Hello, I'm Jessica

...sometimes I go by my Chinese name, Yi Fei (亦非)!

I am a 1st year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto supervised by Ashton Anderson. Prior to that, I did my MSc at ETH Zurich and my BASc at the University of British Columbia, both in Mechanical Engineering.

My research experiences include MIT with Giovanni Traverso for ML for Healthcare, National University of Singapore with Brian Lim for Explainable AI, EPFL with Amir Zamir for Embodied Perception, UBC with Mike Van der Loos for Human-Robot Interactions, and Lund University with Hector Caltenco for Rehabilitation Engineering. I co-founded Attentiv Medical, a sensor-embedded IV catheter that won a National James Dyson Award. I also dabbled in the industry and did internships at Coursera, Amazon, and Blackberry QNX

My research centers around the human-centered design of intelligent systems, integrating my passion for art, design, and usability with engineering. I look for impactful opportunities to promote research translation to the real-world and intersectional representation and ethics in tech.