My research began with a curiosity about interactive experiences, so I experimented with a range of media and technologies, including software, hardware, games, and AI, to explore what kinds of experiences I could create. Along the way, that curiosity brought me from engineering into HCI, shifting my attention from how to build interactive systems to how they could meaningfully support people. As I followed my interests, two ideas gradually came into focus: Immersion and Adaptivity—how an experience could draw people in, and how a system could respond to their needs. This led me toward XR, multimodal interaction, and AI-powered systems. As I explored these ideas using different methods, I noticed a thread connecting the projects I cared about most: helping someone understand something new. Learning and Tutoring gradually became a central context for my work.

These seven themes summarize the main threads across my research experience, project work, and selected coursework, and together reflect how my interests have developed across different contexts, methods, and technologies.