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I am Rajan, a Computer Science PhD student at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I am an avid open source software enthusiast and have great interest in research & development with social impact. My current research focusses on Computing for Social Issues and/or Global Development through Human Computation under Professor James Davis. I am also very interested in Human-Computer Interaction(HCI/HCI4D), Social and Ubiquitous Computing, Crowd-sourcing/Micro-tasking, ICTD/ICT4D, Human Factors, UX/UI, Education and Health Technology and Assistive Technology/Accessibility. I have bridged my interests into actions through several competitions/conferences via Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, ACM ASSETS, IEEE, OpenStreetMap Foundation, OLPC etc. Being an aspirant social technology entrepreneur, I look forward to further my research and pursue a social enterprise venture in future. Also, I love connecting with people, please feel free to contact me anytime. |
News:
- [4/17/2012] Co-organizing the 1st Workshop on Human Computation in Digital Entertainment at AAAI AIIDE'12 Stanford.
- [3/20/2012] Will be spending summers at Microsoft Research India as a Research Intern under Technology for Emerging Markets group.
- [3/1/2012] Serving as an affiliate at the University of California Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (UC CCREC).
- [2/10/2012] Reached regional semi-finals of the UC Berkeley Global Social Venture Challenge.
- [2/3/2012] Serving as an external reviewer for ACM CHI 2012.
- [12/15/2011] Poster paper accepted at ACM DEV, will be in Atlanta for DEV and ICTD 2012 from 11-15th March 2012.