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2025
| I am recruiting multiple PhD students and one Postdoc for Summer/Fall 2026! | |
| Excited to join MIT EECS / CSAIL as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! | |
| Visited and presented at UCSD CSE. Thanks Prof. Ryan Kastner for hosting me! | |
| Gave a keynote at the "New Metabolism" symposium organized by Gluon at the Zebrastraat (Belgium). | |
Passed my defense today! Thank you to my advisor, committee, labmates, and friends for joining. :)  |
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| Visited and presented at MIT EECS. Thanks Prof. David Karger for hosting me! | |
| Visited and presented at Northwestern CS. Thanks Prof. Mike Horn & Prof. Karan Ahuja! | |
| Visited and presented at Columbia CS. Thanks Prof. Brian Smith for hosting me! | |
| Visited and presented at UNM CS. Thanks Prof. Lydia Tapia for hosting me! | |
| Serving as Student Design Competition Co-Chair for ACM TEI 2026! | |
| Visited and presented at UT Dallas CS. Thanks Prof. Jin Ryong Kim for hosting me! | |
| Serving as TPC Assistant for ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain! | |
| Two papers I co-authored were conditionally accepted to ACM CHI 2025. |
2024
Presenting and demoing "Augmented Breathing" at ACM UIST 2024! Come try it out :)  |
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| Honored to work with Gang "Gordon" Yu (THU), Woosang Kim (UEC Tokyo), & Janice Hixon (UChicago) this summer! | |
"Smell & Paste" received the Sadakichi Award! Thanks to the IAO and the judges! Read more
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Presented my work at PAC Lab (Cornell Tech). Thanks Tanzeem, Zhao, Tan, and the whole lab!  |
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| "Smell & Paste" announced as a finalist for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent. Read more | |
| Visiting as a guest speaker for the MAS.S62: Cognitive Augmentation course at MIT Media Lab. Thanks Pattie & Sam! | |
| Passed my candidacy exam. Thanks to their committee: Pedro Lopes, Pattie Maes, Tanzeem Choudhury, & Ben Zhao! :) | |
Alex presented "Thermal Grasp" at IEEE VR 2024! Read more
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| Participating as a panelist for "Re-conceptualizing the experience of architecture as tangible object" at AIS Week 2024. | |
Gave a talk for the VIS-2314: Responsive Environments course at the Harvard GSD. Thanks Allen!  |
2023
Presented and exhibited at the Odeuropa Smell Culture Fair. Thank you to Inger, Will, and the whole Odeuropa team! Read more
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| "Taste Retargeting" received a Jury's Honorable Mention for Best Demonstration at ACM UIST 2023. | |
| Announced as a recipient of the 2024 Siebel Scholars award! Read more | |
Internship at MSR New England came to an end. Thanks Judith, Javier, and the HUE team for an amazing summer!  |
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| Selected as a 2023 Rising Star in EECS, Georgia Institute of Technology! Read more | |
Started my internship at Microsoft Research New England in the Human Understanding & Empathy Group with Dr. Judith Amores.  |
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| Passed my Masters Presentation. Thanks to their committee: Pedro Lopes, Ben Zhao, & Ken Nakagaki! :) | |
Presented two new ongoing media archaeology papers at Uncommon Senses IV. Read more
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Gave a talk at Mo.CA (Centro per le Nuove Culture) in Brescia, Italy. Thanks Elena & the Mo.CA team! Read more
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Presented "Smell & Paste" at ACM CHI 2023!  |
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The latest "Smell, Taste, & Temperature" workshop kicks off at ACM CHI 2023. Read more
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| "Smell & Paste" covered on Hackster.IO. Read more |
2022
Gave an invited talk at Smart Haptics 2022 (industry conference). Read more
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Simon & Jas's talk at the 2022 Digital Olfaction Society Congress received the Scientific Award. Read more
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| Jas & Pedro announced as awardees for the 2022 Snap Creative Challenge (Snap Inc.). | |
"Stereo-Smell" appeared in the "De geur van kleur" online exhibition from the Smell Yourself Healthy group at Wageningen University! Read more
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| WIRED covers smell in VR, including Jas & the lab's work. Read more | |
| The “Scent in Cinema” and “Twitch & Sniff Along” series announced finalists for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent. Read more | |
| BuiltIn covered "Stereo-Smell" and other projects for scent-based immersion. Read more |
2021
Jas is a guest speaker for the ATS-1095: Olfactory Art course at SAIC. Thanks Ted!  |
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| Jasmine & Jas were on the Haptics Club Podcast to discuss "Chemical Haptics." Read more | |
Smell-O-Vision system (the smell brain) moved from Manhattan to the University of Chicago. Thanks Carmen for entrusting us with this historical device. Read more
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| "Stereo-Smell" announced as Innovation by Design Award Honorable Mention in Experimental Design (Fast Company). Read more | |
| "Stereo-Smell" covered in depth in Digital Trends. Read more | |
| "Stereo-Smell" covered in Hackster.IO. Read more | |
| "Back of the Hand EMS" received Best Paper Award (top 1%) at ACM CHI 2021. | |
| "Stereo-Smell" covered in depth in IEEE Spectrum. Read more | |
"Smell, Taste, and Temperature" workshop at CHI 2021 kicked off virtually with 50 attendees and 24 papers! Read more
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2020
| The "Scratch’n’Sniff Open Database" project announced as awardee for the 2021 IAO Accelerator program. Read more | |
| Jas presented "Temperature Illusions" at the Chicago SIGCHI local chapter. | |
| The ACM CHI 2020 "Smell, Taste, & Temperature" Symposium kicked off, organized by Jas and Pedro. Read more | |
| Jas presented "Temperature Illusions" at the CHIcago Symposium. Read more | |
| "Temperature Illusions" received Best Paper Award (top 1%) at ACM CHI 2020. |
2019
Fifth graders from Day Star Academy visit the lab with a tour from Jas!  |
2018
| Jas received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! |