2010-2012, Post-doc researcher in the Nexus team at Microsoft Research, focusing on remote collaboration in the consumer space; 2012 onwards, joined the team as a full-time RSDE, continued to work in the consumer space and started considering enterprise meetings; 2014, moved to Microsoft Research Next to join Zhengyou Zhang and his MIX team to create a novel AI product for meeting rooms; 2017, with the project gaining traction, the team graduated out of research into the newly formed Business AI group, subsequently experienced re-orgs, worked on computer vision-based AI systems, mainly on single and multi-camera person tracking with RGB and RGBD devices.
Education
Received Bachelor of Math from the University of Waterloo in May 2004; obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in May 2010.
Background
Research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), particularly from an accessibility perspective. Works as a Principal Research Software Design Engineer in the MSR Ability group.
Miscellany
Passionate about CSCW and HCI, dedicated to building systems in these areas.