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Tarun Gangwani shared this9/10 people this week who reached out with interest in the roles I posted committed basic errors that immediately disqualified them. 1) Just connecting with no note - I’m ignoring these because I don’t have context on the connection. 2) Connecting to just say you are interested - Cool! If I don’t know you, then this isn’t good enough. Tell me something inspiring you worked on. Or tell me about something you’ve built recently. 3) Sending me a generic message - I don’t care to read your slop (I see enough of that on the internet anyway, unfortunately). Let’s see something human! Make it a good first impression. I’d be your future manager, after all? There’s a ton more. The good news is the bar is apparently really low to get noticed. It’s just high to actually get to the next phase.Tarun Gangwani shared this5 out of 6 rejections I was given 2 weeks ago were about the portfolio, as an object, not about the candidate specifically, or their work. I honestly can’t believe this is still happening. “Wasn’t functional” - broken links, overly complicated AI features that serve no need “Difficult to navigate” - had cute, unnecessarily complex navigation “Didn’t show visual hierarchy” - home page had disjointed elements and cards “Didn’t demonstrate design taste or technical ability” - Very common. Unstructured, conflicting elements and colours “Attention to detail was lacking” - spacing, alignment, spelling, inconsistent typography I then need to relay this type of feedback to candidates. I'm torn. On one side I understand why this feedback warrants a rejection, as basic housekeeping, and on the other side I understand this wasn't work related, which is what really matters. At times we seem to forget: - The home page isn’t the evidence - Designers try different things to show personality I'm doing my best to provide a checklist to candidates to spend 30 minutes giving their portfolio a once-over. JI
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Tarun Gangwani posted thisI'm hiring a product manager (senior towards principal) level and a UX designer (senior towards principal level) to join Automattic and VIP. Reach out if you'd like to hear more about the role!
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisI vibe coded a Mac OS App that normally costs money using 10% of my Astra usage in a few hours. Some thoughts about what this means for people in tech and PMs: 1. Maintaining personal, native apps will become normal: It is more fun and rewarding to spin up a small personal app to solve a specific use case. The Mac and iPhone App Stores are flooded with these small, single-use apps that charge a few bucks here and there, and these will get entirely wiped out by GPT. The only remaining blocker is a $99/year Apple Developer subscription, which I wouldn't be surprised if it disappeared in the next year. 2. "Taste" is developed with years of making things AND getting feedback: Most of the apps I'd build will replace apps that took years to make, but they won't replace the creator's intuitions that lead them to their initial design. If I keep making things, I also need to share things with others so that I can build up that same intuition. So, new PMs or designers should be CONSTANTLY making and sharing things. 3. You can now "blitz" system design: Because it is so easy to make simple apps, the real opportunity is to make more complex apps with sample connectors and great developer interfaces so that it becomes part of a person's system. As I think about the next app I'll build, I'm also going to be thinking about its extensibility and scalability from day one, rather than day ninety.
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisIf you are a new UX designer, SpaceXAI's recent blog post on designing Grok Bot is the standard for a portfolio piece in 2026. What's been frustrating about the current design discourse is the subject of "taste", but I think this blog is the first one that actually has "flavor" any designer would appreciate: 1) Shows breadth and depth: the subject matter - The Grok Bot experience - is vast and can cover a lot of ground. The post dips in and out of aspects of the experience that highlight where design really matters - why the face design is a perfect metaphor for presence and progress, for example. 2) Flow - There is a lot of text content, but the images create rhythm in the post that makes it feel tight and focused. The images themselves have different interaction patterns that encourage people to click - try exploring the in-line chat widgets box on screen. 3) A point of view - There are intentional decisions pointed out - like how they went with bots vs. jobs or how bots talk to each other. Some of the decisions are not making one at all, whereas other decisions go deep and provide research driven context. Notably they didn't say something like "we surveyed 100s of people and had this sampling..." no reader cares. They want to know the insights instead. 4) Next-level craft: You can tell that the motion and visual design aspects took a long time. Try playing with the bot animations to see the wide range of emotions that it seems to have... and it's just a blob! I could go on and on and gush over it, but you should just check out the post yourself. I'll link it in the comments.
