Innovation through exploration.

Ever since I was little, I have been driven by a thirst for exploration. I dismantled an old VCR at eight, convinced I might find a tiny superhero inside. When none appeared, I was neither disappointed nor deterred; instead, I became more fascinated by how all the parts fit together and how humans could create such intricate machines.

My most defining motivation emerged when my grandfather passed away, and I noticed how lonely my grandmother looked in his absence. That emotional gap made me wish for a "companion" AI that would go beyond performing tasks to actually recognizing people's feelings. This prompted my initial research in Facial Expression Recognition (FER).

Under mentorship at the National Institute of Informatics, I spent four years investigating everything from foundational FER models to advanced datasets, research we eventually submitted to the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.