Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science / Human Computer Interaction, 2004-08-15 2009-03-25 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, 2001-08-15 2003-05-03 May 2003. GPA: 3.66 / 4.00.
  Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Bachelor in Computer Engineering, 1997-07-01 2001-07-01 July 2001. Score: 74.57 / 100.00; top 1% in Mumbai University; ranked 1^st in my class.
  Mumbai University, (formerly Bombay University.)

Experience

• Google, Inc. — Software Engineer
  2009-04-20 9999-12-31 I currently work on the Search UI team, designing and implementing novel interfaces and features for search.
• Google, Inc. — Engineering/Research Intern
  2007-05-15 2007-08-10 Summer 2007: Internship with Google Book Search Team, 2007 Designed the Clip Sharing Feature in Google Book Search with Dr. Bill Schilit and the Book Search team.
  2007-05-16 2005-08-09 Summer 2006: Internship with Confidential Google Team, 2006 Worked on a confidential project.
  2007-05-16 2005-08-12 Summer 2005: Internship with Google Desktop Team, 2005 Created the Photos Panel for the Google Sidebar in Google Desktop 2.0.
• Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science — Graduate Research Assistant
  Research Assistant on the 'Personalization of Digital Library Content' project 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
  Graduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech for CS-2 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
  Consultant at BlueWave Computing, Atlanta 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
  Research Assistant at Georgia Tech in Software Engineering 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
  Research Assistant at IIT Bombay on the Distance Learning project 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.

Journal Articles

1. Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices; Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones; In preparation for submission, 2009.
2. An Exploratory Study of Calendar Use; Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones; In preparation for submission to the Transactions on Information Systems, 2009.

Peer-Reviewed Conference 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 38^th 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. Collaborative Human Computation as a Means of Information Management; Manas Tungare, Ben Hanrahan, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo, Michael Stewart, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones; (To appear in) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking at CSCW 2010, 2010.
2. From Research Hypotheses to Practical Guidelines: A Proposal to Facilitate Researcher—Practitioner Interaction; Pardha S. Pyla, Catherine Grevet, Manas Tungare, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones; (To appear in) Proceedings of the CHI 2010 Workshop on Researcher-Practitioner Interaction, 2010.
3. Sustainability of Bits, not just Atoms; Manas Tungare, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Pardha S. Pyla, Ben Hanrahan, Uma Murthy, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo; (To appear in) Proceedings of the CHI 2010 Workshop: Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance for Sustainability, 2010.
4. 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.
5. "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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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. It's Not What You Have, But How You Use It: Compromises in Mobile Device Use; Tungare, Manas, Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel; Computing Research Repository (CoRR) 0801.4423, 2008.
3. Personal Information Ecosystems and Implications for Design; Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Steve Harrison; Computing Research Repository (CoRR) cs/0612081, 2006.
4. 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.
5. 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 23^rd Annual Research Symposium, Virginia Tech, 2007, 2007.

A complete list of publications is available at my web site.

Honors & Awards

• First Place in College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, for our demo, Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances, at the 22^nd 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 1^st in the State of Maharashtra, India, among 750 recipients of the National Talent Scholarship (1995 — 2001).
• State Merit Rank 9^th among ~500,000 students at the High School Secondary Certificate Examination, 1997.
• State Merit Rank 17^th among ~1,000,000+ students at the Secondary School Certificate Examination, 1995.

Press Coverage

• My intern project at Google in 2007 was covered on the Official Google Blog, and I was invited to write about it on the Official Google Book Search Blog. (Sep 2007)
• Additional press coverage by various tech industry publications, including: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, CNet, Ajaxian, Venture Beat, and several other trade magazines.
• सकाळ, a popular newspaper in Marathi, my native tongue, covered my work on Google Desktop (May 2006).
• A performance by Avataar, the band I was part of during 2004-2006, was covered by Collegiate Times, the student newspaper at Virginia Tech. (Feb 2005)

Professional Service

• Co-organizer, PIM 2009 — Proposed Workshop on Personal Information Management, 2009.
• Program Committee Member, PIM 2008 — CHI 2008 Workshop on Personal Information Management.
• 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, 3^rd Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management.
• Reviewer: INTERACT 2007
• Reviewer: IEEE Portable 2007
• Reviewer: CHI 2006
• Reviewer: DUX 2005
• Student Volunteer (selected): 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

Languages		Platforms
Java C++ C# VB.Net ASP/VBScript	PHP SQL XHTML CSS JavaScript	AJAX XHTML CSS JavaScript PHP	Windows Win32 ATL COM	Microsoft .Net Windows Forms ASP.Net Mono

Software Developed & Released

• ISBN to BibTeX Convertor: Provides the full BibTeX citation for a book from its ISBN.
• Keymote: iPhone Keynote Remote Control: Lets users remotely control Apple Keynote slideshows with the iPhone.
• Web Template System: A simple Web Template System in PHP.
• Google Calendar Dashboard Widget: Provides a dashboard view of a user's Google Calendar.
• CSV to iCal Convertor: Converts calendar files produced by Yahoo! or Outlook to IETF standard iCal format (usage currently at 200 users per day.)
• Laptop Theft Protector: A script that activates if a laptop is stolen, and can provide vital forensic information back to the owner via the Internet.
• Google Desktop Gadgets: Google Calendar, Del.icio.us, Indexing API .Net Wrapper, Movie Showtimes, CD/DVD Spindle Search.
• ASP.Net Deployment Tool: One-click deployment of ASP.Net web applications from within the Visual Studio IDE.
• Photo Wizard: A photo manipulation tool to batch resize, rotate, add borders, increase/decrease brightness & contrast, and antialias images.
• MiniUpload: COM component to enable file uploads in Microsoft IIS for Active Server Pages.
• WinWizard: A Windows system tweaker that won several Design Awards when it was released in 1999.

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