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UC Berkeley School of Information

102 South Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

yuri -at- sims.berkeley.edu

(650) 281-7360

Education

Doctoral student in Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley (2003 – currently)

• Concentration areas: knowledge in society, economics of innovation, information retrieval.
• Recipient of the Berkeley Fellowship (2003-2005).
• Expected completion time: May 2008.

M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University (1998-2000)

• Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.S. in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University (1994-2000)

• Interdisciplinary cognitive science program, concentration in computer-assisted language learning. GPA: 3.9/4.0 in major, Phi Beta Kappa

Research Interests

Primary focus: Transnational exchange of technical knowledge, local experience of globalization, local and transnational communities of practice, diffusion of innovation.

Other interests: Sociology of science and technology, science and technology policy, sociology of knowledge, micro-sociology, qualitative research methods, computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work, economics of innovation and development, open source software development.

Publications and Presentations

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Yuri Takhteyev (2007) "Persistent Technical Conversations: A View from the Periphery," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2007 (forthcoming).

Anita Wilhelm, Yuri Takhteyev, Risto Sarvas, Nancy Van House, and Marc Davis. (2004) "Photo Annotation on a Camera Phone," _Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). _Vienna, April 24-29, 2004.

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Yuri Takteyev (2007) "Jeeks: Developers at the Periphery of the Software World," he Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 10-17, 2007.

Yuri Takhteyev (2006) "Decaying into the Global: Construction, Decay and Re-configuration of Brazilian Computer Industry," Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2-4, 2006 (forthcoming)

Yuri Takhteyev (2006) "Online Journaling as a Federated Community of Practice," American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 11-14, 2006.

Yuri Takhteyev (2006) "Reading the Free Manual: Foreign Knowledge in the Work of Brazilian Software Developers," Informatics Goes Global, Bloomington, Indiana, March 3-5 2006.

Yuri Takhteyev (2006) "Web Search in the Work of Brazilian Software Developers," UCB/Kyoto Informatics Workshop, January 31, 2006.

Yuri Takhteyev and Joseph Hall (2005) "Blogging Together: Digital Expression in a Real-Life Community," Social Software in the Academy Workshop, Los Angeles, May 2005.

Book Chapters

Li Gong, Cliff Nass, Caroline Simard, and Yuri Takhteyev (2001). "When Non-Human Is Better Than Semi-human: Consistency in Speech Interfaces. Pp. 1558-1562 in M. J. Smith, G. Salvendy, D. Harris, & R. Koubek (Eds.), Usability evaluation and interface design: Cognitive engineering, intelligent agents, and virtual reality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Research Assistanships

Research Assistant, Computational Semantics Laboratory, Stanford CSLI (01/2000 - 04/2000, 09/1998 – 08/1999)

• Developed prototypes of for conversational interfaces combining speech recognition, dialog modeling, and natural-language parsing.

Summer Intern, FX Palo Alto Laboratory (06/1999 – 09/1999)

• Designed and carried out a pilot study of factors contributing to disfluencies in computer-directed human speech.

Research Assistant, Stanford Program in Science, Technology and Society (02/1999 – 06/1999)

Research Assistant, Stanford Psychology Department (09/1998-12/1998)

Teaching Experience

Social and Organizational Issues in Information, UC Berkeley (Spring 2005)

• Assisted Prof. Coye Cheshire with teaching an MS-level course on social aspects of information technology. Delivered two lectures on qualitative research methods as a part of the course and participated in exam design and grading.

Introduction to Computer Science, Stanford University (Fall 1999)

• Assisted with a core theory class for undergraduate CS majors.

Understanding Language, Stanford University (Summer 1998)

• Assisted Prof. Tom Wasow with an intensive undergraduate summer course in linguistics.

Structured Liberal Education, Stanford University (Spring 1997)

• Served as a writing tutor for an intensive freshman humanities course.

Industry Experience

Sr. Software Engineer / Team Lead, AOL Voice Services / Quack.com (07/2000 – 07/2003)

• Lead design and implementation of tools for development of speech systems
• Managed 5 engineers plus interns and a wide range of projects, desiged technical specifications and user interfaces
• Sample projects:
  • Speech design tool using advanced Java Swing, Xerxes XML parser, custom DOM wrappers, XSLT with Xalan
  • XML representation of speech UI for AOL's Voice Services Platform
  • 3-tier system for speech recognition analysis, using servlets and Java Swing UI
  • 5-tier system for performance analysis using Perl for collecting and parsing system logs, stored database procedures for calculation of statistics, and servlets for HTML front-end

Technical Skills

• Python, Java, Perl, C++ and other programming languages
• Object-oriented design, including design patterns and use cases
• Tiered systems including relational database design,web front-end (Python/PHP/Perl/ J2EE), XML technologies
• Information retrieval

Professional Membership

American Sociological Association

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

International Visual Sociology Association

Affiliations

Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (07/2005 – 12/2005)

KCL (Oy Keskuslaboratorio - Centrallaboratorium Ab), Espoo, Finland (06/2004 – 07/2004)

Conference Attendance

American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006 (presenter)

Informatics Goes Global, Bloomington, Indiana, March 2006 (presenter)

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2005

Social Software in the Academy Workshop, Los Angeles, May 2005 (presenter)

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, November 2004

International Visual Sociology Association, San Francisco, August 2004

Languages

Fluent English and Russian, advanced Portuguese, intermediate Japanese, basic Mandarin and Spanish.

References

Available upon request