associate instructor
I've been an associate instructor for the
HCI/d classes
offered in the HCI department for professors
Martin Siegel
and
Eli Blevis. In addition to standard tasks such as grading, part of my job has been to create and/or maintain any class resources needed for online communication or collaboration. For example, I helped develop a
wiki for designers
that was used to facilitate design collaboration between students.
My favorite part of this job has been helping the first year students with their design projects in my role as a team mentor. Being part of the creativity here at the school has been one of my best experiences while at Bloomington, and I like the students so much I don't even care if they happen to beat me in a design competition or two.
research assistant
I worked as a research assistant for
Filippo Menczer
and
Javed Mostafa
on a recent research project investigating
multi-agent classifiers. These "agent" based classifiers operate independently and try to classify a set of documents given their limited set of knowledge. Documents that are not able to be classified by one agent are passed around to other agents until an answer is found.The project sought to identify the optimal number of agents for a given corpus classification task in terms of network utilization and computation time. Furthermore, it sought to understand what the most effective "intelligence level" for the agents, in terms of how many different topical themes it could classify. For this project I created a flexible multi-agent classification platform in Perl utilizing IU's AVIDD computing cluster.