I am on the job market for academic positions in 2024-2025.

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am affiliated with the NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS) and the College of Information.

My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Accessibility. My work reconceptualized access as a relational, socio-technical construct, and in doing so, broadens the design space for emerging technologies like AI as tools to augment and expand human capabilities. I use a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach in my work. Through the years, I have benefited from community relationships with Unity in our Community Timebank, Covenant Healthcare, Vision Empower Trust, Maryland Department of IT, and the United Spinal Association.

I have authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications in premier HCI venues, including ACM CHI, CSCW, ASSETS, and FAccT, where I have received multiple awards. I have also published two book chapters on Accessibility and Software Engineering in Oxford University Press and Springer AP. My work has been cited in interdisciplinary venues such as HCI, information science, health, transportation, public policy, and economics. I have received over $100,000 in competitive grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, Google Research, University of Michigan and the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility. I have received national and international media coverage in AINews, TechCrunch Perceptron, MLive, Times of India, and Knowledge at Wharton.

I hold Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Information from the University of Michigan, where I was recognized as a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. I hold a B.E. in Computer Science from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India. I was a front-end developer in the software industry between 2010-13. I have held research roles at Microsoft Research and Google Research, where my work informed Soundscape and Palm2 respectively.