Dhruv Jain — CV portfolio: dhruvjain.info/portfolio

Contact Research Assistant, MS in Media Arts and Sciences Information Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: [email protected]

Research Human Computer Interaction, Persuasive Computing, Design and Prototyping, Assistive Technology Interests

Education and MIT Media Lab Sep 2014 – Jun 2016 Professional Masters, Media Arts and Sciences Advisor: Chris Schmandt, GPA: 5.0/5.0 Experience University of Maryland, College Park May 2014 – Aug 2014 Research Internship Advisors: Jon Froehlich, Leah Findlater Indian Institute of Technology Delhi May 2013 – Apr 2014 Research Associate Advisors: M. Balakrishnan, P.V.M. Rao Microsoft Research India, Bangalore Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 Research Internship Advisors: Kalika Bali, Bill Thies, Ed Cutrell David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Delhi Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 Desk Research Advisor: Aaditeshwar Seth Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Jul 2009 – May 2013 B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering GPA: 9.231/10.0; Class Rank: 3/81 University of Wisconsin-Madison May 2012 – Aug 2012 Summer Internship Advisor: Vinay Ribeiro Stanford India Biodesign, AIIMS, Delhi Dec 2011 – Jan 2012 Visiting Researcher

Publications Dhruv Jain and Chris Schmandt, “JogCall: Persuasive System for Couples to Jog Together”, In and Poster Adjunct Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Persuasive Technology Presentations (PERSUASIVE), 2015.

Dhruv Jain, Leah Findlater, Jamie Gilkeson, Benjamin Holland, Ramani Duraiswami, Dmitry Zotkin, Christian Vogler and Jon Froehlich, “Head-Mounted Display Visualizations to Support Sound Awareness for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing”, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hu- man Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2015.

Dhruv Jain, “Pilot Evaluation of a Path-Guided Indoor Navigation System for Visually Impaired in a Public Museum”, In Poster Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS conference on Com- puters and accessibility (ASSETS), 2014.

Dhruv Jain, “Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired Using Minimal Building Retrofitting”, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and ac- cessibility (ASSETS), 2014.

Dhruv Jain, Akhil Jain, Rohan Paul, Akhila Komarika and M. Balakrishnan, “A path-guided audio based indoor navigation system for persons with visual impairment”, In Poster Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS), 2013.

Anshul Singhal, Pranay Jain, Piyush Chanana, Dhruv Jain, Rohan Paul, M. Balakrishnan and P.V.M. Rao, “Application of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) based actuation for refreshable display of braille”, In Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2013.

Dhruv Jain, Deeksha Gautam, Himanshu Gupta, Mayank Kumar, Vinay Ribeiro and Manish Sharma, “Whitespace networks for vehicular systems”, In Poster Proceedings of Communi- cation Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2013 Fifth International Conference on. IEEE, 2013.

Dhruv Jain, Prabhav Agrawal and 12 others, “Design and user study of an affordable cellphone based indoor navigation system for visually impaired”, In Proceedings of “Mobility and Trans- port for Elderly and Disabled People” (TRANSED), 2012. [Best Paper Award] Notable Grants MIT Council of Arts Grant, $4,000 Oct 2015 Project: Immersive Terrestrial Scuba Diving Using Virtual Reality

MIT Media Lab Adhoc Grant, $1,500 Aug 2015 Secured to organize an American Sign Language class at MIT

MIT Public Service Center Grant, $1,600 Jun 2015 Project: Wearable device to educate deaf people on object placements

Google Lime Scholar for the year 2015-16, $10,000 Mar 2015 Among the 12 students with disabilities in US selected for this annual scholarship

Samsung ‘University Relations’ Grant, $25,000 May 2014 Project: Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired

Awards and Best Vision for a Campus Initiative, MIT Honors Presented a vision and series of projects for making MIT more accessible iCampusPrize, cash prize of USD 3,500 Jul 2015

Best hardcore experimental project in the department, CSE, IIT Delhi Project: Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired Batch of Sixty-Seven Award, cash prize of INR 10,000 May 2013

Best implementable student project across all departments and disciplines, IIT Delhi Project: Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired Class of ’89 Innovation Award, cash prize of INR 200,000 Apr 2013

Best project in several nationwide competitions: Project: Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired • NRDC Budding Innovators Award 2013, Ministry of Research and Development, Govt. of India. • India Innovation Initiative(i3), organized by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Showcased in three premier national newspapers. Nov 2013 • 4th & 5th IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange (I-CARE) Oct 2012, 2013 • Quest Ingenium(i3), organized by Quest Global Inc.(Third prize) Jun 2013 • Technical festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Mar 2013

Among top 7% of all the undergraduate students, IIT Delhi IIT Delhi Merit Award 2010 All India Rank 1 IIT’s Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), physically disabled category 2009

Research PATH-GUIDED INDOOR NAVIGATION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED Projects (Supported by Samsung under ‘University Relations’ initiative) HCI, Embedded Systems, Design and Prototyping IIT Delhi; May 2011 – Jul 2014 Low-cost setup to help visually impaired individuals independently navigate from/to anywhere inside a building via step-by-step audio wayfinding messages from the mobile phone. (roshni.info) • Developed the entire system from scratch, installed in a university building for two years and field tested with 25 visually impaired individuals. • Ongoing work to deploy the complete system in a public museum - National Science Center, New Delhi which is visited by 500,000 people from all ages every year.

