Resume

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Education

Ph.D. (Human Computer Interaction) , 2021
Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouve College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
Thesis: “Measuring subjective experiences using wearable microinteractions.”
Advisor: Prof. Stephen S Intille

B.Des (Design), 2013
Department of Design
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati

Experience

Staff Quantitative User Researcher, MongoDB, Jun 2024 - present
Location: Boston, MA

Research Scientist, Spotify, Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
Group: Human-in-the-AI (HAI) at Spotify Research
Location: Boston, MA

Researcher, Northeastern University, Sep 2015 - Dec 2021
Group: mHealth Research Group
Dept: Khoury College of Computer Science and Bouve College of Health Sciences
Location: Boston, MA

Research Intern, Philips, May 2019 - Aug 2019
Group: Philips Design and Innovation
Location: Cambridge, MA

UX Researcher, Samsung R&D Institute, Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
Group: Next eXperiences with Technology (NXT) Group
Location: Bengaluru, India

Visiting Researcher, TU Eindhoven (TU/e), May 2012 - Jul 2012
Group: Human-Technology Interaction (HTI)
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Open-source Contribution

• MixWILD - an interactive program to conduct multi-level modeling on longitudinal data. Available here and used in behavioral health workshops for advanced statistical training.
• Signaligner Pro - an AI-assisted interactive tool to visualize and annotate large-scale raw sensor data collected at high frequencies. Available here and used in several NIH studies to label sensor data for AI training.

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Research Paper Award, PACM IMWUT (vol 6), 2023
• Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews, PACM IMWUT 2017, 2022, ACM CHI 2024, and ACM CHI 2026
• BostonCHI Lifetime Membership awarded by FutureWei Technologies, 2020.
• NU-TECH + AWS Award by NEU Center for Entrepreneurship Education, 2018.
• Best Presentation Award at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), New England Chapter’s Research Symposium, 2018.
• Amandus H. Lundqvist Scholarship (ALSP-silver) for master’s studies in TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2015.
• Young Achiever of the Year, Samsung Annual Awards, 2013-14
• Best Research Paper Award, PERSUASIVE 2013

Service and Leadership

• Chair, Doctoral Consortium, ACM IUI 2027
• Associate Chair, ACM CHI 2025 - Late Breaking Work, ACM CHI 2026 (Computational Interactions Subcommittee)
• Juror, ACM CHI 2025 workshops
• Peer-reviewer, ACM CHI 2017 – 2024, PACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2019 – 2025, ACM TOCHI, PACM HCI/CSCW 2021 - 2023, NeurIPS (AI Ethics Review 2024 - 2025), IEEE Pervasive Computing, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Journal for Measurement of Physical Behavior (JMPB), IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2019), BioMed Central (BMC) Research Notes, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychology
• Vice-chair, BostonCHI, Boston-area chapter of ACM SIGCHI (2021 – 2023)
• Member, ACM SIGCHI (2021 – present), Steering committee, BostonCHI (2018 – 2023)

Presentations and Talks

[TALK] “Interfaces for human data collection in AI and pattern recognition” at Bentley University. Host - Darrell Penta, PhD

[TALK] “Personalized experience sampling surveys: Maximizing insights per survey question with information gain modeling “ at QuantUXCon 2025 (with Jixin Li)

• BostonCHI (ACM SIGCHI Chapter of Greater Boston Area) - 2024

[TALK] “Scaling experience sampling with smartwatch microinteactions” at:

• BostonCHI (ACM SIGCHI Chapter of Greater Boston Area) - 2024
• QuantUXCon (International Conf. on Quantitative User Experience) - 2024

[TALK] “Human-centered Recommender Systems” at Northeastern University – 2021. Host – Prof. Herman Saksono

[TALK + POSTERS] “Measuring subjective experiences using wearable microinteractions” at:

• Spotify Research – 2021. Host – Dr. Jenn Thom
• PROVE Center, Brigham and Women’s Health, Harvard Medical – 2019. Host - Prof. Chris Sidey-Gibbons
• MITRE Corporation – 2018. Host – Harry Sleeper
• Human Factors and Ergonomic Society (HFES), New England Chapter, Draper Labs – 2018
• Data Science in Biomedical Research, Dana Farber Cancer Research Inst. – 2018

Media Coverage

• Interview with Industry Playlist Newsletter on music recommendation systems- Industry Playlist, June 2024. Link
• How do people stream newly released music? - Spotify R & D Blog, May 2024. Link
• Exploring Goal-oriented Podcast Recommendations - Spotify R & D Blog, Mar 2023. Link
• How video games could be used to generate AI training data - VentureBeat, Feb 2022. Link
• Smart fitness devices like Fitbits could help change your behaviors with this new approach - Northeastern Global News, Mar 2020. Link
• Northeastern University professor combines computer science with health and measurement with self-reporting to improve the accuracy of fitness tracking - Northeastern Global News, Sept 2019. Link

Mentoring

• Northeastern University: Stephanie Santana (MPH’17), Krystal Huey (PharmD’18), Clarence Hann (MS Game Science’19), Krit Goyal (MS Comp Science’20), Adeeb Arif (MS Cybersecurity’20), Pranav Sharma (MS Comp Science’21), Spencer Franklin (BS Comp Science + Game Design’19)
• Spotify Research: Yu Liang (PhD TU Eindhoven’23), Julie Jiang (PhD student, USC’24. Also, Forbes 30 under 30 in Science)

Skills

• Research and Data Analysis: Univariate & multivariate statistics, multi-level modeling, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, discrete choice modeling, time series analysis, experience sampling, experiment design, qualitative interviews, focus groups, scientific writing, and communication
• Programming: Python, R, Java, C#, SQL, BigQuery, SAS, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Processing, MongoDB
• Software/Tools/APIs: OpenAI API, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, Android Studio, RStudio, PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, Unity, NetBeans, SPSS, P5.js, Qualtrics
• AI tools: Cursor, GitHub CoPilot (for programming), ChatGPT, and Gemini (Deep Research), NotebookLM (Synthesis and literature deep dives)