Selected Work
The following are some of my selected work in product design, HCI research, data science, graphic design, and software/web development.
Do You Think GPT Will Be Correct?: Measuring and Improving Generative AI Literacy Through Metacognition Training
In this study, we developed an intervention with metacognitive activities to improve student's generative AI literacy.
UofT Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase
HCI Research
Receiptify App - Receipt Management Made Easier
Backed by research, we designed an application to help small business owners and individuals manage their receipts better.
Product Design Concept
Designing for OpenDrugDiscovery (collaboration with Valence Discovery/Valence Labs)
I collaborated with Valence Discovery/Valence Labs (acquired by Recursion), Recursion's AI research engine, to design a landing page for their open-science community effort, OpenDrugDiscovery, to use generative models in drug discovery.
UI design Shipped
Lume, an app to connect students with tutors
Conducted competitive analysis and designed user interfaces for their MVP application for a tutoring startup, Lume.
Product Design MVP
Characteristics of Top Songs Has Changed from Pandemic Brain: An analysis of songs on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles list (2014 to 2023)
Music often reflects the current climate of society and there is a growing interest in how hit songs as seen on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles has changed after the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper looks at music characteristics such as tempo, song duration, loudness, and modality of songs from Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles list from 2014 to 2023 to reveal patterns and relationships to explain the difference between top songs before 2020 and 2020 onwards.
Telling Stories with Data: With Applications in R Book
Data Science Bayesian Statistics
Recommended or Not?: Applying Supervised Machine Learning Models to Understand UofT Course Evaluations
Machine learning paper using models such as a multilayer perceptron neural network with Adam optimizer, logistic regression, linear regression, decision tree, and Gaussian Discriminant Analysis, as well as a majority voting ensemble to understand factors influencing whether or not a UofT course gets recommended or not by students.
Applied Machine Learning
Q-SITE Conference - Design Director and Founding Organizer
I established the visual identity for the conference by creating design guidelines, created designs from scratch, and created the logos. The graphics, banners, and promotional materials has attracted 300+ ticket sales. I was a founding organizer and design director from 2022 to 2024 for Q-SITE, a student conference on Quantum Information Science and Technology.
Graphic Design
Street Whisper App
A command-line app that transcribes and translates audio files across different languages for research projects. Uses OpenAI's Whisper API and pyannote.
Software Development Shipped
The Deadly Historical Heights (Data Story Website)
Website informing climbers and the general public about the history of climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, as well as the various factors that impact climbing success and survival.
Web Development Data Visualization
The Interplay of Paralinguistic Cues and Expressions of Certainty in Human-Human and Human-Agent Interactions
Wei, C., Su, E., Kalirai, M., Tan, A., Dushniku, P., Jones, B., Kim, Y. H., Kuzminykh, A.
ACM TOCHI 2026
HCI Research Applied Machine Learning Shipped
Steering Moral Sycophancy in Language Models
Using activation steering to decrease sycophantic behaviour in language models Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct.
Toronto AI Safety Initiative (TAISI) Capstone
AI Safety