Explorable Explainable AI: Improving AI Understanding for Community Health Workers in India (2024 CHI Conference)
Use of Algorithms in the Public Sector: Decision Support or Control Systems? (EAAMO ’22, 2022)
Sporting the government: Twitter as a window into sportspersons’ engagement with causes in India and USA (Digital Politics in India: A Global Perspective for the Global Policy Journal, 2022)
Voting with the Stars: Analyzing Partisan Engagement between Celebrities and Politicians in India (PACM: Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ’22), 2022)
Virality and the Virus: COVID-19 Cures on Twitter in India (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ’22), 2022, Best Paper Nominee)
Divided We Rule: Influencer Polarization on Twitter during Political Crises in India (ICWSM ’22, 2022)
DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter (ICWSM ’22, 2022)
Devotees on an Astroturf: Media, Politics, and Outrage in the Suicide of a Popular FilmStar (COMPASS ’22, 2022)
Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India (COMPASS ’22, 2022, Honorable Mention for Best Paper)
Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ Protest (2021, arXiv)
Research Experience
Worked for a government agency in India building decision support systems and conducting risk and fairness analysis for rural infrastructures and livelihoods programs. Prior to that, he was a researcher focused on political social media, exploring disinformation campaigns and influencer networks.
Education
PhD Student, Department of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University
Background
PhD Student in the Department of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Research interests include the socio-political implications of civic technologies and substantive ways to account for them. In his doctoral studies, he is investigating the mutual shaping of technology, work, and organizations, especially in moments of crises.