I am a Ph.D. student in the Human-Centered Computing program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Accessibility. I am particularly interested in understanding how technology users communicate paralanguage and other nonverbal cues across digital communication platforms, and the development of platforms that facilitate such metacommunication. I am a member of the Georgia Tech Sonification Lab where my research is advised by Dr. Bruce N. Walker.

Throughout my academic career, I have conducted research at institutions such as Princeton University, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Intel Labs, Google Research, and Facebook Research. Prior to beginning my Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, I attended North Carolina A&T State University where I received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in May of 2013. In September of 2021, I will be joining Microsoft as a User Researcher on the M365 Admin Design & Research Team.