(curriculum vitae)

Below is an abbreviated version of my CV. For a complete copy, click here: [PDF].

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
College of Computing
Human Centered Computing Ph.D. Student, 2005-present

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
College of Computer and Information Science, Honors Program
B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, April 2005

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA (September 2005-Present)
College of Computing, Work2Play Lab
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Grinter
A Socio-Cultural Approach to Nutrition Technology

MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Redmond, WA (May 2008 - August 2008)
Collaborative User Experiences Group
Supervisor: Dr. Desney Tan
Family-Focused Fitness Technologies

MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Cambridge, UK (May 2007 - August 2007)
Socio-Digital Systems
Group Supervisor: Dr. Richard Harper
Exploring the Domestic Technology Landscape

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA (September 2006 - December 2006)
College of Computing
Investigating Privacy Concerns Around Capture & Access Technology

MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Redmond, WA (May 2006 - August 2006)
Community Technologies Group
Supervisor: Dr. A.J. Brush
Calendaring Across Home & Work Boundaries

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA (September 2005-April 2006)
College of Computing
Advisors: Dr. Gregory Abowd, Dr. Rebecca Grinter
Monitoring Diet & Exercise for Students

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA )September 2004 - April 2005)
College of Computer & Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Peter Tarasewich
Privacy Augmented Displays for Mobile Devices

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (June 2002 - August 2003)
College of Computer & Information Science, Biological Knowledge
Laboratory Advisor: Dr. Robert Futrelle
Inductive Discovery of Natural Language Patterns

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, INC., Boston, MA (December 2003 - September 2004)
Citigroup Advanced Placement Program - Software Development Intern
Upgraded a municipal bonds batch data processing application to Solaris 8. Refined the application's code and implemented a dynamic packaging scheme using Korn shell scripting. Co-wrote technical design documents for a high-grade retail bond calculator library and extended the corporate bond functionality using Java. Administered a training session for new employees on SQL

KAISER PERMANENTE, San Jose, CA (March 2002 - June 2002 & June 2001 - Dec. 2001)
Information Technology Intern
Provided technical support for the medical campus. Performed network administration tasks. Assisted in a campus-wide upgrade project of workstations to a new build of Windows NT.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (September 2000 - June 2001)
College of Computer & Information Science
Researched relational databases to help implement a database system for Northeastern University.

FACES Teaching Practicum, CS6455 Qualitative Research Methods, Spring 2009

[C.10] Andrea Grimes, Brian Landry and Rebecca E. Grinter. Characteristics of Shared Health Reflections in a Local Community. To appear in Proc. of CSCW 2010. [PDF]

[C.9] Andrea Grimes, Desney S. Tan and Dan Morris (2009). Technological Support for Family Reflections on Health. Proc. of GROUP 2009. [PDF]

[C.8] Andrea Grimes, Martin Bednar, Jay David Bolter, and Rebecca E. Grinter (2008). EatWell: Sharing Nutrition-Related Memories in a Low-Income Community. Proc. of CSCW 2008. *Best Paper Award Nomination* [PDF]

[C.7] Andrea Grimes and Richard Harper (2008). Celebratory Technology: New Directions for Food Research in HCI. Proc. of CHI 2008. *Best Paper Award Nomination* [PDF]

[C.6] Andrea Grimes and A.J. Brush (2008). Life Scheduling to Support Multiple Social Roles. Proc. of CHI 2008. [PDF]

[C.5] Andrea Grimes and Rebecca E. Grinter (2007). Designing Persuasion: Health Technology for Low-Income African American Communities. Proc. of Persuasive Technology 2007. [PDF]

[C.4] Andrea Grimes and Peter Tarasewich (2005). Investigating Privacy-Augmented Displays for Mobile Devices. Proc. of HCI International 2005.

[C.3] Andrea Elaina Grimes and Robert P. Futrelle (2003). Text visualization for natural language analysis of Biology full text. IEEE Proc. of the Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference CSB'03.

[C.2] Robert P. Futrelle, Andrea Grimes and Mingyan Shao (2003). Extracting structure from HTML documents for language visualization and analysis. Proc. of WDA-2003 (Workshop on Web Document Analysis).

[C.1] Robert P. Futrelle, Mingyan Shao, Chris Cieslik and Andrea Grimes (2003). Extraction, layout analysis and classification of diagrams in PDF documents. Proc. of ICDAR-2003 (Intl. Conference on Document Analysis & Recognition).

[M.2] Rebecca E. Grinter, Katie A. Siek and Andrea Grimes (forthcoming, 2010). Is Wellness Informatics a Field of Human-Centered Health Informatics? ACM Interactions Magazine.

[M.1] Gillian R. Hayes, Erika Shehan Poole, Giovanni Iachello, Shwetak N. Patel, Andrea Grimes, Gregory D. Abowd, Khai N. Truong (2007). Physical, Social, and Experiential Knowledge of Privacy and Security in a Pervasive Computing Environment. IEEE Pervasive Computing Special Issue on Security & Privacy.

[B.1] Andrea Grimes (forthcoming, 2009). Sharing Personal Reflections on Health Locally. Shared Encounters: Content Sharing as Social Glue in Public Places, Springer Press.

