Upcoming Events & Recent News

May 15, 2009: Attended Commencement at Virginia Tech; conferred the Ph.D. degree. :-)
April 2009: Transitioned into my new position at Google, Inc. on the Search User Interface team in Mountain View, CA.
April 2009: Presented Mental Workload in Multi-Device Personal Information Management & You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours: Combating Email Overload Collaboratively at the Works-in-Progress venue at CHI 2009, and Interacting with Temporal Data, a position paper at a workshop on Interacting with Temporal Data.

About me

Currently working at Google, Inc. on the Search User Interface team at Mountain View, CA.
Ph.D., Computer Science / Human-Computer Interaction — Virginia Tech, 2009.
My dissertation on Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices is available from the Virginia Tech library.
Writing a Book on User Interface Software with my advisor, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones and Pardha Pyla, published by Taylor and Francis Group / CRC Press, available in bookstores 2009).
Interned at Google Research in Summer 2007 with Bill Schilit: Personalizing Clip Content from Books.
Also interned at Google — 2005: Google Desktop, 2006: Confidential.
M.S. Computer Science — Georgia Tech, 2003.
B.E. Computer Engineering — University of Mumbai, 2001.
Love to travel and take photos.
Play the keyboard; used to be in a band, Avataar.
Write about my usability pet peeves at UsabilityBugs.org.
Started a recipe wiki, Chimbori.com, that now has over 150 cooking enthusiasts participating.
I can also be found at these sites.