CV

Course Instructor

University of Toronto

• Taught design methods course ‘Understanding Users’ to senior undergraduate students.
• Conceptualized new modules and assignments to critically analyze the role of AI in UX research and practice.
• Organized a guest lecture from a senior design strategist at Wells Fargo.

Lead Experience Designer & Developer

Microsoft Research

• Developed a WhatsApp-based chat platform for low-literate rural communities for citizen journalism.
• Iteratively designed interaction flows balancing user needs, resource constraints, and fieldworkers’ workflows.
• Full-stack development involving legacy server, website, content moderation interface, APIs, and database.
• Implemented custom features to submit, share, and filter audio-, video-, and image-based journalism posts.
• Successful adoption with 1000+ reports from users; continued usage at partner NGO.

HCD Researcher

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana, USA

• Surveyed 200+ participants online to investigate privacy aspects of smartphone notifications.
• Conducted mixed-method analysis (non-parametric statistical tests, thematic analysis, visualizations).
• Published paper and recommended design features in smartphone UIs to prevent privacy violations.

Software Developer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

• Designed and deployed solutions for the flagship organization-wide logging and monitoring agent to enhance observability and security in cloud infrastructure.
• Developed open-source logging output plugin to support Debian OS.

PhD Candidate

University of Toronto

• Technical AI Safety Fellow at University of Toronto, held at Trajectory Labs (Spring 2026)

M.Sc. (Hons.) Economics & B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

• 1 of 10 fellows at Global Talent Attraction Program (GTAP), Indiana University Bloomington, USA 2020
• Special Auditing Student at Hiroshima University, Japan under Sakura Science Exchange Program 2019

Beyond Interaction toward Cooperation and Commoning

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26) Companion

When AI Democratizes Exploitation: LLM-Assisted Strategic Manipulation of Fair Rent Division Algorithms

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action

17 Years of Fintech for Financial Inclusion: A Systematic Review and Critical Value Analysis

ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

Maintenance, Cooperation, and Sustainability: Unpacking the Data Practices of Housing Cooperatives

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Designing Social and Collaborative Fintech: Insights from a Housing Cooperative

CHI 2025 Workshop

Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion

Digital Futures Symposium, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Exploring Privacy Aspects of Smartphone Notifications

ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI)

Demo: A WhatsApp Bot for Citizen Journalism in Rural India

ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) Graduate Fellow

Inclusive Excellence Research Grant, Faculty of Information

Sustainable Development Goals@UofT Student Award

School of Cities Graduate Research Fellowship

Munk School of Public Policy, Graduate Student Awards

Talent Bursary, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) to present at Upper Bound Conference.