I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and an Adjunct in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at IIT Kanpur, India. Before that, I was a HCI researcher in the Calc Intelligence group at Microsoft Research in their Cambridge, UK lab.

My research almost always has something to do with human factors and programming; that makes me a researcher in HCI and/or SE (depends who you ask, though!). I have a Ph.D. doing similar things in Margaret Burnett's lab at Oregon State University.

In a past life, I was a Senior Consultant and Application Developer at ThoughtWorks, a place (in)famous for its uncoventional, but fun hiring processes .

When I am not doing anything computer science, I am learning or teaching Sanskrit, indulging in some artistic endeavour or nerding out about one (music, painting, handicrafts and handlooms, cooking, kolam). I am also associated with the SIKSA center for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) at IIT Kanpur.