About
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Knox College. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Alabama in 2025, advised by Dr. Fei Hu and co-advised by Dr. Yu Gan (University of Maryland), and my B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Alabama.
My research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and extended reality (XR). I build systems that watch, understand, and re-render human motion: from holographic patient rendering on a single camera to vision-language models that reason about what happens in a video. Much of this work is aimed at accessible rehabilitation and health, and it is supported by the National Science Foundation.
News
All news- Awarded NSF Award #2553446 as sole PI: ERI: Accessible XR System for Human Motion Monitoring, Reasoning, and Rendering with 3D Vision-Language Models.
- Richie Dix defended his College Honors thesis, Integrating and Fine-tuning Single-Image-to-3D Model for 4D XR Human Visualization (advisor and committee chair). Four undergraduate researchers join the group for summer 2026.
- Co-PI on NSF Award #2612358, ACAI-Train: Scalable Instructor Training for Infusing AI and Advanced CI Concepts into Early Core Computing Courses (PI: David P. Bunde).
- U.S. Patent 12,592,097, Real-Time, Fine-Resolution Human Intra-Gait Pattern Recognition Based on Deep Learning Models, granted.
- A Human–Machine System for Remote Rehabilitation: Cross-Platform Immersive Interaction Enabled by VR, AR, and Digital Twin Technologies accepted to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
- Deep Learning-Based Spatio-Temporal Framework for Opioid Overdose Monitoring in Rural Alabama published in Artificial Intelligence in Health.
Selected Publications
All publications-
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2026 early access
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 7311–7323, 2025
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IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1006–1016, 2023
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arXiv preprint, 2026
Beyond Research
I enjoy creating with the snowflake process: start from something simple and let it grow toward complexity. A few things that grew that way:
- RClaim, an AI-first receipt and expense app I built and shipped · snap a receipt, forward an e-receipt, and it files itself and builds reimbursement packets; on the App Store and at rclaim.app
- Koch snowflake in WebGL · the project that named the process
- A NeRF-reconstructed LEGO set, viewed inside a HoloLens 2
- Music I have produced · Kawaii Phonk, and a track titled Please Hire Me
- Hosting events as president of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at UA