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisCrazy finding in a recent survey of tech workers: not a single person recommended new folks start a career in the role they are in.Tarun Gangwani shared thisMy biggest takeaways from Noam Segal, on the results of our large-scale survey of tech workers in 2026: 1. The #1 fear in tech right now is not losing your job to AI—it’s being squeezed to do more work for the same pay. When asked to identify their biggest concerns with AI, “losing my job to AI” ranked near the bottom of the survey results. What people are actually worried about is being squeezed: having to do more for the same pay, and watching the quality of their work slip. AI raised the bar for output, and the reward was...more work for the same pay. 2. Manager effectiveness is the biggest lever for employee well-being. Workers with highly effective managers report roughly 65% higher job enjoyment and dramatically lower burnout. The problem is that only 25% of respondents rated their manager as highly effective (and 36% rated their manager as ineffective). This finding has held consistent across both years of the survey. The squeeze employees are feeling is something managers are best positioned to protect against. 3. Most people in tech wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today. Using an NPS-style question (scale of 0–10), not a single function scored above zero when asked if they’d recommend their career path to others. Founders came closest to neutral; designers and researchers scored worst. 4. AI is splitting the tech workforce in half. When asked how AI has shifted their professional identity, 50% of respondents said they feel amplified—more capable, more productive, more excited about their future. The other half feel their role is being redefined (27%), that they’re feeling destabilized (14%), or that they’ve been diminished (5%). Which category you’re in correlates with your career optimism, burnout, and layoff worry—an effect about three times as large as the next-biggest factor (manager effectiveness). 5. Burnout surged 10 points in a single year, while optimism fell 6 points. Shipping faster is burning people out. More prototypes, more PRDs, more agents, more output. As the report puts it, “the speed AI unlocked got plowed straight back into expectations.” The one glimmer: job enjoyment held roughly steady year-over-year. Many people are burned out and still having fun. As @nikhyl put it, many people are in a state of "smiling exhaustion." 6. Quality of people's work is suffering. 97.2% of respondents said AI is making them better at their job; close to 50% said “very much” or “extremely” better. But when asked what “better” actually means, the answer consistently came back as “more, faster”—not higher-quality work. Even more concerning: people reported a phenomenon Noam calls “cognitive rot.” They see the AI’s initial output, accept it without applying their judgment, and gradually let their own critical thinking atrophy.
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisGreat place to work! Let me know if I may refer you:Tarun Gangwani shared thisI've never seen a May like this at DataGrail. Over 2x the revenue of any previous year. 📈 We're solving the privacy and AI challenges that every company is facing right now. New customers are joining us faster than ever. If you're a CS leader who wants to own adoption, develop a team, and be at the center of one of the fastest moving categories, this is the role. Apply today: https://lnkd.in/gKr6Dpe9
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisContent is the new oil. AI is rewriting how we experience the internet, and content strategy is now at the center of every executive's mind. Businesses need to think about how content serves humans and agents, making it easy for internal creators to develop content for both audiences simultaneously. Salesforce, as it continues to lead into customer experience, is staking that content will be the critical differentiator brands develop to create competitive advantage. The acquisition signals the potential for the exciting future of content management, and the space is now wide open for innovation. Exciting times!Tarun Gangwani shared thisI’m thrilled to share that Contentful has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce. Once the deal closes, joining forces with Salesforce will accelerate our mission of enabling modern enterprises to dynamically assemble and deliver rich digital experiences across every channel. Our API-first architecture and deep domain expertise will enhance Salesforce’s Headless 360 with a native, enterprise-grade content layer that connects customer data with engaging content experiences across Salesforce’s leading applications. Together, we’ll redefine how brands interact with customers by giving Agentforce the content layer it needs to make every interaction truly engaging. As we begin this journey, Contentful customers remain our top priority. We’re fully committed to delivering the same level of innovation, flexibility, and enterprise-grade support customers have come to expect from our team. You can read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gx39bfmT I’m deeply grateful for the customers, partners and employees who have helped make Contentful the company it is today. I’m incredibly proud of everything we’ve accomplished so far, and very excited for this monumental next step in our journey together.
