Resume

Education

September 2022 - Present 

University of California, Santa Cruz 

PhD in Computational Media 

• Activities and Societies: UAW UC Summer Labor Fellow where I conducted archival data collection on the 2022 UC Wide Strike. I was chosen to represent UC Santa Cruz as one of two students from each campus. I also won the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Fellowship for the year 2022-23. 

• Attended coursework in Human Centred Design, Social Computing, Social and Emotional Design, Game Design, Research Methods and Statistical Data Analysis 

August 2014 - August 2016 

National Law School of India University, Bangalore

Masters in Public Policy 

• Activities and societies: Interned at PRS Legislative Research, FLEDGE Short Term Fellow, Interned with the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA, selected as RA for Prof. Sameena Dalwai,

• Conducted fieldwork on elementary education evaluation in India and the USA. For this I interned with the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA. I was also selected as a research assistant for Prof. Sameena Dalwai for her paper on the dance bar ban. Similarly I was chosen as a short term fellow for the Forum for Law, Environment and Governance (FLEDGE) where the team rapporteured for a United Nations University Conference. Prior to this I have interned with PRS Legislative Research for a month and also conducted fieldwork regarding education in Rajasthan with MKSS.

June 2010  - August 2013 

Manipal University 

Bachelors in Journalism and Communication

• Activities and societies: News Editor of The Manipal Journal, Member of the Environment Club, Selected for a DAAD scholarship to study in Bremen Germany for one semester, Part of the Basketball team, Chosen to be editor in chief for one cycle of college's newspaper AM Plus.

• While studying for my BA in Journalism and Communications from Manipal, I began working on journalism from various angles from being an editor-in-chief of the student newspaper AM Plus, a news editor for The Manipal Journal, a reporter and a photographer for The Manipal Journal I have been trained to work with a variety of roles. Similarly, due to my interest in international relations and world politics, I was selected for a DAAD scholarship to study for a semester in Bremen, Germany. While pursuing a large level of coursework there, I also managed to gain a paid internship with GEO International Magazine in Hamburg, Germany.

Relevant Work

 September 2022 - Present

University of California, Santa Cruz 

Graduate Student Researcher 

• Conducted qualitative phone interviews with participants to understand connections regarding Whatsapp use. 

• Conducted Pilot Interviews for possible VR implications of environmental sustainability projects 

• Transcribed and did thematic analysis for qualitative Data 

• Conducted Literature Review 

Teaching Assistant [Sept 2023-Dec 2023]

• Taught Qualitative research methodologies like annotations and thematic analysis

• Critiqued in Figma Prototyping 

• Conducted administrative tasks like grading and sections

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June 2023 - August 2023 

University of California

UC UAW Labor Summer Fellow 

• Conducted interviews and transcription for Oral history archives for the 2022 UC Wide Strikes

• Collected digital media content for public archives during UC Strikes 

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Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

Research Assistant 

• Conducted fieldwork on the gig economy 

• Identified field sites to engage and interview gig workers in Bangalore. 

• Conducted qualitative interviews across the city. 

• The research was finally published in CSCW 2021, focusing on the Role of Isolation for Delivery Partners in Bangalore. 

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Aug 2019 - Nov 2019

Microsoft Research, India 

Aapti Future of Workers Research Fellow 

• Conducted research on the use of technology in the collectivization practices of gig workers in Bangalore. 

• The research led to newspaper publications in The Wire, and The Bloomberg Quint. 

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Other Experiences

2016-18

Centre for Budget and Policy Studies 

Research Assistant

• Conducted fieldwork in rural Telangana, and peri-urban Bihar. 

• Created Surveys for Adolescents to understand gender behavior. 

• Analysed quantitative data on survey conducted with farmers regarding Crop Insurance schemes in the state of Karnataka

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2015

College of William and Mary 

Visiting Research Scholar 

• Conducted research on standardized testing practices in Williamsburg California. 

• Interviewed Teachers and Analyzed Secondary Data Of the Standardized Tests. 

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