manas tungare

Email:
Web: http://manas.tungare.name

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science / Human Computer Interaction, March 2009. GPA: 3.9 / 4.0.
    Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, Blacksburg, Virginia.

    Dissertation Title: Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
    Primary Advisor: Manuel Pérez-Quiñones
    Committee: Steve Edwards, Edward Fox, Steve Harrison, Tonya Smith-Jackson.

  • Masters in Computer Science, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction, May 2003. GPA: 3.66 / 4.00.
    Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Bachelor in Computer Engineering, July 2001. Score: 74.57 / 100.00; top 1% in Mumbai University; ranked 1st in my class.
    Mumbai University, (formerly Bombay University.)

Experience

  • Google, Inc. — Software Engineer

    I was the first engineer on the Google Instant team, and the only engineer working on the project for about 4–5 months. During this time, I created several designs, mocks, and prototypes of Instant that explored the “search as you type” space. Google’s blog post on Google Instant shares a few of the mocks and prototypes I developed. As the team grew, I worked with several awesome JavaScript ninjas at Google to productionize the application and eventually, to launch it.

    After Instant, I worked with the Speech Recognition team to launch Voice Search on Google.com. I was the only Web Search engineer working on this project exclusively, and thus was responsible for a majority of the front-eng engineering work.

    Within the Google Web Search team, I specialize in early idea development, prototypes creation, and experimentation with assorted user experience demos with short turn-around times. As it happens, most of the early prototypes I develop are highly confidential, and cannot be disclosed on my public résumé.
  • Google, Inc. — Engineering/Research Intern
    Summer 2007: Designed the Clip Sharing Feature in Google Book Search with Dr. Bill Schilit and the Book Search team.
    Summer 2006: Worked on a confidential project.
    Summer 2005: Created the Photos Panel for the Google Sidebar in Google Desktop 2.0.
  • Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science — Graduate Research Assistant
    Jan 2006 — present, excluding Summers: Personalization of course management websites with context-sensitive knowledge from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) collection. We are looking at approaches to understand course content by harvesting syllabi from the Web, and offering personalized resources to students and instructors from the NSDL collection.
  • Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science — Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Aug 2004 — Dec 2005, excluding Summer: Lab Instructor for the CS-2 Java course using Eclipse and JUnit. In total, I taught 8 labs of (approximately) 25 students each (~200 students).
  • BlueWave Computing, LLC — Software Engineer
    May 2003 — May 2004: Developed WebTrieval, a web-based collaborative document management system in ASP.Net. Developed POSTAR, a HIPAA-compliant system for medical professionals to manage their clinics, patient records & billing.
  • Georgia Tech College of Computing — Graduate Research Assistant
    August 2001 — August 2002: Developed a regression test selection tool for Java software (in Java): Given two versions of a Java program, I created a tool that would analyze the bytecode of both versions and pick differences & similarities between them.
  • Indian Institute of Technology — Research Assistant
    Jul 2000 — Jun 2001: Our team worked with Dr. Deepak B. Phatak and designed and implemented a Computer-Adaptive Testing (CAT) system to administer tests over the Internet securely. A statistical framework evaluated the candidate's performance and helped choose the next question.

Publications

Dissertation

  1. Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices

    Manas Tungare;
    Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2009.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. User Interface Software: Principles and Technologies

    Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tungare, Pardha Pyla;
    Taylor and Francis Group, (CRC Press), Expected 2010.

  2. Automatic Syllabus Classification using Support Vector Machines

    Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Yubo Yuan, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward A. Fox, William Cameron, Lillian Cassel;
    Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies, 2008.

  3. Automatic Genre-specific Text Classification

    Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward A. Fox, William Cameron, Lillian Cassel;
    Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Papers

  1. Mental Workload in Multi-Device Personal Information Management

    Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Selected to present at the CHI Student Research Competition, and ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 Works-in-Progress, 2009.

  2. You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours: Combating Email Overload Collaboratively

    Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Selected to present at the CHI Student Research Competition, and ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 Works-in-Progress, 2009.

  3. Continuous User Interfaces for Seamless Task Migration

    Pardha S. Pyla, Manas Tungare, Jerome Holman, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII 2009, 2009.

  4. Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enabled Devices

    Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tungare, Pardha Pyla, Steve Harrison;
    Proceedings of the VI Latin American Web Congress - LA-Web 2008, 2008.

  5. Syncables: A Framework to Support Seamless Data Migration Across Multiple Platforms

    Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Miten Sampat, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Portable Information Devices (IEEE Portable) 2007, 2007.

  6. Using Automatic Metadata Extraction to Build a Structured Syllabus Repository

    Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Yubo Yuan, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward A. Fox, William Cameron, Lillian Cassel;
    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 2007.

