Research and projects

HCI research, AI and data tools I build to learn, and apps I wish existed.

Research

  • Experience Improvement Framework

    A practical dark-pattern framework for mobile games, built from 30+ interviews and 954 qualitative codes.

    2025, Head Researcher
  • Twitter Bot Classification

    A reproducible Python workflow comparing likely-bot and likely-human sentiment in political tweets.

    2025, Head Researcher

Publication

Moradzadeh, S., Oh, J. S., Gui, X., & Kou, Y. (2025). Fake Game but Real Play: Exploring Player Motivations and Coping Strategies with Fake Games. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(6), 606-636.

Projects

  • EV Battery Failure Prediction Agent

    Predicts which EV batteries are likely to fail and how much life each has left, and explains why.

    • Python
    • Machine learning
    • Claude
  • Automated Trading Bot

    A once-a-day paper-trading bot for the S&P 500, designed safety first.

    • Python
    • GitHub Actions
    • Alpaca

Apps I wish existed

Molla: learning languages through conversation

Molla is a hybrid human-AI learning experience that teaches a language through conversation, both written and spoken. It focuses on how languages were meant to be learned: through immersion and dialogue. With a mix of AI conversations and real people, anyone can learn to speak a language in comfort.

Molla logo: a line drawing of a sleeping cat with pastel blue and purple yarn balls, above the words Learning languages through conversations.