Assistant Professor
Cornell University  
243 Gates Hall
adityav (at) cornell.edu

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Social Computing for Social Good in Low-Resource Environments
2019  University of Washington, Seattle (USA).
2019  Wadhwani AI, Mumabi (India). 
2019  Microsoft Research India, Bangalore (India).
2019  University of Maryland, College Park (USA). 
2019  Microsoft Research, Redmond (USA).
2019  Cornell University, Ithaca (USA).
2019  Penn State University, State College (USA).
2019  University of California Irvine, Irvine (USA).
2019  Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (Canada).
2019  University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst (USA).

Threats, Abuses, Flirting, and Blackmail: Gender Inequity in Social Media Voice Forums
2019  ACM CHI conference talk, Glasgow (UK). 

ReCall: Crowdsourcing on Basic Phones to Financially Sustain Voice Forums
2019  ACM CHI conference talk, Glasgow (UK). 

Private Saving Practices of Women in Rural India
2018 Gender and Digital Financial Services Workshop, Seattle (USA).

BSpeak: An Accessible Crowdsourcing Marketplace for Low-Income Blind People [PDF] [Video]
2018 Mechanism Design for Social Good Research Group, Online.
2018 ACM CHI conference talk, Montreal (Canada).

The Impact of Social Proof on Participant Response Bias [PDF]
2018 Mechanism Design for Social Good Research Group, Online.
2018 ACM CHI conference talk, Montreal (Canada).

Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowd-powered Speech Transcription System [PDF]
2017  Facebook Fellows Workshop, Menlo Park (USA). 
2017  ACM CHI conference talk, Denver (USA). 
2016  UW CSE Industry Affiliates Program, Seattle (USA).

Accessibility Research in the Developing World [PDF]
2016  Mini-keynote talk at UW-CSE MSR Summer Institute on Expanding Accessibility Research, Union (USA).

Mobile Video Dissemination for Community Health [PDF]
2016  ICTD conference talk, Ann Arbor (USA).
2016  Change Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

Social Media Platforms for Low-Income Blind People in India [PDF]
2015  ACM ASSETS conference talk, Lisbon (Portugal).
2015  Change Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

Sangeet Swara: A Community Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India [PDF]
2015  ACM CHI conference talk, Seoul (Korea).
2015  Change Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA). 

Voice-Based Social Computing Platforms in the Developing World
2015  Qualifying Evaluation Examination Presentation, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).
2015 Computing and Global Health Course, Professional Master Program, University of Washington, Seattle (USA). 

Educational Content Creation and Sharing by Low-Income Visually Impaired People in India [PDF]
2015  Accessibility Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA). 
2014  ACM DEV conference talk, San Jose (USA).
2014  Change Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

Empowering Rural India through Information Technologies
2014  IIT-Bombay, Mumbai (India).
2014  UNICEF India Consultation, Mobiles for Social and Behavior Change, Lucknow (India).

Social Media for Next Billion People
2014  Pakistan-ICTD Workshop, Lahore (Pakistan). 
2014  RightsCon conference, San Francisco (USA).
2014  Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park (USA).
 
Robust and Scalable Communication Platform for Crisis Scenarios [Video]
2013  Panel talk at International Conference of Crisis Mappers, Nairobi (Kenya).

Building and Deploying Voice Forums for Information Access and Transparency
2013  Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors office, Washington DC (USA).
2013  USAID’s Office of Innovation and Development Alliances (IDEA), Washington DC (USA). 
2013  Right to Information and Transparency in the Digital Age: Policy, Tools and Practices, Stanford (USA).
2013  Change Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).  
  
IVR Junction: Building Scalable and Distributed Voice Forums in the Developing World [PDF]
2013  Panel talk, ICTD conference, Cape Town (South Africa). 
2013  mBillionth Award South Asia, New Delhi (India).  [Video]
2013  TechCamp Mumbai organized by US Department of State, Mumbai (India).
2013  Keynote speaker, Sociobator Creatives, Bangalore (India).
2013  Pakistan-ICTD Workshop, Lahore (Pakistan).
2012  Enzen Global, Bangalore (India).
2012  Greenpeace, Bangalore (India).
2012  Bringing Voice to Mobile Citizen Journalism conference by ICFJ and Knights Foundation, Bellagio (Italy).
2012  First International Workshop on Mobile Data Collection in the Developing World, Bangalore (India).
2012  Sixth USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, Boston (USA).
2012  Mobile for Development conference, New Delhi (India).

Mapping Interactive Response Call Data in the Developing World
2013  Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction at ACM CHI, Paris (France).

Voice-Based Social Media and Information Delivery System for Farmers
2012  Mobile and Web Technologies in Social and Economic Development, M4D conference, New Delhi (India).
2011  Enzen Global, Bangalore (India).

A Novel Method for Copyright Protection of Digital Videos without Embedding Data
2010  Conference talk, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Taichung (Taiwan).

An Efficient 2-Pass Abrupt Scene Change Detection Algorithm
2010 Conference talk, International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security, Nanjing (China).

Ph.D. Students 

Rama Adithya Varanasi

Joy Ming

Farhana Shahid

Chinasa Okolo

M.S. Students

Srujana Kamath (Remote RA)

Sarrah Ali