Nithya Sambasivan

December: Paper on airtime sharing in micro enterprises in India accepted to CHI 2012.

November: Gave a talk on design ethnography with sex workers in the Design Thinking course.

August: Wrapping up internship at MSR!

July: "Cutting Chai, Jugaad, and Here Pheri: towards UbiComp for a global community" in the Digital Divide special of the PUC journal.

June: Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship from UCI for 2011

Anita Borg scholarship 2011.

April: Our research on sex workers gets press in the Open magazine, New Scientist [Alternate link], Mobileactive, Textually, and KUCI radio's Tech Talk.

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	Nithya Sambasivan - HCI4D researcher I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. I am advised by Prof. Bonnie Nardi, and work closely with Ed Cutrell and Profs. Don Patterson, Alladi Venkatesh, and Bill Maurer. I graduated with a Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech, in 2007, where I worked with Prof. Mike Best, among others. I did my undergraduate thesis work at the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with Prof. Veni Madhavan on Steganography and Steganalysis. I have been working on HCI4D research for three summers at Microsoft Research India. I have also worked as an intern at Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland and IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY. My research interests are in HCI4D, ICT4D, Ubiquitous Computing, and Anthropology. My dissertation focusses on re-conceptualizing "the user" and understanding sharing in low-income communities in India--in urban microenterprises, sex workers, and slum communities. I am graduating in early 2012 and am looking for an industrial research job in HCI and International Development. Please check out my CV! ______________________________________________________ I write a world music blog with a friend. Previously, I was a radio-jockey at WREK, Georgia Tech, where I played world music on weekends. I am also involved with the UCI Indian club theatre and Indian club Surabhi in general [drop me a line if you are interested]. ______________________________________________________ Nithya Sambasivan Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 5099 Donald Bren Hall Irvine, CA 92697-3425 nsambasi at uci dot edu I am usually at TechDec	Updates December: Paper on airtime sharing in micro enterprises in India accepted to CHI 2012. November: Gave a talk on design ethnography with sex workers in the Design Thinking course. August: Wrapping up internship at MSR! July: "Cutting Chai, Jugaad, and Here Pheri: towards UbiComp for a global community" in the Digital Divide special of the PUC journal. June: Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship from UCI for 2011 Anita Borg scholarship 2011. April: Our research on sex workers gets press in the Open magazine, New Scientist [Alternate link], Mobileactive, Textually, and KUCI radio's Tech Talk. ______________________________________