Anjali Muralidhar – website N/A
MIT Media Lab, Digital Intuition / MEng (only one year)

Experience
As a M.Eng student who was course 6-2 here at MIT, I've completed coursework in programming/computer science as well as some electrical engineering topics. I am familiar with signal processing and filtering. I have also completed and was a lab assistant for Microcomputer Project Lab so I am very experienced with microcontroller programming. From my time at Bing over the last two summers, I have worked with designers, as well as made design iterations myself, on many user-facing features.

Why
I saw the presentations by the folks at the Tangible Interfaces group during Sponsor Week this past April and was intrigued by the concept of physical interfaces. I've spent two summers working in user experience at Bing, Microsoft's search engine and have become very familiar with traditional web/tablet/mobile interfaces but never considered that the future of HCI could be user interfaces on physical structures. I'm very interested in the notion that people could complete tasks using the objects around them, rather than having to carry around a tablet or phone to get the same job done on some graphical user interface. I plan to work in Product Management on UX features, so I think this class can give me a very good idea of the limitless possibilities of what a UI can do.

Art
Architecture
Craft/Fabrication
Design
DIY Electronics
Electrical Eng.
Mech. Eng.
Programming/CS

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