Advait Bhat

🙋I am Advait, a pre-doctoral research fellow at Microsoft Research India, based in Bangalore, India. Along with my work at MSR, I also collaborate with researchers at Cornell Tech and have completed my design education at IIT Bombay.

My research interests lie at the intersection of HCI, AI, and NLP. I focus on understanding user interaction with generative AI to design AI tools that preserve and enhance critical thinking, creativity, and personal expression. I am interested in examining AI's impact on individuals, social interactions, and broader societal contexts.

Co-writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views.
Maurice Jakesch, Advait Bhat, Daniel Buschek, Lior Zalmanson, Mor Naaman・
🏆 Best Paper Honourable Mention @ CHI’23

Interacting with Next-Phrase Suggestions: How Suggestion Systems Aid and Influence the Cognitive Processes of Writing
Advait Bhat, Saaket Agashe, Parth Oberoi, Niharika Mohile, Ravi Jangir, Anirudha Joshi・🏆 Best Paper Honourable Mention @ IUI’23

How Co-writing with Opinionated Language Models Can Shape the Opinion Writing Process
Advait Bhat, Maurice Jakesch, Mor Naaman・[ Working Paper ]

Speaking in Terms of Money: Financial Knowledge Acquisition through Speech Data Generation
Advait Bhat*, Nidhi Kulkarni*, Aditya Yadavalli, Jivat Neet Kaur, Anurag Shukla, Monali Shelar, Safiya F Husain, Vivek Seshadri・[ In Submission ]

How do People Interact with Biased Text Prediction Models while Writing?
Advait Bhat, Saaket Agashe, Anirudha Joshi・First HCI+NLP Workshop @ EACL 2021

Designing Playful Activities to Promote Practice of Preposition Skills for Kids with ASD
Advait Bhat・ASSETS '20

Research Fellow · Microsoft Research
Jul 2022 - Present
Advisor: Dr. Vivek Seshadri

Designing methods to enable knowledge acquisition and skilling through data annotation for low-income data annotators in rural and semi-urban India.

Visiting Researcher · Cornell Tech | Social Technologies Lab
Feb 2021 - Present
Advisors: Prof. Mor Naaman, Dr. Maurice Jakesch

Examining if and how writing assistants powered by biased language models can influence the opinion formation process and opinions of writers.

Research Associate · IIT Bombay | Interaction Design for Indian Needs Lab
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Advisor: Prof. Anirudha Joshi

Conducted user studies to understand mobile banking usage in low-literate and elderly users along with designing and testing a mobile banking application with interactive voice guidance.

Creative Technologist · Ooloi Labs
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Mentors: Akshay Roongta, Abrar Burk

Designed and developed data collection technologies such as interactive voice response systems for reporting human rights violations in Delhi slums and chat-bots for grassroots monitoring of water quality.

User Experience Intern · Microsoft | India Development Center
May 2019 - Jul 2019

Designed an intelligent user interface for an enterprise product for identifying and mitigating ad fraud on Bing Ads.