I conceptualize, develop, and evaluate computational tools that support people in their creative ideation. Presently, I work at Audigent on large-scale data systems that deliver next-generation audience analytics, modeling, and curation solutions to our diverse partners in the AdTech space. Previously, in my Ph.D. research—co-advised by Dr. Andruid Kerne and Dr. Ruihong Huang—I investigated AI-based analytics to support design educators in assessing learners’ creative design work. In my master’s research, I investigated an interface to support people in browsing social media and developed creativity analytics to measure their exploratory browsing. In addition, over the years, I have worked on diverse computing projects across multiple industry organizations and national institutes.

Projects

Design Analysis
Design Analysis: A Human-Centered AI Investigation to Support Design Education

Methods: Participatory Design Workshops, Interviews, Grounded Theory Analysis ...
TweetBubble
TweetBubble: In-Context Expansion of Twitter @usernames, #hashtags

Methods: Questionnaires, Interaction Logging, Statistical Analysis ...
BigSemantics
BigSemantics: Software Architecture for Meta-Metadata Web Semantics

Methods: Questionnaires, Interaction Logging, Statistical Analysis ...
EvolutionWorks
EvolutionWorks: Interactive Exploration of Research Paper Interconnections

Methods: Interviews, Interaction Logging, Thematic Analysis ...
PhotoNav
Photo Nav: Pedestrian Navigation Assistance through Photographs

Methods: Questionnaires, Interaction Logging, Statistical Analysis
EventIndicators
Event Indicators: A Bootstrapping Approach for Event Detection in Social Media

Methods: Statistical Analysis

Publications

Patents:
Jain, A., Griffiths, M., Spiegelman, M., Peng, K., and Stein, D., Predictive Pop, Inc. d/b/a Audigent. Systems and Method for Simultaneous Relevance and Variety Control in Audience Targeting., U.S. Patent Application 18/406,156, filed Jan 7, 2024.
Subramanian, M., Bansal, R.K., Jain, A., Khandelwal, D., Agrawal, G., Solanki, N. and Thakur, P., Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, 2013. Display Device and Method for Presenting Information on Entities Displayed on Video Content., U.S. Patent Application 13/888,669, filed May 7, 2013.
Manuscripts:
Jain, A., Kerne, A., Fowler, H., Seo, J., Newman, G., Lupfer, N., Perrine, A. (2024). How Could AI Support Design Education? A Study Across Fields Fuels Situating Analytics, arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17390.
Jain, A., Kerne, A., Lupfer, N., Britain, G., Perrine, A., Choe, Y., Keyser, J., Huang, R., Seo, J., Sungkajun, A., Lightfoot, R., McGuire, T. (2024). Indexing Analytics to Instances: How Integrating a Dashboard can Support Design Education, arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05417.
Refereed Conference Papers:
Jain, A., Kerne, A., Lupfer, N., Britain, G., Perrine, A., Choe, Y., Keyser, J., Huang, R. Recognizing Creative Visual Design: Multiscale Design Characteristics in Free-Form Web Curation Documents, Proc. ACM DocEng 2021, 1-10 [33%]. Best Paper Nominee, Best Student Paper Nominee.
Kerne, A., Lupfer, N., Linder R., Qu, Y., Valdez, A., Jain, A., Keith, K., Carrasco, M., Vanegas, J., Billingsley, A. Strategies of Free-form Web Curation: Processes of Creative Engagement with Prior Work, Proc. ACM Creativity & Cognition 2017, 380-392 [29%].
Sharma, H.N., Toups, Z.O., Dolgov, I., Kerne, A., Jain, A. Evaluating Display Modalities Using a Mixed Reality Game, Proc. ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) 2016, 65-77 [29%].
Jain, A., Lupfer, N., Qu, Y., Linder, R., Kerne, A., Smith, S. M. Evaluating TweetBubble with Ideation Metrics of Exploratory Browsing, Proc. ACM Creativity and Cognition 2015, 178-187 [28%]. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
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Wilkins, J., Järvi, J., Jain, A., Kejriwal, G., Kerne, A., Kumar, V. EvolutionWorks: Towards Improved Visualization of Citation Networks, Proc. IFIP International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (INTERACT) 2015, 213-230 [29.9%].
Qu, Y., Kerne, A., Lupfer, N., Linder, R., Jain, A. Metadata Type System: Integrate Presentation, Data Models and Extraction to Enable Exploratory Browsing Interfaces, Proc. ACM Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) 2014, 107-116 [18%].
Fei, S., Webb, A.M., Kerne, A., Qu, Y., and Jain, A. Peripheral Array of Tangible NFC Tags: Positioning Portals for Embodied Trans-Surface Interaction, Proc. ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2013, 33-36 [29%].
Jain, A. and Singh, S. Modified Programming Language Framework for IVRS Accessibility of Graphical User Interfaces, Proc. IEEE Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media) 2011, 163-167 [34%].
Refereed Workshops and Extended Abstracts:
Britain, G., Jain, A., Lupfer, N., Kerne, A., Perrine, A., Seo, J., Sungkajun, A. Design is (A)live: An Environment Integrating Ideation and Assessment, Proc. ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work 2020, 1-8 [41.8%].
Jain, A. Measuring Creativity: Multi-Scale Visual and Conceptual Design Analysis, Proc. ACM Creativity & Cognition 2017, Graduate Student Symposium, 490-495.
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Jain, A., Kasiviswanathan, G., Huang, R. Towards Accurate Event Detection in Social Media: A Weakly Supervised Approach for Learning Implicit Event Indicators, Computational Linguistics (COLING) Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) 2016, 70-77.
Sharma, H.N., Toups, Z.O., Jain, A., Kerne, A. Designing to Split Attention in a Mixed Reality Game, Proc. ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) 2015, 691-696.
Fei, S., Kerne, A., Jain, A., Webb, A.M., and Qu, Y. Positioning portals with peripheral NFC tags to embody trans-surface interaction, Proc. ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2013, 317-320.

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