I'm Charan Pushpanathan, an incoming Ph.D. student in Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the School of Information Sciences, advised by Dr. Michael Twidale. Go Illini! 🧡
As of Spring 2025, Currently finishing my M.S. in Informatics at Penn State University with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, working in the Collaboration Innovation Lab under Dr. John M. Carroll.
Prior to my graduate studies, I worked in user testing, research, and interface design at several companies. I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering at Kumaraguru College of Technology.
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- I'm a Incoming Ph.D. student in Information Sciences at School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I'm lucky to be advised by Dr. Michael Twidale. I will be mainly researching on Human-Computer Interaction:
- Learning to Use: Learning theories and Training user
- Novel interfaces with minimal informations
- Collaborative environments
- Making intelligence in the sciences of artificial.
- Currently a graduate student at Penn State University's College of Information Sciences and Technology, pursuing a Master of Science in Informatics with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction. I am a graduate researcher in the Collaboration Innovation Lab, working under Dr. John M. Carroll as his advisee (His insights left a lasting imprint on how I conceive of HCI and the philosophical currents that flow beneath technological design.). My research explores human-computer interaction, cooperative activity, synergies, learning to use, and interface design.
- Also, at Penn State, I worked with and took classes taught by Frank Ritter, Luke Zhang, Kenneth Huang, and others.
- Graduated from Kumaraguru College of Technology with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering.
- Previous roles involved user testing, research, and interface design at HDFC Bank, Freecharge (backed by Axis Bank), and as a founding member/designer at an angel-backed capital markets startup (now closed).
- Living in State College, PA (thin crust life), soon moving to Champaign, IL ready for that deep dish dive.
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