I am a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in computer science and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF GRFP) at Northwestern University, advised by Professor Eleanor O’Rourke in the Delta Lab. I am an interdisciplinary, design-based researcher at the intersection of human-computer interaction and computing education working to understand how to design sociotechnical systems that support students’ computing self-efficacy.
I graduated with a B.S. in computer science and a minor in math from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2022. As an undergraduate researcher, my research interests included machine learning for satellite crop monitoring and quantitatively understanding disparities in self and peer evaluations in group work settings.
News
- 📄 Feb 2026: Paper led by Brett Wortzman and Miya Natsuhara on the CSE 12X self-placement tool accepted to SIGCSE TS 2026
- 👩🏫 Jan 2026: Co-leading Computing Everywhere workshop “Show and Tell: Build Your Digital Portfolio” with Yinmiao Li
- 💻 Nov 2025: Presented “Practical insights into supporting novice programmers’ self-assessments of programming ability in the LLM era” at the Student Seminar Series in the CS department on recent and ongoing work about how students think about their abilities and practices with and without LLM tools
- 📄 Nov 2025: Paper led by Stephanie Yang on LLMs and motivational constructs accepted to Koli Calling 2025
- 💻 Aug 2025: Participated in the doctoral consortium at ICER 2025
older news
- 📄 June 2025: Paper led by Yinmiao Li on contextualized computing and poster led by Kristin Fasiang on belonging accepted to ISLS 2025
- 💻 May 2025: Presented on designing an intervention to support student self-assessments as a poster at the Northwestern Symposium on AI, Education, and the Learning Sciences
- 👩🏫 Jan 2025: Volunteer teaching in a fifth grade CS class
- 🪨 Nov 2024: Passed my qualifying exam and admitted to candidacy
- 👩🏫 Sept 2024: TA-ing for the Introduction to Grad Studies course in the CS department
- 🏅 Aug 2024: Won the best paper award at ICER 2024 for first-author paper on self-assessment reasoning [Northwestern CS article]
- 📄 Aug 2024: Paper led by Yinmiao Li on metacognition accepted to ICER 2024
- 📢 Aug 2024: Ran co-design workshop on self-assessments in intro computing. Learn more on the workshop website and email me if you are interested in hearing about the next iteration.
- 🏅 May 2024: Awarded the CS Student Hero Award alongside two of my awesome peers [Northwestern CS article]
- 🏅 Apr 2024: Received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) [Northwestern CS article]
- ✨ Mar 2024: Started a practicum in the Northwestern / ETHS Partnership Office through the Graduate Engagement Opportunities program
- 🏅 Sept 2023: Awarded the Design Cluster Research Fellowship at Northwestern [Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design article]
- 💻 Aug 2023: Presented “Designing a Real-time Intervention to Address Negative Self-assessments While Programming” at ICER 2023 in Chicago as a poster and lightning talk
- 🏅 Apr 2023: Attended the 2023 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women [Northwestern CS article]
- 🏅 Mar 2023: Received the ACM-W Research Conference Scholarship to attend SIGCSE TS 2023 [ACM-W Reflection] [Northwestern CS article]
- 💻 Oct 2022: Presented poster at 2022 Lambert Conference on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction + Design
- ✨ Sept 2022: Started PhD at Northwestern
- 🎓 May 2022: Graduated from the University of Illinois
- 💻 Apr 2022: Presenting on Disparities by Gender in Self and Peer Evaluation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Other Media Mentions
- Oct 2024: Reflections on two years at Northwestern + advice for prospective students. Northwestern CS: [article]
- May 2022: Reflections on my experience in the inaugural class of CS STARS at UIUC, joint research & outreach program for women in computing. Illinois CS: [article]
- Jan 2022: Reflections on my most meaningful experiences in the Siebel Center for Computer Science at UIUC. Grainger College of Engineering: [video]
Find me on the internet
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