Projects

Simulated Patients for Clinical Communication Training

An AI training platform for clinical communication: LLM-driven simulated patients stage difficult conversations, and social signal processing turns each rehearsal into interpretable feedback.

UNDERSTAND: Uplifting the New generation through DBT Education and Resilience for Social Triggers, Anxiety, Negativity, and Depression

A mobile health system pairing wearable sensing and machine learning with just-in-time adaptive interventions, targeting emotional dysregulation and other transdiagnostic mechanisms in the moment.

Student Mental Health and Well-Being: Research with WILLO

Research on student well-being at campus scale, conducted with WILLO, UC San Diego's campus-wide platform, toward support that reaches an entire student population rather than only those who seek it.

Preference Learning: Aligning AI to Human Preferences

Preference-based alignment for speech and audio: how people judge generated output, and whether annotation protocols validated on text transfer to what they hear.

CLARO: Turning Complexity into Clarity

A Design Lab platform for collaborative, data-driven decisions on complex societal problems, combining data integration, modeling, simulation, and immersive visualization.

Contouring: Interactive Training and Feedback in Radiation Oncology

Interactive training systems for radiation oncology contouring: iContour, VRContour, and iConTutor deliver practice, immersive delineation, and automated feedback to residents.

HoloStroke: Holographic Telestroke and Remote Assessment

Mixed reality for stroke care at a distance: holograms of a patient, or of their imaging, are placed in three-dimensional space and transmitted to a remote stroke neurologist.

UnBIASED: Understanding Biased patient-provider Interactions And Supporting Enhanced Discourse

Social signal processing for hidden bias in primary care: automated analysis of patient-provider communication, and feedback designed together with patients and doctors.

Designing Smart and Autonomous Vehicles

Human-centered design and evaluation of automated driving, from the explanations an autonomous vehicle gives its passenger to the sensing and coaching of the person behind the wheel.

ARTEMIS: Augmented Reality Technology-Enabled reMote Integrated Surgery

Surgical telementoring in mixed reality: a remote expert sees the novice's operating field in three dimensions and guides the procedure from anywhere.