Joshua Hailpern

Doctor of Philosophy Candidate in Computer Science

P.O. Box 2875, Champaign IL 61825-2875 914-***-**** aboy1q@r.postjobfree.com://joshua.hailpern

.com/ Citizenship: USA

EDUCATION

2006 - May 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction

Dissertation Topic : Developing HCI Technology to Aid in Communication Research for

Individuals with

Impairments (a Language and Linguistic Perspective)

Advisor: Karrie G. Karahalios

Winter 2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Master of Science in Computer Science

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction

Master s Thesis: The Spoken Impact Project: Using Audio & Visual Feedback to Impact

Vocalization in

Non-Verbal Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Advisor: Karrie G. Karahalios

2006 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors

Minor in Music Technology

Senior Thesis: Distributed Detection of New Virus Threats in Large Scale Networks

Advisor: Benoit Morel

FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT

June 2012 - PresentResearch ScientistHP Labs, Palo Alto, CA

Social Computing Research Group under Bernardo Huberman

HONORS & AWARDSFall 2011- Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Spring 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 2011 Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence Award for 2011

Research on ACES Aphasia Emulation Software

Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 2011Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities Student Design Gold Award

Research on ACES Aphasia Emulation Software

Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, Boulder, CO

Spring 2011 Graduate College Conference Travel Grant

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Summer 2010 1st place in Google Summer Intern Project Poster Competition

Research on YouPivot Contextual Search System

Google, Mountain View, CA

Spring 2010- Dennis Weatherstone Fellow

Fall 2011 Pre-doctoral Fellowship Presented by Autism Speaks

Visualizing Voice (Proposal #6312)

First Weatherstone fellowship awarded to a computer scientist

Spring 2009Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award

Champaign, IL.

Fall 2007 Selected to Present Doctoral Consortium Research Contribution at ASSETS Main

Conference

Sole student selected (1 out of 10)

ACM SIGACCESS ASSETSConference 2007

Tempe, AZ.

Spring 2007 3rd place in Siebel Computing Habitat Competition

TEAM STORM: TEAM Support Tool Oriented to Realization of Multiple ideas

Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Spring 2007 Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Fall 2006 1st place in ACM Graduate Student Research Competition

WISE: a Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced usability

ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS Conference,

2006

Portland, OR.

Fall 2006 - Cultural Computing Fellowship

Spring 2007 Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, IL.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

ASSETS 2008 Conference.

Halifax, Canada.

Acceptance Rate 36%

2007 TEAM STORM: Demonstrating an Interaction Model for Working with Multiple Ideas

During Creative Group Work

Hailpern, J., Hinterbichler, E., Leppert, C., Cook, D. J., and Bailey, B.

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, June 2007.

Washington, D.C.

Acceptance Rate 23%

PATENTS

2010 Filing Still Under Non-Disclosure Agreement with Google

Joshua Hailpern and Nicholas Jitkoff

2008 A System and Method of Enhanced Virtual Reality

Joshua Hailpern and Peter Malkin

United States Patent Filing 200********. Published February 2, 2008. Filed August 8,

2006.

INVITED TALKS

2011 How to Impact 90% of the Population by Designing for 10%

dub HCI Research Seminar Series, University of Washington Seattle

Seattle, WA.

How to Impact 90% of the Population by Designing for 10%

HCI Research Lunch Seminar, Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA.

Finding your Digital Car Keys:

Leveraging Human Memory & Contextual Cues to Improve Personal Search

Accenture Technology Labs

Chicago, IL (webcast to San Jose, CA).

2010 Just what do you think you re doing, Dave?:

Predicting important applications for context sensitive systems

IBM Resarch - Almaden

San Jose, CA.

Importance: Quantitatively Predicting a Qualitative Feeling

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)

Palo Alto, CA.

2008 VCode & VData: Illustrating a new Framework for Supporting the Video Annotation

Workflow

Google Tech Talks

Mountain View, CA.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Summer 2010SummerInternship at Google

Nicholas Jitkoff, Google; Mountain View, CA.

Created and implemented YouPivot, a novel personal search system, based on the literature

in human

memory, that leverages contextual cues.

