Manas Tungare’s Résumé

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science & Human Computer Interaction • Virginia Tech, 2009.
  Dissertation: Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices. (PDF, soft cover).

• Masters in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction • Georgia Tech, 2003.
• Bachelor in Computer Engineering • Mumbai University, India.

Notable Projects

At Google, I specialize in early-stage idea development, creating prototypes, and experimentation with assorted user experience demos with short turn-around times. Most such prototypes are confidential, but here is a short sampling of some of the publicly launched stuff.

• Google Instant

  I was the first engineer on the Google Instant team, and the only engineer working on the project for the first 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.

• Google Voice Search

  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.

• Clip Sharing in Google Books

  During my 2007 internship with Bill Schilit, I designed the Clip Sharing Feature in Google Book Search with Dr. Bill Schilit and the Book Search team.

• Google Desktop Photos

  In 2005, I created the Photos Panel for the Google Sidebar in Google Desktop 2.0.

Patents

I don’t believe in the validity of software patents per se; if you want to look at my technological contributions, please see the products I launched.

• Predictive Query Completion and Predictive Search Results (the Google Instant patent)

Press Coverage

• Voice Search, a feature I helped launch, was covered by the New York Times, CNN, and several other news outlets in early 2011.
• I was profiled by Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering & the Graduate School at Virginia Tech regarding my work on Google Instant.
• Virginia Tech Magazine ran a short piece on my involvement with Google Instant in their Winter 2010-2011 issue.
• I was profiled by Google’s University Relations team in recognition of the impact of my work soon after starting at Google after school.
• 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)

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 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.
• 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.

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 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. 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 23^rd Annual Research Symposium, Virginia Tech, 2007, 2007.

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 — 5^th International Workshop on Personal Information Management; Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Co-organizer: PIM 2009 — 4^th 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, 13^th 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 3^rd 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, 3^rd 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

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.

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.

Skills

• ★★★★★ — HTML5
• ★★★★★ — JavaScript
• ★★★★★ — CSS
• ★★★★★ — PHP
• ★★★★★ — SQL
• ★★★★☆ — Java
• ★★★★☆ — C++
• ★★★☆☆ — Android
• ★★★☆☆ — C#

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.