XRDS About Us

XRDS: About Us

Editors-in-Chief	Diane Golay
Departments Chief
Feature Editors	Henri Maxime Demoulin, Numair Khan,
Department Editors	Abhishek Bhattacharya, Anukruti Mathur, Daniela Zieba, Amari Lewis, Sepideh Maleki, Jovian Anthony Jaison
Digital Content Editor	Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Carl Colglazier
Special Projects Editors	Darshit Patel, Johanna Schacht
Social Media Editor
Web Editor	Travis Faas
News Editors
Bloggers	David Guerra, Abdelrahman Hosny, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Vassilios Karakoidas, Wolfgang Richter, Abhineet Saxena, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Gunnar Wolf
XRDS Alumni	Bryan Knowles, Gierad Laput, Oana Niculaescu, Anshuman Majumdar, Parang Saraf, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Apoorva Bhalla, Judeth Oden Choi, Eliezer Bernart, Talia Kohen, Gunnar Wolf, Jeremy Warner, Cori Faklaris, Ophir Friedler, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Jennifer Jacobs, Okke Schrijvers, JHarsh Thakkar,Nidhi Rastogi, Yang Shen, Shefali Bhatnagar, Vasileios Kalantzis, Alok Pandey, Anirvana Mishra, Apoorvaa Singh, Asmaa Rabie, Billy Rathje, Chris Harrison, Daniel Gooch, Derek Bronish, Dmitry Batenkov, Doris Lee, Erin Carson, Fahad Khalid, Finn Kuusisto, Gideon Juve, Hanieh Moshki, Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Jason Thibodeau, Marinka Zitnik, Michael Bernstein, Poornima Kalyan Sundaram, Richard Gomer, Rob Simmons, Rohit Goyal, Roger Finnegan, Ryan K.L.Ko, Sean Follmer, Sergiy Bogomolov, Sumit Narayan, Shudong Hao, Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne, Tom Bartindale, Vaggelis Giannikas, Vicente Garcia Diaz, Peter Kinnaird, Derek Bronish, James Stanier, Malay Bhattacharyya, Marius-Tudor Benea, Anirban Basu, Jed Brubaker, Ben Deverett, Daniel Gooch, Debarka Sengupta, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Hannah Pileggi, Somdip Dey, Shawn Freeman, Luigi De Russis, John Kloosterman, Michael Zuba, Ryan Kelly, Virginie Lerays, Arka Bhattacharya, Shelby Solomon Darnell, Claudia Schulz, David Byrd, Jay Patel, Veronica Estrada-Galinanes, Soumya Jindal, Tejas Khot, Nur Al-Huda Hamdan, Adrian Scoica, Pedro Lopes, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Maria Kechagia, Norene Kelly, Prachi Kumar, Olivia Simpson, Udayan Umapathi,

