I study how digital systems change the way people learn and think, and I build the tools to see it.

I trained as an engineer and computer scientist at Bombay University, then spent seven years at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences studying how technology reaches government schools. On CLIx, I ran the Open edX learning platforms, wrote interactive maths tools and trained teachers in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. I evaluated ITE, a project-based learning programme by TISS and Tata Trusts that ran in government schools across 11+ states, and co-authored its outcome studies. I also designed the research for AGSE, a study of 1:1 Chromebooks in two schools in Chennai and Hisar. Most recently, I led field research for the Digital Classroom Project in more than 60 government schools in Madhya Pradesh.

Since 2024 I have managed the Safexpress Centre for Data, Learning and Decision Sciences at Ashoka University. There, mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists study AI/ML models on state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, and I get a glimpse of that research from behind the scenes.

In my spare time I help organise T4E, the international conference on technology for education, and I have worked with Tata Trusts as an evaluation consultant, writing the impact evaluation reports for its ITE programme across 100+ government schools and 10,000+ students in the flood-prone Terai region of eastern Uttar Pradesh. I am also drawn to mathematical art, especially tessellations.

My questions have shifted from whether a technology works in a classroom to what it does to the people using it: how generative AI changes who does the thinking, how communities form on messaging platforms, and how culture lives in digital images. I am looking for PhD positions starting in 2027.