Sarita Yardi

I am a Ph.D. candidate 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. My area of specialization is in Social Computing, focused on social networks and the science of networks. This 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. You can reach me at syardi3 at gatech dot edu or send me an IM in the little widget on the right. Give it a try!

I've given a Science of Networks lecture to a few HCI undergrad classes at GaTech. Slides are here. Feel free to email me if you want the notes to go with it.

During the summer of 2009 I interned with danah boyd at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, MA. During the summer of 2008 I interned with Bernardo Huberman and Scott Golder in the Social Computing group at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

I graduated from the School of Information at UC Berkeley with a Master's in Information Management & Systems in May 2006. I spent my best formative years at Berkeley doing research with the Digital Youth group. I was advised by Dr. Peter Lyman. We were funded by the MacArthur Foundation to study kid's informal learning with digital media.

Prior to that, my best summative years as an athlete were spent on the Dartmouth Women's Tennis Team. I majored in Computer Engineering during that time.

My Mom is from Australia and my Dad is from India.