I am a Senior UX Engineer at Kodiak Robotics in Silicon Valley, creating self-driving trucks.
I am passionate about inventing new interactive technologies that improve the users’ experience and empowers them with new and exciting capabilities. I am a full-stack interactive systems engineer and who invents interactive artifacts from electronics up to the UI software. I have a keen interest in applying AI and machine learning to create new interactive applications and experiences, by allowing machines to understand human gestures, activities, mental and physical states. As a Human-Computer Interaction researcher, I value the importance improving the usability and UX of new technologies through studying actual users. My work has resulted in multiple patents and has been published at top venues in the field.
Prior to joining Kodiak, I was member of the Future Experience Team at Harman International. Before that, I worked as a research scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL). During my Ph. D. studies, I worked as a research assistant at Media Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of Munich , Germany, where I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2012. From 2008–2011, I worked as a a junior researcher and Ph.D. student within the Quality and Usability Group at Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany. I interned at the Microsoft Applied Sciences Group in the summers of 2010 and 2011. I hold a Diplom degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.