The UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies has named School of Information assistant professor Tapan Parikh one of its junior faculty fellows for spring 2011.
The Junior Faculty Fellowship Program is designed to support junior faculty engaged in international research and teaching, and to foster open dialogue and academic exchange across various disciplines. The fellows also form a seminar group that meets bimonthly over lunch to discuss work in progress. Parikh joins eight other faculty fellows, from fields as diverse as music, rhetoric, ethnic studies, English, new media, and theater, dance, & performance studies.
Tapan Parikh is in his fourth year at the School of Information, where his research focuses on the use of computing to support sustainable economic development across the world. His interests include microfinance, agriculture, public health, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, and distributed information systems.
