News & Updates

Latest updates on research activities, publications, awards, and academic milestones.

The Latest

Oct 7, 2025
My UIST 2025 paper VRSight has been officially open-sourced on GitHub, including the full system, DISCOVR dataset, and our object detection model weights! Check it out here!
Sept 27, 2025
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
Aug 18, 2025
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
July 16, 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.
May 2, 2025
Presenting a lightning talk alongside fellow accessibility researchers at Miraikan in Tokyo!
Apr 27, 2025
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
Dec 17, 2024
We're running an AI-Assisted Vision Mini Workshop on our lab's work with local blind and low vision organizations.
Oct 22, 2024
Invited to present my work-in-progress for VRSight at the CS Research Fair Symposium
May 27, 2024
I've uploaded more of my prior work to my Scholar profile; please take a look for the latest! Scholar Profile
May 14, 2024
Our work on gaze-based reading augmentations for people with low vision has been accepted to CHI 2024!
Oct 25, 2023
Presenting at my first conference my undergraduate paper with Amy Pavel at ASSETS 2023 -- come see our work on community-driven audio descriptions to improve live video accessibility! ASSETS 2023
Sept 1, 2023
Started my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

In the Media

Sept 26, 2022
FOX 7 Austin — State-of-the-art gaming facility at University of Texas campus (Longhorn Gaming)
Sept 2, 2022
The Daily Texan — Alienware partners with Texas Union for UT's first esports lounge (Longhorn Gaming)
Sept 1, 2022
Austin American-Statesman — Esports gaming room opens at University of Texas student union (Longhorn Gaming)
Sept 1, 2022
Axios Austin — UT opens esports gaming lab (Longhorn Gaming)
Sept 1, 2022
KVUE (ABC) — UT, Dell team up to create Alienware esports lounge (Longhorn Gaming)
Aug 31, 2022
UT News — Alienware Longhorn Esports Lounge Launches in UT-Dell Partnership (Longhorn Gaming)
Aug 31, 2022
KXAN — University of Texas at Austin unveils esports lounge (Longhorn Gaming)
Apr 6, 2022
The Daily Texan Opinion — UT should better support esports programs (Longhorn Gaming)
Jun 9, 2021
KXAN — University of Texas eyeing new arena dedicated to esports (Longhorn Gaming)
2021
Article on Texas Immersive — Be a Longhorn (Be a Longhorn Campaign Project Page)
2021
Article on Texas Immersive — Roses of the Rubble (Roses of the Rubble Project Page)
2021
Article on Texas Immersive — SolAR Run (PAGL / Solar Run Project Page)
Nov 20, 2020
UT News — UT Austin Students to Tackle Global Challenges on 3 Continents (Awarded UT President's Award for Global Learning)
Sept 4, 2020
President's Award for Global Learning — 2020-2021 President’s Award for Global Learning Finalist Teams Selected (Finalist Announcement)
Jun 19, 2019
The Post and Courier — Academic Magnet Robotics Team wins first place in engineering design at SeaPerch International Competition (1st Place engineering process/design, international underwater robotics competition)
Mar 3, 2019
The Talon — Academic Magnet Robotics Team Competes in the Nanoline Competition (3rd Place, national robotics competition)