PhD Student, Human-Computer Interaction @ CMU HCII

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I study how intelligent systems can progressively surface and negotiate user intent, especially in high-stakes domains where incorrect assumptions have real consequences.

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<aside> As intelligent systems take on greater autonomy, alignment increasingly depends not only on better models, but on better interaction. I design mechanisms that let users progressively shape and steer system behavior, so that autonomy adapts to evolving human intent.

I’m a PhD student at **Carnegie Mellon University** (HCII, School of Computer Science), advised by Sauvik Das at the SPUD Lab. In my PhD, I'm exploring this problem in security and privacy, where the cost of bad assumptions is high. My recent work shows that letting users bring their own threat models—paired with a copilot that surfaces and mitigates risks—leads to more effective privacy decisions (UIST’25). I'm extending this to other domains where intent-aware agents can help prevent misalignment early.

More recently, as a summer intern at Autodesk, I explored the same problem through a novel generative interface mechanism that enables finer control over what users are trying to express. Before my PhD, I built creative tools for AR and tangible interaction at IIIT Delhi (advised by Aman Parnami at Weave Lab) and University of Calgary (advised by Ryo Suzuki at iLab), exploring how sketching and embodied interaction turn vague ideas into concrete prototypes.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/heart-rate_orange.svg" alt="/icons/heart-rate_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Research Interests Human-AI Interaction, Technical HCI, Usable Security & Privacy & Agentic Systems

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Publications

6 First/Co-first authored, 4 UIST, 2 DIS, 1 CHI, 5 Full Papers, 2 Extended Abstracts

Publications

Experience

HCI & Vis Group @ Autodesk

Summer Research Intern Advised by: Qian Zhou & George Fitzmaurice

Spud Lab @ CMU

Graduate Research Assistant Advised by: Prof. Sauvik Das

iLab @ University of Calgary

Summer Research Intern Advised by: Prof. Ryo Suzuki

Empathic Lab @ UniSA

Virtual Intern Advised by: Prof. Mark Billinghurst

**Weave Lab @ IIIT Delhi**

Student Researcher Advised by: Prof. Aman Parnami

Projects

Projects

Video Playlists

My Animation Projects

My Animation Projects

My Minor HCI Projects

My Minor HCI Projects

Skills

Disciplines

Research & Synthesis, Concepting, Prototyping, User Research, User Testing, Development

Programming

Web Development - ReactJS, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flask, Django

3D - Unity, WebXR, AFrame, ThreeJS, ARKit

Others - C++, Python, Java

Tools

Fusion360, Unity, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Adobe XD, Figma, 3Ds Max

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Resume

• I enjoy crafting compelling tools to explore novel concepts for interesting application areas by leveraging emerging technologies creatively. Wondering what that means? Here are a few examples from my current and previous work.

My Lightning talk @ UIST 2022

My Lightning talk @ UIST 2022