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

I investigate how data-driven and automation systems can meaningfully 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 work, developing design principles 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 our political economy that marginalizes communities and prioritizes profit. This recognition drives my larger inquiry to disentangle technology design from extractive imperatives. Together, these inquiries reconceptualize the foundational assumptions of computing by developing Post-Growth HCI as a paradigmatic field of inquiry that refuses the inevitability of scale, the neutrality of efficiency, and the primacy of market-driven advancement, reorienting the design of computing systems toward care, sufficiency, and our collective well-being.

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 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 and Notre Dame.