I am a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

My advisors are Scott Hudson and Robert Kraut. I am broadly intersted in Human-Computer Interaction. My research focuses on understanding, designing and developing technologies that leverages economic market and social mechanisms. More recently, I am exploring how monetary payments affect question and answer (Q&A) systems.

Prior to graduate school, I spent some time conducting research in the domain of ambient and peripheral displays. I studied the use of public, interactive displays at a Cafe with Elizabeth Churchill. Before that, I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). While I was there, I worked with Jennifer Mankoff and Anind Dey, who are both at HCII now, on the evaluation of ambient and peripheral displays.

News

Dec.7.2008
Our CHI paper, "mimir: A Market-Based Real-Time Question and Answer Service" has been accepted.