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Tarun Gangwani shared thisThis article is worth your time if you want to be a card carrying PM for the next decade in the AI-era.Tarun Gangwani shared thisIn the last year I must have read 100+ hot takes on how AI changes the role of product - and been invited to almost as many VC dinners to discuss the same. It feels like all of them miss the crucial point: AI has shifted how the best PMs get leverage from managing, back to actually doing. The question then is not do you have the latest tools - its do you have the product culture to make good use of them?
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisThirty years ago, I headed to California, where a bunch of us were trying to figure out what this thing called the World Wide Web might become. Since then the list of what I’ve done is too long, the one constant was change. My longest chapter was at IBM, where I had the opportunity to define my own practice and help shape what a career in design could look like. Most recently, H-E-B, where I learned what it truly meant to be in service. I always found time to teach, at ArtCenter and the University of Texas at Austin, guiding folks to navigate uncertainty at the center of a design practice. Looking back, the most meaningful part of my career isn't any particular product, organization, or accomplishment. It's the people. The relationships, the difficult conversations, and the ideas that became something bigger because we made them together. The most important person I found at work is my husband, Adam. My biggest champion, my most challenging design partner, and the love of my life. His is the voice that steadies me in my most uncertain moments. We just celebrated our 18th anniversary. It just happens to be the porcelain anniversary and seems so fitting. So much of what I've built and who I've become has been shaped by what we've figured out together. Design is about more than solving problems. It's about asking better questions and creating the conditions for something new to emerge. That belief has followed me into the ceramic studio. I’ve maintained an art practice alongside my professional life. Always making…my work has always been about the conversations between objects and the things that cannot be named. How we explore growth, change, accumulation, and the traces we leave behind. Lately, I've found I can't stop thinking about this. Now I’ve decided to give this part of my life the space and attention it deserves. I don't know exactly what this next chapter will look like. But sure as shit, there will be more making, experimenting, and undoubtedly a good deal of uncertainty. After a career spent helping people find their way through complexity, there's something fitting about embracing a little of my own. To the many people I've had the opportunity to work with, learn from, mentor, and be mentored by over these 32 years: thank you. You've shaped how I see the world, and that will always be part of what I make next. Here's to remaining curious, making things together, and seeing what emerges. #growthstories be nice about my baby website: https://jodicutler.com oh and be sure to follow me on the gram @jmcpots
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisFutureNet North America kicks off next week in New York City. Catch Droma (formerly Grokstream) COO Josh Kindiger and CMO Payal Kindiger on day 1, Nov. 4 at 2:30 PM ET, as they present “Trusted Autonomous Network Operations: From AI to Outcomes.” They’ll dig into how role-based agents can investigate, decide, and act across network operations, and what it takes to build trust in that autonomy. You can find us there on both days for a live look at how the Droma L1/L2 Agent correlates alarms and investigates network events in real time. The one thing we want every attendee to walk away with: autonomous operations isn't a future-state roadmap item. Teams are running it in production today. #FutureNet #CSP #NetworkOperations #AgenticAI
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisMy time at Radical AI so far has been nothing short of amazing. I'm surrounded by incredibly smart people who are tackling some of the toughest problems in the industry. I'm convinced we're building one of the world's most important companies. A few problems we’re solving: 1. Teaching our agent to interpret multimodal data like electron microscope images, X-ray diffraction patterns and live camera feeds from the lab. 2. Combining physics simulations, machine learning and decades of published research with real lab data to decide what to make next. 3. Building a product that's powerful enough for our brilliant in-house scientists and still feels easy to use. It can switch between running autonomously and letting scientists steer part or all of a campaign. Much harder than it sounds! And many many more! If this excites you, reach out to me ASAP. We're hiring and we move fast. These are the roles I'm hiring for: Software Engineer, Agent Platform: https://lnkd.in/eiW3V8PW Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/eazMUSEU Software Engineer, Product: https://lnkd.in/eKGA-vBz
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisMy biggest takeaways from Rob Snyder, the author of The Power of Pull: 1. Solving a pain point isn’t enough to get people to buy your product. 2. Rob’s "PULL" framework identifies four conditions that drive a buying decision. 3. Design partners are a trap. 4. The right cold outreach message needs to be interesting, not persuasive. 5. Pull belongs to a specific person, not to a company. 6. The signal of real pull in a meeting isn’t just enthusiasm—it’s someone asking how to move forward. 7. Run the first sales call like a detective, not a pitcher. 8. When a call goes lukewarm, throw the Hail Mary. 9. Rob calls "The Case Study Factory" his most important idea. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gVnBkKtC
