My research group creates new sensing and interface technologies that foster more powerful and delightful interactions between humans and computers. These efforts often lie in emerging use modalities, such as wearable computing, augmented reality, smart environments, and gestural interfaces. In addition to computer science, my research often incorporates machine learning, computer vision, embedded processing, sensors, interaction design, and physical fabrication.
Awards and Achievements
- MIT Technology Review’s top 35 innovators under 35 (TR35)
- Forbes’ top 30 scientist under 30 World Economic Forum Young Scientist
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
- Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
- World Economic Forum Young Scientist
In the News
- In a Small Space, a Big Issue (The New York Times)
- Bringing Touch Recognition to Everything (Wall Street Journal)
- Meaningful Gestures (The Economist)
- Stephen Hawking’s Science of the Future: Episode 4 (National Geographic Channel)
- Em-Sense Enabled Smartwatch Can Detect When You Touch a Doorknob (Wired)
- This Invention Lets You Use Your Skin as Smartwatch Trackpad (ABC News)
- SkinTrack Turns Your Arm Into a Touchpad. Here’s How It Works (Wired)
- Making wearables more useful and smart homes less of a chore (Tech Crunch)
- 8 Incredible Prototypes That Show The Future Of Human-Computer Interaction (Fast Company)
- Non-invasive 'Skintrack' technology turns your flesh into a trackpad for controlling an Apple Watch (Mirror)
- New Tech Turns Your Arm Skin Into A Touchpad (Huffington Post)
- Tech Trends: Smartwatch makes your skin an extension of the touchscreen (KRON, San Francisco)
- Want more screen space on your smartwatch? Put a ring on it... (Tech Crunch)
- This watch turns your arm into a touchscreen (CNN Money)
- Frustrated with tiny smartwatch screens? Gadget turns the skin on your Arm into a touchpad (Daily Mail)
- This Freakily Futuristic Technology Lets you use your Skin as a Touchscreen (Maxim)
- Researchers create wild skin-touch interface for tiny smart watches (Mashable)
- Navigate your smartwatch by touching your skin (Engadget)
- New tech turns your skin into a touchscreen for your smartwatch (The Verge)
- SkinTrack turns your entire forearm into a smartwatch touchpad (CNET)
- Use Your Arm as a Smart-Watch Touch Pad (MIT Technology Review)
- This New 'Skinterface' Could Make Smartwatches Suck Less (Gizmodo)