A career, on asingle page.
Twelve years of asking the same question.
- 2025 — presentCurriculum Development & AI ResearcherRadicality Ministries · Tamara Rowe
Designed a 188-page devotional workbook end-to-end and rebuilt the ministry's web presence; piloting LLM-driven curriculum and content automations.
- Summer 2025Ph.D., Curriculum & InstructionUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Ranking features used in modeling student collaboration using multimodal learning analytics" — Mercier & Kang, advisors.
- 2023 — 2025Doctoral researcher · CSTEPS & HoloOrbitsDept. of Curriculum & Instruction, UIUC
Multimodal learning analytics; spatial pedagogy via fisheye + OpenPose; LLaVA-driven gesture coding; Phi-3 fine-tuning to replicate a GPT-4o tutor.
- 2022 — 2024Researcher · CEASAREmbodied Mathematics Imagination & Technology (EMIT)
Joint attention and gesture in HoloLens-based collaborative astronomy. ENA / ONA on multimodal traces.
- 2021 — 2023Graduate Research Assistant · Speech AnalyticsDept. of Educational Psychology, UIUC · D'Angelo Lab
openSMILE + non-lexical audio features to elucidate teacher–student interaction.
- Spring 2021M.A., Curriculum & InstructionUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Impact of monitoring of instructor on the conceptual understanding of students working on a collaborative task as a group."
- 2019 — 2021Graduate Research Assistant · Colearn LabUIUC · Mercier Lab
Confirmatory factor analysis & path modeling on instructor monitoring.
- 2018 — 2019Research Fellow · Colearn LabUIUC
Authored introductory solid-mechanics tasks; built CSTEPS prompt library on collaborative-learning theory.
- Spring 2018M.S., Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Crossed disciplines: from solid mechanics into how engineering is taught.
- 2016 — 2018Graduate TA & LecturerTAM 210 / 211 / 251 / 435 · UIUC
Statics, intro solid mechanics, intermediate fluid mechanics. Bloom's-tagged questions on PrairieLearn.
- Fall 2016PrairieLearn implementationMariana Silva, Mech. Sci. & Eng., UIUC
Question authoring + scripted feedback at scale for 'Introductory Solid Mechanics.'
- Spring 2013B.E., Mechanical EngineeringAnna University, Chennai, India
Co-organized PINNACLE, a national mechanical engineering symposium; led the 'Auto-Anatomy' workshop at Kurukshetra '12.
Teaching, mentorship & service
Six undergraduate & graduate courses, taught
- EPSY 405 / PSYC 465 — Personality & Social Development
- CI 550 / EPSY 550 — Methods of Educational Inquiry
- TAM 251 — Introductory Solid Mechanics (also lecturer)
- TAM 210 / 211 — Statics
- TAM 435 — Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
Four undergraduate researchers, advised
- Jacob Frank Sobel · CEASAR & HoloOrbits annotation
- Gabby Potocki · multimodal coding
- James Park · reliable coding for collaborative interactions
- Braedyn Bailis & Grace Kraft · TA lesson-planning support
Co-chair, College of Education GSC
- Led a team of 15 organizing a 200+ attendee conference
- Reviewer: AERA · LAK · EDM · CSCL · ICLS · LSGSC
- Graduate rep, faculty search committee · CS Education, UIUC
- WPGU radio segment on collaborative learning, 2023
The toolkit
Languages — Python, R
ML — PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
CV — OpenCV, OpenFace, OpenPose, OpenSMILE
Stats — RStudio, Mplus, SPSS, MATLAB, Mathematica
Design — Canva, Squarespace, Figma