Research experience

Current resume (Jan 2023)

Choose your own adventure (Google slides) resume

I have been doing and/or teaching research since I was an undergraduate at Brandeis University

List of projects (not including thesis or dissertation work):

Translation project (Russian to English)
- Collected data from interviews with students
- Assisted principle investigator in developing insights into how heritage Russian speakers make polite requests
Linguistics project (Russian/English)
- Transcribed interviews
- Tagged transcriptions with parts of speech for content analysis
Learning and memory laboratory (Brandeis University)
- Prepared protocol for study of older-adult language processing
- Conducted audiometric testing
- Received a grant to conduct my own research on the relationship between bilingualism and task-switching ability
Electroencephalography laboratory (Iowa State University)
- Designed experiments to test decision-making during random rewards task
- Trained undergraduate research assistants to prepare participants for EEG studies
- Cleaned and analyzed EEG data
- Discovered insights into decision-making process via event-related potentials
Army Research Laboratory contract (via Iowa State University)
- Designed and lead research study as part of development cycle of an intelligent tutoring system to train teams
- Worked with interdisciplinary team to determine relevant research questions
- Provided team with insights into user experience
- Coordinated and ran complex experiment to collect data:
  - Eye-tracking
  - Electrodermal activity
  - Survey data
  - NASA TLX (task load index)
  - Semi-structured interviews
Usability/accessibility study on voting machines (Iowa State University)
- Assisted in development of protocol to test usability and accessibility of voting machines to meet accessibility requirements
- Conducted contextual inquiries to gain insights on how people with different disabilities (visual + motor) complete the voting process
- Used thematic analysis to summarize feedback from participants
Postdoctoral work on undergraduate research (for Iowa State University)
- Worked with stakeholders to determine research needs related to undergraduate (customer) and faculty (employee) experiences with research at Iowa State
- Employed the following methods to gather data:
  - Semi-structured interviews
  - Content analysis of existing data sources
  - Survey
    - Quantitative
    - Qualitative
- Presented research insights to task-force
- Assisted in evidence-based planning for future product development (ISU is a business that sells education)
Development and instruction of two courses on research methods
- Target audience:
  - Graduate students interested in academic research
  - Graduate students working in the tech industry (interested in UX research)
- Mentored 10+ groups through theoretical or applied research projects
- Mentored 20 individual students through 1-2 month long qualitative research projects
- Gathered insights from existing sources (textbooks, articles, corporate websites, etc.) to tailor materials for BOTH academic and industry audiences
UX Research work (will provide company name if asked)
- Developed a protocol for growth product team to engage with UX researcher
- Organized and synthesized existing data from previous UX research by product managers, existing internal quantitative data, and existing external qualitative data to discover issue likely related to major problem facing the company
  - Developed strategy to explore the issue further and plan for solving it
For All Tech is Human
- Distilled qualitative themes from Responsible Tech Guide and created data-based doodles to promote engagement
- Organized data from survey and provided evidence-based suggestions for mentorship program
- Collaborated on resource guide for books relevant to responsible technology
For Microsoft
- Developed and ran two unmoderated studies (qualitative + mixed methods) to gain insights into responsible product development
- Co-moderated focus group sessions with members of an underrepresented community
- Synthesized and triangulated insights from 3 research studies to make data-driven recommendations for product development and framing