🙋I am a second-year CS PhD student at the Allen School at UW, advised by Prof. Tim Althoff in the BData group.
My research lies at the intersection of HCI, NLP, psychology, and computational social science. I study psychological safety in human-AI interaction and build user modeling methods from large-scale behavioral data. More broadly, I am interested in how AI systems shape beliefs, communication and relationships. Before UW, I was a pre-doctoral research fellow at Microsoft Research India and a visiting researcher at Cornell Tech, and I did my design education at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay.
Sterling Williams-Ceci, Maurice Jakesch, , Kowe Kadoma, Lior Zalmanson, Mor Naaman・Science Advances, 2026
, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Mor Naaman, Maurice Jakesch・CHI’26
Maurice Jakesch, , Daniel Buschek, Lior Zalmanson, Mor Naaman・ CHI’23
, Saaket Agashe, Parth Oberoi, Niharika Mohile, Ravi Jangir, Anirudha Joshi・ IUI’23
*, Nidhi Kulkarni*, Aditya Yadavalli, Jivat Neet Kaur, Anurag Shukla, Monali Shelar, Safiya F Husain, Vivek Seshadri・ACM COMPASS’24
, Saaket Agashe, Anirudha Joshi・HCI+NLP Workshop @ EACL’21
2024 – Present
Advisor: Prof. Tim Althoff
Research on psychological safety in human-AI interaction and user modeling in the BData group.
2022 – 2024
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.
2021 – 2023
Advisors: Prof. Mor Naaman, Prof. Maurice Jakesch
Examining if and how writing assistants powered by biased language models can influence the opinion formation process and opinions of writers.
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.
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 chatbots for grassroots monitoring of water quality.
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Designed an intelligent user interface for an enterprise product for identifying and mitigating ad fraud on Bing Ads.