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Awarded Tapia scholarship to attend CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (Tapia 2026) in Atlanta, Georgia, with fully funded attendance.

Delivered a recorded video presentation of EvaluatAR: A Cross-Device Evaluation Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Bystander PETs in AR for PETS 2026. The paper artifact received Available and Functional badges, and I received an $840 PETS 2026 stipend to support participation. Paper · Video presentation.

Rethinking Privacy Indicators in Extended Reality: Multimodal Design for Situationally Impaired Bystanders was selected for the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Research Paper Showcase 2026. Read the feature.

Completed the UR2PhD Graduate Student Mentor Training Course, formal training in effective and inclusive research mentorship, project design, communication, and mentoring practice. I earned the program’s electronic course certificate. View verified certificate.

Served as a reviewer for the 32nd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2026).

Mentoring Kim Giordano and Amulya Chinnala through Summer 2026. Kim and I are studying privacy policies and transparent sensor-data usage in XR, while Amulya and I are working on AI alignment for privacy.

Served as a reviewer for the Generative AI for XR and Identity-based Applications (GenXR-ID) workshop at CVPR 2026.

Elected to serve as Vice President of the Virginia Tech Computer Science Graduate Council for 2026–2027.

Completed my M.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech with a 4.00 cumulative GPA. Verify electronic diploma

Served on the organizing committee for the Intelligent XR (iXR) Ideathon at Virginia Tech.

Presented our paper Rethinking Privacy Indicators in Extended Reality: Multimodal Design for Situationally Impaired Bystanders at the 2025 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Graduate Student Summit at Virginia Tech.

Attended IEEE ISMAR 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea! Presented our work titled Rethinking Privacy Indicators in Extended Reality: Multimodal Design for Situationally Impaired Bystanders at the TRUST-XR workshop.

Presented a poster on Rethinking Privacy Indicators in Extended Reality: Multimodal Design for Situationally Impaired Bystanders at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) 30th Anniversary celebration at Virginia Tech.

Elected to serve as Treasurer of the Virginia Tech Computer Science Graduate Council for 2025–2026.

Attended IEEE VR 2025 in Saint-Malo, France, where our paper “Just stop doing everything for now!”: Understanding Security Attacks in Remote Collaborative Mixed Reality was presented.

Selected as a CCI Cyber Innovation Scholar for FY2025–2026, receiving a $1,500 professional-development award from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Southwest Virginia Node. Program information.

Our research on security attacks in remote collaborative mixed reality was featured by Computerworld. Read the feature.

Our paper Visceral Interfaces for Privacy Awareness of Eye Tracking in VR was published at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2024 (IEEE ISMAR 2024).

Attended the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Elected to serve as Webmaster of the Virginia Tech Computer Science Graduate Council for 2024–2025.

Demonstrated BystandAR during Virginia Tech’s 2024 Ut Prosim Society Weekend in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Selected as a CCI Cyber Innovation Scholar for FY2024–2025, receiving a $2,000 professional-development award from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Southwest Virginia Node. Program information.

Attended Imaging for XR 2024 at Electronic Imaging 2024 in the San Francisco Bay Area and demonstrated BystandAR.

Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John and Dr. Bo Ji, with a thesis focus on Privacy in Extended Reality (XR).

Joined Senarios as a Full-Stack Software Engineer.

Joined GoSaaS Labs as a Backend Software Engineer.

Graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) with a B.S. in Computer Science, a minor in Psychology, and a 3.92 major GPA.