Peter KhooshabehLocal: Permanent:

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Mailing Address:

Psychology Department

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660

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Education

University of California (UC), Santa Barbara (3.9 GPA)

Fall 2004-present, Psychology Department with major in Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Masters Degree granted in June 2006

PhD expected in 2009 (All But Dissertation, i.e. I can work sooner than June 2009)

Dissertation Title: Mental Rotation: is it based on visuo-spatial or strictly spatial representations?

Advisor: Professor Mary Hegarty, PhD

UC Berkeley, Fall 2000 – Spring 2004. Magna Cum Laude (3.744 GPA)

Major: Cognitive Science. Emphases: Cognitive Psychology and Computational Modeling

Minors: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Selected Awards/Fellowships: Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (May 2008) – dissertation funding for 2008 Academic YearCambridge Who’s Who among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs (November 2007)Assyrian United Organizations of California, Inc. Scholarship (October 2007)Most Distinguished Science Knowledge Contributor – Materials Research Lab (2006-2007)Department of Homeland Security Graduate Research Fellow (2004-2008)National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow (2004-2006 – declined 2005-2006 fellowship)Psi Chi National Honor Society (inducted February 2005)Accenture Foundation Scholarship (multi-year recipient 2002-2004) (multi-year recipient 2002-2004)Gave research presentation to UC Regents meeting (January 14, 2004)UC Leadership and Excellence through Advanced Degrees Scholar (UC LEADS) (multi-year research funding received beginning February, 2002 until May 2004)Distinguished UC Berkeley Alumni Leadership Scholar for Santa Clara County (2000-2004)Golden Key International Honor Society Top Junior Scholar Inductee (May 2003)2002 Nisibin Scholar of the Greater Bay AreaStudent Life Achievement Award, Educational Opportunities Program (2001)Three time scholarship recipient from Assyrian Foundation of America (2000-2003)Gates Millennium Scholarship Candidate (2000)

Professional Experience

Graduate Student Researcher: UCSB Psychology Department: Small Scale Spatial Cognition (medical visualization, weather maps, and mental rotation)

(Fall 2004 – present) Mentors: Mary Hegarty, Dan Montello

Project Title: NSF ITR: 3-D Visualizations for Medical EducationDissertation studies individual differences in cognitive style for performing spatial transformations in multimedia. Mining eyetracking and video data to analyze strategies for effective media use to solve problems with visual and spatial mediaSupervised several research assistants and directed projects to successful completion.

Researcher. Air Force Research Laboratory, (summer 2008), Mesa, AZ

Project Title: Cognitive Modeling of Human Spatial Competence; Mentor: Dr. Glenn GunzelmannConducted novel analysis of eye fixation data using finite state machines to generate grammars. Modified computational cognitive model to show learning of a spatial decision making task.

Researcher. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (ongoing), Livermore, CA

Project Title: Dynamic Network Assessment; Mentor: Tony Farmer Social Network Analysis pertaining to the visualization of topological and spatial relationships; conducted pilot experiments related to expertise and cognitive psychology; Network science product development for counterterrorism analysts; conducted cognitive walkthrough summative and formative evaluation

Researcher. IBM Almaden Research Center, USER Group (Summer 2005), San Jose, CADesign and evaluate policy-based interfaces for Autonomic Computing. Conduct experiments to study the mental representation of system users.Mentors: Eser Kandogan, Paul Maglio

Researcher. NASA Ames Research Center, Human Factors Division (Summer 2004)

- Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory: Implemented and conducted a study for an interface to augment Mars Exploration Rover and other teleoperated machinery. Mentors: Steve Ellis, Bernard D. Adelstein

Research Assistant: UC Berkeley EECS Department, Division of Computer Science: Prototyping and Evaluating Human-Machine Interfaces (Fall 2001 – Spring 2004).

- Group for User Interface Research: Developed and Designed for the DENIM system. Extended functionality for designers to prototype websites for mobile devices. Also implemented scrollbar functionality and conducted evaluation. Mentors: Professor James Landay, Jimmy Lin, Jason Hong*

- Semester project with Context Aware Computing Research: Designed, Deployed, and Evaluated a Prototype of Context Aware Kitchen Inventory System called Kitchen-Net (Abstract in EECS Research Summary for 2003). Mentors: Professors James Landay and Anind Dey, Anoop Sinha, Xiaodong Jiang*

- Virtual Environments for Surgical Training and Augmentation (Jointly with UCSF) – Medical Education for Ultrasound Imaging. Implementing and evaluating various interaction techniques. Professor Frank Tendick. ** Funding by UC San Francisco’s (UCSF) Summer Research Training Program** and UC LEADS*.

