Sr. Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Sr. Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory
- Past
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- Visiting Scientist at GMD-IPSI
- Visiting Scientist at GMD-IPSI
- Intern at IBM integrated Systems Solutions Corp.
- Intern at IBM Myers Corners Lab
- Systems analyst at UCLA OAC
- Systems Engineer at Kaiser Electronics
- Education
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- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Santa Monica High School, SAMOHI
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Gene Golovchinsky’s Summary
Researcher with expertise in user interface design and interaction design related to information seeking, annotation, and pen-based user interfaces. Interested in building systems that address the practical needs of real people.
Currently, I am a group leader for the Usable Smart Environments group, where we take a human-centered approach to ubiquitous computing. The group's research portfolio includes conference room software, activity tracking for elder-care applications, and white board applications, among others.
I am also involved in a Collaborative Exploratory Search project.
In the past, was a project leader and lead architect of a usable conference room system. System controls a variety of devices and applications to support users' tasks in conference rooms. I have also worked on collaborative data collection systems, web services platforms for mobile computing, distributed annotation systems, and freeform digital ink annotation for tablet computers. I implemented a pen-based document reader for an In-Q-Tel contract, and designed a client-server annotation storage architecture prototype in use in Fuji Xerox's DocuWorks/ArcSuite product.
Gene Golovchinsky’s Specialties:
User interface design, pen-based computing, information seeking, hypertext. Web services architecture for document processing, mobile information access, computer-supported collaboration and meeting environments.
Gene Golovchinsky’s Experience
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Sr. Research Scientist
FX Palo Alto Laboratory
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Responsible for all phases of software design from inspiration to architecture to coding to empirical evaluation. Results published in scientific conference proceedings and in refereed journals.
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Visiting Scientist
GMD-IPSI
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1994 — November 1994 (7 months)
Visiting scientist position and the German National Computer Science Research Institute (GMD-IPSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. Member of team that designed a automated graphical visualization tool for semi-structured data.
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Visiting Scientist
GMD-IPSI
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1993 — August 1993 (6 months)
Visiting scientist position and the German National Computer Science Research Institute (GMD-IPSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. Designed a collaborative drawing tool, supervised the re-design of an object-oriented hypertext system.
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Intern
IBM integrated Systems Solutions Corp.
(Public Company; IBM; Computer Software industry)
May 1992 — August 1992 (4 months)
Designed a data analysis component for an interactive meeting support system offered as a service by ISSC.
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Intern
IBM Myers Corners Lab
(Public Company; IBM; Computer Software industry)
August 1990 — August 1991 (1 year 1 month)
Designed a direct-manipulation interface for mainframe system operators; member of Human Factors group.
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Systems analyst
UCLA OAC
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1989 — June 1990 (10 months)
Designed and built end-user software, performed end-user consulting
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Systems Engineer
Kaiser Electronics
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
June 1987 — July 1989 (2 years 2 months)
Responsible for coordination between electronics and optics groups; analysis of optical systems for liquid crystal shutter displays; design of test equipment.
Gene Golovchinsky’s Education
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University of Toronto
PhD , Human Factors , September 1993 — August 1996
PhD Thesis: From Information Retrieval to Hypertext and Back Again: The Role of Interaction in the Information Exploration Interface
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University of Toronto
MS , Human Factors , September 1991 — February 1993
Master's thesis: Queries-R-Links: Query-based Browsing in a Full-Text Retrieval System
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University of California, Los Angeles
BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1983 — 1987
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Santa Monica High School, SAMOHI
1981 — 1983
Additional Information
Gene Golovchinsky’s Websites:
Gene Golovchinsky’s Interests:
software user interface design, photography, politics, history, performance driving
Gene Golovchinsky’s Groups:
ACM, SIGIR, SIGCHI, BMW CCA, BMW CCA Golden Gate Chapter, oebf
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UCLA Alumni -
BayCHI -
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Interaction Design Association -
University of Toronto Alumni (5,000+) -
The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group -
ACM SIGCHI -
ACM sigWeb -
Xerox Extended -
Friends of France -
BMW owners (worldwide) -
Information Science and LIS -
Prototype Community -
Smalltalk -
UCLA Electrical Engineering Alumni -
Digital Libraries -
Search Technology Addicts -
The Parents' Club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park (PAMP) -
ACM SIGIR -
University of Toronto Bay Area Alumni Group -
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In-Q-Tel Alumni -
Bay Area Google Wave Developers Meetup Group -
IEEE - Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
Gene Golovchinsky’s Honors:
Hold 17 patents.
(with co-authors) won Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2008 conference.
(with co-authors) won Honorable Mention for Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2001 conference.
Gene Golovchinsky’s Contact Settings
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