1 Publication + 1 Patent (currently under NDA)

Summer 2008SummerInternship at Google

Dr. Loretta Guarino Reid & Dr. Richard Boardman, Google; Mountain View, CA.

Created Dtorial, an interactive tutorial system for web application usage for visually

impaired users.

Usability design, implementation and testing.

2 Publications

Summer - Fall 2007 Independent Study on Speech and Vocalization in Children with

Autistic Spectrum Disorder Project

Prof. Karrie G. Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Champaign, IL.

Designed and built visual and auditory feedback tools to encourage speech and

vocalization in low

functioning non-verbal children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Designed, organized and

conducted

studies to test the preferences and effect of the tool on target population.

10 Publications + MS Thesis

Fall 2006 Independent Study on TEAM STORM Project

Prof. Brian Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Champaign, IL.

Conducted observational studies, designed and built a prototype, and performed user tests

on TEAM

STORM (TEAM Support Tool Oriented to Realization of Multiple-ideas), a system to support

creative

idea generation for early stage design teams.

1 Publication

Summer 2006SummerInternship at IBM Research

Dr. Vicki Hanson, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; Hawthorne, NY.

Designed, implemented, and tested features of IBM s Accessibility works for older adults

browsing

the web. Also conducted user testing of my WISE software system with older adults.

2 Publications2005-2006 Senior Thesis on Distributed Detection of New Virus Threats in Large Scale

NetworksProf. Benoit Morel, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh PA.

Investigated the feasibility and practicality of a distributed virus detection network to

recognize new

computer viruses faster than current methods, basing our model on work by John von

Neumann.

Fall 2005 HCI Research Project on WISE: Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced usability

Prof. Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA.

As part of HCI 431, researched and designed a new graphical interface for older adults,

based on

gerontological literature, which addresses many age-related challenges.

1 Publication

Summer 2005SummerInternship in Computer Music

Prof. Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA.

Designed and implemented a programming interface to a music visualization package. Also

converted a DSP program from Matlab to C and debugged Matlab sound analysis code.

Summer 2004SummerInternship at IBM Software Group s Pittsburgh Lab

Jeff Kaminski, IBM Software Group; Pittsburgh, PA.

Designed and implemented a reservation database in Lotus Notes, a script to get status

and perform

updates on networked systems, as well as perform machine maintenance.

Summer 2003SummerInternship at IBM Research

Dr. Herb Lee, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; Yorktown Heights, NY.

Designed/developed authentication/logging programs for IBM Tivoli s Internet measurement

software.

1999 - 2002 Supervised Computer Research Project

Dr. Charles Palmer, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; Hawthorne, NY.

Conceived and developed prototype software to protect, encrypt and manage Internet

cookies.

1 Publication

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2011 Graphic Design Chair

ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS 2011 Organizing Committee

2011 University of Illinois Department of Computer Science Graduate Council

Member

2010 Department of Computer Science Graduate Admissions Committee (for Fall 2011)

Graduate Student Member, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

2010 Public Relations Chair

ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS 2010 Organizing Committee

2009 - 2011 Graduate-Undergraduate Mentor

Women in Computer Science, University of Illinois Chapter

Urbana, IL

2009 Local Arrangements Chair

ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS 2009 Organizing Committee

Fall 2008 Participated in the Invitation-Only ACM Digital Library Workshop

Sole student representative at two-day workshop focused on design and outlining future

direction of

the ACM Digital Library

ACM Headquarters

New York, NY

2008 - Present ACM SIGCHI - Association for Computing Machinery

Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Member, Student

2008 - Present ACM SIGACCESS - Association for Computing Machinery

Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing

Member, Student

Spring 2007 Student Volunteer

ACM SIG CHI Conference 2007

San Jose, CA

2006 - Present ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Member, Student

TEACHING & GUEST LECTURES

Spring 2011 Guest Lecture on Universal Design for Human Computer Interaction Lab: PSYC429

Prof. Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, IL.

Spring 2011 Guest Lecture on Universal Design for Entrepreneurial IT Design: LIS490

Suh, S. and Floyd, I., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, IL.

Fall 2009 Guest Lecture on Assistive Technology for Entrepreneurial IT Design: LIS490

Prof. Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, IL.

Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Programming: INFO103

Prof. Eric Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, IL.

Spring 2006 Teaching Assistant for Computer Networks: 15-441

Profs. Peter Steenkiste and David Eckhardt, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA.

Summer 2005 Lead Teaching Assistant for Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms: 15-

211

Prof. Victor Adamchik, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA.

Fall 2003 Consultant for Intermediate/Advanced Programming

Prof. Rich Pattis, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh PA.

PRESS

ACM launches new Digital Library

Gary Anthes

Communications of the ACM, Volume 54 Issue 2, February 2011.

2009 Talking in color: imaging helps social skills

David Lawsky

Reuters News Service and Syndicated Outlets, April 1, 2009.

PUBLICATION REVIEWER

2012 IEE Technology and Society Magazine

Journal

2011 Ubicomp

Conference

Interact

Conference

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

Conference

2007 - 2012 CHI

Conference

2008 - 2011 Transactions on Accessible Computing

Journal

2010-2011 ASSETS

Conference

2010 Intelligent User Interfaces

Conference

2009 - 2010 CSCW

Conference

2009 Creativity and Cognition

Conference

2009 ACM Multimedia

Conference

MENTORED STUDENTS

2012 Pengyu Ren (BS in CS)

VCode & VData

2011-2012 Andrew Harris (MS in CS)

VocSyl & Touch Based Interactions for Children with Autism

2011 Zhongnan Eddie Du (BS in CS)

VCode & VData

2011-Present Reed La Botz (BS in CS)

VocSyl & YouPivot - TimeMarks

2011 - Present Abraham Fine (BS in CS)

YouPivot - Server Back End

Maurice Lam (BS in CS)

2011 - Present

YouPivot - Interactions Front End

Brianna Birman (BS in CS)

2010 - Present

VocSyl and Touch-based Interactions

Mo Kudeki (BS in CS)

Spring 2010

The VocSyl Project

Joseph Subida (BS in CS)

2009 - 2010

The Clotho Project

Joey Hagedorn (BS in CS)2007 - 2008

VCode & VData

PRESS

A Prototype of Pivot Searching

Charles Q. Choi

IEEE Spectrum, October 2011.

ACM launches new Digital Library

Gary Anthes

Communications of the ACM, Volume 54 Issue 2, February 2011.

Talking in color: imaging helps social skills

David Lawsky

Reuters News Service and Syndicated Outlets, April 1, 2009.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Applications

MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite (up to CS5), Processing, ProTools, Reason, Finale, Emacs,

Eclipse,

Xcode, iLife, iWork, Final Cut Studio.

Languages

Java, Java-Script, SML, C, C++, Perl, HTML, Assembly, Matlab, Objective-C (including

Cocoa, Apple-

script and Carbon), OpenGL, Python, PHP, CSS.

Operating Systems

Windows (through 7), OSX (through Lion), Linux, Unix, Solaris, Chrome OS, iOS.

SELECTED COURSE TOPICS

Graduate: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Computer Supported Cooperative Work, IT Design, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interac-

tion, Graphic Design, Typography

Undergraduate: Carnegie Mellon University

Computer Science & Technology - Programming Languages, Data Structures, Algorithms,

Systems,

Networks, Virtual Reality, User Interface Architecture, Computer Theory, Information

Warfare, Robot-

ics, Electronic & Computer Music

Graphic Design - Visual Interface Design, Communication Design

Music - Music Theory, Recording Techniques, Physics of Music

OTHER SKILLS

Graphic Design

Print, Web, Logo, Poster, Brochure, Shirts and other Non-Traditional Media

Music

Guitar, Piano, Composition, Recording, Editing and Mastering

Video

Editing and EffectsOTHER EXPERIENCE

Member Governing Board

2007 - 2009The Hillel Foundation, Center for Jewish Life; Champaign, IL.

Web, Logo and PR Design

2003 - 2011The Hillel Foundation, Center for Jewish Life; Champaign, IL.

The Hillel Foundation, Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA.

WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

2008

Joshua Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, Laura DeThorne and James Halle

Workshop on Technology in Mental Health at ACM SIGCHI CHI 2008 Conference

Florence, Italy.

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