ACADEMIC
RESEARCH
A verified collection of university research initiatives, peer-reviewed visual experiments, and peer-recognized instructional design frameworks funded by national and local grants.
Education Leadership & Curriculum
Globally recognized resources and funded educational initiatives.
Adobe Master Teacher Resources
12+ Published Creative Lesson Plans
Recognized as an Adobe Education Exchange Influencer and Master Teacher among only 340 educators worldwide from 15 countries, selected to develop comprehensive educational resources for the Adobe-BetterLesson partnership. Created 12+ published resources including both student-facing and faculty-facing lesson plans, each featuring step-by-step implementation guides, video tutorials, downloadable templates, and assessment rubrics. These resources now serve 1.4 million BetterLesson members globally, with particular emphasis on bridging the digital divide by providing low-bandwidth alternatives and culturally responsive architectural design modules.
Design for Change
Digital advocacy systems for climate education
Developed a comprehensive 100+ page resource guide for the Professional Learning Community for Interdisciplinary Science, funded by a prestigious $910K Koret Foundation grant. Created four extensive modules teaching educators how to leverage creative tools for climate communication and data visualization, with each module containing both student-facing projects and faculty-facing implementation guides. The materials empower teachers across 11 participating schools to guide students in translating complex science data into accessible visual systems.
Watching Over Water
Pre-service teacher guide for climate frameworks
An intensive collaboration developing a comprehensive educative companion guide for pre-service teachers as part of the UC-CSU Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs). Contributed expertise in digital media integration and data storytelling. Materials empower educators to integrate water conservation, Indigenous knowledge frameworks, and environmental advocacy through justice-centered structural design workflows.
VR/AR Research & Immersive Media
Funded research in virtual environments, interactive narrative, and spatial data storytelling.
Bringing Lincoln Back to Life
AI & motion capture frameworks in historical VR
Pioneered educational applications of AI and digital human pipelines by recreating Abraham Lincoln using Xsens motion capture suites and Unreal Engine 5. Addressed MetaHuman model boundary constraints by designing custom architectural character texture maps in Adobe Substance Painter, achieving a visceral historical performance mapping model.
Coastal Flood Risk VR
Immersive climate change spatial photogrammetry
Developed a photorealistic VR pipeline of Little Corona Del Mar using UAV spatial drone photogrammetry and GIS coastal data, funded by the American Geophysical Union. Combined RealityCapture workflows with FEMA hazard grids in Unity 3D to translate complex climate risk models into intuitive spatial awareness systems.
Following Water: San Joaquin Delta
Dual-Format Immersive Documentary Framework
Created an immersive 360° virtual reality documentary highlighting the San Joaquin Delta's crucial agricultural and ecological infrastructure. Developed custom interactive user flows where ambient environmental field capture arrays run beneath secondary nested video panels without active framework conflicts.
Burned Out: California Wildfires
Spherical journalism and environmental narrative
An immersive interactive documentary mapping California's critical climate hazard lines. Placed users directly into high-exposure impact boundaries to evaluate the communicative efficacy of spherical media versus traditional linear broadcast streams for risk visualization.
Your World Your Choices
Branching interaction climate game architecture
Directed rapid MVP development with only one month for execution, selected as Top 50 shortlist globally for AWE USA's XR Challenge. Built all Unity scenes in just two days, integrating research and video footage from fast fashion factories in Bangladesh to create Chapter 1 focused on the environmental impact of fast fashion. This choose-your-own-adventure virtual novel empowers players to navigate branching narratives where their consumer choices cascade into different endings - from environmental catastrophe to sustainable futures. Working with student research assistant Ethan Kelley to brainstorm user flows, developer Matin Esmaeili for technical implementation, and narrator Isabella Carino for voice work, we created an immersive experience that transforms abstract climate data into personal moral dilemmas. Players face real-world scenarios like choosing between cheap fast fashion and sustainable alternatives, experiencing firsthand how individual decisions compound into global impacts.
This Far by Faith
Digital spatial preservation of cultural architecture
Co-investigator and spatial interactive experience architect chronicling northern California's oldest Black churches. Orchestrated spatial photorealistic matter capture frameworks with Matterport pipelines, bridging WebVR structural deployment with local oral histories.
EdTech & Interactive Design
User experience systems and cognitive interface engineering frameworks.
Quality of Life: Breast Cancer App
User-centered post-treatment tracking system
Designed an evidence-based mobile application tracking interface for multi-ethnic post-treatment recovery systems, mapping cross-disciplinary public health frameworks into an empathetic, highly secure data logging platform.
Reflection
Real-time live interaction performance architecture
Collaborated on a live projection-mapped theater installation where physical body expressions dynamically updated real-time procedurally drawn environmental elements using custom algorithmic tracing frameworks in Unity.
Climate Disasters Interactive Map
Multimodal touch & voice data system layout
Transformed complex National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration billion-dollar extreme climate data arrays into an interactive human-centered dashboard using advanced voice activation and tactile trace inputs in Adobe XD.