Hi there! I'm an Applied Scientist at Adobe in San Francisco. My research focuses on developing large-scale human behavioral benchmarks in order to evaluate and improve GenAI image & video systems.

I received my PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of California San Diego, under Dr. Judith Fan @ The Cognitive Tools Lab.

Broadly, I study how people create, interpret, and interact with visual content. By conducting a wide range of custom coded web experiments, I crowdsource datasets of up to >90K human responses in order to systematically measuring people's visual content creation. This scale of data enables me to statistically evaluate GenAI algoritms, heuristic models, and LLMs against human behavior and communication.

My disseration research specialized in understanding user intentions in visual content creation—specifically, how content creators' different goals to make diverse visual content directly impacts:

Bio: I grew up on Whidbey Island, WA. As an introverted teen on a rural island, I spent most of my time sketching and hiding away in art studios. After 2 fine arts apprenticeships and double majoring in Philosophy and History of Mathematics & Sciences from St. John's College, I became fascinated by how novel visualizations have catalyzed and served to communicate many major scientific discoveries (e.g., Cartesian coordinate system, periodic table, Vitruvian man). Despite this critical role of visual media in human innovation, relatively little is known about how people communicate in visual form. This question continues to inspire my research.