Experience

Refinery Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Defense Ventures Program Fellow

  • Feb 2021 - Apr 2021

  Contributed to deal flow and diligence through the Defense Ventures Program Fellowship



SoFi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• USC University Manager

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2013

  engage alumni and other interested parties to help solve the student loan problem



University of California

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Sep 2004 - Jun 2009

  I worked on a myriad of projects ranging from medical imaging and visualization to assistive technology for the elderly. Researched and developed interaction techniques for 3-D visualizations related to medical imaging. Our experiments addressed questions about how immersive interaction techniques influence performance in a cross-section inference and a drawing task. My PhD dissertation was on the topic of individual differences in spatial ability and cognitive style for performing… Show more I worked on a myriad of projects ranging from medical imaging and visualization to assistive technology for the elderly. Researched and developed interaction techniques for 3-D visualizations related to medical imaging. Our experiments addressed questions about how immersive interaction techniques influence performance in a cross-section inference and a drawing task. My PhD dissertation was on the topic of individual differences in spatial ability and cognitive style for performing spatial transformations in multimedia. Show less



Air Force Research Laboratory

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Conducted eyetracking and modified computational cognitive models that resulted in new analyses



Assyrian Student Alliance

• student liason

  • 2000 - 2008

  organized academic preparation workshops



Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• User Experience Researcher

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2006

  With the Dynamic Network Assessment Group, I worked on analyzing and visualization social networks. This involved modifying a Java toolkit to make it output visualizations relevant to the domain of intelligence analysis.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• User Experience Researcher

  • Jun 2005 - Sep 2005

  I designed an interface for system administrators to use autonomic computing. We developed this and conducted controlled experimental evaluations. Our work was published at the flagship June 2006 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing in Dublin, Ireland.



AMES RESEARCH CENTER

• Human Factors Intern

  • Jun 2004 - Sep 2004

  Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory: Implemented and studied an interface to augment teleoperated devices



UC Berkeley College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• USER INTERFACE RESEARCH Computer Science Research Assistant

  • Aug 2001 - May 2004

  Wrote honors thesis based on my experimental research with a virtual reality simulation of an ultrasound medical imaging system; Designed, deployed, and evaluated a prototype of a context-aware kitchen inventory system. Worked on DENIM, a sketch-based tool for website rapid prototyping. Extended functionality for designers to prototype websites for mobile devices. Also implemented scrollbar functionality and conducted user evaluation