Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Cumulative GPA: 4.0
B.A. in Computer Science, 2000 - 2004
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Cumulative GPA 3.5 | Major GPA: 3.7
User Experience Designer, Santa Clara, CA
- Led user research and interaction design to showcase team’s mobile context-aware technology. Resulted in partnerships with internal business groups and external companies.
- Conducted user research on sharing practices in microblogging and other social systems. Findings contributed to concept development, demonstrating team’s context-aware technology to both internal/external business groups. Findings also contributed to design guidelines presented at CHI ’10 workshop.
- Designed user interfaces and led user research for ground truth data collection trial. Resulted in improvements in team’s sensor inference technology. Also, contributed design insights about ground truth data collection to Pervasive ’10 community.
Strategy Planner/User Researcher/Interaction Designer, Santa Clara, CA
- Third rotation in Intel Research Emerging Platforms Lab: User research/design to create wearable context aware technology.
- Second rotation in Intel Research Lab Berkeley: User research/design to create mobile sensing platform to support citizen science.
- First rotation in Long Range Business Planning group. Market research/analysis on next generation user interfaces and recommendations to address upcoming technologies.
Project leader, Masters in HCI Capstone Project, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Designed and prototyped a new online system that allows researchers in the Pittsburgh medical community find collaborators with appropriate skills and interests. Resulting system is currently in use in Pittsburgh.
- Conducted user research on 20+ expert users. Used findings to design a solution to improve the way researchers find and contact collaborators across disciplines. Also, provided an improved process for maintaining and outputting professional information for CVs and grant applications.
Program Manager, Redmond, WA
- Designed and drove user interface tools to open language support for customers on the Windows/.NET Framework platforms.
- Managed all components and APIs dealing with custom locales and locale-pertinent information for upcoming Windows/.NET Framework releases.
Software Design Engineer in Test, Redmond, WA
- Responsible for testing Natural Langauge Support components added to Windows Vista.
- Developed new tools and frameworks for the team to test for breaks or regressions before check-ins.
- Led test team members on worldwide release of new UI-based tool. Involved applications of C#, C, and Visual Studio .NET.
- Contextual Inquiry
- Card Sorting
- Diary Studies/Surveys
- Directed Storytelling
- Affinity Diagrams
- Focus Groups
- Mental Models
- Personas
- Paper Prototyping
- Storyboarding
- Use Cases
- Video Sketches
- Wireframing
Evaluative Methods
- Think-Aloud User Studies
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Cognitive Walkthrough
- GOMS (KLM)
- Wizard of Oz
- Prototyping
- C
- C++
- CSS
- C#
- HTML
Design
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Fireworks
- Omnigraffle
W. Willett, P. Aoki, N. Kumar, S. Subramanian, and A. Woodruff. "Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users." Proc. Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, Finland, May 2010, 301-318. Best paper award (Thanks to Wes) (.pdf)
J.Healey, L.Nachman, S.Subramanian, J.Shahabdeen, and M.Morris. "Out of the Lab and into the Fray: Towards Modeling Emotion in Everyday Life." Proc. Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, Finland, May 2010, 156-173. (.pdf)
S.Subramanian, W.March. "Sharing presence: can and should your tweets be automated?" CHI 2010, Workshop on Microblogging, Atlanta, GA, April, 2010. (.pdf)
P.M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, A. Mainwaring, C. Myers, E. Paulos, S. Subramanian, and A. Woodruff. "A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action." Proc. CHI 2009, Boston, MA, Apr. 2009, 375-384. Best paper nominee. (Thanks to Allison and Paul) (.pdf)
P.M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, A. Mainwaring, C. Myers, E. Paulos, S. Subramanian, and A. Woodruff. "Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science" (demonstration). Adjunct Proc. Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Sept. 2008, 59-60. (.pdf)
T. Schleyer, H. Spallek, B.S. Butler, S. Subramanian, D. Weiss, M.L. Poythress, P. Rattanathikun, G. Mueller. "Facebook for scientists: requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established". Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2008;10(3):e24. (link)
T.Schleyer, H. Spallek, B.S. Butler, S. Subramanian, D. Weiss, M.L. Poythress, P. Rattanathikun, G. Mueller. "Requirements for expertise location systems in biomedical science and the Semantic Web." Proceedings of “Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME)”, workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference, 2008. (.pdf)