I am a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I study the design, deployment, and implications of emerging digital systems, including AI, to nurture socio-ecologically just and sustainable futures.

I employ qualitative, participatory, community-engaged, and design-oriented methods to conduct three interconnected inquiries. First, I investigate how data-driven and automation systems can center frontline communities facing climate harm, challenge extractive data practices, and support collective climate action grounded in justice. Second, I examine how algorithmic platforms and AI-driven systems transform creative industries, developing frameworks that preserve worker autonomy, creativity, and collective agency. Yet these questions cannot be addressed in isolation; digital systems that mediate climate response and labor are embedded within the global economy that marginalizes communities and prioritizes profit. This recognition drives my larger inquiry into the political economy of technology to disentangle its design from extractive imperatives.

Through these inquiries, my research reconceptualizes computing as a practice of planetary care and collective well-being, developing Post-Growth HCI as a critical field of inquiry. I have also founded the Post-Growth HCI Collective (an international network of 50+ scholars) to institutionalize post-growth orientation in HCI and computing through collective efforts.

I have a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech, an MS in Computer & Information Science from the University of California, Irvine, and a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Chitkara University, India. I have also worked as a software engineer at Informatica. I have been fortunate enough to receive several honors for my work, including grants from Microsoft Research and the Office of Sustainability at Georgia Tech, as well as fellowships from the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.