I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I lead the ROOT Lab, where we study other ways of designing, building, and living with emerging technologies rooted in care for the planet and all its residents.

Trained in computer science, information science, and human-centered design, I am interested in examining how people interact with digital technologies amid climate vulnerability, labor precarity, and structural inequality, and how such technologies can be (re)designed to nurture socio-ecologically just and sustainable futures. My work conceptualizes Post-Growth Informatics as a critical area of inquiry that questions unsustainable and unjust profit-driven technological innovation and reorients it toward sufficiency and collective well-being. I founded the Post-Growth HCI Collective to grow this community of practice internationally. My research values are elaborated further in my reflective essay: Reflection, Reckoning, and Refusal.

I hold a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech, an MS in Computer & Information Science from UC Irvine, and a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Chitkara University, India. Currently, I am a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I previously worked as a software engineer at Informatica Inc., developing automated software testing frameworks.

At UIUC, I will be recruiting students interested in HCI, critical computing, community informatics, responsible AI, or ICTD, and in topics of sustainability, climate justice, more-than-human, or other critical orientations. PhD positions begin in Fall 2027; master’s and research assistantship positions at UIUC can begin as early as Spring 2027. Email me your CV along with a brief description of your research interests. See the ROOT Lab for more details.