About me:

I am a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta pursuing the Masters Program in Human Computer Interaction. Prior to Georgia Tech, I received my Bachelor of Design (B.Des) degree with a specialisation in Communication Design from the Department of Design (DoD), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati.

I feel that today computers and various technological gadgets have meshed all aspects of our lives in such a way that the interactions between humans and gadgets are going to be much more ubiquitous and complex. I believe that we can have a better future only if we can make these interactions as simple, natural and seamless as possible.

The above facts make the fields of Interaction Design & Human Computer Interaction (HCI) very important and challenging. I am very interested in tackling these challenges and am confident that they can be tackled appropriately only by taking a user centered design approach. Hence, I am looking forward to become an integral part of dynamic interdisciplinary teams dedicated to research & design of user-centered interaction experiences.

Recent Activities:

Had a great summer internship at Yahoo! Research Berkeley where I had the      opportunity to work on some cool projects. I tried to mention a few of them here.

Our work on the project "Wigglestick - a social navigation system" got accepted for a     demo and as a position paper for the CHI'07 conference workshop on Mobile Spatial     Interaction.

Our tangible media project "Flora Electronica: Garden as a performance space" as a    part of the course in Experimental Media was on public display on April 6th at the     Eyedrum during the Listening Machines 2007 exhibition.

I was the first runner-up in the all India MOTOFWRD Seamless Mobility Competition'06
    conducted by Motorola   (link)

Winning team of TigerTeams Competition'06 in Usable Security Research (link)
    - conducted by GVU and GTISC (Georgia Tech) and sponsored by Symantec, ISS.