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I am a Computer Science and Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Washington (UW) where I use social computing to achieve social good of people in low-resource environments. This encompasses:
My work has been recognized by global development organizations, human rights groups, and social media organizations in the form of USAID Seed Grant, Facebook Access Innovation Prize, and Facebook Graduate Fellowship. I am also a recipient of the UW’s College of Engineering Student Research award as well as several best paper awards and nominations at premier HCI venues. My research has transitioned into large-scale, real-world products that have reached an estimated 220,000 people in Africa and South Asia. I am also the designer and developer of IVR Junction, an award-winning free and open source toolkit that makes it easy for global development agencies to build, set up, and maintain voice-based social computing systems on basic mobile phones that connects to online social computing platforms like Facebook. I am an active member of UW's ICTD, Change, and DUB group. At UW, I am advised by Richard Anderson and formerly by Gaetano Borriello. Prior to UW, I worked as an Assistant Researcher at Microsoft Research India with Bill Thies and Ed Cutrell. Recent News
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CHI 2019 May 3–9 Glasgow, UK Wadhwani AI April 18 Mumbai, India Microsoft Research Apr 16–17 Bangalore, India Georgia Tech Apr 10 Atlanta, USA University of Maryland Mar 28–29 College Park, USA Microsoft Research Mar 25–26 Redmond, USA Cornell University Mar 20 Ithaca, USA Penn State University Mar 12–13 State College, USA UC Irvine Mar 4–5 Irvine, USA Simon Fraser University Feb 28 Vancouver, Canada UMass Amherst Feb 11–12 Amherst, USA Research Fieldwork Jul 11–Aug 28 India Family Visit Jul 5–9 New York, USA COMPASS 2018 Jun 20–22 San Francisco, USA |