I am PhD candidate interested in how people across cultures can better harness time and technology to enhance happiness and social connection. In one line of my work, I investigate how turning to conversational AI like ChatGPT for companionship impacts our social and emotional well-being. In a separate line of work, I study the affective consequences of various daily activities and the effectiveness of a variety of happiness strategies (e.g., gratitude journaling). I am also one of four core team members of the ongoing Global Happiness Mega Study— a collaborative large-scale study seeking to recruit tens of thousands of participants from dozens of countries to test the effects of some of the most common happiness strategies in the scientific literature.