
My work about designing web based data analytics tools for sensemaking lies at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Data Analytics, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). I reduce cognitive-social-technical challenges for data analytics by leveraging a combination of Natural Language Processing, Handhelds, Wearables, and Crowds
I invented Sensemaking Translucence, a design metaphor used to overcome the cognitive challenge of biased decision-making through implicit visualization of decision-process artifacts, deployed in REFLECTIVA

At Cornell, I was advised by excellent Prof. Sue Fussell (Information Science), Prof. Dan Cosley (Computer Science/Information Science) and Prof. Lee Humphreys (Communication/Information Science). I have done research at Google, Bloomberg, Yahoo Labs, HP Labs and ABN AMRO Bank. I have been involved in teaching


- Awards:
Spot Bonus at Google, USA August, 2017
Peer Bonus during internship at Google August, 2016
The Robert Mozia Graduate Student Of The Year Award by Cornell May, 2016
Selected as Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum with Turing and other Awardees April, 2016
Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 5%) for REFLECTIVA, negative impact of biases at CSCW 2016 February, 2016
Received Grant for Students and Early Stage Researchers from Developing Countries at INTERACT 2015 September, 2015
Awarded for Teaching Information Science/Computer Science 2300: Intermediate Web Design & Programming May, 2015
Awarded the Graduate Student of the Year at Cornell May, 2015
Awarded Cornell MEng Computer Science Project Award for my research project implemented by Sarah Alabdullatif and Karthic Ashokan May, 2015
Selected as a Colman Leadership Program Fellow January, 2015
Awarded Travel Grant to US Ignite Summit in Chicago June 13, 2013
ICTD 2010 work about designing for immigrant children in developed world nominated to ITID Journal (Top 1%) June 11, 2011
Awarded Travel Grant by UN to present at ACM/IEEE ICTD 2010 in London December 1, 2010
Awarded German Government Grant Funding for Master's Thesis Research at University of California, Berkeley August, 2009
Awarded First RWTH Aachen Research Brand Ambassador to US/Canada 2009-10 July, 2009
Top 1% at National Mathematics Olympiad, India June, 2001
National Champion at Extempore Competetion, India June, 1996
- News:
- Work about Measuring User Engagement on mobile web pages, while at Yahoo! Labs accepted at JASIST January, 2018
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair, and Organizing Committee for CHI 2018 September, 2017
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair for CSCW 2018 August, 2017
- Work about intelligent interruption management using GSR presented at PACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2017 June, 2017
- Invited to Schloss Dagstuhl for VR/AR/IoT Seminar January, 2017
- We are organizing ECSCW 2017 Workshop - Social Matching Meets Big Social Data Science January, 2017
- Webmaster & on Program Committee for CHI 2017 October, 2016
- Am at Google for the summer. It is mostly qualitative research about self-empowerment, and a bit about pride ! June, 2016
- Work about designing location-aware mobile devices, RAMPARTS accepted at CHI 2016 December, 2015
- Doctoral Consortium at AAAI HCOMP 2015 September, 2015
- Selected for the Doctoral Consortium at 15th IFIP TC.13 INTERACT 2015 May, 2015
- Head TA-ing INFO/CS 2300. Using "learning@scale" to create avenues for peer-to-peer learning & manage workload for instructors March, 2015
- Founded and President for Out in Stem - oSTEM@Cornell Since October, 2014
- Head TA for a very popular course, INFO/CS 1300 Intro to Web Design with Prof. Dan CosleySeptember, 2014
- Interned at Yahoo Labs, London, UK with excellent Dr./Prof. Mounia Lalmas August, 2014
- Loved my trip to CHI 2014 in Toronto, Canada where I presented our work in collaborative sensemaking and Student Volunteered. PS: I was voted for the "Social Butterfly SV" Award!!! June 1, 2014
- Loved my trip to CSCW 2014 in Baltimore, MD where I had execllent conversations with great folks interested in collective sensemaking. March 1, 2014
- Head TA for a very popular course, INFO/CS 2300 Intermediate Web DesignJan 15, 2014
- With all this talk about JFK assassination & deliberate lack of sharing between agencies, we are building upon solo sensemaking from CHI 2013 , into collaborative sensemaking at CHI 2014. Accepted.Dec 10, 2013
- Got back from the amazing CHI 2013 where I presented our approach to evaluating complex sensemaking and analysis toolsMay 8, 2013
- TA-ing INFO4400 (Advanced HCI Design) with Prof. Gilly LeshedMay 6, 2013
- Student Rep for Faculty Hiring at Information Science and am excited about the great bunch of folks joining us later this year! May 4, 2013
- Demo-ed our work on collaborative information analytics, SAVANT at CSCW 2013 Feb 24, 2013
- This website was incepted! Jan 27, 2013