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisAIOps promised to cut through the noise. For most IT teams, it still stops at the alert. Can it actually deliver self-healing IT? At the IDC CIO Summit in Toronto, Droma CEO Casey Kindiger will take on that question in “From Alerts to Autonomy: Can AIOps Deliver Self-Healing IT?” He’ll explore what it takes to move from AI that flags problems to AI that’s trusted to investigate and resolve them, and where CIOs should start. 📅 Thursday, November 19 | 1:40 PM ET 📍 IDC CIO Summit Toronto, Delta Hotels You won't want to miss this session. See the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gtxZrzpy #IDCCIOSummit #CIO #AIOps #AgenticAI #ITOperations
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisCalifornia's privacy regulator is preparing to put in writing what its enforcement actions have been saying for years: honor the opt-out signal before the tracker fires. At its August 2026 meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) Board held an informational session on opt-out preference signals and voted unanimously to begin formal rulemaking. Based on the staff materials and published summaries, the coming regulations are expected to: • Expressly name Global Privacy Control (GPC) in the regulations. • Add examples clarifying that opt-outs apply across devices and to pseudonymous profiles (such as an advertising ID linked to a browser or device). • Require businesses to honor GPC before cookies or trackers that enable selling or sharing fire. • Replace the current 10 million consumer threshold for publishing opt-out metrics with a standard tied to significant risk to consumer privacy or security. At the same meeting, a representative of the California Attorney General's office reportedly identified three enforcement priorities: accepting GPC, verifying that technical implementation actually works, and applying opt-outs at the consumer level rather than device by device. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 1. Tag sequencing becomes a regulatory requirement. If trackers fire in the milliseconds before your site processes a GPC signal, that timing gap could become an explicit violation. 2. Identity graphs cut both ways. If you can recognize a consumer across devices for advertising, regulators expect you to honor their opt-out across those same devices. 3. Timing aligns with AB 566. Starting January 1, 2027, browsers must offer a built-in opt-out preference signal in California. Signal volume is about to rise sharply. 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄—𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹: • Test whether your site detects GPC on page load and suppresses sale/sharing tags before they fire. • Confirm server-side and Conversions API calls also respect the signal. • Map how opt-outs propagate across logged-in accounts, devices, and linked profiles. • Document your testing so you can demonstrate compliance. Businesses that operate in multiple states should note that California's approach tends to influence other regulators, particularly members of the Consortium of Privacy Regulators. A California rule on signal timing and cross-device application is likely to shape expectations elsewhere. The formal proposal and comment period are still ahead. But the direction is clear, and the enforcement priorities are already in effect. https://lnkd.in/ejpzamFK #GPC #CCPA #CalPrivacy #OptOut #PrivacyComplianceOpt-out Preference Signals (OOPS)Rulemaking RecommendationsOpt-out Preference Signals (OOPS)Rulemaking Recommendations
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Tarun Gangwani reacted on thisTarun Gangwani reacted on thisMy dearest cat passed away today. A lot of you have seen her in meetings or webinars. If you could message me a memory that you have of her, I would really really appreciate it 💔
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisSave the date, New York. 🗽 Our next dev/ai/nyc is a week away, and we're opening the doors of our NoHo Space for a conversation about AI out in the real world. On Wednesday, October 28, we're joined by Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare and now CEO of Hopscotch Labs, in conversation with Jeff Smith, our Head of Product, AI. Dennis is building BeeBot, which uses AI to tell you about the things around you as you walk through a city. He and Jeff will dig into the product and technical decisions behind it, where AI works in physical spaces and where it falls short, and what he's learned going from Foursquare to building with AI today. On the agenda: 🍎 A real talk on shipping AI that lives outside the screen 🍎 Live audience Q&A 🍎 Drinks, small bites, and time to swap notes with the people building the open web Event details: 🗽 Automattic NoHo Space 🗽 Wednesday, October 28 🗽 Doors @ 5:30 PM ET 🗽 Fireside chat @ 6:00 PM ET It's free to attend, but these evenings tend to reach capacity so make sure to grab your ticket! 🎟 Save your spot: https://luma.com/sjnwdzsw
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Tarun Gangwani liked thisTarun Gangwani liked thisWe're honored to share that Droma (formerly Grokstream) has been named a finalist in not one, but two categories at the 2026 Fierce Network Innovation Awards 🏆 ✅ Autonomous Network Operations ✅ 2026 Innovation of the Year This recognition belongs to our team, who work every day to make networks run smarter, faster and with less manual effort, and to the customers and partners who build alongside us. Winners will be announced live at Broadband Nation Expo on November 19. Fingers crossed! 🤞 Congratulations to all of this year's finalists, and thank you to Fierce Network for the recognition. #FierceInnovationAwards #AutonomousNetworks #Telecom #NetworkOperations #Innovation
Experience & Education
Publications
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Output Interference in Recognition Memory
Psychological Science and Review.