Refereed Publications

Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2008). How Spatial Abilities Enhance, and are Enhanced by, Dental Education. Learning and Individual Differences.

Keehner, M., Hegarty, M., Cohen, C., Khooshabeh, P. and Montello, D.R. (2008). Spatial Reasoning With External Visualizations: What Matters Is What You See, Not Whether You Interact. Cognitive Science.

Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P. and Hegarty, M. (2008) Interactive visualizations and individual differences among users. in F. Dong, Ghinea, G. and ., S.Y.C. eds. User centered design for medical visualization, Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA.

Refereed Conference Publications

Khooshabeh, P., & Hegarty, M. (2008). Differential Effects of Color on Mental Rotation as a Function of Spatial Ability. Paper presented at the International Spatial Cognition Conference, Freiburg, Germany.

Gunzelmann, G., Douglass, S., & Khooshabeh, P. (2008). Learning to Orient Using a Map Display: Evidence from Eye Tracking. Paper presented at the International Spatial Cognition Conference, Freiburg, Germany.

Khooshabeh, P. (2008), Understanding the Information Content of 3-D Shapes During Mental Rotation, presented at International Spatial Cognition Conference (Doctoral Colloquium), Freiburg, Germany.

Khooshabeh, P. and Hegarty, M. (2008) How Visual Information Affects a Spatial Task. presented at Proceedings of Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Khooshabeh, P., Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., and Cohen, C. (2008). Benefits of Constrained Interactivity in Using a Three-Dimensional Diagram, Diagrams 2008, Hersching, Germany, vol. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5223, pp. 385–387.

Kandogan, E., Campbell, C., Khooshabeh, P., Maglio, P., Bailey, J. (2006). Policy-based Management of an E-commerce Business Simulation: An Experimental Study. Submitted to Cluster Computing Journal. The work was also presented at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Dublin, Ireland, which had less than a 20% acceptance rating.

Khooshabeh, P., Smith, E., Thompson, J. (2005). Gestural Musical Improvisation and Programming. Paper presented at the IEEE Visual Languages and Human Centered Computing, Dallas, Texas.

Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P. (2005, March 21-24). Computerized Representations of 3D Structure: How Patterns of Interactivity Differ Among Learners. Paper presented at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, CA.

Heer, J., Khooshabeh, P. (2004, May 25-28). Seeing the Invisible. Paper presented at the Advanced Visual Interfaces, Lecce, Italy.

Liu, L., Khooshabeh, P. (2003, April 5-10). Paper or Interactive? A Study of Prototyping Techniques for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. Paper presented at the Human Factors in Computing Systems: SIGCHI 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Under Review

Khooshabeh, P. and Hegarty, M. (2008). Inferring Cross-Sections: When Internal Visualizations are More Important than Properties of External Visualizations, Submitted.

Khooshabeh, P. Assyrian Predicament and the Iran-Iraq War. Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies.

Abstracts and Posters (with presentations):

Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Khooshabeh, P. and Montello, D.R., Spatial thinking with external visualizations: The role of individual differences. in European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli), (Budapest, Hungary, 2007).

Keehner, M., Hegarty, M., Cohen, C. and Khooshabeh, P., Reasoning with interactive visualizations: The importance of individual differences among users. in European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli), (Budapest, Hungary, 2007).

Khooshabeh, P., Villacorta, A. Interdisciplinary Research and Diversity in Higher Education. University of California Systemwide Meeting on Changing the Culture of Academia. March 2007

Khooshabeh, P., Hegarty, M. (2006). The Effect of Depth Information on Inferring Cross-sections. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.

Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Montello D., Khooshabeh, P., & Hegarty, M. (2005). Is Active Control Better Than Passive Viewing? It Depends On What You See. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Khooshabeh, P. (2005). Virtual environments for medical training, Invited talk at the Stanford Youth Medical Science Program. Stanford, CA.

Khooshabeh, P. (2005). Cognitive Science Perspectives on Medical Education, Invited talk at the University of California Graduate Student Symposium. Santa Barbara.

Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Khooshabeh, P. (2005). Role of Spatial Cognition in Medicine, Invited talk at the Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology Group.

Khooshabeh et al. (2005, January 26-29). How Learners Comprehend and Interact with 3D Computerized Representations of Anatomy-Like Structures. Paper presented at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Long Beach, California.

Khooshabeh, P. (2002, September 27-29). Exploring the Benefits of Navigational Widgets in DENIM. Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) 29th Annual National Conference, Anaheim, California.

Khooshabeh, P. (2002). Exploring the Benefits of Navigational Widgets in DENIM. Paper presented at the UCSF Health and Biomedical Sciences Colloquium, San Francisco, CA.

