Research
I am interested in HCI Research, specifically in the fields of AI for Social Good, ICT for Development. My past work has qualitatively explored Future of Work, Algorithmic Fairness of Education/Job Platforms and examined the inequitable computing scenario in India.
I am most recently excited in examining systems to support AI for Social Good efforts in low-resource settings (data, human resources).
Reviewer: CHI ('19 -'23), CSCW (19 -'23), CHIWORK, NeurIPS Workshops (2021)
Below is a list of my recent publications: (Google Scholar link)
Public Health Calls for/with AI: An Ethnographic Perspective (🏆 Honorable Mention )
Azra Ismail*, Divy Thakkar*, Neha Madhiwalla, Neha Kumar
CSCW 2023
Increasing Impact of Mobile Health Programs: SAHELI for Maternal and Child Care (🏆Best Innovative Application Award Paper)
Shresth Verma, Gargi Singh, Aditya Mate, Paritosh verma, Sruti Gorantala, Neha Madhiwala, Aparna hegde, Divy Thakkar, Manish Jain, Milind Tambe, Aparna Taneja
IAAI 2023
When is ML Data Good? Datafication in Public Health in India
Divy Thakkar*, Azra Ismail*, Alex Hanna, Pratyush Kumar, Nithya Sambasivan, Neha Kumar
CHI 2022
Facilitating human-wildlife cohabitation through conflict prediction
Susobhan Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham, Aniket Bhatkhande, Tamanna Ahmad, Anish Andheria, Wenjun, Aparna Taneja, Divy Thakkar, Milind Tambe
Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21)
Measuring Data Collection Quality for Community Healthcare
Ramesha Karunasena, Mohammad Sarparajul Ambiya, Arunesh Sinha, Ruchit Nagar, Saachi Dalal, Divy Thakkar, Milind Tambe
ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21)
Beyond the portal: reimagining the post-pandemic future of work
Divy Thakkar, Neha Kumar, Nithya Sambasivan
ACM interactions 27(6) (November 2020)
Siddharth Nishtala, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Divy Thakkar, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Anirudh Grama, Ramesh Padmanabhan, Neha Madhiwalla, Suresh Chaudhary, Balaraman Ravindra, Milind Tambe
AI for Social Good Workshop 2020, Harvard University
Towards an AI-powered Future that Works for Vocational Workers
Divy Thakkar, Neha Kumar, and Nithya Sambasivan
CHI 2020
The Unexpected Entry and Exodus of Indian Women in CS and HCI
Thakkar, D.*, Sambasivan, N.*, Yardi, P., Sudarshan, P., and Toyama, K.
CHI 2018. [Google blog post | Indian scientist role model videos
I am interested in working with students and faculty to explore these problems. Reach out at divy[underscore]d17[at]iift[dot]edu for research collaborations