Experience

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  AI-Learners

  • Product Manager

    • May 2024 - Present

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  Animated Intelligences

  • Senior Research Manager

    • Feb 2024 - Present

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  Age of Learning

  • Associate UX Researcher

    • Sep 2022 - Dec 2023

    Led over 30 studies for 4 different products with adults and children from 2-8 years old through semi-structured interviews, diary studies, ethnographies, surveys, user testing, and more.

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  Curious Conversations

  • Stanford, California, United States

  • Co-Founder

    • Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
    • Stanford, California, United States

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  Osmo

  • UX Research Intern

    • Mar 2022 - Sep 2022

    Analyzed quantitative and qualitative data collected from qualitative interviews and surveys with parents to communicate findings effectively to internal teams.

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  Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )

  • Community Design Intern

    • Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

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  Better Kids

  • Product Design Intern

    • Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

    - Conducted qualitative interviews with parents to analyze data collected and prepared insights to improve customer conversion and retention.- Designed a survey for existing users to provide feedback on their current experience with the application. - Served as a subject matter expert in the design of a conversational agent for implementation and integration into the application.

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  Media and Child Development Lab

  • University of California, Irvine

  • Lab Manager and Research Assistant

    • Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
    • University of California, Irvine

    Project name: Automated Conversational Agent for Dialogic Storybook Reading - Collaborated with members from IBM Research to build the artificial intelligence-powered conversational agent.- Developed framework for question-answer pairs and benchmark dataset of dialogic questioning to buildchildren’s narrative comprehension skills.- Created over 10,000 question-answer pairs for labeled dataset used to train the conversational agent.- Project funded by Schmidt Futures for $40,000.Project name: Young Children’s Learning with Conversational Agents- Transcribed and analyzed interviews with 31 children to understand their perception of conversational agents.- Assisted in editing a conversational storytelling script to implement in the Google Home by reviewing reading comprehension questions with the research team.- Administered exams to preschool children for the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test.- Utilized in a pilot study on a PBS Kids program

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  Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove

  • Academic Imagine Learning Instructor

    • Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

    - Engaged and supported 40 children’s experience with Imagine Learning curriculum.- Implemented computer-based program to help young English Language Learners.

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  Project Hope Alliance

  • Costa Mesa, CA

  • Grantwriting and Research Intern

    • Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
    • Costa Mesa, CA

    - Collaborated with a development team to compose a total of 13 grant proposals, resulting in $32,300 of funding - Interviewed students facing housing insecurity with a focus to understand the barriers in higher education.