Francis Li
EDUCATION Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Masters in Interaction Design, 2003

University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Computer Science, College of Engineering, 2001

University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Computer Science, College of Letters and Science, 1998
Highest Honors in Computer Science
Highest Distinction in General Scholarship
Member: Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Member: Golden Key National Honor Society
Member: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for the Computing Sciences)

Santa Rosa Junior College
Member: Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges)
EXPERIENCE Tiny Pictures, San Francisco, CA
February 2008 – Present
Vice President of Product Design and Development Responsible for the user experience design and development of Radar across its supported platforms. Assisting in business strategy and partner engagement.

February 2007 – February 2008
Director of Mobile
Responsible for the interaction design and software architecture of the Radar client application for mobile phones. Assisted in user experience design and business strategy development for the overall Radar service offering.

January 2006 – January 2007
Senior Mobile Developer
Responsible for the interaction design, software architecture, implementation, and porting of the Radar client application for mobile phones. Assisted in server-side design and development of the Radar mobile web site and service architecture.

Glu Mobile, Mountain View, CA
December 2003 – December 2005
Software Engineer
Lead developer of Java 2 Micro Edition games and information service client applications, contributer to concept development and user interface design, prototyping, and evaluation.

MetaDesign AG, Berlin, Germany
July 2002 – September 2002
Intern, IconMobile Solutions
Assisted in the prototyping and development of new services for mobile phones and wireless networks, including designing for the i-Mode platform and location-based network, next generation handsets, and the Java 2 Micro Edition application platform.

Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA
May 2000 – August 2000
Researcher Intern, Network Communities Group
Assisted in the design and development of Awarenex, a system that provides awareness information for initiating communication between users of mobile and desktop computing and communication devices.

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
January 1999 – August 1999
Researcher Intern, Collaborative & Multimedia Systems Group
Assisted in the development and evaluation of the Microsoft Research Annotation System (MRAS). Also the principal investigator in the design and evaluation of software for browsing and skimming digital video.
PUBLICATIONS Supporting Collaborative Teams in Engineering Education
Francis C. Li, James A. Landay, Anthony D. Joseph. In Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

End-User Perceptions of Formal and Informal Representations of Web Sites
Jason I. Hong, Francis C. Li, James Lin, James A. Landay. In Extended Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 5, 2001, pp. 385-386.

ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending awareness to mobile users
John C. Tang, Nicole Yankelovich, James "Bo" Begole, Max Van Kleek, Francis Li, Janak Bhalodia. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2001, 2001. 3(1): pp 221-228.

Browsing Digital Video
Francis Li, Anoop Gupta, Elizabeth Sanocki, Li-wei He, Yong Rui. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000, 2000. 2(1): pp. 169-176.

A Framework for Asynchronous Collaboration Around Multimedia and its Application to On-Demand Training
David Bargeron, Anoop Gupta, Jonathan Grudin, Elizabeth Sanocki, Francis Li. In Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2001 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 10 pages.

NotePals: Lightweight Note Sharing by the Group, for the Group
Richard C. Davis, James A. Landay, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, Ben Schleimer, Morgan N. Price, and Bill N. Schilit. In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 99, Pittsburg, PA, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 338 - 345.

NotePals: Sharing and Synchronizing Handwritten Notes with Multimedia Documents
James A. Landay, Richard C. Davis, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, and Ben Schleimer. In Handheld CSCW Workshop, CSCW '98, Seattle, WA, November 14, 1998.