Pardha S. Pyla
Research Interests
- Human-computer interaction
- Usability engineering
- Software engineering
- Multi-platform user interfaces
- Sustainability through design
- Development of interactive systems
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. My supervisor is Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones and I am currently managing an NSF-funded diversity initiative called Scholars of the Future. This program is aimed at encouraging undergraduate women and minorities in Computer Science to pursue graduate studies.
My dissertation research, which was directed by Dr. H. Rex Hartson, focused on creating a design representation framework for connecting the usability and software engineering life cycles. This framework provides a development infrastructure within which the usability engineering and software engineering lifecycles co-exist in cooperative and complementary roles. You can find more about this on the research and publication links.
One of my other key research areas is multi-platform user interfaces. I collaborate with Mr. Manas Tungare and Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones in this.
Apart from managing the Scholars of the Future program, I am currently preparing manuscripts from my research for publication and teaching the graduate-level CS/ISE5714 - Usability Engineering course.