Introducing the Personalized Learning² application; designed to make mentoring more effecient in order to give minoritized students more learning opportunities.
Is the Doer Effect Robust Across Multiple Data Sets?
We are organizing a conference to highlight the differences between the way that humans and machines evalaute creativity, and begin a conversation on how to bridge this gap.
Sang Leigh (Georgia Tech),
Jean Oh (CMU),
Frank Dellaert (GT),
Seth Hutchinson (GT),
Peter Schaldenbrand,
Gerry Cehn (GT), and
Juan D Florez-Castillo (GT)
Causal Discovery with Tetrad in LearnSphere’s Tigris
I am applying for tenure-track professor positions for Fall 2026 start.
Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute advised by Professor Jean Oh.
I study AI, ML, and Robotics to support creative domains, such as painting and sculpting, which has been challenging
since people working in these domains generally do not desire automation.
While big data have enabled powerful AI developments, this generally does not support creative tasks well.
For example, you can train an AI model on a large collection of images of paintings,
but that will not necessarily produce a system that can help a person paint a masterpiece.
In my Ph.D. research, I have investigated how a robotic system can support painting through collaboration,
and in my future research, I will branch out into other domains that require creativity, such as fashion, culinary arts, entrepeneurship, education, and more.
My work has won several awards including three categorical best papers at ICRA and IROS, showing that arts are a valuable domain for foundational robotics research.
My research has also been featured in The New York Times, documentaries, and local news coverage, demonstrating the public's interest in artistic robotics.
News
[October 2025]
I will be defending my thesis Generative Robotics: Self-Supervised Learning for Human-Robot Collaborative Creation on October 10th.
Please email me if you would like a Zoom link to watch!
[August 2025]
I was invited to speak at the SIGGRAPH 2026 workshop on Drawing and Sketching.
Thank you to Yael Vinker and Mia Tang for the invite and organizing a wonderful event.
[May 2025]Yejin Kim, Jean Oh, and I won the best collaboration award at the ICRA'25 Arts in Robotics session
[March 2025]
Our paper, Spline-FRIDA, was accepted to RA-L
[October 2024]Robot Synesthesia won Best Entertainment and Amusment Paper at IROS 2024
[September 2024]
I successfully proposed my thesis! Thank you to my committee: Prof. Jean Oh (Advisor), Prof. Jim McCann, Prof. Manuela Veloso, and Prof. Ken Goldberg
Full-stack, lead developer on the Personalized Learning² project; addressing the opportunity gap for marginalized students. Created an interface for teachers and mentors at public schools in the Pittsburgh region to view data from their students’ usage of multiple Math tutoring software and access resources to intervene on students’ motivational and cognitive obstacles. Gave input on the designing of the tool and managed multiple design interns throughout its development process.
Contributed improvements in full stack development to LearnSphere’s Tigris: An online workflow tool for analyzing, visualizing, and mining educational data
Presented and taught at workshops and CMU courses. Created videos to teach the software tools I contributed to.
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Doctor of Philosophy
GPA: 4.0
August 2021 —
The University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science
GPA: 3.9
2013 — 2017
Central Catholic High School
Pittsburgh, PA
2009 — 2013
Volunteer
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Councelor and unit leader at MDA's summer camp for children with muscular diseases
2012 — 2020
Volleyball
High school and college experience
Assisted coach at Central Catholic High School
Biking
You'll catch me outside on my bike as soon as the warm weather hits. I use it to find the best rock skipping spots in Western PA.
Music
Guitar, Saxophone, Bagpipes, Synthesizer in what small free time I find
