About
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In Nov 2009, I defended my Ph.D. dissertation entitled Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. My advisor is Madhu Reddy and the other members of my committee are Mary Beth Rosson, Jim Jansen, and Chris Sciamanna, M.D. (external member from the Penn State Hershey Medical Center).
I am currently at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA interning with Danyel Fisher and Kori Inkpen in the VIBE group. I also spent the summer of 2008 at Microsoft Research, working with Merrie Morris in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group.
In my research, I am interested in understanding and supporting collaborative information seeking, search, and sensemaking. For my dissertation, I examined collaborative sensemaking, that is how people together understand information, during collaborative information seeking activities. I conducted two studies of collaborative sensemaking in two domains of collaborative information seeking - healthcare and collaborative Web search - using different methods. Details about my dissertation can be found here.
In addition to my dissertation, where I examined the information seeking activities of healthcare providers in the hospital emergency department, I have worked on several research projects at the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, a 500-bed teaching hospital.
My research interests broadly lie in the fields of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), healthcare informatics, social informatics, social networking and social search, and information sciences.
I grew up in the 'Steel City' of Jamshedpur, India and completed my Bachelors in Computer Sciences and Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA, India.
In my spare time, I like cooking, racquetball, foosball, running, the theatre, traveling, and driving my Focus.
News
12/2009 Accepted to the Google GRAD CS Forum 2010!12/2009 Accepted to the CSCW workshop on collaborative information seeking.
11/2009 Journal paper on healthcare simulation accepted to the Simulation Journal.
11/2009 Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
07/2009: Full paper accepted to CSCW 2010 to be held in Savanah, GA. Update: Nominated for best paper award!
05/2009: I co-organized a workshop on Collaborative Information Behavior at GROUP 2009.
04/2009: Presented a full-paper and a workshop paper at CHI 2009.
04/2009: Our video, 'CHIstory', won the Golden Mouse Award for the Best Entertaining Video at the CHI 2009 Video Showcase. The video was featured on the FXPAL blog and is available on YouTube.
04/2009: CHI 09 paper co-authored with Merrie Morris on CoSense was mentioned on the Microsoft Research website.
02/2009: Submitted a journal paper with Merrie Morris on sensemaking in collaborative Web search to the HCI special issue on Sensemaking (Eds. Daniel Russell and Peter Pirolli)
12/2008: Full paper with Merrie Morris on collaborative sensemaking in Web search accepted to CHI 2009 to be held in Boston, MA. Update: Nominated for best paper award!
12/2008: Paper accepted to the Sensemaking workshop at CHI 2009 to be held in Boston, MA.
11/2008: Presented our paper at the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA '08) in Washington, DC.
11/2008: Attended CSCW 2008 in San Diego, CA as a student volunteer.
8/2008: Paper on ICTs for coordination between emergency department and EMS teams accepted by the International Journal of Medical Informatics
6/2008: News article showcases SearchTogether for which I developed an extension during the summer at MSR and mentions me!
