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NITHYA SAMBASIVAN
nsambasi@ics.uci.edu or nithya@cc.gatech.edu | http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nsambasi/
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine
PhD. student, Informatics - Human-Computer Interaction
Dean's fellowship (2007-11)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Human Computer Interaction – Computer Science, August 2007
Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, May 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Intern, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore (Drs. Kentaro Toyama and Ed Cutrell)
(Feb. 2009 - May 2009)
Community technologies and ethnography of urban slums of Bangalore
Research Intern, Nokia Research, Finland (Drs. Jonna Häkkilä and Jani Mäntyjärvi).
(June 2008 - Sept 2008)
Non-use and use of portable devices.
Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine (Prof.Bonnie Nardi ) (Sept 2007 onwards)
ICT4D, Human-centered Computing, Mobile/ubiquitous computing
Research Intern, IBM T.J.Watson Research, NYC (Dr.Rosario Uceda-Sosa and Paul Matchen ) (June 2007 - Sept 2007)
A Software Monitoring Dashboard for the Jazz Platform
Graduate Research Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Tech(Dr. Melody Moore) (Aug 2006 - May 2007)
Design and Development of Brain-Computer Interfaces for Gaming and Assistive Robotics
Research Intern, Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago (Kelly Dempski and Brandon Harvey) (May - Aug 2006)
Co-operation, contention, and negotiation around an interactive wall display
Graduate Research Assistant, Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech (Dr. Janet Murray) (Aug 2005 - May 2006)
AFI's "Casablanca" film interactive television content
Project Advisee, Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Bangalore (Dr.C.E. Veni Madhavan) (Dec 2004 - April 2005)
Techniques of compression and their impact on encryption and audio, image
steganography.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Dean's Fellowship (2007-11), University of California, Irvine
Paul Butterworth Student Award—grant for creative, entrepreneurial student research, 2009
Council on Research, Computing & Library Resources—grant for VoiceList, 2009 (with Prof. Bonnie Nardi)
Awarded “Outstanding Student Scholarship” covering tuition fees of junior and senior years by 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
TECHNICAL SKILLS
User Research: Design ethnography/qualitative user research, Rapid prototyping, wireframes,
walkthroughs, Usability/summative & formative evaluation techniques, Concept exploration/software
development, Quantitative methods
Development: Java, VB.Net, Python, C, HTML/CSS, SQL Server 2000, ASP.Net, Matlab, 8085, 8086 uP, 8051 uC
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
President, Surabhi--the Indian Students Association at UC, Irvine (2009-10)
Social Chair, Informatics Graduate Student Association (2008-09)
Vice-president, Surabhi--the Indian Students Association at UC, Irvine (2008-09)
Committee, Indian Classical Art association, Aarohi, Georgia Tech (2006-07)
DJ and Engineering team, Georgia Tech campus radio, WREK 91.1 F.M.
Big Sister, part of the Women at College of Computing, Georgia Tech (2006-07)
Reviewer (ACM CHI ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09, ACM Ubicomp ’08, ’09, ACM CSCW ’09, IFIP Interact ‘09)
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)
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Every town our home town,
Every man a kinsman.
Good and evil do not come
from others.
Pain and relief of pain
come of themselves.
Dying is nothing new.
We do not rejoice
that life is sweet
nor in anger
call it bitter.
Our lives, however dear,
follow their own course,
rafts drifting
in the rapids of a great river
sounding and dashing over the rocks
after a downpour
from skies slashed by lightnings-
we know this
from the vision
of men who see.
So,
we are not amazed by the great,
and we do not scorn the little.
~kanniyan punkuran
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