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I am a PhD candidate in the so-called "general track of the informatics concentration",
which to me is a blurring but fun blend of the other two tracks (software and ICT)
here at the Dept. of Informatics, and in turn the "generality" of the concentration grants me the freedom to explore the duality of social-techno information technologies.
I am also affiliated with the Institute of Software Research here at UCI.
My broad research interests span across the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering (SE), E-Commerce and Applied Statistics. I have done research in software architecture, personalization, privacy, online communities (blogsphere and online games), and digital money.
I am very grateful for having the opportunities to work with some extraordinary researchers/mentors during my summer research internships at CommerceNet with Dr. Rohit Khare, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Lab (FXPAL) with Dr. Daniel Billsus and Dr. David Hilbert, and Intel Research with Dr. Scott Mainwaring, respectively. In addition, I had a 3-month research visit at Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in 2006 (during the FIFA World Cup :).
Currently, I am mainly working with Dr. Alfred Kobsa on the POP project that aims at reconciling web personalization with privacy constraints imposed by legal restrictions and by users’ privacy preferences.
You can find more about my work in my Research and Projects.