I’m Jared!
I’m a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Washington Makeability Lab, advised by Prof. Jon Froehlich.
I work on problems in technical HCI and urban informatics.
Check out my Research, Publications, and CV!
Research Themes
How can we unify multimodal urban data (e.g., street-level, satellite, seasonal) so that we get the best of all worlds, enabling multimodally aware models?
More projects and publications coming soon! 😉
How can we utilize massive existing image and urban datasets to understand more about our cities and regions as a whole? For example, scalably mapping infrastructure, auditing region-scale accessibility, and understanding more about our cities’ walkability and bikeability.
Projects
Publications
- ArtScape: Detecting, Characterizing, and Interactively Exploring Urban Art at Scale Using Vision Language Models ACM UIST 26
- “Where Can I Park?” Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery ACM ASSETS 25
- RAMPNET: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Bootstrapping Curb Ramp Detection in Streetscape Images from Open Government Metadata ICCV 25 Workshop
How can we make our cities more pleasant to live in for the individual? I explore ways, tools, and interaction techniques to improve the ways we as individuals engage with our built environment, including context-aware routing, navigation tailored to an individual’s abilities, and ways to explore the broader character of a city.
Projects
Publications
- ArtScape: Detecting, Characterizing, and Interactively Exploring Urban Art at Scale Using Vision Language Models ACM UIST 26
- LandmarkLens: Predicting and Presenting Effective Landmarks for Mixed-Reality Urban Exploration ACM UIST 26
- BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery ACM CHI 26
- “Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?” Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries ICCV 25 Workshop
