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Three Microsoft researchers in a lounge — one holding a game controller — watching a large display showing a grid of six Bleeding Edge gameplay clips, with laptops and prototype hardware spread across the table in front of them.

01Jan 2023 – Feb 2025Microsoft Research

Muse / WHAM: building a world model with creators

Building Muse — the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM) — by co-designing with game creators and grounding its evaluation metrics in future use cases.

Design research
Leading teams
Productizing AI

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A frame generated by the WHAMM model: a first-person view down a yellow-lit industrial corridor in Quake II, a blaster held at the lower right, the objective text "Establish communication link to command ship" overlaid, and a health readout of 100.

02Feb – Apr 2025Microsoft Research

Microsoft Copilot: a brand new AI-driven gaming experience

Our team turned a Nature-published world model into a global-scale, consumer-facing product in six weeks. I led the product scoping, the definition of success, and the PR narrative.

Productizing AI
Leading teams

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A blind user holding up a phone running Find My Things, panning it across a room to locate a personal object.

032022 – 2024Microsoft Research

Find My Things: a model is only as good as the system it underpins

Building an AI system powered by computer vision that helps blind or low-vision users find personal objects.

Human-centered AI
Design research
Responsible AI
AI for accessibility

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Viva Topics running inside Microsoft Teams. A channel conversation fills the window, and the term "SOAR" in one message has opened a topic card on the right showing the project name, alternate names, a short summary sourced from a linked document, three named people with their roles, and a list of ten or more suggested resources.

04Summer 2021Microsoft

Viva Topics: user research for a new AI knowledge product

A JEM internship across the Viva Topics product team and Microsoft Research — validating new feature ideas for an AI knowledge product through user research and co-design, and proposing research directions for the teams to pursue.

Design research
Human-centered AI

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