I am a first year Ph.D student in the Intelligent System Program of the University of Pittburgh.

I study and do research in the area of Human Computer Interaction. I am interested in innovate input and output techniques, creative tools and mobile interfaces and pedagogical systems. I got my master degree from the University of Bristol, UK where I worked with Prof. Sriram Subramanian. I got my bachelor degree from the Department of Industrial Design, Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy, China.

For my master degree, I worked on the kicking gesture project. Foot-based gestures have recently received attention as an alternative interaction mechanism in situations where the hands are pre-occupied or unavailable. My Msc thesis introduces the work to investigate the flexibility of using kicking gestures for interacting with mobile devices and the real world mappings of kicking gestures as the continuous input with mobile phone commands.