Welcome!
My name is Jeff Rzeszotarski (rez-oh-tar-ski, ɹ̠ˤʷɛzoʊtɑɹ’skiː), and I am a second year PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I am advised by Niki Kittur and am interested in supporting information seeking, enabling collaborative content generation, and reducing information overload using machine learning and visualization. I am also drawn to the psychological side of human computation, LGBT issues on the web, and behavior in music remixing communities online.
Before I arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, I was an undergraduate student at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. I majored in Computer Science, and worked with Dr. David Musicant and Dr. Amy Csizmar-Dalal. While there I fostered a continuing interest in East Asian art history, writing systems, and religion.
In my spare time I am an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, especially those with quality worldbuilding. I also collect animation cels and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. I enjoy baking bread, an art I learned from my father, and lately I have been learning to cook Sichuan, Indian, and Japanese food. When not listening to game music, I am making and printing 3D models in either plastic or metal. I host a blog (of dubious updated-ness), Skyosphere and keep a Flickr account.
You can find a recent copy of my CV here
Contact me at jeff [dot] rzeszotarski [@t] gmail.com