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User Experience Co-op, IBM (June 2011 – November 2011)
Prototyped mobile applications, designed and conducted usability sessions, and performed heuristic reviews of a wide range of information management products including: IBM Data Studio, Optim Performance Manager, Optim Configuration Manager, and IMS Tools

Usability Intern, Jackson Healthcare (June 2010 – July 2010)
Designed and prototyped a mobile webpage for Portal, a physician timesheet management service

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech (August 2009 - December 2009)
Teaching Assistant for CS3750, Human-Computer Interaction

Research Project Coordinator, Emory University (August 2006 - May 2008)
Assisted patients, doctors, and technicians with running clinical research studies investigating the links between the immune system and depression as part of the Psychiatry Department’s Mind-Body Program

Student Assistant, UC Berkeley (January 2005 - December 2005)
Student Assistant to John Dracup, UC Berkeley Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Margaret Weir, Professor in the Institute of Urban Development

Research Services Assistant, UC Berkeley (November 2002 - December 2004)
Responsible for reconciling financial data, organizing and creating reports, maintaining supplies, and reimbursing funds for the School of Public Health

MusEEGk: A Brain-Computer Musical Interface (August 2010 - present)
This project integrates a brain-computer interface (BCI) with a music step sequencer composition program. Using the brain's P300 response, this interface allows a user to create and modify a melody in real time and provides continuous aural and visual feedback to the user, affording them a controllable means to achieve creative expression.

Neural Correlates of Music Improvisation (August 2009 - present)
In order to gain a better understanding of creativity by studying music improvisation, musicians were recorded (with EEG) while improvising short pieces on a keybord. This study is in its data analysis and paper writing stage.

fNIR for Creative Expression (August 2008 - August 2009)
Evaluated ways in which functional neuro-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR) can be used to achieve creative expression. We experimented with a drawing program that was controlled using fNIR and operated similarly to a one-knobbed etch-a-sketch.

Social Visualization for Micro-Blogging Analysis (January 2009 - April 2009)
Online social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook encourage people to share their status in real time. Although these self-reported messages are unstructured and ‘noisy’, they are an extremely direct window into the lives of millions of users. Twitter as online word of mouth can provide opinions about products, services, or systems. We implemented “Tweetsters”, a program that allows users to explore this information. Tweetsters is a multi-view interactive visualization displaying trends over time, localization of specific keywords, and allows for comparison between keywords.