Curriculum Vitae

Education

M.S. in Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz. (Present)

B.A. in Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. (2018 - 2022)

B.S. in Computer Science: Game Design, University of California, Santa Cruz. (2018 - 2022)

Employment

UCSC ASSIST Lab, Graduate Research Lead
2022 - Present

VRiends, Graduate Student Researcher
2023 - Present

UCSC ASSIST Lab, Undergraduate Research Lead
2021 - 2022

UCSC ASSIST Lab, Undergraduate Research Assistant
2020 - 2021

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Wu G, Lee D, Zhao WZ, Wong A, Jhangiani R, Kurniawan S, ChatGPT, Google Assistant: Which is best for patients with amblyopia?. JMIR Preprints. 01/09/2023:52401

Conference Papers

  1. Gloria Wu, Shweta Satheesha Krishna, Samantha Sakai, Rohan Jhangiani, and Sri Kurniawan. 2023. Google Assistant and ChatGPT: Is it Useful for Non Medical Professionals Looking for Information about Stroke or Glaucoma?. In The International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2023), November 07--10, 2023, Nagoya, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA 5 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627050.3631579

  2. Tien, K., Wu, G., Zhao, W., Elor, A., Jhangiani, R., Parrales, A., & Kurniawan, S. (2022). 2022 amblyopia smartphone apps: Do they help our patients?. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 63(7), 1238-A0346.

  3. Jhangiani, R., Parrales, A., Chien, D., Wu, G., Kurniawan, S., & Elor, A. (2022, August). Towards a Gaze-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Improving Visual Acuity with Amblyopia. In 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

  4. Jhangiani, R., Elor, A., Kuznetsov, M., Tummala, S., Ott, L., Teodorescu, M., & Kurniawan, S. Navigating COVID-19 Spread in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study on 3D Geospatial Interaction. Presented at 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)

  5. Vo, T. E., Jhangiani, R., Robbins, A., & Elor, A. (2020, September). Designing user-specific soft robotic wearable muscular interfaces with iterative simulation. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) (pp. 253-255). IEEE.

Teaching Experience

University of California, Santa Cruz (Teaching Assistant)

  • CMPM 80J (Games as Technical Culture)

  • CMPM 170 (Rapid Prototyping)

  • CMPM 80I (Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction)

Awards

  • Deans’ Undergraduate Research Award 2022

Mentoring and Advising

Undergraduate Students

  • Anna Toledo

  • Emma Laszlo

  • Isha Chury

  • Tristyn Lai

  • Soorya Sankaran

  • Anika Mittal

  • Richa Nayak

  • Seeya Pillai

  • Rishika Isanaka

High School Students (via the UCSC Science Internship Program)

  • Mohammed Mustakim

  • Jack Liu

  • Angelina Pham

Service

ACM VRST 2021, Reviewer