Theories of why humans forget have been challenged by the newly discovered list-length/output-interference paradox, in which—under certain testing conditions—learning is not harmed by the amount of verbal material studied, whereas retrieval of that material becomes more difficult with increases in the number of items tested. The latter finding is known as output interference, and the results of the experiment reported here indicate that a release from output interference is obtained when the…
Theories of why humans forget have been challenged by the newly discovered list-length/output-interference paradox, in which—under certain testing conditions—learning is not harmed by the amount of verbal material studied, whereas retrieval of that material becomes more difficult with increases in the number of items tested. The latter finding is known as output interference, and the results of the experiment reported here indicate that a release from output interference is obtained when the nature of the items is changed during testing. Specifically, when participants are asked to recognize items from two categories, output interference is minimized when items from each category are tested separately in large blocks. This finding supports models of forgetting that assume interference arises from information about the to-be-learned material that is stored in memory; in contrast, this finding is difficult to explain using models that assume forgetting is the result only of changing context.
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Simultaneous Cross-Situational Learning of Category and Object Names
Proceedings of the 31st Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Previous research shows that people can acquire an impressive number of word-referent pairs after viewing a series of ambiguous trials by accumulating co-occurrence statistics (e.g., Yu & Smith, 2007). The present study extends the cross-situational word learning paradigm, which has primarily been used to investigate the acquisition of 1-to-1 word-referent mappings, and shows that humans can concurrently acquire both 1-to-1 and 1-to-many mappings (i.e., a category relation), even when the many…
Previous research shows that people can acquire an impressive number of word-referent pairs after viewing a series of ambiguous trials by accumulating co-occurrence statistics (e.g., Yu & Smith, 2007). The present study extends the cross-situational word learning paradigm, which has primarily been used to investigate the acquisition of 1-to-1 word-referent mappings, and shows that humans can concurrently acquire both 1-to-1 and 1-to-many mappings (i.e., a category relation), even when the many referents of a single word have no unifying perceptual features. Thus, humans demonstrate an impressive ability to simultaneously apprehend hierarchical regularities in their environment.
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Simultaneous Noun and Category Learning via Cross-Situational Statistics
iCogSci: Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science
Projects
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Weekly Download (Podcast)
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Honors & Awards
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College Luminary
Indiana University
The Luminaries Program connects current College of Arts and Sciences students with prominent College alumni. In their role as Luminaries, these alumni guide current students along personal and professional pathways, preparing the next generation of leaders for their lives after college. Each February, the Luminaries Program Council — a governing body of nine students — selects individuals from the College's 150,000 living alumni to serve as Luminaries in the fall.
