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Hi there! I'm a Design Researcher at Microsoft. I study how Developers use Cloud platforms to deploy and manage their applications.  

About Me

I'm Taryn, I currently work on the Developer Division at Microsoft with a focus on Azure PaaS services. I leverage both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to better understand the strategic direction of our current cloud offerings.

I recently defended my PhD dissertation at the University' of Washington’s Department of Human Center Design and Engineering. My research focused on understanding how collaboration differs in various language editions of Wikipedia.

Previously, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science and a minor in Human Computer Interaction. 

I love to travel and hope to visit 30 countries before turning 30. The current list of countries visited: Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, Germany, France, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Iceland, Sweden, England, Scotland, Spain, Aruba and South Korea. I will soon be adding Amsterdam to the list!

Some Projects

 Publications

1. Bipat, T., Wilson, T., Starbird, K. (2019). It is Not All Fun and Games: Breaking News Consumption on Snapchat. HICSS '18.

2. Bipat, T., McDonald, D., Zachry, M. (2018). Do We All Talk Before We Type?: Understanding Collaboration in Wikipedia Language Editions. OpenSym '18.

3. Bipat, T., Bos, M., Vaish, R., Monroy-Hernandéz, A. (2019). Analyzing the Use of Camera Glasses in the Wild. CHI '19.

4. Turns, J., Bipat, T., Fojardo, M., Flores, Y., (2019) Designing and enacting weekly micro-reflection activities as a means of professional development of early career educators: Voices from the field. ASEE '19.

5. Roldan, W., Bipat, T., Carr, J., Davidson, A., Agapie, E., (2020) Coordinated Outreach Efforts: A reflective analysis of researchers scaling STEM outreach for pre-college students through partnerships. ASEE '20.

Posters

1. Bipat, T. (2017). The Use of Ephemeral Content on Snapchat during Emergent Events. Women's Computing Research Association Grad Cohort (Washington, D.C.)

2. Sobel, K., Bipat, T., Peil, B., Turns, J., Davidson, A., Kientz, J., Berry, A., Suh, H., (2018) Applying Human-Centered Design to a Course on Human-Centered Design. Teaching and Learning Symposium (Seattle, Washington)

3. Peil, B., Sobel, K., Turns, J., Davidson, A., Kientz, J., Bipat, T., Berry, A., Suh, H., (2018) Distinction: Emphasizing Mentoring Excellence and Creativity in Grading.Teaching and Learning Symposium (Seattle, Washington)

4. Bipat,T., Flores, Y., Fajardo, M., Turns, J. (2019) Exploring Micro-Reflection Activities: Possibilities and Insights. Teaching and Learning Symposium (Seattle, Washington)

5. Bipat, T., Davidson, D. V., Guadarrama, M., Li, N., Black, R., Marsden, D. W., & Zachry, M. (2019, November). How does Editor Interaction Help Build the Spanish Wikipedia?. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 156-160).

Position Paper

1. Bipat, T., Wilson, T. (2017). Live Stories: The Ethics of Researching Ephemeral Content During Emergent Events. CHI 2017 Workshop on Ethical Encounters in HCI

Organized Workshops

1. Bipat,T.,Fussell,S.,Hecht,B.,Kiene,C.,McDonald,D.W.,Zachry,M.2018.NavigatingtheChallenges of Multi-Site Research. Workshop at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2018 (CSCW 2018). Jersey City, New Jersey.