Upcoming Events & Recent News
- Nov 7: Presented our paper, Mental Workload at Transitions between Multiple Devices in Personal Information Management at the PIM 2009 workshop remotely.
- July 5: Unfortunately, I was in a bicycle accident leading to a broken jaw. I underwent surgery and am now back at work.
- May 15: 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.
My Recent Activity around the Web
- Shared “Italyc - 9GAG.com Site Feed” on Google Reader.
- Tweeted “Manas: RT @dalmaer: Onerous terms: Steve Jobs on Ping and Facebook: Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.” but ... http: ...”
- Tweeted “Manas: Sometimes, the names of conferences posted to the chi-announcements list seem like they were generated by a machine as a bad joke.”
- Shared “Comic for September 2, 2010 - Dilbert Daily Strip” on Google Reader.
- Tweeted “Manas: .@mapq Repeating what you told me two years ago: a Mac Mini is much more hackable than Apple TV. Arbitrary file types, Hulu desktop, 1080p.”
- Shared ukadiche modak on chimbori.com
- Tweeted “Manas: RT @voodootikigod: So facebook is becoming foursquare, iTunes is becoming facebook, and twitter is stable during a keynote. The future ...”
- Shared “FOLLOWING THE LAW - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog” on Google Reader.
- Shared “BILL OF RIGHTS - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog” on Google Reader.
- Shared “HORROR MOVIES - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog” on Google Reader.
