About
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for post-doc/full time positions. Here are my research statement and CV. Workshop notes and accepted papers for the GROUP 2009 workshop on Collaborative Information Behavior are now available here. |
I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. My advisor is Madhu Reddy and I work in the Socio-Technical Systems Lab.
In May of 2008, I defended my dissertation proposal, titled "Understanding Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Emergency Care", under the supervision of my committee which comprised of Madhu Reddy (chair), Mary Beth Rosson, Jim Jansen, C. Lee Giles, and Chris Sciamanna, M.D. (external member from the Penn State Hershey Medical Center).
I spent the summer of 2008 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA where I worked with Merrie Morris in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group. I conducted studies of users' sensemaking during collaborative Web search and designed a tool to enhance collaborative sensemaking in SearchTogether.
In my research, I am interested in studying how groups use computers for collaborative information seeking, search, and sensemaking. For my dissertation, I am studying collaborative sensemaking among healthcare providers working in a hospital emergency department. I have been working on multiple 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), medical 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, roller skating, racquetball, running, the theatre, traveling, and driving my Focus.
News
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!
