Sarita Yardi

I am a PhD student in the Human-Centered Computing program in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

I work with Professor Amy Bruckman in the ELC Lab. We have been studying how Atlanta area teens use technology in their lives. I am currently researching viral learning patterns in large socially networked sites using data mining, log file analysis, surveys, and interviews. My research is funded by the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing Georgia Computes project.

During the summer of 2008 I interned with Dr. Bernardo Huberman and Scott Golder in the Social Computing group at HP Labs in Palo Alto.

Research

My area of specialization is in Social Computing, which closely overlaps with HCI, CSCL, and CSCW. I am interested in combining quantitative data mining techniques with qualitative social analyses to understand how people use computers and technology in their daily lives. You can usually find me hanging out on somewhere on the web. I am currently coding Facebook applications.

You can reach me at yardi at cc dot gatech dot edu or send me an IM in the little widget on the right. Try it. It's not scary, really.