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SAMBASIVAN nsambasi@ics.uci.edu EDUCATION University of California, Irvine PhD. student, Informatics (since September 2007) Master of Science, Information and Computer Sciences, December 2009 Georgia Institute of
Technology Anna University Technology for Emerging Markets group, Microsoft Research India (March - June 2011) Research Intern with Ed Cutrell Technology for Emerging Markets group, Microsoft Research India (May - August 2010) Research Intern with Ed Cutrell Technology for Emerging Markets group, Microsoft Research India (February - May 2009) Research Intern with Ed Cutrell and Kentaro Toyama User Experience group, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland (June - September 2008) Research Intern with Jonna Häkkilä and Jani Mäntyjärvi University of California, Irvine (September 2007 onwards) Graduate Researcher with Prof. Bonnie Nardi IBM T.J.Watson Research, Hawthorne, New York (June - September 2007) Research Intern with Rosario Uceda-Sosa and Paul Matchen College of Computing, Georgia Tech (August 2006 - May 2007) Graduate Researcher Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago (May - August 2006) Research Intern with Kelly Dempski and Brandon Harvey Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech (August 2005 - May 2006) Research assistant Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Bangalore (December 2004 - April 2005) Research intern with Prof. C E Veni Madhavan TECHNICAL SKILLS USER RESEARCH: Ethnographic field studies, Contextual inquiry, Life histories Qualitative user research (structured, semi-structured, and open-ended Interviews; household & community and online Surveys; User Profiling) Socio-economic data elicitation Design Probes (Mobile Diaries, “a-day-in-the-life-of” Camera Diaries, Experience Sampling, Cultural Probes) Usability evaluation (Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthroughs, Thinkalouds, Task Analysis, Focus Groups, Card Sorting) Profiles, Personas, Scenarios, Task and Activity analysis, Clustering, Process mapping DESIGN TOOLS : Rapid prototyping, storyboarding, wire-framing Illustrator, HTML/CSS, Visio Java, Python R, SPSS, Stata DATA ANALYSIS: Qualitative data analysis (Grounded theory, activity theory, mind mapping, open coding) Quantitative data analysis (surveys, statistical analysis, video analysis) Information visualisation ( Excel, Powerpoint) Information architecture HONOURS AND AWARDS Best of CHI honorable mention 2011 and 2010 (top 5% of the conference) Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, 2011 Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2011 Microsoft Research travel fellowship, 2011 Dean's Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2007-11 Public Impact Fellowship honorable mention, University of California, Irvine, 2010 Paul Butterworth Student Award--grant for creative, entrepreneurial student research, 2009 Council on Research, Computing & Library Resources--small grant for VoiceList, 2009 (with Prof. Bonnie Nardi) Awarded "Outstanding Student Scholarship", Simple Solutions Ltd., Bangalore(2003-05) Awarded prize medal for standing first in department in semesters II and III in undergraduate degree(2001-02) Awarded "Best National Service Scheme Student Volunteer of the Year 1999-2000" Awarded First prize in State-level Inter-collegiate English Oratorical Competition, 2002 INVITED TALKS "Designing for Urban Sex Workers: an Ethnographic Approach" in the Design Thinking course, Fall 2011 "Ethnography in International Development: A case of Bangalore slums" in the Qualitative Methods course, Winter 2011 "ICTs for developing countries: an introduction" in the Social Analysis of Technology course, Spring 2010. TEACHING ASSISTANT Human Computer Interaction, Fall 2009 Social analysis of computing, Winter 2010 Project Management, Spring 2010 PRESS Cellphones get help to India's secret sex workers, The New Scientist, 26 April, 2011. Coverage by Anil Ananthaswamy. A happy spam story, the OPEN magazine, 9th April, 2011. Coverage by Alok Singh. Mobile Reminders for Urban Sex Workers in India, Mobileactive 2011. Coverage by Melissa Ulbricht. Mobile Reminders for Urban Sex Workers in India, Textually 2011. KUCI Tech Talk 91.1. FM, talk show episode on research on sex workers, 2011. POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY Executive committee, IFIP Interaction Design in International Development (2010 - 11) Executive committee, Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion, with UCI Chancellor Michael Drake (2010 - 11) Column Writer, ATOM--Technologies for Socio-economic Development, The Alternative (quarterly) President, Surabhi--the Indian Students Association at UC, Irvine (2009 - 10) Vice-President, Surabhi--the Indian Students Association at UC, Irvine (2008 - 09) Social Chair, Informatics Graduate Student Association (2008 - 09) Engineering team, Georgia Tech campus radio, WREK 91.1 FM (2008 - 09) Radio Jockey, WREK 91.1 FM, Hosted and produced a weekly radio series on world music (2007 - 09) Committee, Aarohi--the Indian Classical Art association at Georgia Tech (2007 - 08) Big Sister, part of the Women at College of Computing (2006 - 07) Vice-chair of Association of Electronics and Communication Engineering(2003 - 05) Microsoft Student Champ (2004 - 05) Secretary of National Service Scheme(1999 - 2001) President of Young Students Movement(1997 - 99) Reviewer (ACM CHI'06, '07, '08, '09, '10, '11, ACM Ubicomp '08, '09, '10, ACM DIS '10, ACM CSCW '09, '11, IFIP Interact '09, '10, '11, India HCI '10) ___________________________________________ |
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