I am truly passionate in researching and prototyping innovative breakthrough experiences that inspire product groups. My interest is ranging from productivity applications, videoconferencing, to education. I have a very strong background in computer science and engineering (hardware and software), a lot of original ideas to create experiences that solve real-world problems, and a unique ability to combine technologies together and prototype very quickly. For example, I created 32 high impact prototypes between June 2006 - June 2007 at Microsoft among other things.
I joined Microsoft in the US in March 2000. I have worked for several groups at Microsoft including Microsoft Research on the ConferenceXP research platform project, Advanced Strategy Group on an incubation project for kids and education working with Chuck Thacker and Margaret Johnson. This project launched a new company named Sabi in early 2008 (http://www.sabigames.com/). I am now back at Microsoft Research working directly with Bill Buxton on user experience research.
I personally demonstrated part of my work to executives at Microsoft including Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Craig Mundie, Ray Ozzie, and many others.
I have a Ph.D. in parallel computing from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. I also have been working for 2 companies as a C.S. engineer in Switzerland prior joining Microsoft in the U.S. I won several awards including the prestigious LOGITECH prize for industrially-oriented innovative hardware/software senior project at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a runner-up prize from the Microsoft internal employees Tablet PC developer contest for an innovative fun Tablet PC application for kids.
More info will come soon… In the meantime, you can enjoy the demos below:
Here are some fun demos of experiences for kids:
- Experience I created of a robot acting out a story: low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Experience I created of a story programmatically acted out on a Surface with play set: low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Experience that I co-invented with the Natural Language Processing group that converts text to animation on-the-fly in order to motivate kids to learn how to write: low_res / high_res / downloadable
Animated fonts:
- Explanations: high_res / downloadable
- Demo: high_res / downloadable
Hardware project example:
- A M68040 ISA Board for PC: click_here!
Other demos:
- Text to animation conversion on-the-fly in the virtual and physical worlds: low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Story authoring on Surface with cards that contain words on it (actor, action, location): low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Collaborative tablet PC story creation tool for kids on ConferenceXP: low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Collaborative Visio application on ConferenceXP: low_res / high_res / downloadable
- Collaborative visual assessment tool application on ConferenceXP: low_res / high_res / downloadable