	Diane Golay Uppsala University, Sweden Co-Editor-in-Chief Diane is a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her main research topic revolves around the impact of ICT use on employees’ work and psychosocial work environment. The focus of her current studies lies on nursing staff’s experience of computerized systems for patient care. She has a MSSc in Human-Computer Interaction and a BSc in Information Science. She is passionate about user-centered design and dreams of bringing together computer science and design students in order to foster the development and implementation of innovative technology fitted to the needs of its users.
	Henri Maxime Demoulin University of Pennsylvania, USA Feature Editor Henri Maxime Demoulin is a PhD student at University of Pennsylvania, member of the Distributed Systems Laboratory and working with Prof. Boon Thau Loo. His interests range from Distributed System to Machine Learning. In a previous life, he was an engineer in a French start-up. He likes Latin dances and free-diving when not busy with some obscure programming problem.
	Numair Khan Brown University, USA Feature Editor Numair Khan did his masters in computer science from New York University and is currently engaged in research on the use of graphics processing units for ray tracing. His interests also include augmented reality systems and procedural modeling. A Fulbright scholar, Numair holds a bachelors degree in computer science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan and spends his leisure time playing squash and reading history.
	Abhishek Bhattacharya Amity University, Noida,India Department Editor Abhishek Bhattacharya is a second-year Computer Science and Engineering student at Amity University, Noida, India. His primary interests include Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Big Data, Operating Systems et al.
	Daniela Zieba University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Department Editor Daniela Zieba is an undergraduate studying computer science in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering. Her research interests currently include machine learning and software engineering. In her free time, Daniela enjoys fencing and science fiction.
	Amari Lewis University of California Irvine, USA Department Editor Amari Lewis is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Irvine, studying Computer Science in the Donald Bren school of Information and Computer Science. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer science with minors in Mathematics and French from Winston-Salem State University located in Winston-Salem, NC. She is a 2018 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). Her research is related to increasing the accessibility and suitability of paratransit through the incorporation of low-cost microprocessor and microcontroller technologies for the paratransit vehicles and its users.
	Sepideh Maleki The University of Texas at Austin,USA Department Editor Sepideh is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interest is programming languages, systems, and high performance computing. She is currently working on developing tools to improve quality of modern VLSI systems and overcome chip design challenges.
	Darshit Patel Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, India Department Editor A final Year undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India. He has been the Secretary of the college's ACM Student Chapter. His topics of interest include web development, algorithms and competitive programming. When not studying, he's usually found in the company of books.
	Johanna Schacht Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Department Editor Johanna Schacht is currently pursuing her MSc in industrial engineering and management and holds a BSc in computer science and management. Her studies focus on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery and her current work concentrates on Knowledge Discovery and Artificial Intelligence in medical applications. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, photographing and hiking tours.
	Jovian Anthony Jaison Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, India Department Editor A Final year undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India. He is the Chairperson of the PCCOE ACM Student Chapter. His interests include applications of Artificial Intelligence specifically in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. His research focuses on Emotion recognition using facial expressions. He enjoys trekking, playing music and competitive gaming.
	David Guerra Universitat de Lleida, Spain Blogger David Guerra is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science and industrial Engineering Department. He holds a M.Sc. in Software Engineering and a a B.Sc. in Computing from Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He had participated in spanish founding R&D projects. David’s research focuses on mobile HCI but has also worked on mobile solutions for archaeology and archaeological data visualization.
	Abdelrahman Hosny University of Connecticut, USA Blogger Abdelrahman is a Master student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut - USA. His topic of research interest is 'Science Reproducibility' with special focus on computational science and algorithms. He also works on research projects that engage data analysis, learning algorithms and mobile applications.
	Gustavo Fortes Tondello University of Waterloo, Canada Blogger Gustavo is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Lennart Nacke and Dr. Daniel Vogel. His main interests include gamification and games for health and learning. His research focuses on the design of gameful applications. He earned his M.Sc. in Computer Science and his B.Sc. in Information Systems from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. His M.Sc. thesis in Software Engineering focused on the semantic specification of Quality of Service for Semantic Web Services. His B.Sc. thesis focused on configuration management of Embedded Operating Systems using Application Oriented System Design. Before coming to Canada, he worked for several years as a Software Engineer in Brazil. Gustavo is also a researcher of the Logosophical Science affiliated to the Logosophical Foundation of Brazil.
	Vassilios Karakoidas Athens University of Economics and Business Blogger Vassilios Karakoidas is a Ph.D. candidate at Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Management Science and Technology. He holds a B.Sc. in Informatics (University of Piraeus) and a M.Sc. in Information Systems (Athens of Economics and Business). He is now a member of ISTLab/SENSE and a former member of the Health Informatics Laboratory at University of Piraeus. He has been involved in various research projects. In 2008, he co-founded Wizhut, a software company that was involved with various research and development projects. He was leading the design and the implementation effort of warp.ly marketing platform. He is now working part-time with the Total Eclipse development team and he is the lead software architect at Emaginal AG. He is the author of a number of open-source and public-domain software packages and tools. His research interests include Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Operating Systems and Networking. He has published more than 20 scientific articles in refereed scientific journals and conferences.
	Wolfgang Richter Carnegie Mellon University Blogger Wolfgang Richter is a 5th-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He has won research and teaching awards at both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia where he received his BS in Computer Science with Highest Honors. During his tenure as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon he has been supported by an NSF Fellowship and an IBM Research Fellowship. His research interests lie in distributed systems and cloud computing. He has collaborated predominantly with researchers at Carnegie Mellon, IBM Research, Intel Research, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His thesis work was proposed in February 2014, and a publication related to this work received the best paper award at IC2E'14. He plans on defending his thesis and graduating in December 2014.
	Abhineet Saxena Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, India Blogger, Former Web Editor Abhineet Saxena is a Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Computer Science (CS), postgraduate student at BITS Pilani, India. His topics of interest include Machine Learning with special emphasis on Cluster Analysis and Neural Networks. He enjoys programming in Python, blogging and composing poetry in leisure time.
	Anukruti Mathur University Of Petroleum and Energy Studies India Department Editor Anukruti Mathur, 20, is a vivid young writer, prolific speaker, and an exuberant debater. She is pursuing her graduation in Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology from the University Of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. Her primary interests include cloud computing, fog computing, software engineering, and open-source standards. Head girl in her school days, she has very distinctive administrating and organizing capabilities. Winner of several writing contests, she was declared the best speaker at Youth Parliament organized by leading Hindi national daily of the country.
	Carl Colglazier North Carolina State University Blogger, Former Web Editor Carl Colglazier is a senior at North Carolina State University studying media and computer science.
	Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan Kyungpook National University, South Korea Digital Content Editor Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus, Pakistan in 2016. He is a student of MS combined PhD program as KNU International Graduate Scholarship(KINGS) scholar in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. He is also fulltime member of Wireless & Mobile Internet Laboratory (MoNet) as Graduate Researcher. His current research interests include wireless communication in the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), body-centric networks and Vehicular Named Data Networking (V-NDN). He spends his leisure time cooking food and watching nature and science documentaries.