Research Experience

Research Assistant and Software Developer (Emotion Regulation through Music Generation)

The University of Melbourne
  • Developing a Spotify-based web application to generate playlists based on user moods
  • Researching how custom playlists can shift users between affective states
  • Python, Node.js, Express, MySQL
September 2024 - June 2025

Research Assistant (Smartphone Sensing and Wellbeing)

The University of Melbourne
  • Investigated how smartphone usage can serve as a predictor of health and wellbeing
  • Implemented AI and machine learning techniques to analyse data correlations and identify patterns
  • Python, MySQL, Data Analysis, PyTorch
April 2024 - July 2024

Research Assistant and Software Developer (Exploring Generative AI in Education)

The University of Auckland
  • Built a tool to automatically create versioned assessments
  • Researched methods to generate dataset variations using synthetic data
  • Coordinated team members to achieve project outcomes
  • Node.js, SQL, Python, MongoDB, Git
February 2023 - December 2024

Course Development Project Manager

The University of Auckland
  • Led creation of Introductory Business Analytics (BUSAN department)
  • Researched and organised content for an introductory analytics course
  • SQL
July 2021 - December 2021

Research Assistant (Cognitive Engagement and Debugging)

The University of Auckland
  • Conducted user studies to collect eye-tracking, EEG and GSR data for analysing program debugging behaviour
  • Created data-analysis tools to deduce patterns and identify behaviours beneficial to the debugging process
  • Communicated research results via oral presentations and written reports
  • Python, JavaScript, SPSS, User Studies
November 2020 - March 2021