Khooshabeh, P. (2002). Exploring the Benefits of Navigational Widgets in DENIM. Paper presented at the UC LEADS Symposium, San Diego, CA.

Khooshabeh, P. (2003, October 1-5). Medical Education through Simulation Training. Poster presented at SACNAS 30th Annual National Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Khooshabeh, P. (2003). Medical Education through Simulation Training. Poster presented at the UCSF Health and Biomedical Sciences Colloquium, San Francisco, CA.

Khooshabeh, P. (2003). Medical Education through Simulation Training. Poster presented at the UC LEADS Symposium, Los Angeles, CA.

Khooshabeh, P. (2003). Medical Education through Simulation Training. Poster presented at the UC Berkeley Engineering and Science Poster Session, Berkeley, CA.

Invited Talks:

Khooshabeh, P. (2008). Information Content in Mental Representations of 3-D Objects. National Visualization and Analytics Center, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA.

Khooshabeh, P., & Hegarty, M. (2007). The Role of Interfaces and Individual Differences in Inferring Cross-Sections. IBM, Almaden Research Center: User Science Experience Research (USER) Seminar.

Unpublished work:

Khooshabeh, P. (2004). Learning Spatial Relationships: Ethnography and Experiment of an Echographic Training Simulation. Unpublished Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Primary Reader: Professor Richard Ivry. Secondary Reader: Professor Frank Tendick, University of California, Berkeley.

Khooshabeh, P. (2006) Quality of Information: Mental Representations of Small Scale Space. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Primary Reader: Mary Hegarty. Secondary Reader: Jack Loomis. University of California, Santa Barbara

Extracurricular Activities

Founding Co-President

Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Student Society

June 2007

Executive Council Member; Chair of Evaluation Committee

Department of Homeland Security Student and Alumni Network

Fall 2006 - present

Graduate Representative

Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy UC Systemwide Academic Senate Committee

Fall 2006 – present

Paper Reviewer

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Virtual Environments, Individual Differences, Perception and Performance Technical Groups

Winter 2006 - present

UC Santa Barbara Representative

American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs

Summer 2005 - present

Invited Panelist

Expectations of First Year Graduate Students in the Information Sciences, UC LEADS Conference UCSF

March 2005

Musician

UC Santa Barbara Middle East Ensemble

Fall 2004 - present

Reviewer

American Psychological Society Student Grant Competition

Fall 2004 - present

Co-founder

Chaldo Assyrian Student Alliance at UCSB

Fall 2004 - present

Graduate Executive Committee Representative

UCSB Psychology Department

Fall 2004 - present

Consultant

Maclise Think Tank (UC Merced)

November 2004

Assistant Faculty

Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology:

Summer Computer Science Institute

Summer 2003 - present

Co-founder

Assyrian Student Alliance

Fall 2000 - present

Co-founder

Nisan Recruitment and Retention Center

Fall 2002 - present

Webmaster

Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES)

Fall 2000 - present

Mentor

We’re Going to Cal, California Alumni Association Outreach

Fall 2000 - present

Undergraduate Liaison, Innovator’s Challenge Co-Chair

VERTEX: Engineering Entrepreneurial Club

Fall 2002 - present

Mentor

Computer Science Undergraduate Association

Fall 2002 - present

Teaching: Student Instructor. Human Memory Research Methods, Winter 2006; Introduction to Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley Fall 2003

National Conference AttendanceStudent volunteer (SV) at IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented RealitySV at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interested Group for Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) 2003 Ft. Lauderdale FloridaSV at Designing the User Experience (DUX) 2003 (Co-sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH – computer graphics interest group) Fully funded to attend both SACNAS 2002, 2003. I also presented, see above. Fully funded to attend IEEE VL/HCC. I also presented at the Doctoral Consortium.

Other Skills Programming languages: Scheme (a dialect of LISP), Java, Python, MATLAB. Knowledge of C++Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic), Farsi, Spanish. Working knowledge of Arabic

Research Assistants and Other Students AdvisedRachel Avenassian, UCSB BA in Psychology, currently at SFSU School Psychology Masters ProgramEthan Smith, UCSB BA in Computer Science and Psychology. MS University College London, Currently Lead User Interface Designer at WizeMaurice Grayson (BFOIT), Emery High School, now attending UC BerkeleyAlan Young (BFOIT), Cupertino High School, now attending UC Berkeley, EECS David Herschorn Research Mentoring Program and Research Assistant (June through March 2008 as a high school student). Now undergraduate at UC BerkeleyAmanda Baratz, Research Mentoring Program (June through August 2007 as a high school student). Now undergraduate at UCLA

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