Amazon USA [Oct'11 - Current]
Software Development Engineer, Digital Videogames Team

HP Labs India [Jun'11 - Sept'11]
Research Intern, Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab, Advisor: Dr. Sriganesh Madhvanath
Developed and evaluated various distal pointing techniques to interact with large displays using phones.

Microsoft Research India [Feb'11 - May'11]
Research Intern, Technology for Emerging Markets, Advisor: Aishwarya Ratan, Dr. Ed Cutrell
Compared low-cost approaches like digital slate, cell phone, etc. for digitizing health data at the source of collection, to shorten the data recording time and maintain high quality records, in rural India.

University of Toronto [Sep'09 - Jan'11]
Graduate Research Assistant, Advisor: Dr. Ravin Balakrishnan
Developed and evaluated novel eyes-free interaction techniques for handheld devices, and technologies for supplementing collaborative education in resource-constrained regions.

Microsoft Research India [May'10 - Aug'10]
Visiting Researcher, Technology for Emerging Markets, Advisor: Dr. Ed Cutrell
Conducted field-study of the game-based mobile collaborative education systems, in two rural Indian schools. Our exploration considered the types of interaction that occur, and the impact on learning outcomes.

Greenbelt Foundation [Sep'09 - Dec'09]
Interface Designer
Designed user interface of Fresh Food Finder for greenbeltfresh.ca, based on interviews, user studies and heuristic evaluation. Greenbelt Fresh connects the farmers with consumers and bulk purchasers.

University of California Berkeley [Jun'07 - July'07]
Software Developer and Researcher, Advisors: Dr. Joyojeet Pal, Udai Pawar Singh and Sukumar Anikar
Worked in an interdisciplinary collaborative project between UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research India and Azim Premji Foundation. The project involved integrating multiple mice in the Flash-based multimedia educational content, used for educating primary school children, with an aim to provide active and collaborative learning.

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Shiksh Sansthan [Jun'06 - July'06]
ICT Researcher
Explored ICT applications to improve the condition of rural sector. A period of 6 weeks was spent in villages, and several projects were taken up, including working as a teacher in Dr. B.R.Ambedkar High School, Sudamdih, and helping in the smooth functioning of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Free Computer Education Training Center, Phoos Bangla.

• Jain, M. and Balakrishnan, R. User Learning and Performance with Bezel Menus. CHI 2012, ACM Press, pp. 2221-2230. [23% acceptance rate] [paper]
• Exploring display techniques for mobile collaborative learning in developing regions

  Mohit Jain, Jeremy Birnholtz, Edward Cutrell, Ravin Balakrishnan
  MobileHCI '11 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2011, pp. 81-90. [22.8% acceptance rate]
• Gupta, A., Shekhar, P., Samdaria, N., Jain, M. and Pal, J. DISHA: Multiple Mice in Narrative Content-based Computer Aided Learning for Children. Interaction Design for International Development (IDID), 2010, Bombay, India. [paper, video]
• Lal, S., Jain, M. and Chaplot, V. Approaches to Formal Verification of Security Protocols. IMY-CRSI National Workshop on Cryptology, 2009, Surat, India. [paper]
• Pal, J., Pawar, U.S., Joshi, A., Jain, M., Thota, S.G., Teja, S. and Anikar, S. From Pilot to Practice: Creating Multiple-Input Multimedia Content for Real-World Deployment. Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (IUI4DR), 2008, Canary Islands, Spain. [paper]

• Madhvanath, S. and Jain, M. Hybrid Methods for Distal Pointing using Mobile Devices. [Pending]

• Jain, M., Gupta, A., Samdaria, N., Shekhar, P. and Pal, J. DISHA: DISease and Health Awareness for Children on Multiple Input Devices. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), 2009, Doha, Qatar. [paper, video]

• Jain, M., Lal, S. and Mathuria, A. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Micropayment: A Survey and Critical Analysis. DA-IICT (2008), Gandhinagar, India. [paper]
• Jain, M., Lal, S., Swain, S., Teja, S. and Thota, S.G. gSeek: An Autonomous Information Cataloguing Service. TechMarket '08, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. [paper]
• Jain, M. and Amin, A. Time table algorithm. DA-IICT (2009), Gandhinagar, India.

