Starting September 2008, I am an assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

Before joining Rutgers, I was a research scientist and team lead at Yahoo!. Some of our prototypes are still available publicly: check out ZoneTag, Zurfer and TagMaps. I am also one of the co-inventors of Fire Eagle, currently a Yahoo! Brickhouse project.

I got my PhD from the Computer Science department at Stanford University. I did my PhD research as part of the Stanford InfoLab (formerly known as the Database Group). At Stanford, I was also affiliated with the HCI group. In previous lives, I was a professional basketball player, a software engineer, and a college radio DJ.

For rants and raves from Ayman and myself on different topics, should you care, check out the Ayman and Naaman show.

Follow the links above to my (somewhat up to date) research and publication list, a demo of my old PhotoCompas system and other work-related links, some of my personal photos (although most of them are on Flickr), and a random list of stuff that I like.