About

About Me

I am a lecturer at School of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney, Australia. Before joining the university of Sydney, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany. My primary research focus is in creating Blended Interfaces, which, I define as interfaces that are ubiquitous, blend into the environment and leverage on natural affordances of the context. Within the abstraction under this umbrella term, I explore the design factors such as interactivity in personal and shared spaces, modalities and social acceptance, also, technical factors such as re-usability, energy and appropriation.

Professional Experiences

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dec, 2016 to Apr, 2018
MMCI
MPI for Informatics and Saarland Uni
- Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jan, 2014 to Dec, 2015
SUTD-MIT International Design Center
Singapore Uni. of Technology and Design
- Singapore
Researcher
Oct, 2013 to Dec, 2013
SCOPE (Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Program)
Keio University
- Tokyo, Japan.
Research Assistant
Oct, 2012 to Mar, 2013
SCOPE (Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Program)
Keio University
- Tokyo, Japan.

Achievements / Awards / Activities

Most Promising Technology Award: zSense

Innovfest unBound 2016 event. Organized by NUS, unBound IDA Singapore

Best Pitch Award: zSense

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Bootcamp

Best Paper Silver Award

ImpAct: Immersive haptic stylus to enable direct touch and manipulation for surface computing at 7th International Conference in Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2010) at Taipei. 2010.

Walky: Best Interactive demonstration

Walky project won the best interactive demonstration award in Interaction 2010 conference.