Indian Classical Dance · Philosophy of Language
Can codified dance perform speech acts? Commentary on Margolis, Bannerman, and Austin, and Kathak.
Product · UX · Product
Designing a social discovery layer for Zomato — personalized restaurant recommendations through trusted networks.
Technology & Society
On how social hierarchies persist in the digital sphere, and why digitization in India compounds rather than resolves systemic inequalities.
Technology & Society
On exploitation, invisible labor, and what the information age costs the people who keep it clean.
Technology & Society
What Foucault can teach us about privacy self-management in a world of Facebook and Big Data.
Product · Human Experience of Music
Giving users fine-grained control over what drives their Discover Weekly — without sacrificing the magic of serendipity.
Human Experience of Music · AI for Music
A recommendation algorithm that builds context-first mini-playlists, not from what you've played, but from where you are and how you feel.
NLP · Digital Humanities
NLP4DH workshop (EMNLP 2024). Exploring what computational models can reveal about how literature shapes cognition.
AI Safety & Behavior · AI Evaluations
Probing how LLM's agree, flatter, and persuade — and what that means for trust and safety.
HCI · Skill Development
How AI can act as a partner in skill development — helping people learn to cook, trade, dance, make music — without replacing the human doing.
Indian Classical Dance · AI for Music
A Hindustani rhythm pattern generator. Explores the mathematical structures underlying tala — where music theory meets computation.
Computer Vision · Indian Art
CNN-based emotion detection from Indian classical paintings. Training models to read Rasa, the aesthetic essence, in visual art.