1.Education:
Masters in Information Systems, NTU-Singapore, 2006 - 2008
2.Academic experience:
·Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering: Adjunct Asst. Prof, 2013-till now, contract
·NTU, Singapore: Research Assistant / PhD student, 2008 - 2013, full-time
·INTI College, Jakarta, Indonesia: Lecturer, Jan 2005 – Aug 2005, full-time
3.Non-academic experience:
·Karnataka Bank Limited: IT officer, Responsibilities include data management and staff training, 1995 - 2003, full-time
·National Informatics Centre: Programmer, Responsibilities include programming, data management, staff training, 1993 – 1995, full-time
4.Certifications or professional registrations - NIL
5.Current membership in professional organizations: ISTE
6.Honors and awards - NIL
7.Service activities (within and outside of the institution) :
·Involved in NBA/ABET accreditation works
·Usability consultancy projects for the department
·Mentoring students about higher studies
·Member of Department Advisory Board (DAB)
8.Publication in Last Five Years:
·Nettar, A., Chowdhari, N., Karanjia, R., Gadahad, P. R., & Deshmukh, S. (2017). Design and Development of a Location-Based Social Networking Mobile Application. InIFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction(pp. 344-347). Springer,
·Rao, P. (2016). Wired and Worried: Understanding Users’ Emotions while Web Searching for Health Information.Procedia Computer Science,84, 132-136.
·Rao, P. (2016). Web Affordances: Exploring their Influence on User Behavior. Paper presented at INDIA HCI 2016, IIT-Bombay.
·Gadahad, P. R., Theng, Y. L., Ching, J. S. S., & Pang, N. (2013). Web Searching for Health Information: An Observational Study to Explore Users’ Emotions. InInternational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction(pp. 181-188). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
9.Recent professional development activities:
·Attended 2 weeks FDP at IIT-B in June 2018
·Taken MOOC courses from Interaction-design.org, IIT-Education Technology