Category: Students

  • Natalie Lam

    Natalie Lam

    Natalie Lam is a current sophomore at Purdue University pursuing a major in UX Design with a Collaborative Leadership Certificate and a minor in Computer Science and Design and Innovation. She is interested in disability justice, product design, and the usage of Natural Language Processing in the field of UX. In her free time, Natalie…

  • Sondos Alrqibat

    Sondos Alrqibat

    Sondos AlRqibat is a Ph.D. student interested in how gamified experiences (such as VR and AR) can provide more effective and engaging cognitive assessments. research falls within the areas of cognitive assessment, game design, and virtual reality, and extends beyond assessment to explore intervention strategies and long-term progress monitoring. Research Projects Contact

  • Yuanfang

    Yuanfang

    Yuanfang is a Ph.D. student interested in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Virtual Reality (VR), and multimedia systems. Yuanfang’s research focuses on the digital preservation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), exploring how immersive technologies can enhance cultural learning and engagement.

  • Sean Levy

    Sean Levy

    Sean is a junior currently working to earn his B.S. in user experience design. He is also currently pursuing a minor in psychology. One of his main interests as a designer is addressing systems of oppression in design through user-centric design practices and critical design theory. He hopes to apply this interest to designing infrastructure…

  • Monaami Pal

    Monaami Pal

    Monaami is a second year UX Design graduate student in the Computer Graphics Technology Department at Purdue Polytechnic. Her research interests lie in user experience, psychology, disability justice, sexual diversity studies. She has done her undergraduate in Computer Engineering. Her current project, “Practicing Creative Arts for Emotional Self-Regulation,” aims to understand how creative expression is…

  • Chorong Park

    Chorong Park

    Chorong Park is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty at the University of Houston. Formerly with the Co-Liberation Lab as a PhD student, she leads research at the intersection of health, human–AI interaction, and social/assistive robotics, advancing autonomy and quality of life for older adults and users with specific access needs. She builds…

  • Bek Hamelin

    Bek Hamelin

    My name is Bek Hamelin. I’m a junior working towards a B.A. in anthropology here at Purdue. I’m also working towards a minor in plant biology. I’m interested in human-environmental-technological interactions. My career goal is to work in social science research. I’m currently an undergraduate researcher in environmental anthropology. I’m a member of a student-faculty…

  • Atharva Anand Dnyanmote

    Atharva Anand Dnyanmote

    Hello! I am Atharva Anand Dnyanmote, and I am a Masters in Computer Graphics Technology. I am currently specializing in UX Design. My research interests include promoting mental health in gamers, and accessibility technology design. I am also working with DORIS as a Qualitative researcher and as a UX Designer with Griffith Foods. I have…

  • Laila Dodhy

    Laila Dodhy

    Laila Dodhy holds an MSc in User Experience, with a focus on the accessibility of music from under-resourced languages. For her capstone project, she founded Gaana Mangwao (https://gaanamangwao.org/), a platform that makes previously obscure linguistic content accessible through automated transcription, transliteration, and editing. Her current research explores the impact of advancing AI-generated music on the…