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Yevgeniy “Eugene” Medynskiy

Technology Square Research Building
85 5th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
Tel: +1-415-373-6717
Email: eugenem@gatech.edu

Education

08/2006 – present

Ph.D. Candidate in Human-Centered Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Advised by Professor Elizabeth Mynatt. Dissertation topic: “Infrastructure and Interfaces for Health Self-management.”

08/2002 – 12/2005

B.S. in Computer Science

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Cumulative GPA of 3.9 (magna cum laude). Minor in Information Science.

Selected graduate coursework: Design of Online Communities, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Empirical Methods in Machine Learning and Data Mining, Structure of Information Networks.

Selected undergraduate coursework: Human-Computer Interaction Design (two semesters), Psychology of Social Computing, Information Retrieval, Practicum in Database Systems.

Refereed Publications

Refereed Posters and Workshop Papers

  • Medynskiy, Y., Yarosh, S. and Mynatt, E. (2011). Five Strategies for Supporting Healthy Behavior Change. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • Medynskiy, Y. and Mynatt, E. (2010). From Personal Health Informatics to Health Self-Management. Presented at the Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One’s Life workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010). Atlanta, GA.
  • Medynskiy, Y., Miller, A., Yoo, J.W. and Mynatt, E. (2009). Temporal Data in a Health Self-Management Application. Paper presented at the Interacting with Temporal Data workshop, at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009). Boston, MA.
  • Wyche, S., Medynskiy, Y. and Grinter, R. (2007). Exploring the Use of Large Displays in American Megachurches. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007). San Jose, CA.
  • Medynskiy, Y., Gov, S., Mazalek, A. and Minnen, D. (2007). Wearable RFID for Play. Paper presented at the Tangible Play: Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games workshop, at the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007). Honolulu, HI.
  • Medynskiy, Y. (2006). Lies in the Interface: Free “Smut” as License for Deception. Paper presented at the Sexual Interactions: Why We Should Talk about Sex in HCI workshop, at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006). Montreal, QC.
  • Medynskiy, Y. (2005). Implicit Links in Asynchronous Communication Spaces. Paper presented at the Beyond Threaded Conversations workshop, at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, OR.

Non-refereed Publications

Technical Reports

Patents

Invited Lectures

  • Medynskiy, Y. (2011). Designing Effective Software Tools for Health/Wellness Tracking and Goal Management. Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research (CLEAR) in Health Information, Indiana University. February 24, 2011.
  • Medynskiy, Y. (2009). Exploring Websites with Contextual Facets. GVU Center Brown Bag Lecure Series, Georgia Institute of Technology. March 12, 2009.

Teaching Experience

08/2007 – 12/2007

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Assisted with Principles of User Interface Software, a project-oriented course on the design and implementation of graphical user interfaces for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Responsibilities included helping students with class material and programming assignments, providing support to graduate students working on independent projects, and grading exams and assignments.

01/2003 – 05/2003

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Assisted with Data Structures and Algorithms, an introductory-level class covering basic data structures and algorithms. Responsibilities included helping students with class material and grading programming projects.

Selected Industry Experience

09/2010 – present

Chief Technical Officer

Usable Health LLC, Atlanta, GA

  • Managing and contributing to the development of the SmartMenu health-based personal ordering terminals for quick-service and fast casual restaurants. Responsibilities include managing the software development process, overseeing infrastructure rollout, and integrating payment processing (with PA-DSS compliance).

05/2008 – 08/2008

Creative Technologies Lab Intern

Adobe Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA

  • Worked with Adobe researchers to design and evaluate contextual facets, a novel website navigation interface. The interface allows users to directly manipulate webpage fields and elements in order to browse or search related pages. Developed FacetPatch, a proof-of-concept system which retroactively enables this style of navigation on pre-existing websites. This work was presented as a full paper at CHI 2009.

05/2007 – 08/2007

User Experience Research Intern

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  • Worked with the Google Maps for Mobile team to develop infrastructure and tools for distilling usability and user experience data from server logs. Analyzed differences in usage patterns of the Google Maps for Mobile application across several global markets. Communicated results to user experience researchers, software engineers and product managers through written reports, presentations and informal discussions.

12/2006 – 05/2007

Social Software Consultant

Kaltura Inc., Brooklyn, NY

  • Developed market analysis tools to inform Kaltura's marketing efforts across online social networking services. Also participated in formative discussions about the integration of Kaltura's collaborative multimedia editing platform with existing social networking services and user-generated content communities.

05/2006 – 08/2006

Software Engineering Intern

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  • Worked with the orkut engineering team to design and implement a new, top-level orkut feature. Iteratively created a design document and mock-ups detailing the feature's functionality and architecture. Started implementing the feature in the remaining time of the internship.

05/2005 – 08/2005

Computing Science Lab Intern

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Inc., Palo Alto, CA

  • Used techniques from statistical natural language processing and social network analysis to develop a novel method for visualizing activity in an open source development community. Internship resulted in a patent application and a publication at a first-tier, peer-reviewed conference.

Research Grants

06/2009 – present

Technologies for Nutrition and Diabetes Management

National Science Foundation (Grant #0915934)

  • Primary Investigator: Professor Elizabeth Mynatt.

03/2008 – 03/2009

Google Research Award: Visualizing Social Dynamics of Mobile Services

Google Inc.

  • Primary Investigator: Associate Professor Rebecca Grinter.

09/2004 – 12/2004

Learning Initiatives for Future Engineers (LIFE) Research Grant

Cornell University

  • Primary Investigators: Assistant Professor Phoebe Sengers and Professor Daniel Huttenlocher. Received funds for a semester-long independent research project to study online social dynamics on the LiveJournal blogging and social networking service.

Selected Academic and Research Advising

  • 12/2010 – present Abhinesh Rao (M.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2011)
  • 08/2009 – 12/2010 Dev Priya (M.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2010)
  • 08/2009 – 05/2010 Mebaa Kidane (B.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2013)
  • 06/2009 – 05/2010 Ruchi Goswami (M.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2010)
  • 01/2009 – 08/2009 Joy Buolamwini (B.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2013)
  • 01/2009 – 05/2009 Chee Shing “Nigel” Chan (B.S. CS, Georgia Tech, class of 2009)

Awards and Fellowships

  • 09/2010 Foley Scholar Finalist
  • 02/2010 Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (gtRIC) Fellowship
  • 12/2005 Finalist in Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award program
  • 04/2005 Selected as Student Spotlight for Cornell’s Bits on Our Minds (BOOM) research conference

Service and Volunteer Experience

  • 02/2008 – present Collaboration Service Manager for Georgia Tech’s Technology Services Organization
  • 02/2009 – 04/2010 Webmaster and program committee member for CHI 2010
  • 01/2007 – 09/2010 Maintained the Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) Lending Library for Georgia Tech’s College of Computing
  • 01/2008 – 01/2009 Webmaster for the Georgia Tech Web Science Initiative
  • Student volunteer at CHI 2005, CSCW 2006 and CHI 2009
  • Volunteer reviewer for CHI 2007-2011, Ubicomp 2008 and Pervasive Health 2010-2011