Niyati Roy Chowdhury

About Me

I'm a user experience designer, with former background in cognitive science and medicine. My passion lies in working with real users in real world environment. I have worked extensively with the extreme users (Neuroscientists and medical doctors) to understand their design needs and to come up with effective design solutions for their problems. My aim is to create useful design solutions for users by gathering user needs, through creating personas, storyboards and applying user centered design and grounded theory approaches

Curriculam Vitae

Education

Master in Human computer interaction
University of Paris sud/France

September 2014 - Current

Master in Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Trento/Italy

September 2011 - September 2013

Bachelors in homoeopathic medicine and surgery
University of Nashik/India

September 2003 - February 2009

Work

UX design research Intern
Inria-Saclay, France

My role in this project was to conduct field study interviews, gather user stories, create storyboard, categorize stories based on grounded theory approach, create low fidelity prototype, create software prototype and conduct evaluation. Project

February 2015 - Current

Research Assistant
Inria-Saclay, France

My role in this project was working closely with Neuroscientists to understand the current work practices and communicating the requirements with technical team.

April 2014 - September 2014

Freelance Medical Writer
Elance-oDesk

I worked as a freelance medical writer on Elance.com with various companies and academic researchers around the globe.

September 2013 - April 2014

Cognitive science research intern
Hospital of S. Maria del Carmine, Rovereto, Italy

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of the Auditory Pathways in Sensori-neural Hearing Loss. The result of this project was published in the neuroradiology journal, 27th congresso nazionale (AINR), Italy, September 2013, as a poster.

February 2013 - September 2014

Associate Co-ordinator
EAI - European Alliance for Innovation

My role as a junior team member of a publication house was to register authors for camera ready submissions in various conferences.

March 2011 - August 2011

General medical doctor
Jivdani medical trust

I worked as a chief medical doctor in a non-profit organization Jivdani medical trust. This charitable trust offers free treatment to the underprivileged patients. My role was to examine, diagnose and provide appropriate treatment to the patients. As a chief medical doctor I led a team of 2 nurses, 1 ward boy and one assistant.

February 2009 - January 2011