Creative / Writer / Researcher
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My work lives at the intersection of AI systems, cultural meaning, and the limits of representation. I'm a senior UX researcher with six years of experience working with companies like Google, Spotify, and Meta -- leading language and AI research across 20+ countries, in contexts where what the system doesn't understand has real consequences.
The questions that drive me are older and stranger than any job title: what does a system learn when it learns from us? What does it miss? And who pays for that gap?
I run experiments that make those questions concrete. I asked an AI to reconstruct me from our conversation history alone. What it produced said more about the defaults built into the system than anything it had learned about me. That's not a glitch. It's an argument about what intelligence is being built to see.
I also build things. if-words-were-enough.org is a living archive that stress-tests AI on culturally-loaded, untranslatable words — the kind of meaning that doesn't survive encoding. It won the Creativity Prize at the Global Dialogues Challenge. It's also a dataset.
My writing lives at Lately About — on noticing things before they have words.
I'm based in New York. I came here from India, via Seattle, and have degrees in English and HCI from Univerity of Washington and Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's ITP. In Hindi, my name means clouds.
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My work lives at the intersection of AI systems, cultural meaning, and the limits of representation. I'm a senior UX researcher with six years of experience working with companies like Google, Spotify, and Meta -- leading language and AI research across 20+ countries, in contexts where what the system doesn't understand has real consequences.
The questions that drive me are older and stranger than any job title: what does a system learn when it learns from us? What does it miss? And who pays for that gap?
I run experiments that make those questions concrete. I asked an AI to reconstruct me from our conversation history alone. What it produced said more about the defaults built into the system than anything it had learned about me. That's not a glitch. It's an argument about what intelligence is being built to see.
I also build things. if-words-were-enough.org is a living archive that stress-tests AI on culturally-loaded, untranslatable words — the kind of meaning that doesn't survive encoding. It won the Creativity Prize at the Global Dialogues Challenge. It's also a dataset.
My writing lives at Lately About — on noticing things before they have words.
I'm based in New York. I came here from India, via Seattle, and have degrees in English and HCI from Univerity of Washington and Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's ITP. In Hindi, my name means clouds.
See work ︎︎︎