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I believe in making intelligent user interactions that delight users deliver business value and yet work well within development constraints

Education

Ms. Human Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon 3.6 Aug’ 10
Senior Certificate Program University of Florida 3.6 Jan’09-May’09
B.Tech Computer Science JIITU, Noida, India 3.7 Jun’05-May’09

Related Coursework

Basic Interaction Design
HCI Methods
Systems Thinking and Design Action
Software Architecture for user interfaces
Human Factors
Communication and design fundamentals

Relevant Experience

GE Healthcare , Radiology
Present. In progress.
Studying the interaction and collaboration of radiologists , technicians and doctors in diagnosing a patient to streamline the process and come up with a unified UI across systems.

Interaction Design Research Assistant , Mapping Virtual Possessions in teenagers
Present
Working to develop a taxonomy of virtual possessions that today’s teenagers possess as well as developing an opportunity map that can guide design explorations of new products and services that help people to more effectively interact with their possessions.

Studying Social Interaction Using facebook
Aug’09
Studying the social interaction and collaboration of “Tetris” users on facebook. Conducted Contextual Inquires for requirement gathering and performed usability evaluations of existing facebook applications.
Role : User research lead

Jabber Transport For Metro, SUN Microsystems
May’08 In progress.
Implementation of the Jabber Transport protocol for the Metro Network stack, primarily used in Glassfish Application Server and other Application Servers.
Role : Developer

Interactive 3-D Virtual World
Jun’09-May’10
An interactive virtual environment that the users can navigate, modify and move about in with input accepted through motion capturing via a video camera.
Role : Developer, Usablility analyst.

Teaching Intern
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Instructed and lectured fellow undergraduate students for a semester for introduction to unix course and collaborated with the instructor to improve the course material.

Learning Management System
Jun’09-May’10
Maintained and further developed a centralized Learning Management System used by the college students.
Role : Developer

3-D object Search Engine
Jun’08-Dec’08
Designed to analyze and index a given set of 3D models into a searchable database.
Role : Developer

Internships

Interned at Sun Microsystems, India Engineering Center, Bangalore, from May 21st to July 17th, 2008.
Led a project on “Evil of Child Marriages” by USA funded NGO “IDEAS”.