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San Francisco Bay Area
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I am a computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction. My research interests include end-user programming, user interface design tools, and collaboration software.

Currently, I work at Google on collaboration tools between user interface designers and software engineers. I have also worked on understanding productivity of software engineers, user interface infrastructure for Google Search, infrastructure for conducting experiments on software. Previously, I was a member of the User Sciences and Experience Research (USER) group at IBM Almaden Research Center.

I received a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology, popularly known as Caltech.