  7. Automatic Syllabus Classification

    Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, William Cameron, GuoFang Teng and Weiguo Fan, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward A. Fox, Lillian Cassel;
    In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2007, 2007.

  8. Towards a Syllabus Repository for Computer Science Courses.

    Manas Tungare, Xiaoyan Yu, William Cameron, GuoFang Teng, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward Fox, Weiguo Fan, Lillian Cassel;
    In Proceedings of the 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2007, 2007.

  9. An Online Teacher Peer Review System.

    Aaron Powell, Scott Turner, Manas Tungare, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Stephen H. Edwards;
    Proceedings of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference, SITE 2006., 2006.

  10. Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances.

    Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Pradyut Bafna, Vladimir Glina, Wenjie Zhang, Xiaoyan Yu, Umut Balli, Steve Harrison;
    Proceedings of the 44th ACM SouthEast Conference (ACM SE 2006), 2006.

  11. Evaluation of a Location-Linked Notes System.

    Manas Tungare, Ingrid Burbey, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Ananth Raghavan;
    Proceedings of the 44th ACM SouthEast Conference (ACM SE 2006), 2006.

  12. Genetic Algorithms and their use in the design of Evolvable Hardware

    Abhishek Joglekar, Manas Tungare;
    IEEE Region 10 Conference for Student Papers (first runner-up prize), 2001.

Doctoral Consortia

  1. Understanding the Evolution of Users' Personal Information Management Practices

    Manas Tungare;
    In Proceedings of the Eleventh IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2007 Doctoral Consortium, 2007.

Workshops

  1. The Shoebox and the Safe: When Once-Personal Information Changes Hands

    Manas Tungare;
    Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Personal Information Management at CSCW 2012, 2012.

  2. Collaborative Human Computation as a Means of Information Management

    Manas Tungare, Ben Hanrahan, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo, Michael Stewart, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking at CSCW 2010, 2010.

  3. From Research Hypotheses to Practical Guidelines: A Proposal to Facilitate Researcher—Practitioner Interaction

    Pardha S. Pyla, Catherine Grevet, Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the CHI 2010 Workshop on Researcher-Practitioner Interaction, 2010.

  4. Sustainability of Bits, not just Atoms

    Manas Tungare, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Pardha S. Pyla, Ben Hanrahan, Uma Murthy, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo;
    Proceedings of the CHI 2010 Workshop: Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance for Sustainability, 2010.

  5. Mental Workload at Transitions between Multiple Devices in Personal Information Management

    Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the PIM 2009 Workshop: Personal Information Intersections: What happens when PIM spaces overlap?, 2009.

  6. "Best If Used By": Expiration Dates for Email

    Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the CHI 2009 Workshop on Interacting with Temporal Data, 2009.

  7. Thinking Outside the (Beige) Box: Personal Information Management Beyond the Desktop

    Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the 3rd Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management, PIM 2008, a CHI 2008 workshop., 2008.

  8. Defragmenting Information using the Syncables Framework.

    Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Miten Sampat, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the 2nd Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management at SIGIR 2006, 2006.

  9. Multiple User Interfaces: Why Consistency is Not Everything, and Seamless Task Migration is Key.

    Pardha S. Pyla, Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones;
    Proceedings of the CHI 2006 Workshop on The Many Faces of Consistency in Cross-Platform Design., 2006.

  10. Towards a Standardized Representation of Syllabi to Facilitate Sharing and Personalization of Digital Library Content.

    Manas Tungare, Xiaoyan Yu, GuoFang Teng, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward Fox, Weiguo Fan, Lillian Cassel;
    Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL) at Adaptive Hypermedia 2006, 2006.

Workshop Tutorials

  1. Using Web 2.0 Technologies in your Computer Science Classes

    Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tungare, Edward A. Fox;
    SIGCSE 2008: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2008.

Tech Reports

  1. An Exploratory Study of Calendar Use

    Tungare, Manas, Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel;
    Computing Research Repository (CoRR) 0809.3447, 2008.

  2. Personal Information Ecosystems and Implications for Design

    Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Steve Harrison;
    Computing Research Repository (CoRR) cs/0612081, 2006.

  3. A Special Topics Course on Personal Information Management

    Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Margaret Kurdziolek;
    TR 06-26, Virginia Tech, Dept. of Computer Science, 2006.

  4. Performance Evaluation of Navigation Approaches on High-resolution Displays

    Suraj Menon, Cyril Montabert, Manas Tungare, Chris North;
    TR 07-22, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science, 2005.

Posters

  1. Increasing the Adoption of Public Transport Through Multi-Platform Social Networking

    Manas Tungare, Mithilesh Kumar, Yoon Lee, Gyuhyun Kwon, Pardha Pyla;
    Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Research Symposium, Virginia Tech, 2007, 2007.

