June-Nov 2023: I conducted 8 participatory mapping workshops with community groups including non-profits, educators, urban planners, etc for my dissertation.
June 2023: I successfully passed my dissertation proposal!
Apr 2023: My Doctorial Consortium paper titled 'Mapping the Smart City: Participatory approaches to XAI' got accepted for publication in the 2023 DIS Designing Interactive Systems
Feb 2023: My short paper titled 'Making Smart Cities Explainable: What XAI Can Learn from the “Ghost Map”' got accepted for publication in the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Jun 2022: Presented a poster about my work 'Rethinking Safe Mobility: The Case of Safetipin in India' as part of the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development 2022 in Seattle, WA.
May 2022: Started working as a Research Intern for the Responsible and Inclusive Tech team at IBM.
Apr 2022: Successfully passed my qualifier exams! 😭 😭 😭
Apr 2022: Demo-ed Heart Sense at the 2022 ACCelerate Creativity + Innovation Festival in Washington DC.
Feb 2022: My short paper titled 'Rethinking Safe Mobility: The Case of Safetipin in India' got accepted in the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development 2022.
Feb 2022: Organized a workshop titled 'Unsettling Boundaries Through Data' as part of the Information + Conference 2021.
Aug 2021: Started working as a User Experience Research intern for the Google Ads Privacy and Safety team.
Jul 2021: Organized a workshop titled 'Monitoring Student Learning: Critically Examining the “Idealized” Case' at the 2021 Connected Learning Summit.
Jan 2021: Presented my paper titled 'Politics of Safety in India' at Georgia Tech's Career, Research, and Innovation Development Graduate Research Conference.
Dec 2020: Completed the first semester of my PhD!
Nov 2020: Gave an invited talk titled "Situating ‘data’ and ‘design’" to the design team at Sprinklr India.
Sep 2020: Presented a poster titled 'Elderly Care: From independence to interdependence' at Tapia 2020.
Aug 2020: Presented 'Concerns about the Promises of AI Tutors: A Mathia Case Study' at Society for Social Studies of Science 2020.
Aug 2020: Started Ph.D. in Digital Media at Georgia Tech under the advisement of Dr. Nassim Parvin.
May 2020: Graduated from the MS-HCI program at Georgia Tech. YAY! 🎓
Oct 2019: Presented 'Beyond Motivation and Memorization: Fostering Scientific Inquiry with Games as a poster at CHI PLAY’ 20.
Oct 2019: Attended Grace Hopper 2019 (funded by College of Computing, Georgia Tech).
Aug 2019: Started my 2nd year of MS-HCI at Georgia Tech.
Apr 2019: Presented a demo of “Psi and Delta.” in the In ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival 2019, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
May 2019: Joined Striim Inc. as a User Experience Design and Research Intern.
Aug 2018: Started my 1st year of MS-HCI at Georgia Tech.
May 2018: Graduated with a Bachelor's in Design degree from Indian Institite of Technology, Guwahati. 🎓