Parastoo Abtahi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She leads Princeton’s Situated Interactions Lab (Ψ Lab), which explores virtual and augmented reality interactions grounded in human perception and cognition. Before joining Princeton, Parastoo was a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, where she was a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellow, and her bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. Parastoo’s work has been recognized with a Google Research Scholar Award and Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at top human-computer interaction venues, such as ACM CHI and UIST.