News & Updates

Wrapping up a 19-week Student Researcher position with Android XR's Maps on Glasses team and am back in Madison. We managed to write and submit a full paper spanning four formative studies, a system, and a user evaluation on Maps navigation for blind and low vision people, and I'm excited to share the results soon!

VRSight is the headlining project for UW-Madison's new College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence, demoed by my advisor Yuhang Zhao and labmate Ruijia Chen in the launch video: Watch (VRSight first and on the thumbnail!)

Finished all required PhD coursework, including a breadth of knowledge in Computer Sciences and my minor in languages and cultures (Elementary proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, German, and American Sign Language).

I'm on the top header of the UW-Madison Computer Sciences homepage! Read my interview about my research and my experience as a PhD student here: Read the article

Moving to San Jose to start research at Google under the Android XR team on Google Maps + accessible navigation for blind & low vision people :)

I'm also giving an invited vision paper talk at the CHI Human-AI-UI Interactions Across Modalities workshop on my position paper for AI-driven assistive technologies in XR. Come join us Tuesday afternoon!

Attending CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain to present our work evaluating 3D guidelines with XR practitioners to improve accessibility features in their apps! Please check out my talk Monday morning and say hi if you're here :)

Defended my qualifying exam, "Improving XR Accessibility for People with Disabilities via AI-Driven Technologies."

Excited to be giving an invited talk at the Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute (CMU HCII) on my research improving the accessibility of XR technologies!

Please note that I just had shoulder surgery, so responses may be delayed over the next few weeks.

Very relieved that my paper on accessibility guidelines for XR practitioners has been conditionally accepted to CHI 2026! We've been working on this project since before I started my PhD so it's great to see it finally in.

Very excited to announce that I have accepted a student researcher position at Google for this Summer 2026!! Looking forward to working with the Google Maps team on accessibility initiatives.

Completed some independent contracting work for Nonfiction Research on a healthcare initiative with fellow creatives. Nonfiction's site

Made some changes to this site, including a dark mode theme! Check it out with the sun/moon button in the header :)

We've officially open-sourced VRSight, our AI-powered scene description system to help blind people use VR, on GitHub! The release includes our full system, DISCOVR dataset, and our trained YOLO object detection model weights-- Check it out here!

I'm attending UIST 2025 to present my first-author paper VRSight in Busan, South Korea! Check out our demo Monday and the full paper talk Tuesday. It's also my first time student volunteering, so please feel free to say hi! VRSight full paper link

Begun my role as a Teaching Assistant for CS 571: Building User Interfaces with Prof. Cole Nelson for the Fall 2025 semester.

I have two papers accepted to UIST 2025! Excited to present VRSight, an AI-powered scene description system to help BLV use VR, and support AROMA, helping BLV follow cooking how-to videos using sighted and non-sighted input, in Busan this September. UIST 2025

Excited to be giving an invited talk at XR Access on my research improving the accessibility of XR technologies! Check out the talk here.

Presenting a lightning talk alongside fellow accessibility researchers at Miraikan in Tokyo!

Very excited to announce that we'll be presenting a demonstration of VRSight and our MR drift tolerance poster at CHI 2025 in Yokohama! CHI 2025

Begun my role as a Teaching Assistant for CS 559: Computer Graphics with Dr. Young Wu and Dr. Michael Gleicher for the Spring 2025 semester.

We're running an AI-Assisted Vision Mini Workshop on our lab's work with local blind and low vision organizations.

Invited to present my work-in-progress for VRSight at the CS Research Fair Symposium

We're hiring undergraduate students to work on exciting research projects in accessibility and XR! Apply to join my team this summer.

I've uploaded more of my prior work to my Scholar profile; please take a look for the latest! Scholar Profile

Our work on gaze-based reading augmentations for people with low vision has been accepted to CHI 2024!

I've been awarded a CS summer research assistant through the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department!

Begun my role as a Teaching Assistant for CS 559: Computer Graphics with Dr. Young Wu for the Spring 2024 semester.

Presenting at my first conference my undergraduate paper with Dr. Amy Pavel at ASSETS 2023 -- come see our work on community-driven audio descriptions to improve live video accessibility! ASSETS 2023

Started my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

Began my role as a Teaching Assistant for CS 559: Computer Graphics with Dr. Eftychios Sifakis for the Fall 2023 semester.

Joined Yuhang's MadAbility Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!