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2022

Hosted a ramen tasting / ranking party with 11 random brands, then statistically ranked them

Went to THE Angry Orchard (with Funk)

Drove cross country Pittsburgh → Seattle

Visit Grounds for Sculpture and cool Ringing rocks park

Pull Gestures accepted to ICMI

NBC vid on Today Show

NBC vid on Nightly News w/ Lester Holt. He says "wow"!

NBC came to film our lab because of MouthHaptics

Made a “Birds Aren’t Real” poster on a Risograph machine

Lived in NYC, working at Meta Reality Labs

First ever in person conference, CHI 2022 in New Orleans

Get interviewed by many news sources about MouthHaptics

I got honorable mention for NSF GRFP

MouthHaptics wins BEST PAPER at CHI!

Visited the Mapparium in Boston

Biked circles in the Point State Park fountain, and climbed in center

Hosted a “drinking & AMC” competition 

Got used billboard sign right off the posts, made art (pants, vest, etc.)

2021

Hiked Pittsburgh’s northside stairs, 16 miles and 237 flights

Two CHI Paper acceptances! (MouthHaptics & ControllerPose)

Tried out for USA Worlds Beach Ultimate Team! Was a great experience but really hard

Skived on work w/ Chris & Craig to raft

Human Spider for Halloween

Learned glass blowing

Helped run Pinnacle, Olympics of Hackathons

FarOut Touch wins best paper at SUI :)

Played college survivor, made the merge!! but then got 8th place after being voted most likely to win

First paper acceptance! FarOut Touch @ SUI

Wasp stung my EYE

2020

Schwartz Entrepreneurial Fellow at CMU

Match with Chris Harrison of Future Interfaces Group - his welcome gift is a lockpicking set

Started my PhD in Robotics @ CMU

Drove cross country, from LA to Pittsburgh, taking Southern route

Walked top to bottom of Manhattan, 16 miles

Attended Almighty Opp, weird puppet show in LA

Road trip to NM for MeowWolf

Worked backstage on Avenger’s campus for months

Worked as Disney imagineer on the Spiderman webshooters ride

2019

Featured singing into Karoake mic on James Corden. Also won a Tshirt

Bugible Thanksgiving! 18 course meal with every dish made with bugs

Was on Let’s Make a Deal! 

Worked at Conservation X Labs

Worked at San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research

Learned to walk on stilts (BM)

Tickled by a professional dominatrix (BM)

Climbed on Thunderdome while on shrooms (BM)

Attended Burning Man: Metamorphasis

Got stuck on ocean with Thai man trying to scam us

Prostrated for 1.5 hours up a temple on Mt. Putuo

Spent an entire week with ZERO communciation

Learned KungFu with Shaolin Monks, both 8 trigrams and 12 forms

Shaved head bald

Lived at the South Shaolin Monastery in Fujian for a month

Visited abandoned Buddhist Hell theme park, Har Paw villa

Learned to Fence (PE)

Watched Physicist Brian Greene record Light Falls,  live

Learned a lot at the Disgusting Food Museum

Toured the Hiroshi Ishiguro Labs, where I voiced a humanoid robot and held a robot baby

2018

Attended Grace Hopper as Microsoft Scholar

Worked overnight at Disney’s California Adventure for two weeks

Met Grant Imahara at Stuntronics demo

Worked at Disney Research

Microsoft Sponsor Prize at Capitol360

Clefhangers sang at graduation, Roar Lions Roar

Facebook F8 hackathon as F8 fellow

Met Dominique Ansel and got a private tech tour!

Second tattoo: SOTG (frisbee) on wrist. Designed myself.

Had dinner next to the Prince of Lichtenstein

Presented XPerience on international Catholic TV

Explained VR to the Cardinal of Science (who didn’t speak English)

Finalist at VHacks, Hackathon at the Vatican!

Watched Martha Stewart live... she SUCKS

Watched Trevor Noah live

2017

Alfred Aho last ever class (now a Turing Award winner)

SWE Conference

Ada Lovelace Fellow at the OSHWA Conference

Nude modelled for figure drawing club

Modelled in CultureShock

Top 10 finalist at HackMIT

Spent a month with nonprofit CodePhil in Lavazares, Philippines

Got an NFC microchip embedded in my hand

Went to DEFCon

Watched the US Sumo Open with some of the world’s best

Competed in A16Z Battle of the Hacks

Worked at NASA JPL for the Mars Sample Return mission

Was FB friends with and chatted Martin Shkreli

Ran CodeDay NY near the FlatIron

Met Charles Duke, astronaut from Apollo 16

Attended West Point Military Ball

Ran DevFest with Tristan Harris as keynote

2nd place at PennApps

2016

Hung out with Awkwafina again

Convinced guard to lead me to roof of tallest Dallas building

Ran Dallas CodeDay

Ran the Columbia Makerspace MakerFaire booth at World MakerFaire

Intel Sponsor prize at HackMIT

Saw Muay Thai worlds

Played on HK National Women’s Ultimate Team

Studied abroad at HKUST

Attended NASA Space Apps NYC

Finally got the tattoo I’ve wanted for 5 years. Fire on collarbone

Hung out with Awkwafina at a concert, sang on stage with her

2015

Modelled in AAA CultureShock 

Learned to walk on ball, spin plates, juggle