Teaching

I support students in designing responsible, human-centered technologies through iterative critique, interdisciplinary collaboration, and hands-on technical guidance.

Cornell University Spring 2025, 2026

Design AI Products and Services

Course Number
INFO 4940 / INFO 5940
Role
As a teaching assistant, I contributed to the development of stakeholder-mapping and role-play activities about AI limitations and harms, facilitated class discussions, and met with teams weekly to critique the sociotechnical context of their projects.
Course Length
15 Weeks
Course Description
This course prepares students to design AI products and services that maximize societal benefit while minimizing risk and harm. Through hands-on projects and discussion, students examine the sociotechnical ecosystems surrounding AI systems, apply principles of effective human–AI interaction—including collaboration, explainability, trust, and fairness—and work in interdisciplinary teams to create systems.

Student work

01

Razzle Dazzle

Raymond Xu, Falak Raheja, Rayhan Khanna, Amy Wang, Alexander De Leon, and Alex Shi

An AI-assisted creative coding tool that turns stories and emotions into interactive sketches. Culturally sensitive safety checks and warnings for flashing or high-motion visuals reduce stereotyping and accessibility risks without taking away creative control.

02

p5 Sketch Maker

Funmi Olukanmi, Grant Zhao, Ben Shvartsman, Akinwale Agesin, TJ Swidorski, and Alec Daveynis

An AI-assisted creative coding tool that turns personal memories into editable p5.js sketches. Visible safety flags and correction controls help users catch emotion misclassification and context-blind filtering instead of accepting the AI’s interpretation.

03

Brick Finder

Meet Baani Kaur, Rachel Kan, Noam Canter, Lazim Jarif, Matthew Zhang, Ganesh Rayavarapu, Gillian Fang, and Patrick Evuleocha

An AI assistant that helps LEGO builders find pieces and check their progress against instructions. Clear uncertainty, recovery paths, privacy safeguards, and accessible guidance help users catch recognition errors and remain in control.

04

Be My Cupid

Meg Isohata, Mohammad Labadi, Sander Rodman, Neha Arora, Damita George, and Abigail Joseph

An AI-assisted dating tool that translates values and dealbreakers into a match profile. Confirmation steps, neutral explanations, and feedback controls reduce privacy risks, sensitive-attribute inference, and the narrowing of match diversity.

Cornell University Fall 2022

Human-Computer Interaction Design

Course Number
INFO 3450 / COMM 3450 / INFO 5355
Role
As a teaching assistant, I provided in-class studio support and weekly written feedback across user research, prototyping, evaluation, and final demos, formed project teams, and mentored students on collaboration, portfolios, and career decisions.
Course Length
14 Weeks
Course Description
This course introduces human-centered design as a process for creating digital products that work well for people. Students learn to conduct user research and define user needs, explore and justify design solutions, build and iterate interactive prototypes, evaluate usability and usefulness, and collaborate effectively in team-based design projects.

Student work

Three ChoreoScope mobile app screens for choreography inspiration, documentation, and progress tracking
01

ChoreoScope

Guo Chen, Christina Jin, Shek Shenghao, and Sofia Vaquerano

A human-centered concept pairing a mobile app with a mirror-mounted camera to guide beginner dancers through choreography. The experience supports inspiration, feedback, progress tracking, and documentation as dancers develop and refine routines.

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Apartment Hunting at Cornell mockup showing apartment search, reviews, visit scheduling, and apartment details
02

Apartment Hunting @ Cornell

Blair Yu, Sybil Shu, Hye Lynn Suh, and Claire Stein

A student-centered housing concept that brings transparent apartment listings, peer reviews, roommate matching, housing activities, and visit planning into one experience for Cornell students searching for off-campus housing.

03

Seat Finder

Prachi Kelkar, Alexander Htet Aung Kyaw, Monica Chen, and Alanna Kim

A campus study-space finder that helps Cornell students locate nearby places to work, filter spaces by amenities and seat availability, see where friends are studying, and inspect open seats within buildings.

Cornell University Fall 2023, 2024

Visual Data Analytics for the Web

Course Number
INFO 3300 / INFO 5100 / CS 3300
Role
As a teaching assistant, I advised students on visualization concepts and D3.js implementation, helping them work through technical barriers with guided questions and peer collaboration that strengthened independent problem-solving skills.
Course Length
15 Weeks
Course Description
This course is an introduction to designing and building interactive, web-based data visualizations with JavaScript, D3.js, and SVG. Students learn to gather and model real-world data, match data with effective visual forms, and apply visualization theory and critique to create clear dynamic visualizations.

Student work

01

NBA Legends: Career Highlights and Earnings

Dylan Aquart, Ebenezer Eshetu, Tejhan Diallo, and Yvon Gatete

An interactive visualization for comparing Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James across seasons using user-selected performance and salary metrics. Hovering over a point reveals the corresponding season and player details, making standout seasons and statistical outliers easy to explore.

Open interactive visualization
02

Netflix and Disney+: A Catalog Comparison

Samarth Chitgopekar, Amad Kabir, Daniel Parker, and Aaishi Uppuluri

An interactive comparison of Netflix and Disney+ catalogs across genre distribution, country representation, and releases over time. The coordinated charts help viewers assess which service better matches their interests.

Open interactive visualization
03

Global GDP, Inequality, and Emissions

John Guo, Luke Murphy, Amy Li, and Jenny Chen

An interactive world map connects GDP, Gini inequality, and CO₂ emissions from 1990 to 2022. Viewers can change the year and indicator, then select a country to examine its economic, social, and environmental trends in detail.

Open interactive visualization
04

Cost of Living Across the United States

Carly Hu, Myna Lim, Tasnimul Taher, and Sydney Wan

A choropleth and linked charts compare annual living costs across U.S. states by expense category and family size. Filters reveal geographic patterns and how housing, food, transportation, healthcare, childcare, and taxes change across household configurations.

Open interactive visualization
05

Global Natural Disaster Mortality

Stella Han, Jennie Zhang, Jane Gao, and Kyung Min Lee

An interactive map traces deaths from natural disasters across countries and disaster types from 1900 to 2020. A companion line chart compares broader causes of death from 2000 to 2019, helping viewers examine distinct and overlapping mortality trends.

Open interactive visualization