Had a great time attending the Meta Educator Community Summit this past week! Loved connecting with K-12 and university educators, researchers, and industry professionals exploring immersive learning. I left inspired by conversations about measuring XR’s impact in education and imagining what’s next

Grateful for a summer of research, collaboration, and connecting with XR+game studies communities. Some highlights:

✅ Completed my research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs Research
✅ Co-presented at the #SIGGRAPH Spatial Storytelling demos
✅ Presented at the BIPOC Game Studies conference

We used TouchDesigner as a tool for generating the interactive multimedia content. Here's an earlier version where we explored dance improvisation with an interactive particle system. Visuals reflected movements through space, but also shaped the nature of improvisation through it's feedback.

I've been trying to challenge myself to try something new each year. This year, I explored tech + performance as an Assistant Technologist for Stanford TAP’s Spring Rise Up, collaborating on integrating mocap into Raissa Simpson’s Ode to Intimacy piece. Grateful for the experience and amazing team!

Had a wonderful time in Denver, CO attending #ICA25 this past weekend! In addition presenting our research recently published in Computers in Human Behavior, it was so great catching up with colleagues, meeting new people, having insightful discussions, and learning from the sessions I attended.

Art & is a new podcast from Stanford Arts exploring how art drives innovative, collaborative research across campus.

I had the joy of recording an episode on Arts & Digital Embodiment with immersive tech + live performance artist and creative producer, Scarlett Kim.

It's now live! 🎙️ Link below

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting at @baychi.org's monthly speaker program. Drawing from lab studies, field studies, and virtual ethnographic work, I shared my research exploring the role of avatar representation in shaping user experiences in social VR. Thank you for having me!

New paper out! We explore avatar embodiment experiences of 52 Black users in social VR from ethnographic interviews + lab study. Findings unpack embodied consequences of racial representation in immersive VR and how users navigated challenges to expressing identity. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

I’ll be attending my first GDC next week! Excited to attend talks and meet new people in the gaming, XR, and research space. Feel free to say hello if you see me around or reach out if you’d like to meet up! 🎮 #GDC2025

Had a great time guest lecturing for Prof. Anna Queiroz’s Meaningful Connections class at UMiami! I shared my research on the embodied and psychological implications of avatar representation in social VR and then we hopped into VRChat together, where students experienced avatar embodiment firsthand.