Human-Centered AI Systems · AI for Music
Make It Different
Developing generative AI as an experimental interface for studying creative thinking in music. Can we coach people to further their musical ideas when using AI?
Product Design & Management
Topshelf
Meal planning app that starts with grocery store sales and optimizes ingredient purchases for maximum meal variety at minimum cost and waste, so you plan around what's cheap, not the other way around.
AI Safety
Persuasion in LLMs
Used a custom BERT to classify persuasive text and used attention masks for explainability.
AI Safety
Reasoning & Role-playing in LLMs
Experimented with adversarial vs. helpful personas for teaching math.
Product Design & Management
Vouchd
Tech lead @ startup where we connected high school students with volunteer opportunities at nonprofit organizations, making it easy to find, track, and verify community service hours.
Product Design & Management
Adaptive Plant Care
A BeReal-inspired app exploring how social pressure and personalized notifications can (and can't) motivate plant care.
Computational Social Science
Deciphering psycho-social effects of Eating Disorder
EMNLP Workshop 2024. A large-scale analysis of social media data using LLMs to study the psychological impacts of ED patients and those who live in their proximity.
Human Experience of Music · AI for Music
Resonance
A recommendation algorithm that builds context-first mini-playlists, not from what you've played, but from where you are and how you feel.
Computational Social Science
Toxicity on Gendered Subreddits
Comparing harmful language and discussion topics across male- and female-dominated STEM communities using Perspective API + LDA.
Product Design & Management · Human Experience of Music
Weighted Spotify Recommendation Controls
Giving users fine-grained control over what drives their Discover Weekly — without sacrificing the magic of serendipity.
Product Design & Management
Google Pay Redesign
HCI-grounded redesign of Google Pay targeting UPI fraud faced by low-income Indian merchants — new verification flows, front-facing help, and accountability tooling.
Product Design & Management
Zomato Socials
Designing a social discovery layer for Zomato — personalized restaurant recommendations through trusted networks.
Indian Classical Dance · Philosophy of Language
Kathak as a Language
Can codified dance perform speech acts? Commentary on Margolis, Bannerman, and Austin, and Kathak.
Philosophy of Language
On Referring
On Strawson's objections to Russell's theory of definite and indefinite descriptions in his classic paper "On Referring".
Philosophy of Language
Language, Realism, Dharma, and Ineffability
On the eight methods of learning meaning — and what lies just beyond where they run out.
Technology & Society
Artificial General Intelligence
On consciousness, strange loops, and why reaching human-like intelligence requires more than language.
Technology & Society
Successful Failure
What Foucault can teach us about privacy self-management in a world of Facebook and Big Data.
Technology & Society
Content Moderation
On exploitation, invisible labor, and what the information age costs the people who keep it clean.
Technology & Society
Digital Exclusion
On how social hierarchies persist in the digital sphere, and why digitization in India compounds rather than resolves systemic inequalities.
Indian Classical Dance
A Celebration of Kathak
Stillness & movement, power & grace, rhythm & silence: translated into visual geometries and the sculpting of space.
Indian Classical Dance
An Acapella With Bodies
Musical rhythms looped over a consistent metronome to create intricate sounds, followed by a fusion of 4 dance forms.
Indian Classical Dance
Two Rivers of Movement
Some follow a straight path, others meander gracefully. How would these two distinct bodies come together?
Human-Centered AI Systems
Rasa
CNN-based emotion detection from Indian classical paintings. Training models to read Rasa, the aesthetic essence, in visual art.
Indian Classical Dance · AI for Music
Tihai
A Hindustani rhythm pattern generator. Explores the mathematical structures underlying tala — where music theory meets computation.
