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- Planned, moderated, and analyzed more than 35 rapid research projects for a FAANG company to achieve key objectives.- Conducted quantitative surveys, impression tests, participatory design studies, evaluative studies, competitive analyses and over 150 qualitative usability study sessions to facilitate strategic roadmaps for FAANG products.- Even when I.

• Evaluated and instructed 50 HCI design graduate students and 120 undergraduate students inPrototyping, Human-Computer Interaction, and Capstone courses.
• Helped students improve their core user task flows and information hierarchy across design projects.
• Provided feedback on visual components such as wireframes and digital prototypes.
• Demonstrated icon design to students using Adobe Illustrator and Sketch.

Orange County, California Area

• Performed field observations to understand ways to better implement tangible technologies on canoes to help people with disabilities navigate waterways.
• Conducted participatory design sessions with people who have low-vision and blindness to improve assistive technologies.
• Awarded the Multidisciplinary Design Program Funding to integrate physical computing into cultural artifacts.
• Interviewed participants to create a holistic understanding of culturally respectable computing.
• Built digital artifacts and physical tangible prototypes that represent Malaysian shadow puppetry to demonstrate improvisation in storytelling.
• Coded in Arduino and Python to build physical prototypes.

Irvine, California

• Coordinated diversity activities for all current and incoming students in the fields of Informatics, CS and Engineering.
• Developed a mentorship program between HBCU & UCI to increase the pool of talented PhD students. The efforts led to a noticeable increase in diversity the following year in the department.
• Conducted webinars for prospective students and provided advice on the application process.

Chicago, Illinois

• Culminated the internship with a UX research report to management that helped the company improvekey product offerings.
• Created a competitive analysis matrix of companies to improve usability of the shipping interface.
• Conducted heuristic evaluations to identify issues in the information architecture and find accessibilityissues.
• Organized card sorts with clients to evaluate the information hierarchy of the product.
• Administered contextual inquiries to ensure that the interface fit mental models.
• Assisted in A/B testing for the Cards Against Humanity Lab site.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

• Performed affinity diagramming and online ethnography of maker communities in Taiwan while working in multiple languages.
• Designed research methodology for social media collection and qualitative analysis.
• Established an understanding of how cultural computing manifest in Taiwan by synthesizing, coding and cleaning over 3 years of data.
• Utilized design criticism to understand how history and design artifacts help with community advocacy.
• Won an honorable mention award for a paper published, which is top 5% of paper submissions.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

• Taught Human-Computer Interaction master's students to design user experiences from materialexploration to concept creation and execution.
• Educated students on how to craft user interactions and build user flow to help them create compellingwireframes and digital prototypes.
• Trained instructors and students on physical prototyping equipment like 3D printing and laser cutting.

Moberly, Missouri

• Created promotional videos for the Community Health Systems in Missouri.
• Curated and photographed features section for the Daym Magazine.
• Helped build websites for companies using Joomla and Wordpress.
• Performed filming, editing and color correction of the images.
• Captured videos, photos and oversaw concepts for marketing of Rooftop Antiques.

• Worked on the public life beat.
• Pitched ideas to the editor after extensive research.
• Built good rapport with the local community.
• Found sources through white pages and various internet tools.

Federal Way, Washington

• Established methods of engaging the Korean and Chinese community in the West Coast region to become child ambassadors.
• Designed flyers, posters and postcards for the Survive to Five Campaign in Mandarin, Hangul and English.
• Created monthly adverts for World Vision in a Korean magazine.

• Captured unique moments on camera through the observation of surroundings.
• Archived metadata of photographs for easier accesibility.
• Wrote captions and short blubs for articles.
• Produced multimedia videos for the online news edition.

Master Of Science - Ms, Informatics

Activities and Societies: • Diversity Ambassador • Head of Recruitment for DECADE • Associate Chair for CHI Conference Late Breaking Work.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Human Computer Interaction, 4.0

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Photojournalism

Activities and Societies: Malaysian Student Association, Religious Studies Society, Mizzou Collegiate of Scholars

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Religious Studies

Activities and Societies: Malaysian Student Association