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20 Under 40
Indiana University -- College of Arts and Sciences
https://magazine.college.indiana.edu/issues/fall-2017/articles/20-under-40.html
Member of the inaugural Indiana University "20 Under 40." Per the website: "We’re proud of our alumni and the impact that they’re having on the world. And make no mistake: That impact stretches far and wide. Our alumni are today’s innovators. Leaders. Risk-takers. Our graduates believe that they can change the world — and they often do. The College of Arts and Sciences is honored to announce our first-ever…https://magazine.college.indiana.edu/issues/fall-2017/articles/20-under-40.html
Member of the inaugural Indiana University "20 Under 40." Per the website: "We’re proud of our alumni and the impact that they’re having on the world. And make no mistake: That impact stretches far and wide. Our alumni are today’s innovators. Leaders. Risk-takers. Our graduates believe that they can change the world — and they often do. The College of Arts and Sciences is honored to announce our first-ever “20 Under 40” list." -
Best Tech Startup
Tech In Motion TIMMY Awards
http://grokstream.com/2017/09/22/grok-receives-2017-timmy-award-for-tech-startup-of-the-year/
The Timmy Awards by Tech in Motion is an awards ceremony recognizing the best places for tech professionals to work. Finalists for the award are subject to public voting and professional judges, determining the winners of this achievement across all major tech centers. Grok was recognized in Orange County as Best Tech Startup as it employs innovative thinkers, possesses a great work environment,…http://grokstream.com/2017/09/22/grok-receives-2017-timmy-award-for-tech-startup-of-the-year/
The Timmy Awards by Tech in Motion is an awards ceremony recognizing the best places for tech professionals to work. Finalists for the award are subject to public voting and professional judges, determining the winners of this achievement across all major tech centers. Grok was recognized in Orange County as Best Tech Startup as it employs innovative thinkers, possesses a great work environment, and produces an innovative product that aims to disrupt the market. -
Honorable Mention, 2016 Startup of the Year
Consumer Technology Association & Tech.Co
https://tech.co/shearshare-startup-of-the-year-innovate-celebrate-2016-09
Grok received an honorable mention, placing us in the top tier of startups amongst 50 finalists competing for Tech.Co's Startup of the Year Award. Grok was one of the only cloud services finalists selected from over 1000 applicants. Additionally, we received special recognition from a Top 5 accelerator in attendance, which included an invitation to join an upcoming cohort. -
Forbes 30 Under 30 2016
Forbes Magazine
https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-2016/enterprise-tech/#221d9a1a3466
From an initial screening list of more than 15,000 of the best of the best, the 600 women and men featured in the Forbes fifth annual 30 Under 30 are America’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and brightest stars. Name a business sector, social issue or essential institution, they are taking it on and changing the rules of the game– or creating entirely new playbooks. -
Outstanding Contribution
Indiana University
This award is given to one student in the cognitive science program each year who has exhibited extraordinary contribution to the program and the university, including advancing new research, running large events, and providing unparalleled support to students and staff.
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Outstanding Research
Indiana University
This award is given to one student in the cognitive science program each year who has contributed an impressive research acumen for the school year. Recipients have often published several papers or articles during this time, which represents an above and beyond commitment to the program and their studies at the school.
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Technology Center Consulting MVP
Indiana University IT Services (UITS)
This award is given to one member of the Technology Consulting Center staff at Indiana University IT Services (UITS) for their outstanding work effort during a calendar year. Recipients show utmost dedication to student success in IT, a commitment to their peers in the organization, and outstanding contribution to their work.
Organizations
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Bloomington Interaction Design Association (IXDA)
Co-Organizer
-Revitalized the Bloomington IXDA chapter to establish a professional community of interaction designers in Southern Indiana. Used social presence and meetup tools to guide meetings. Spoke at developer, designer, and other interest groups to gather membership and educate others on UX design.
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Student Services Advisory Group
Advisor
-Appointed to a task force to provide leadership and influence for online education initiatives at Indiana University. Meets three times a year with faculty, students and staff all across the state and serves as a forum to discuss issues related to admissions, billing, marketing, design, and the overall distance education experience.
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Indiana User Experience Professionals
Member
-The UPA (now UXPA, 2012) was established in 1991 and continues to be the organization of choice for usability professionals worldwide. The UXPA holds a yearly international conference, publishes new findings through both the Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) and through User Experience Magazine, and has 50 chapters around the world. In 2004, the UPA established World Usability Day, which in 2009 was celebrated in over 40 countries.
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Student Organization for Cognitive Science
MUCSC Conference Chair
-Chief organizer and chair of the 3rd Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference (MUCSC). Responsibilities included: Establishing a visual identity for future conferences; Designing and building the conference website; Corresponding and recruiting speakers, presenters and attendees; Coordinating a marketing campaign via Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr; Planning the event schedule and activities for conference attendees; Overseeing the day’s activities
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