@FulbrightPrgrm Scholar. PhD @VT_CS. Assistant Professor @HabibUniversity. Mother of a funny, energetic 4 year old 🇵🇰 🇺🇸
Karachi, Pakistan
Joined October 2009
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What happens when research participants become collaborators? Introducing my #CSCW2022 paper intimate narratives, which uses an assets-based approach to develop holistic perspectives of student mothers’ lives and their use of technology in parenting
medium.com/acm-cscw/intimate…
I'll present our #CSCW2022 paper @#ParentingAndFamilies session tomorrow & next week on the following timings:
-Friday(11th) 7am Taiwan time.
-Wednesday(16th) 7pm Taiwan time
Happy to answer questions at Gathertown/Discord. Linking the presentation here : lnkd.in/diiYtvGR
In another paper, through a participatory assets-based approach, researchers support collaborators to reflect & describe intimate details, highlighting specific use-contexts of technology in their lives as parents of young children. medium.com/acm-cscw/intimate…
The collective wisdom of this paper comes from @DrSaarunya @sandrannadi1 @AmarachiMbakwe, who constantly inspired me with their stories of resilience, my PhD advisors @mccricks & Aisling, & the best consequence I've faced so far by 'replying-all' on an email thread,@gautamaakash
On a personal level,this work helped me define my vulnerabilities, & to discover my strengths emerging from amalgamation of my intersecting identities.Shoutout also to @AcademicChatter #phdlife #phdchat @Momademia & @mothersinsci,which aided our search of potential collaborators
Safe to say I would’ve loved working with her as an advisor. Please apply or share :)
I will be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2023 @UMichEducation. If you are or know of someone interested in research that bridges learning sciences, child development, and human-centered AI, please get in touch with me! Below is a thread about my projects—
I feel extremely honored & humbled to be invited as one of the three outstanding graduate student speakers @ @virginia_tech Spring 2022 graduate commencement ceremony. In my speech, I got to express my gratitude 4 people & entities who helped me during my PhD journey
Includes: my awesome husband @haisum, amazing advisor @mccricks, wonderful friend @kotut, @FulbrightPrgrm and the mothers in academia including (but not limited to) @Momademia, @mothersinsci, @PhDMumLife
Link to the speech (a bit out of sync): lnkd.in/gjznVguS
I came back from #CHI2022 on Tuesday and have not tested positive 4 Covid. But I have very positive feelings any the experience itself. The most prominent one is of gratitude for the opportunity to meet friends & researchers I look up to, making me realize why I love what I do. – at Blacksburg, VA
Highlights of this experience would be taking a course + conversing with @JanetRead, talking shop with @cfiesler, & brief encounters with
@nehakumar & @juliekientz, some of the researchers and folks I secretly fangirled after starting my PhD.
Also grateful for the opportunity to attend, participate in the conference with my friends/lab mates and ever-supportive advisor @mccricks. Tweeting this to document my first (?!) and probably last in-person conference experience as a PhD student :)
Neelma Bhatti retweeted
Also, on a day-to-day basis as a software engineer or a computer scientist, you must constantly interact with people. Both jobs are *extremely* social. If you think CS is about objects and not people, I don't think I'd want to work with you
Neelma Bhatti retweeted
Another thing that bothers me about the whole "girls don't like CS because they prefer people over objects" bullshit is that CS is very strongly about people, just the more people-focused areas of CS are devalued, despite them being the areas of highest societal consequence
Didn’t get to eat Sheer Khurma this Eid, but here’s a bunch of us representing Muslims @ #CHI2022nola – at New Orleans, LA
I’ll be attending #CHI2022 in New Orleans with the generous funding support provided by Gary Marsden Travel Award & @FulbrightPrgrm. It’s going to be my first in-person conference attendance as a PhD student. Looking forward to meeting all the awesome HCI researchers & scholars:) – at Blacksburg, VA
My short interview published by @HokiesAbroad during Women’s history month – at Blacksburg, VA
Read about Fulbright scholar Neelma Bhatti's story and her experience as she navigated becoming a new mother while simultaneously pursuing an advanced academic degree in computer science. globaleducation.vt.edu/Fulbr…
