I am in interdisciplinary researcher who investigates ways to use AI to solve hard problems. My work ranges from creating tools to diagnose failing powerplants, developing technical aids to make print textbook materials accessible to disabled students, making indoor navigation aides available on demand for individuals with visual impairment, creating data driven incentive mechanisms for student engagement in online education portals, user interaction studies, …

My Work

1. At Doosan, we use AI to make green energy tech competitive in the marketplace and reliable for our customers. My personal focus is root cause analysis of failures in the field and anomoly detection for preventative maintenance of our power plants.
2. At WizKids, our EdTech startup, we built a platform that hosts leactures by great professors in India (like Coursera). It has since been acquired by Avantel India.
3. At Arizona State University, I was part of the team that scaled up our online education curriculum offerings during our growth phase. I worked in the front end as a lecturer and on the backend on analytics providing a feedback to the instructors.
4. At Arizona State University (ASU), I got my PhD in Vision and Comuting lab under Professor Baoxin Li. We used computer vision to enhance accessiblity for individuals with visual impairment.
5. At Disability Resources Center, ASU, we built a boutique social network that indexes, curates and notifies users in a novel way, to cater to needs of individuals with special needs.