PETER KHOOSHABEH

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara

Master of Arts in Psychology granted June 2006, GPA: 3.9

PhD expected June 2009

University of California, Berkeley

Graduated with Honors May 2004 , GPA: 3.7

Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science, Minors in

Electrical Engineering & Computer

Science

EXPERIENCE

9/04 – present University of California Graduate Student Researcher Santa Barbara, CA

· Research and development of 3-D visualizations for medical education simulations

· Conducted experiments to study how immersive interaction techniques influence performance in a cross-section inference and drawing task

· Currently studying individual differences in cognitive style for performing spatial transformations in multimedia

5/08 – 8/08 Air Force Research Laboratory Researcher Mesa, AZ

· Conducted eyetracking and modified computational cognitive models that resulted in new analyses

6/06 – 9/06 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory User Experience Engineer Livermore, CA

· Designed and implemented social network visualization for national security intelligence analysts

6/05 – 9/05 IBM Research, User Sciences and Experiences Research Intern San Jose, CA

· Designed, implemented, and evaluated a policy-based interface for an eCommerce website simulation.

· Coauthored long-paper submission that was accepted to the Autonomic Computing conference

6/04 – 9/04 NASA Ames Research Center, Human Factors Division Research Assistant Moffett Field, CA

· Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory: Implemented and conducted a study for an interface to augment teleoperated devices

8/01 – 5/04 Group for User Interface Research Computer Science Research Assistant Berkeley, CA

· Wrote honors thesis based on my experimental research with a virtual reality simulation of an ultrasound medical imaging system; Designed, deployed, and evaluated a prototype of a context-aware kitchen inventory system and DENIM, a sketch-based tool for website rapid prototyping. Extended functionality for designers to prototype websites for mobile devices. Also implemented scrollbar functionality and conducted user evaluation

ACTIVITIES

6/07 – present The Alliance for graduate Education and The Professoriate Co-president Santa Barbara, CA

· Matriculating a diverse graduate student population through professional development workshops

6/07 – present Ad-hoc reviewer for various journals and conference proceedings

· Read papers in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and cognitive science;

· Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

· Association for Computing Machinery HCI conference

· International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

· Interacting with Computers Journal

8/03 – present Berkeley foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology Instructor Berkeley, CA

· Teach computer science and problem solving skills to underrepresented students from junior high in an intensive summer program

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

· Experience in Scheme, LISP, HTML, Python, Java

· Musician (vocals and percussion) – particularly classical Middle Eastern music

· Runner and avid reader especially to continue learning Spanish, Assyrian, Farsi, and Arabic – fluent in all but Arabic

Awards

· Department of Homeland Security Graduate Research Fellow

· National Science Foundation (NSF) IGERT Fellow – Interdisciplinary Training

· NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship

· Golden Key International Honour Society top inductee