Hi, welcome to my website. I am a Graduate Student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. While I’m still focussing my research interests, broadly they lie in the areas of Social Applications, Information Visualization and Mobile Computing.

Work and Play

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I work as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Digital Government Research Group at the Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, under Dr. Andrea Kavanaugh and Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. I’m involved in developing social software, content aggregation and visualization tools with the purpose of enhancing citizen awareness and promoting greater participation.

I’m also affiliated with the Mobile Malawi Project research team at Virginia Tech, where I am designing and implementing systems for communication of instructional media between Virginia Tech campus faculty and schools in the African nation of Malawi under Dr. Michael A. Evans. We are leveraging Web 2.0 and mobile technologies for cost efficient solutions.

Before joining Virginia tech, I was employed as a Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore for just under three years. There, as part of the Software Performance Engineering team, I was involved in the design and implementation of ARM 4.x APIs for Finacle and performance optimizations on the Finacle suite of applications.

I consider myself to be in a very fortunate situation - I love my work. It involves playing around with technology and pushing the envelope, things I could pay to do (I have a feeling I’m going to pay for writing that). Apart from the technology being interesting, these projects have a short turnaround time (In terms of academic research); and provide me the opportunity to, somewhere down the line, be able to say that my research impacted someone’s life in a direct and positive manner.