Research Practice

I am a researcher interested in how people use technology together in real world settings. Across my work, I keep returning to the same question: how do different stakeholders in a shared environment use technology to collaborate, communicate, and carry work forward. That question runs through the projects in this portfolio, whether I am studying classrooms, institutions, or other settings where technology becomes part of everyday coordination.

What interests me most is technology in practice. I pay attention to how people with different roles, constraints, and expectations encounter the same system differently, and to what those differences reveal about collaboration, design, and implementation. My work looks closely at how people make systems usable in context, how coordination actually happens, and where frictions, adjustments, and workarounds begin to matter.

Outside of Work

Outside of work, I spend a good amount of time with music, photography, theatre, and occasionally gaming. I enjoy playing Carnatic classical music on the mandolin and urban photography, especially wandering through a city with a camera and no particular plan. I have also co-written and directed three plays and remain deeply attached to theatre, even if I have not written anything new in a while. And I am very fond of mid-twentieth century satire, especially Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, which I return to more often than I probably should.