Tapan Parikh
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/
parikh [at] ischool.berkeley.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Computer Science & Engineering
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/
parikh [at] ischool.berkeley.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Computer Science & Engineering
Keywords: mobile computing, ICTD, microfinance, agriculture, healthcare
Tapan Parikh is an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with an affiliate appointment in UW's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Tapan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile computing and information systems for microfinance, smallholder agriculture and global health. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling with Honors from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Tapan was named Technology Review magazine's Humanitarian of the Year in 2007.
Projects:
Change
Publications:
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Brian DeRenzi,
Neal Lesh,
Tapan Parikh,
Clayton Sims,
Marc Mitchell,
Werner Maokola,
Mwajuma Chemba,
Yuna Hamisi,
David Schellenberg and
Gaetano Borriello.
e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries.
CHI 2008.