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Indian Classical Dance · Philosophy of Language

Kathak as a Language

Can codified dance perform speech acts? Commentary on Margolis, Bannerman, and Austin, and Kathak.

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Product · UX · Product

Zomato Socials

Designing a social discovery layer for Zomato — personalized restaurant recommendations through trusted networks.

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Technology & Society

Digital Exclusion

On how social hierarchies persist in the digital sphere, and why digitization in India compounds rather than resolves systemic inequalities.

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Technology & Society

Content Moderation

On exploitation, invisible labor, and what the information age costs the people who keep it clean.

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Technology & Society

Successful Failure

What Foucault can teach us about privacy self-management in a world of Facebook and Big Data.

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Product · 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.

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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.

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NLP · Digital Humanities

Language & the Literary Mind

NLP4DH workshop (EMNLP 2024). Exploring what computational models can reveal about how literature shapes cognition.

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AI Safety & Behavior · AI Evaluations

Persuasion in LLMs

Probing how LLM's agree, flatter, and persuade — and what that means for trust and safety.

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HCI · Skill Development

AI for Craft

How AI can act as a partner in skill development — helping people learn to cook, trade, dance, make music — without replacing the human doing.

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Indian Classical Dance · AI for Music

Tihai

A Hindustani rhythm pattern generator. Explores the mathematical structures underlying tala — where music theory meets computation.

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Computer Vision · Indian Art

Rasa

CNN-based emotion detection from Indian classical paintings. Training models to read Rasa, the aesthetic essence, in visual art.