Portia Wang

Hi there! I am a Communication PhD student at Stanford University, supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a McCoy Ethics Graduate Fellowship. I am advised by Prof. Jeremy Bailenson at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

I am interested in building up a theoretical framework towards understanding personalized and adaptive immersive technologies. To do this, I hope to develop tools for facilitating social interactions and the creative process in virtual and augmented reality and characterize how individuals and groups utilize these tools over time.

Previously, I completed my M.S. in MS&E at Stanford University and B.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University. While at Columbia, I worked as a research assistant advised by Prof. Steven Feiner at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab.