Senior Research Scientist
Portland, Oregon Area
Lead research projects on large-scale broadband adoption, resistance to ubiquitous infrastructure, home architecture and within-home mobility, digital wallets and urban mobility, personal digital money and mobile money innovation, and social forces in ICT-based development projects. Conducted fieldwork in the US, UK, Japan, China, South Korea, Morocco, Kenya, and South Africa. Coordinated multiyear Research Council program supporting academics exploring community technologies, privacy, and trust. Collaborated across research labs and business units to produce corporate-level strategy and planning documents, and conduct joint research. Co-organized workshops at Intel, UC Irvine, and the CHI and UbiComp conferences on a range of topics. Participated in the annual Intel Developer Forum, co-teaching a tutorial on mobile ethnography, presenting research on the future of payment systems and virtual currencies, and helping stage a large-scale participatory demo of augmented reality applied to personal photography. Generated product concepts, invention disclosures, and patents. Helped in formation of agenda-setting research themes tying together PaPR and other units of Intel Research. Supervised PhD candidates in internship projects on forms of mobility (separate projects looked at residential, urban, and vehicular mobility) and on online gaming culture and currencies in China, some resulting in publications at CHI.