IMMERSIVE TERRESTRIAL SCUBA DIVING USING VIRTUAL REALITY (Supported by MIT Council of Arts Grant) HCI, Art, Engineering, Design MIT Media Lab; May 2015 – Present A virtual reality artistic harness that enables the user to immersively experience the ocean environ- ment in a convenient terrestrial setting. • Ideated, brainstormed and designed the whole experience machine consisting of a mechanical suspension mechanism and an audio-visual ocean simulation on a HMD. PERSUASIVE SYSTEM FOR COUPLES TO JOG TOGETHER HCI, Art, Engineering, Design MIT Media Lab; Oct 2014 – Apr 2015 An cooperative and aesthetic system consisting of a physical artifact in the form of a bird nest and a series of sensors deployed in home that persuade co-located couples to jog together. • Incepted and designed the whole system consisting of a physical art-piece, series of retrofitted sensors and mobile application, and deployed it in the Media Lab.

HEAD-MOUNTED SOUND AWARENESS FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING Human Computer Interaction UMCP; May 2014 – Sep 2014 Head-mounted display visualizations to support sound awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing. • Designed a set of sound visualizations on Google Glass which was evaluated with 24 participants. • Developed a working lab prototype which was tested with 4 participants.

WEARABLE DEVICE TO EDUCATE DEAF PEOPLE ON OBJECT PLACEMENTS HCI MIT Media Lab; Feb 2015 – Present A wearable wrist band which vibrates and emits light if an object is placed too hard on the table • Ideated, designed and implemented the device. Evaluated it with seven deaf and deaf-blind individuals so far.

KNEE ABOVE OBSTACLE DETECTION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Supported by Wellcome Trust, UK under ‘Affordable Healthcare in India’) Human Computer Interaction IIT Delhi; Nov 2012 – Apr 2014 An attachment for the white cane to detect obstacles above knee-height and support mobility. • Designed AB-type qualitative evaluation study for 100 users in 4 urban and 4 rural sites in India. • After a series of multi-centric trials, the product was launched worldwide in Mar 2014.

LOW-COST REFRESHABLE BRAILLE DISPLAY (Supported by Wellcome Trust, UK under ‘Affordable Healthcare in India’) Embedded Systems, HCI IIT Delhi; Aug 2012 – Apr 2014 A new lost-cost technology for refreshable array of braille cells. • Designed low-power, optimally sized PCBs to efficiently handle the interface between PC and the braille display. The result is a portable, power-efficient miniaturized pocket device.

BUS IDENTIFICATION AND BOARDING SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Supported by Government of India under ‘Technology Interventions for Disabled and Elderly’) HCI, Embedded Systems, Design and Prototyping IIT Delhi; Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 A system to convey route number of buses approaching a bus stop and after selection of the desired bus, provide auditory cues emanating from the entry of the bus to assist in boarding. • Improved the design and ergonomics of existing user modules incorporating the feedbacks from the initial study. Resultant module was tested on buses and received positive response from users.

WHITESPACE NETWORK FOR VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION Computer Networks IIT Delhi, UW-Madison; Jul 2011 – Dec 2012 Send video surveillance information collected from a network of city buses to a central location. • Designed the complete physical layout of the system and tested the MAC layer design on lab boards under varied environmental conditions. Published novel polling and handoff mechanisms.

HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING (Supported by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India) Embedded Systems, Bioinformatics, Parallel Programming IIT Delhi; Mar 2011 – April 2013 Explore FPGAs/GPUs to speed up DNA sequencing algorithms using hardware-software codesign. • Designed parallelized implementation of an efficient software algorithm on FPGA. • Designed and implemented the same algorithm on GPUs for a considerable speedup.

ROLE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS IN RESOLVING SOCIAL DILEMMAS Social Psychology IIT Delhi; Jun 2011 – Nov 2011 How an individual’s personality traits influences the decision making in case of social dilemmas? • Took up 6 common cases of societal dilemmas and conducted a survey with 150 people. SPEAKER’S DIRECTION FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING Embedded Systems, HCI, Signal Processing IIT Delhi; Aug 2012 – Nov 2012 Novel device to convey direction of speaker in a group to allow hard of hearing people to lip-read. • Implemented and successfully tested the miniaturized prototype in a classroom.

SPEECH PROSODY EVALUATOR FOR READING FLUENCY Linguistics, HCI, Software Engineering Microsoft Research India; Aug 2013 – Jan 2014 An application to evaluate speech prosody for school students having English as a second language • Researched and selected prosodic features of duration, pitch and intensity which were extracted from speech contour, emanating from student’s reading of a passage in real-time. • Selected the grade level reading passages and implemented the Desktop application.