• DISHA: DISease and Health Awareness, won the MultiPoint Education Award in Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 World Finals, Egypt
• DISHA: DISease and Health Awareness, secured 3rd position in Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 National Finals (Software Design Competition)
• gSeek: An Autonomous Information Cataloguing Service, secured 1st position in TechMarket '08, Technical Paper Presentation Contest at DA-IICT
• Gujarat Informatics Limited Portal, secured 1st position in IBM INVITE, 2007 Competition

• University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship 2009-10 and 2010-11
• Wolfond Fellowship 2009 of CA$5600
• ICTD2009 travel grant of US$600, free registration and accommodation

• Selected to attend the Microsoft Research India Summer School 2010 on Computing for Socio-Economic Development
• Awarded the Bronze Medal for securing 3rd  rank in a class of 240 students at DA-IICT
• Selected to attend the Microsoft Research India Summer School 2009 on Networking
• Secured 2nd position in QuizKrieg '08 - the intra DA-IICT Quizzing competition
• Coordinator of the Cultural Event, Proscenium (The Dramatics Event), at Synapse '08 - the techno-cultural festival of DA-IICT
• Section Editor of Tachyon (The Technical Section) for the campus Magazine - Entelechy '2006-07
• Coordinator of the Technical Event, Explore, at Synapse '07
• Secured an All India Rank of 8078 (Top 2% of the country) in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) '05
• School Topper in Std X (AISSE) and second topper in Std XII (AISSCE) Board Exams with 89.4% and 90.6% aggregate
• Secured 1st position in class in all the terminal examinations in school, from Std I to Std X

• CSC428/CSC2514: Human Computer Interaction (University of Toronto, Fall '10)
• CSC343: Introduction to Databases (Univesity of Toronto, Spring '10)
• CSC369: Operating Systems (University of Toronto, Fall '09)
• IT215: Systems Software (DA-IICT, Spring '09)
• IT205: Data Structures and Algorithms (DA-IICT, Fall '08)

• First Author, MobileHCI 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
• Student Volunteer, CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia
• First Author, ICTD 2009, Doha, Qatar

Effect of Phrase Set on Indic Text Entry
Advisor: Dr. Khai N. Truong
Proposed and evaluated the effect of different phrase sets on Devanagari text entry.

Bezel-based Interaction
Advisor: Dr. Ravin Balakrishnan
Developed and evaluated an eyes-free interaction technique, exploiting the bezel space.

Mobile-based Collaborative Learning
Advisors: Dr. Ravin Balakrishnan, Dr. Jeremy Birnholtz and Dr. Ed Cutrell
Explored different mobile-based approaches, for supplementing ESL (English as a Secondary Language) education using collaborative game-play in developing regions.

DISHA: DISease and Health Awareness
Advisor: Dr. Joyojeet Pal
DISHA is a collaborative platform for public health information for children in resource-constrained regions using multiple mice. DISHA uses a narrative-interactive loop format of story-telling followed by multiple choice Q&A enforcing collaboration, competition and turn taking as machine-induced interactive modules.

VillageMap
Advisors: Dr. Joyojeet Pal and Dr. Rabin Patra
VillageMap system combines the power of interactive data visualization toolkits with the power of online social networking to create a participatory civic platform, empowering citizens to enforce government accountability. We developed an interactive visualization of NREGA data, including the ability to annotate data and express concerns.

Is the attack valid? A tool for detecting erroneous attacks
Advisor: Dr. Anish Mathuria
Proposed a novel formal approach to detect false attacks on security protocols found by the protocol checker, Scyther. A tool, SPAA (Security Protocols Attack Analyzer), was developed to automate the validation approach.

DA-IICT TimeTable Problem
Advisor: Dr. Ashok Amin
Developed an algorithm to construct the DA-IICT timetable, using graph theory concepts. The algorithm is being implemented to design the DA-IICT timetable for Spring '09.

Content Based Image Retrieval
Advisor: Dr. M. V. Joshi
Designed a robust CBIR system which can extract images from large databases using distinguishing features such as color, texture and shape.

INIT: An Interview Transcription Tool
Advisor: Dr. Khai N. Truong
Developed a functional prototype of an interview transcription tool, INIT, on the basis of results obtained from formative user studies, low-fidelity design and heuristic evaluation.

(INDIE)MMT - Independent Music Mobile TempoStand
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Shukla
Developed a dynamic mobile site for TempoStand (m.tempostand.com), to promote Independent Music. Any user can download song demos to their mobile phones and comment/rate songs, artists and events. Administrator can add event, accept songs and send notifications.

Gujarat Informatics Limited (GIL) Portal
Advisor: Dr. Prabhat Ranjan
The project aimed at keeping track of all the information related to GIL, partners and activities using four modules: GIL website, Industry-Institute Linkage Program, Vendor Information System, and Training and Event Management System.