I'm a research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh at the intersection of computer science, human-computer interaction, and care. I extend my PhD work on context mediation tools to informal home caregiving teams (Healthy Home Lab with Dr. Yong Choi, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) and prehospital and hospital-based trauma teams (EMeRaLD lab with Dr. Francis Guyette and Dr. David Salcido, Department of Emergency Medicine). Additionally, I'm a nationally registered paramedic and conduct research on prehospital triage systems (with Dr. Douglas Kupas and ESO Solutions).

I'm interested in how technology can help people do highly contextualized work and make sense of tasks. My background allows me to draw on methods from CS, HCI, psychology, and organizational behavior to study tools for individuals, teams, and systems. I love working on challenges in out-of-hospital and prehospital care because I believe these high-stakes contexts have a lot to teach us about the future of collaborative knowledge work at large. You can see my prior work below.

I completed my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University as a CMLH Digital Health Innovation Fellow, working with Dr. Niki Kittur (Human-Computer Interaction Institute) and Dr. Anita Woolley (Tepper School of Business). My thesis investigated how people use context information when performing complex tasks — building new systems to help people save and reuse task context, and developing methods to collect task data at scale (more on that below). I'm particularly proud of my work with the NSF AI-CARING AI Institute, where I applied my skills to design and led a multi-year research program creating methodologies and technology augments for asynchronous care teams. When I was a student, I also created a few well-received resources for the CS and HCI PhD student community, such as the (PhD Visit Day explainer on the CMU ML Blog), ("What to ask" guide), and the annual (CS/HCI PhD position dashboards).