Honors & Awards

  • Awarded the Operating Committee (OC) Award for my work in launching Google Instant (2010). This award is given by Google to a select few teams each year, for accomplishments that “merit special recognition when they create significant new value for Google and surpass even our most audacious goals”.
  • First Place in College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, for our demo, Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances, at the 22nd Annual Research Symposium and Exposition, Virginia Tech, 2006.
  • Won Best-in-Show and Crowd Favorite awards in the Virginia Tech Grad Design Contest, 2007.
  • INTERACT 2007, Doctoral Consortium.
  • National Honor Society: Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
  • Ranked 1st in the State of Maharashtra, India, among 750 recipients of the National Talent Scholarship (1995 — 2001).
  • State Merit Rank 9th among ~500,000 students at the High School Secondary Certificate Examination, 1997.
  • State Merit Rank 17th among ~1,000,000+ students at the Secondary School Certificate Examination, 1995.

Press Coverage

Professional Service

  • Technical Program Chairs Assistant: CHI 2011, the ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems;
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Co-organizer: PIM 2012 — 5th International Workshop on Personal Information Management;
    Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Co-organizer: PIM 2009 — 4th International Workshop on Personal Information Management;
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Associate Chair: IUI 2012, the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces;
    Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Associate Chair: INTERACT 2011, 13th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction;
    Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Program Committee: World-Wide Web Conference, 2012 for the User Interfaces, Design, and Social Factors track;
    Lyon, Paris.
  • Program Committee: PIM 2008 — the 3rd International Workshop on Personal Information Management, co-hosted with CHI 2008;
    Florence, Italy.
  • Reviewer: CSCW 2012 Papers
  • Reviewer: CHI 2009 Works-in-Progress
  • Reviewer: CHI 2008 Papers
  • Reviewer: CHI 2008 Works in Progress
  • Reviewer: Transactions on Information Systems, Special Issue on Personal Information Management, 2007.
  • Reviewer: PIM 2008, 3rd Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management.
  • Reviewer: INTERACT 2007
  • Reviewer: IEEE Portable 2007
  • Reviewer: CHI 2006
  • Reviewer: DUX 2005
  • Student Volunteer: CHI 2009
  • Student Volunteer: CHI 2008
  • Student Volunteer: CHI 2007
  • Student Volunteer: INTERACT 2007

Organizational Service

  • President, Computer Science Graduate Council, Virginia Tech; (2007 — 2008).
  • Secretary, Computer Science Graduate Council, Virginia Tech; (2006 — 2007).
  • Webmaster, Computer Science Graduate Council, Virginia Tech; (2006 — 2008).
  • Vice President, Indian Students Association — Virginia Tech; (Jan — Apr 2005).
  • Vice President, IndiaClub of GeorgiaTech; (2002 — 2003).
  • Chairperson, IEEE-CRCE Student Branch, Mumbai; (Jan — Dec 2000).
  • International Students' Representative, Graduate Students' Council, CoC, GeorgiaTech; (2001 — 2003).
  • Editor-in-Chief, Frag Mag - Annual College Magazine, (1999 — 2000).

Membership in Professional Organizations

  • Member, ACM SIGCHI
  • Member, BayCHI.
  • Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), ACM/IEEE-CS International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines.
  • Member, Center for Human-Computer Interaction.

Invited Talks

  • Understanding the Evolution of Users' Personal Information Management Practices, Center for HCI Seminar Series, Virginia Tech, 2007.
  • Personal Information Management, Computer Science Resources Consortium Annual Luncheon & Career Reception, Virginia Tech, 2007.
  • Seamless Task Migration, Google, Inc., 2006.

Invited Panelist

  • "Personal Information Management: The Disappearing Desktop", a panel at PIM 2008.
  • "Using Web 2.0 Technologies in your Computer Science Classes", Co-presenter of Workshop at the 39th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, SIGCSE 2008.
  • "Grad School 101", a panel discussion organized by the Computer Science Graduate Council, Virginia Tech, Sep 2008.
  • "How to Make the Most of Attending a Conference", panel organized as part of the Scholars of the Future program, Mar 2008.
  • "Research Internships for Computer Science students", Center for HCI, Virginia Tech, Nov 2008.
  • "Research Internships for HCI students", Center for HCI, Virginia Tech, Nov 2007.
  • "Encouraging Graduate Studies", a panel organized as part of the Scholars of the Future program, Sep 2007.
  • "Graduate Life at Virginia Tech", Graduate Recruiting Weekend, Mar 2007.

Skills

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AJAX
XHTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP 		Windows
Win32
ATL
COM 		Microsoft .Net
Windows Forms
ASP.Net
Mono

Software Developed & Released

All products except the last are free software distributed under an open source license.