at CHIWORK 2026.
This work studies how teams of stakeholders can collaboratively create, negotiate, and refine criteria for LLM-as-a-judge systems.
Our article “Feeling that I was Collaborating with Them:” A 20-year Scoping Review of Social Virtual Reality Leveraging Collaboration was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
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Invited talk at Lockheed Martin
I gave an invited talk at Lockheed Martin.
Venue: Lockheed Martin.