Researcher, builder, educator.

I’m a researcher and builder, and I spend most of my time on adaptive, multimodal extended-reality systems. My interests sit where XR meets empathic computing, physiological and affective computing, and HCI — and I enjoy work that moves between careful research and things people can actually use.

I’m also a mixed-methods UX researcher: I combine qualitative work — interviews, contextual inquiry, usability studies, and thematic analysis — with quantitative and physiological measures, controlled experiments, and statistical modelling. Pairing the two lets me understand not just what people do in immersive systems but why, and turn those insights into designs that hold up in the real world.

Most recently I was a Staff Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, working on mitigating visual discomfort in immersive environments using physiological computing, and contributing to VR.Net, a large-scale VR motion-sickness dataset that was kindly recognised with the Best Paper award at IEEE VR 2024.

Before Meta I held academic posts at the University of Queensland, where I started the Empathic XR & Pervasive Computing Lab, and at the University of South Australia, along with earlier roles in the US and across Australia. Along the way I’ve also built and shipped applications across AR, VR, and mobile.

Since leaving Meta I’ve been taking that same thread into industry. I lead the Emerging Technology Practice at Embute Labs, a boutique consultancy that turns frontier research in XR, spatial computing, and AI into applied strategy — and I’m a co-founder at AHUL, an early-stage company building infrastructure that lets AI understand human cognitive and physiological context in real time. Entrepreneurship isn’t new for me — an early AR venture, BrowsAR, took a runner-up place at the Australian Entrepreneurs’ Challenge. The through-line is the same throughout: technology should understand the people using it. More on the ventures page.

I’ve had the privilege of supervising 30+ students, working on projects backed by more than $1.5M in research funding, and helping organise the community — including as a General Chair of IEEE ISMAR. None of it has been a solo effort; I’ve been lucky in the people I’ve worked with.

For the full record, see my CV.