It all begins with an idea.

 Apple

Human Factors Engineer

Hardware Technology

2024 - present

Hardware sensing

Empowering people’s daily life

HealthTech
AI/LLM
AR/VR

Imagine the future of immersive technologies

Human Factors Engineering

Quantitative research, motion capture

Futronics NA Corporation

Director of Product

A UBTECH Robotics Company

2023-2024

Upper limb Exoskeleton Robots

Designed for multi-joint functional rehabilitation for stroke patients.

End-to-End product strategy and lifecycle

Hands-on design and system engineering

End-effector Rehabilitation Device

Award-winning lightweight upper-limb rehabilitation device

10+ patents pending

End-to-end product development

Digital Hospital

A lifelike replication of the hospital environment

Real-time status check

Indoor Navigation and Fleet Control

Multi-robot fleet control

Autonomous robots designed for the healthcare environment, align with hospital protocols

Meta

UX Researcher

Formerly Facebook

2022-2023

Jobs-To-Be-Done

Redefined Ads Measurement product strategy, and provide quantitative opportunity sizing through JTBD.

Usability Testing

5 usability testings in 2 months; From design validation to content testing, using interviews, prototyping, card sort and survey.

User Journey

26-day diary study with 63 participants across 2 countries

Literature Review

Leverage past research insights to inform current design

Diary Study

Develop user empathy by engaging cross-functional partners into moderating diary studies

Large-scale Survey

Launch large-scale surveys in multiple languages, and integrate with user log-in data. Including both in-product and off-platform surveys

Contract Work

2020 - 2022

Voice Interface for Autonomous Vehicles

We consider how to build a voice assistance system that is both efficient and emotionally intelligent.

Fatigue Detection in Drivers

We built real-time fatigue detection.

Teaching & Mentoring

Trained over 50 junior-level UX Researcher & Data Scientists;

Graduate Research & Internship Projects

2017-2022

last updated: Jan, 2019; More recent updates available upon request

Designing Social Media Support for Individuals with TBI, 2020~pre

Nonverbal Synchrony, 2017~pre

Culture & Emotional Expressiveness, 2017~pre

Designing Emotional Expressions in Robots, 2020

Human-Robot Teaming in Manufacturing, 2019-2020

Emotion Processing & Fiction Reading, 2019

Designing Socially Adept Agents, 2017~pre

New User Journey for Facebook Portal - FB Internship, 2020

Remote Collaboration in Workspace - FB Internship project, 2019

Understanding Social Gathering in VR - FB Internship, 2019

Assisted Orientation in Telepresence Communication, 2016-2017