I lead the Design Computing and Extended Reality (DCXR) Group at George Mason University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA, where I was advised by Demetri Terzopoulos. I received my B.Eng and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from the HKUST. I was a visiting scientist at the International Design Center at MIT and a visiting scholar at the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford. I also worked at the Internet Graphics Group at Microsoft Research Asia.

My research interests include computational design, virtual reality, graphics, vision, and human-computer interaction. I am the lead inventor of Make-it-Home (SIGGRAPH 2011), a pioneering system for automating interior design and virtual world generation.

I received an NSF CRII award (2016) for my work on computational design and an NSF CAREER award (2020) for my work on virtual reality.