HCI ResearcherInteraction Designer
Mechanical Engineer
Education
University of Toronto, Canada
MSc, Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), DGP lab, 2007
Advisor: Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
BS, Human-Computer Interaction, Mechanical Engineering. May 2006
Graduated with University Honors, GPA: 3.70
Employment
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Hasso Plattner Institute
Visiting Researcher Conducting study on why pointing using touchscreens is imprecise. Prototyping interactive rings. Advising undergraduate and master's students on interaction design projects. |
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Microsoft Research
Research Intern Designed interactions, visual metaphors, and conducted user studies for nanoTouch, a small mobile device with a touchpad on the back. Research paper Back-of-Device Interaction Allows Creating Very Small Touch Devices co-authored with Patrick Baudisch to appear at CHI 2009, Boston. |
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Microsoft Research
Research Intern Used an iterative design process to successfully create "featherweight" audio/touchscreen interfaces for illiterate people in India. Elderly villagers had fun using the mobile device prototype I created that taught health information. |
Robotics Institute
Research Assistant
Pittsburgh, PA
2004-2006
Repaired an arm robot that is mentally controlled by a monkey. Designed, machined, and programmed a rotational haptic device.
Xerox
Mech. E. Intern
Wilsonville, OR
Summer 2005
Designed a fixture for printhead alignment using Pro/Engineer. Analyzed stresses using Ansys. Wrote a GUI data graphing program in Matlab.
Mentor Graphics
Web Application Developer
Wilsonville, OR
Summer 2001
Built customized homepages for a Java web application. Examined the needs of users to design interfaces that provided each with relevant information.
Other Projects
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Worked in a multi-disciplinary team and used an iterative design process to create a kit of cleaning tools for International Truck as part of the Integrated Product Design course at Carnegie Mellon. This kit was a lifestyle product created to increase brand visibility. |
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Created a haptic mousewheel and widgets that use force-feedback to allow people to communicate conviction (how strongly one feels about something) to computers. |
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I prototyped a series of innovative photo organization techniques such as storytelling, RFID, and animated piling. |
Skills
User-centered design, think-aloud, task analysis, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthough
Machining, prototyping, Solidworks, Pro/Engineer, Matlab
C#, WPF, XAML, Java, Flash, Visio, Linux, HTML, PHP, SQL
Spanish, Chinese
Teaching
User Interface Design, Hasso Plattner Institute, Fall 2008
Design of Interactive Computational Media, University of Toronto, Fall 2007
The How and Why of Computing, University of Toronto, Spring 2007
Capstone Design of Games, University of Toronto, Fall 2006
Activities
Buggy
Mechanic
2002-2006
Used composite materials to help build a vehicle for a university competition.
Oregon Watersheds
Volunteer
2000-2002
Volunteered for an organization dedicated to bring fish back to urban streams.
Food Drive
Volunteer
2003-2005
Organized a food drive for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
Citizenship
USA