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EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley
August 1999 – Present
Graduate Student, Computer Science
Relevant Courses Completed:
· CS 252 Graduate Computer Architecture
· CS 260 Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction
· CS 262 Advanced Topics in Operating Systems and Databases
· IS 247 Information Visualization and Presentation
· IS 271 Quantitative Research Methods for Usability Evaluation 

University of California at Berkeley
August 1996 – December 1998
B.A. Computer Science, College of Letters and Science
Highest Honors in Computer Science
Highest Distinction in General Scholarship
Overall GPA: 3.925
Member: Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Member: Golden Key National Honor Society
Member: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for the Computing Sciences)

Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
August 1994 – May 1996
Overall GPA: 3.957
Member: Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges)
 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
January 1999 – August 1999
Researcher Intern, Collaborative & Multimedia Systems
Assisted in the development and evaluation of the Microsoft Research Annotation System (MRAS).  Also the principal investigator in the design and evaluation of software for browsing and skimming digital video.
 

End-User Perceptions of Formal and Informal Representations of Web Sites
J. I. Hong, F. C. Li, J. Lin, J. A. Landay. In Extended Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 5, 2001, pp. 385-386.

ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending awareness to mobile users
John C. Tang, Nicole Yankelovich, James "Bo" Begole, Max Van Kleek, Francis Li, Janak Bhalodia. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2001, 2001. 3(1): pp 221-228.

Browsing Digital Video
Francis Li, Anoop Gupta, Elizabeth Sanocki, Li-wei He, Yong Rui. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000, 2000. 2(1): pp. 169-176.

A Framework for Asynchronous Collaboration Around Multimedia and its Application to On-Demand Training
David Bargeron, Anoop Gupta, Jonathan Grudin, Elizabeth Sanocki, Francis Li. In Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2001 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 10 pages.

NotePals: Lightweight Note Sharing by the Group, for the Group
Richard C. Davis, James A. Landay, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, Ben Schleimer, Morgan N. Price, and Bill N. Schilit.  In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 99, Pittsburg, PA, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 338 - 345.

NotePals: Sharing and Synchronizing Handwritten Notes with Multimedia Documents
James A. Landay, Richard C. Davis, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, and Ben Schleimer.  In Handheld CSCW Workshop, CSCW '98, Seattle, WA, November 14, 1998.
 

Programming Languages:
Proficient in Java, C, C++, Basic, HTML, JavaScript

Development Platforms:
Java (Swing/JFC, JMF, JNI), Microsoft Windows (Win32, MFC, COM/ActiveX)

Programming Tools:
Microsoft Developer Studio (Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual SourceSafe), GNU (emacs, gcc, g++, gdb), Symantec Visual Café, Borland JBuilder