News Archive
[March, 2026]
CropWizard, a crop forecasting tool from the Center for Digital Agriculture, was showcased at the 2026 Conference on Generative AI in Agriculture as one of the first major research applications built entirely on the Illinois.chat platform. Read more here
[October, 2025]
CropWizard, one of the projects I work on at NCSA, was featured on WCIA’s “From the Farm” segment on how AI is changing farming. Watch/read it here
[October, 2025]
Illinois Chat (built on UIUC.chat) is now available to the whole campus! It lets anyone at Illinois create their own LLM-based chatbot with control over functions and content. Read more here and here
[TODO, 2025]
Illinois Chat won first place in Instructure’s inaugural Innovative Tool award at the Academic Excellence Awards! Read more here
[March, 2025]
Some of my contributions are live! The Center for Digital Agriculture announced AI AgriBench, a new consortium to benchmark the accuracy and reliability of AI question-answering systems for agriculture. Read more here
[February, 2025]
The Illinois Chat team and I launched DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 3-VL 72B on UIUC.chat! Read the product update here
[November, 2024]
I can’t wait to start building informatics tools and a knowledge base to consolidate evidence on complementary medicine approaches for COMBINI, a five-year, $3.26M NIH-funded project led by Prof. Halil Kilicoglu. Read the announcement here
[October, 2024]
I’m excited to share my first contribution to the Illinois Chat project, the LLM selection page! This project was selected for the Illinois Chat pilot program, giving participants free access to GPT-4o mini, with a focus on data privacy, source citations, and use cases like AI teaching assistants. Read more here
[August, 2024]
I graduated and moved to NYC! Here’s to new beginnings :)
[May, 2024]
I’m super honored to be recognized by the UIUC CS department for my research and scholarship. Learn more here
[September, 2023]
Thank you to Rewriting the Code for the generous scholarship to attend Grace Hopper 2023! I’m sooo excited to meet my fellow peer leaders and get inspired by leaders in industry and academia :)
[September, 2022]
Thanks to Bank of America and Rewriting the Code for providing me with a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida!
[August, 2022]
I’m super excited to be one of 30 RTC Rising Student Leaders for this academic year! I’ll be the leader for the Gaming Interest group and will be hosting a lot of cool sessions and workshops with them.
[May, 2022]
I’ll be travelling to Minneapolis this summer! I was selected for the 2022 Cargill Global Scholars Program. Learn more here
[April, 2022]
I’m honored to be selected as one of six research scholars for the Clare Boothe Luce Research Fellowship program! See the other recipients here
[November, 2021]
I’m honored to receive the JP Morgan Chase WCS Scholarship for the 2021-22 school year! See the other recipients here.
[October, 2021]
I co-hosted a talk with Illinois CS and the CTO of Reddit, Chris Slowe! See the article here: link
[September, 2021]
As the Content-Co Chair of Reflections | Projections, I helped host 16 speakers at Siebel center for CS! The conference had more than 1000+ attendees.
[August, 2021]
I’ve been selected as a Facebook Above and Beyond Computer Science scholar! I’m excited to learn from the mentors at Facebook, meet others in my cohort and grow my interviewing skills.
[August, 2021]
I’m excited that I’ve been selected as one of approximately 20 students for the CS STARS program! The program is a new initiative by the CS department to jointly encourage research and mentorship/outreach for women in computing. See the other STARS here
[May, 2021]
I’m excited to be contributing to UIUC’s @ ACM chapter as the new Corporate Chair!
[May, 2019]
My birthday gift from AP CollegeBoard was this video from the AP+WE Conference re: my advocacy work for women in CS. Link: https://www.facebook.com/WEmovement/videos/322348095104802, start @ 3:08:09