RESUME

Accomplishments

• GDC Talk: Design at Record-Breaking Scale (2024)

• Guinness World Records™ title for Most Users in a Concert-Themed Virtual World (2023)

• Guinness World Records™ title for Most Avatars Emoting Simultaneously (2023)

• Dad-Mode unlocked (2023)

• People’s Voice Webby for Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual Best Realtime Experience (2023)

• 1.6 Million people participate in Aurora’s virtual concert in Sky (2022)

• Arabic Games Conference Talk: Game Design Strategies that Science Knew About Before they were Cool (2022)

• Nintendo Indie World article on designing for Sky: Children of the Light (2021)

• GDC Talk: Stop Getting Lost: Make Cognitive Maps, Not Levels (2021)

• USC GenerationNext 2020 Speaker (2020)

• Pedalographer published in Platform 12: How About Now? (2019)

• Translusion exhibited at A+D Musem Los Angeles (2019)

• Harvard MDes Research and Development Award Recipient (2019)

• Harvard Graduate School of Education Teaching Fellow (2018-19)

• Harvard Graduate School of Design Technical Assistant (2017-19)

• Harvard Graduate School of Design Teaching Assistant (2017-19)

• Married my Best Friend (2018)

• USC Cum Laude (2016)

• USC Global Scholar Prize Recipient (2016)

• USC Department of Architecture Material Fabrication Award Recipient (2016)

• Translusion exhibited at USC School of Architecture (2016)

• Viterbi Senior Design Expo 1st Place (2016)

• Saver Scholarship Fund Recipient (2016)

• Widom Wein Cohen Award Recipient (2016)

• Top Byerts Scholarship Recipient (2016)

• Tau Sigma Delta Society Member (2016)

• Alpha Lambda Delta Society Member (2016)

• USC Provost Undergraduate Research Fellow (2015)

• SEED @ALL Design Competition Winner (2015)

• Ruth Elaine Reed Memorial Scholarship Recipient (2015)

• Verle L. Annis Memorial Scholarship Recipient (2015)

• Maye Scholarship Recipient (2014)

• Stockwell Scholarship Recipient (2014)

• Verle L. Annis Memorial Scholarship Recipient (2014)

• Ruth Elaine Reed Memorial Scholarship Recipient (2014)