[D.1] Andrea Grimes (2008). Socio-Culturally Relevant Mobile Applications for Nutrition. Extended Abstracts, Proc. of CSCW 2008.

[W.3] Andrea Grimes and Rebecca E. Grinter (2006). Using Entertainment to Improve Nutrition Among African-Americans. Position paper presented at the Entertainment Media at Home Workshop at CHI 2006.

[W.2] Brandon Brown, Marshini Chetty, Andrea Grimes & Ellie Harmon (2005). Effortless Monitoring of Diet & Exercise for Students. Poster presented at the CHI-Atlanta Student Research Competition.

[W.1] Andrea Grimes, Peter Tarasewich & Christopher Campbell (2005). Keeping Information Private in the Mobile Environment. Position paper presented at First International Workshop on Social Implications of Ubiquitous Computing at CHI 2005.

[T.7] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Reducing Health Disparities Through Partnerships Between Community Health Organizations & Technology Researchers". Invited talk at U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) Region IV Office, Atlanta, GA.

[T.6] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Designing Culturally-Focused Health Technology." Invited talk at Cornell University, SIGCHI Cornell Chapter Invited Speaker Series, Ithaca, NY.

[T.5] Andrea Grimes, Larry Johnson & Rebecca Grinter (2009). "Addressing Health Disparities through Partnerships Between Community Health Organizations & Technology Researchers." Abstract presentation at the Third National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, National Harbor, MD.

[T.4] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Using Cell Phones to Encourage Healthy Eating". Invited talk at REACH for Wellness, Atlanta, GA.

[T.3] Andrea Grimes (2008). "Designing Technology to Promote Healthy Eating in Low-Income Communities". Invited talk at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

[T.2] Andrea Grimes (2006). "Human Centered Computing for a Technologically-Filled World". Invited talk at Northeastern University, College of Computer & Information Science Colloquium, Boston, MA.

[T.1] Peter Tarasewich and Andrea Grimes (2005). "Designing Interaction for Ultra-Mobile Devices". Invited talk at Nokia Research Laboratory, Boston, MA.

[P.2] Rebecca E. Grinter, Katie A. Siek and Andrea Grimes (2010). Wellness Informatics. Workshop at the CHI 2010 Conference.

[P.1] Andrea Grimes & Sheena Lewis (2009). "Changing the World: Using Technology to Address Social Issues". Birds of a Feather session at The Richard Tapia Celebration for Diversity in Computing Conference.

Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2010

Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Grant, 2008

Georgia Institute of Technology FACES Fellowship, 2007-present

Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2007-2008

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008

Georgia Institute of Technology President's Fellowship, 2005-present

Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2006

Ralph Bunche Full Academic Scholarship - Northeastern University, 2000-2005

LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) NSF Research Grant, 2003-2005

Georgia Tech Foley Scholars Finalist, 2009

Georgia Tech College of Computing Ph.D. Student Research Excellence Commendation, 2008

2nd place, ACM CHI 2006 Student Design Competition

CRA 2005 Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award, 2005
(National award from the Computing Research Association [CRA] for outstanding research potential presented to 1 undergraduate female)

Northeastern University Alcott Award, 2005
(presented to 1 undergraduate for outstanding performance in intellectual activities beyond the curriculum requirements)

Northeastern University Hodgkinson Award, 2005
(awarded to 1 College of Computer & Information Science student for excellence in scholarship and leadership on the campus and in the community)

Northeastern University Sears B. Condit Award, 2005
(awarded for outstanding academic achievement)

Northeastern Univ. College of Computer & Information Science Undergraduate Research Award, 2005

John D. O'Bryant African American Institute Academic Excellence Award, 2005
(awarded to 1 graduating senior for outstanding academic achievement)

Panel Member, WACE International Symposium on Work-Integrated Learning, 2004
(Selected by the Northeastern Univ. President's Office as 1 of 2 U.S. student representatives)

Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Society Commendation, 2001-2003
(Commendation for Top GPA in Northeastern University's College of Computer & Information Science)

3rd Place: Roland E. Latham Oratory Competition, 2003

1st Place: Roland E. Latham Oratory Competition, 2001

ACM Member, 2004-Present

Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Society Member, 2004-2006

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Intl. Computer Science Honors Society) Member, 2004-2006

Pervasive Health 2010 Program Committee

CHI 2009 Program Committee, Work-in-Progress Submissions

CHI 2007-2010, HRI 2009, CSCW 2008 & 2010, Pervasive Computing (2008-2009), Pervasive Health 2009 Paper Reviewer

Co-Coordinator, Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, 2008

Co-Coordinator, Human-Centered Computing Seminar, 2008

Co-Coordinator, Graduate Women@CC (a student group for women in computer science at Georgia Tech), 2007-2008

Georgia Tech College of Computing Ph.D. Recruitment Student Coordinator 2006, 2008

Leadership Board Member, Georgia Tech Minorities in Computer Science, 2006

Founder, CCIS-W (a student group for women in computer science at Northeastern University), 2005

CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series Event Organizer, 2004-2005
(Submitted a winning proposal to the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing [CRA-W] to host an event encouraging women to attend graduate school in computing.)

High School Student Mentor, Higher Education Resource Center, 2003-2005
(A program to encourage inner-city students to attend college)

Programming Tutor 2003

Computer Technology Instructor 2003