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?
AI Safety & Behavior · AI Evaluations
Persuasion in LLMs
Used a custom BERT to classify persuasive text and used attention masks for explainability.
NLP · AI Evaluations
Reasoning & Role-playing in LLMs
Experimented with adversarial vs. helpful personas for teaching math.
HCI · Behavior Design
Adaptive Plant Care
A BeReal-inspired app exploring how social pressure and personalized notifications can (and can't) motivate plant care.
NLP · Digital Humanities
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.
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.
Product · UX
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.
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.
Computer Vision · Indian Art
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.