Relevant Computer Science and Engineering: Courses High Level Design and Modeling Operating Systems Human Computer Interaction Analysis and Design of Algorithms Computer Networks Artificial Intelligence Electrical Engineering: Embedded Systems Design Laboratory Embedded Systems Digital Hardware Design Mechanical Engineering: Manufacturing Practices Graphics Sciences Computer Aided Design Humanities and Social Sciences: Psychological Basis of Behavior Personality and Society Science, Technology and Society Design and Manufacturing: How to Make (Almost) Anything Tangible Interfaces Design Across Scales

Selected Press Amphibian: Interactive virtual reality environment. Arts at MIT, MIT News Sep 2015 Coverage Vision for a more accessible MIT. Brandon Muramatsu, MIT News Jul 2015 Infrared guidance for the blind. Aviva Rutkin, Metro (UK) Oct 2014 Light beacons let map app talk to blind people. Aviva Rutkin, New Scientist Oct 2014 A seeing eye app for indoor use. Manu P Toms, Hindustan Times Jan 2014 Roshni - Indoor Navigation System... Pankaj Vashisht, Electronics for you Dec 2013 No dearth of avenues. Henna Rakheja, Deccan Herald Jul 2013 Winners of ‘QuEST Ingenium 2013’ announced. Garima Prasher, Times of India Jun 2013 Working to beat disability. Henna Rakheja, Deccan Herald Dec 2012 IIT’s invention: Blind will reach their destination without any help. Dainik Bhaskar Apr 2012 A taste of future with students of IIT Delhi. HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Apr 2012 IIT showcases camouflage tech, multiple-user screens. Naveed Iqbal, Indian Express Apr 2012 Father helped him with notes, he heard the call. Smriti Singh, Times of India May 2009 Disabled boy scores 95%. Staff Reporter, The Hindu May 2007 Overcoming odds to reach the top. Jaya Shroff/Sachin Saini, Hindustan Times May 2007

Selected Track Mentor, MIT Media Lab India initiative, Mumbai, India Jan 2014 Symposiums Advised a group of ∼30 students in the Living Mobile track aimed at using wearable and mobile devices to solve everyday life problems. Future aim of the initiative is to set up maker labs in India.

Convocation, IIT Delhi Nov 2013 Demonstrated the project- Indoor navigation system for visually impaired to the President of India Action for India (AFI) Jan 2013 Demonstrated the project to Mr. Sam Pitroda, former advisor to the Prime Minister of India and Mr. Desh Deshpande, Chairman of the US President’s National Advisory Council for innovation International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT’11) Dec 2011 Member of the organizing committee. Organized a FPGA design competition. Summer Camp on Information Retrieval and Web Search Jun 2011 Among 46 students selected from India to attend the camp organized by Yahoo Service MIT Scuba Club Oct 2014 – Present Projects Vice President and Webmaster (scuba.mit.edu) • Master Scuba Diver certification with over 50 dives. • Made the suppressed club active by designing a new website and organizing dives every weekend. • Organized local BBQ events.

MIT Assistive Technology Club Sep 2014 – Present As a co-director, I organized: (assistivetech.mit.edu) • Assistive Technology Hackathon, with over 100 participants from MIT. American Sign Language classes, terminating into a community ASL Club at MIT. • Vision for making MIT campus more accessible which won us the iCampusPrize, leading to a series of assistive technology projects in the campus.

Assistive Technology Group, IIT Delhi Jul 2011 – Present Active member and field study coordinator. (assistech.iitd.ac.in) Qualitatively interviewed over 100 people with disabilities so far.

National Social Service (NSS) As an active member: • Organized nature walks on Big Bird Day 2013 and otherwise 2013 with Prof. Surya Prakash, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. • Volunteered as a teacher for evening classes of slum children in Delhi Fall 2009 • Distributed blankets during winters to residence of slum areas in Delhi Spring 2010 • Organized blood donation camps at 3 places around Delhi 2010 – 2011

Teaching and Student mentor for MIT Media Lab freshmen Fall 2014 Mentoring Track Mentor for MIT Media Lab India Initiative Jan 2014 Experience Teaching Assistant for Digital Hardware Design, Prof. M. Balakrishnan Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant for Embedded Systems Design Laboratory, Prof. M. Balakrishnan Fall 2012 Student mentor for 11 Computer Science and Engineering freshmen 2011

Referees P. V. M. Rao Kalika Bali Professor Researcher Mechanical Engineering Technology for Emerging Markets Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Microsoft Research India [email protected] [email protected]

Chris Schmandt Jon Froehlich Principle Research Scientist Assistant Professor Director of Living Mobile Group Computer Science MIT Media Lab University of Maryland, College Park [email protected] [email protected]

Hiroshi Ishii Leah Findlater Professor Assistant Professor Director of Tangible Media Group College of Information Studies MIT Media Lab University of Maryland, College Park [email protected] [email protected]

Raja Kushalnagar Vinay Ribeiro Assistant Professor Associate Professor National Technical Institute for the Deaf Computer Science and Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi [email protected] [email protected]

Christian Vogler M. Balakrishnan Director Professor Technology Access Program Computer Science and Engineering Gallaudet University Indian Institute of Technology Delhi [email protected] [email protected]