Sean Kelly

Biography
Sean Uberoi Kelly is a Research Software Developer in the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research (MSR), in Redmond, Washington. He is currently the lead developer for Wallop, a social/communications application for sharing personal media within social networks. He was previously a developer in MSR’s Virtual Worlds Group, on immersive content and authoring tools, audio, and multi-user interfaces. He graduated from Princeton University in 1992 with a BA in English Literature and Visual Arts, afterwards working in architecture and design in New York City, and then as a songwriter, guitarist and producer for Atlantic Records in Los Angeles, where he specialized in production on emergent digital audio systems. In 1995 he attended the University of Vermont for Computer Science, before completing a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1998. Prior to MSR he worked extensively in immersive and projected real-time virtual environments with Jaron Lanier, as a web developer creating on-line university and educational community sites and user-generated knowledge databases, and in designing sensor-based interfaces to interactive displays. From 2000-2001 he was an adjunct professor at NYU/ITP, teaching a design and prototyping class entitled “The Multi-User Experience”.

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