Research Engineer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Researcher at Yahoo!
- Past
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- Researcher at UC Berkeley
- Verification Engineer at Panasonic Wireless Design Center
- Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Research Intern at Ricoh Innovations Inc
- Education
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Madras
- Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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Rahul Nair’s Summary
Rahul Nair’s Specialties:
Location based services, mobile software, context-aware computing
Rahul Nair’s Experience
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Researcher
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
I am a researcher in the Early Stage Product group in Yahoo! Connected Life (Mobile). In general my work focuses on location, mobile and media with an emphasis on developing new methods to infer the content and context surrounding media.
From 2005-2008 I was a member of Yahoo! Research Berkeley and my public projects from that time include ZoneTag, Zurfer, TagMaps and FireEagle -
Researcher
UC Berkeley
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — May 2005 (2 months)
Worked with Prof. Marc Davis on conducting research into collecting metadata information from camera phone users. Responsibilities include technical feasibility studies, cell phone programming, UI design, user testing, data mining, etc…
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Verification Engineer
Panasonic Wireless Design Center
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
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Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Lead investigator with Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt to study task management strategies of knowledge workers. Responsibilities included protocol design, user research, iterative UI design, human subject testing and data analysis. Engineering tasks included writing window tracking software, using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to track activity in the Microsoft Office suite, instrumenting email clients to log activity and building adaptive software to detect task changes.
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Research Intern
Ricoh Innovations Inc
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)
Lead designer in creating a multi-user, collaborative book marking system to create augmented recordings of meetings and presentations for later review and/or quick skimming. Duties included background research, iterative design, building prototypes and final evaluation. Technologies used include SMIL, SVG and the Batik toolkit and were integrated using Visual Basic and Java.
Rahul Nair’s Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2002 — 2004
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University of Madras
B.E , Computer Science & Engineering , 1998 — 2002
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Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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Georgia Tech Alumni Association
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