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Dr. Anirudha Joshi

Interaction Design Stream

IIT Bombay, India

Webpage: Anirudha Joshi (iitb.ac.in)

Bio: Anirudha Joshi is a professor in the interaction design stream at the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India. He works in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design. He teaches HCI and related topics at IIT Bombay and in academic institutions all over India. He was one of the first teachers to introduce usability and ethnographic user study methods in India. On Teacher's Day in 2016, he got an award for Excellence in Teaching from IIT Bombay. He is involved in designing interactive products for emergent users in developing economies, with a significant focus on Indian users. He has done user studies, interaction design, and usability evaluations for diverse domains including healthcare, literacy, Indian language text input, banking, education, industrial equipment, and FMCG packaging. His work has been for users in urban and rural India and on a variety of platforms including desktops, the web, mobile phones, ATMs, and custom hardware. He also works in the area of integrating HCI activities with software engineering processes. He has developed process models, tools, and metrics to help HCI practitioners deliver a better user experience.


Sophie Hendrikse

Researcher, Faculty of Behavioural and

Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Dr. Rodrigo da Rosa Righi

Dept. of Applied Computing, University of Rio

dos Sinos Valley - Universidade do Vale do Rio

dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil

Weblink: Rodrigo Righi – Softwarelab (unisinos.br)

Bio: Rodrigo da Rosa Righi is a Senior Member at IEEE and a Senior member at ACM, being also a professor and researcher at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. Today, he is the coordinator of the Applied Computing Graduate Program, Master and Ph.D., at this university. Rodrigo concluded his post-doctoral studies at KAIST - Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, under the following topics: IoT and cloud computing. He obtained his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is the coordinator of national and international projection in the topics of: resource management in distributed systems, fog and cloud computing, Industry 4,,.0 and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include performance analysis, predictive maintenance, event prediction and correlation, cloud and fog resource elasticity, and microservices to enable the next generation of mobile communication (5G).


Dr. Chintan Amrit

Department of Operations Management,

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Weblink: PeerJ - Profile - Chintan Amrit

Bio: Chintan Amrit is an Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Management, at the University of Amsterdam. He has completed his Ph.D. from the University of Twente in the area of Coordination in Software Development, having started it at RSM Erasmus University. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In the past, he has worked for three years as a software engineer. His research interests are in the area of business intelligence (using machine learning), open-source development, and mining software repositories. His work has been accepted in venues such as Journal of Information Technology, Decision Support Systems, Information, and Software Technology, International Journal of Production Research, Social Science Computer Review, Information Systems Management, Journal of Systems and Software, IT Professional, Journal of Software Evolution and Process, Environmental Modelling & Software among others. He serves as a coordinating editor of Information Systems Frontiers journal, an associate editor of PeerJ CS journal, and is a regular track chair at ECIS.


Dr. Irish Singh

Department of Computer Engineering

Ajou University, South Korea

Weblink: Welcome to the NiSE Research Group (machinediscovery.com)

Bio: Irish Singh is a researcher at Knowledge Intensive Software Engineering (NiSE) Lab and before that She did her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Engineering, from Ajou University, South Korea. Before that, she did a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, from the Birla Institute of Technology, India, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttar Pradesh State Technical University, India. Her research interests are Connected Minds, Adaptive Security, Cloud Networks, Blockchain Technology, Software Engineering, Requirement Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction.


Dr. Koumudi Patil

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,

IIT-Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Weblink: Koumudi Patil (iitk.ac.in)

Bio: Dr. Koumudi Patil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. She works in the area of interactive and inclusive design of pedagogies for school curriculum and the creative industry in the Indian developmental context.