Jaylin Herskovitz
Assistant Professor at Tufts University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJaylin Herskovitz is an Assistant Professor and accessibility-focused HCI researcher with a decade of experience building AI-enabled tools that empower people with disabilities to create and customize assistive technology. Their work blends end-user programming, mobile sensing, AR/VR, and machine learning, producing technical prototypes across iOS, HoloLens, web, and browser extensions and driving multiple papers at top HCI venues. Jaylin has led interdisciplinary teams and community partnerships to co-design practical systems, and interned at Apple and Microsoft where they translated mixed-method UX research into product-facing accessibility improvements. Their PhD thesis, “Hacking Assistive Technology,” highlights a rare emphasis on enabling non-experts to own and extend AI tools rather than only consuming them. Based in Somerville, MA, they combine rigorous technical implementation with stakeholder-driven design, often surfacing subtle accessibility needs through novel sensing and interaction techniques.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (6)
openvr10
hololens9
unity3d9
mrtk8
cross-platform5
javascript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ASSETS-Conference/assets2022
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
ASSETS 2022 Website
Contributions:107 commits, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
assets
jayhersk/advent-challenges
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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