About Me
My name is Dejin Zhao. I am currently a PhD candidate in HCI at Penn State University, advised by Dr. Mary Beth Rosson. I am broadly interested in Web-2.0 Social Collaborative Computing. In my dissertation work, I investigated microblogging's potential impacts on supporting informal communication and collaboration awareness, and developed a group microblogging system - GroupBuzz, to better support project status awareness and cross-team sharing and awareness (more about my research)I have 5-year HCI research experience and many year software development and management background. As a graduate researcher in the HCI Center at Penn State, I help managed various research and software development projects, including map-based collaborative planning, end-user web programming support, online community support for women in CISE, web-based collaboration workspace, and GroupBuzz.
In the past three summers, I interned at IBM Research, Cisco, and Avaya Labs, where I worked on their next-generation Web-2.0 Collaboration/Communication Software projects (including Webex Connect, Lotus Connections, Avaya One-X Portal). Before PennState, I did my Master thesis on adaptive mobile user interfaces at the University of Auckland in 2005. From 2002 to 2004,I worked full-time as a C++ programmer in a startup - SymComm, where I developed SimsBuilder, a strategic business modeling and simulation software. (more about work experience)
News
- - On job market, looking for research SDE positions starting from Aug. 2011
- - new paper about Microblogging effects on team collaboration awareness, accepted at CTS2011, Feb 2011
- - ignite talk "Microblogging impacts on team collaboration" at CHI2010 workshop on Microblogging, April 11, 2010
- - CHI2010 workshop on Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It? Co-organized with Julia Grace and danah boyd, April 11, 2010.
- - GROUP09 paper about Microblogging impacts on informal communication - pdf