I speak about how people come to trust AI.
Speaking & media
The findings travel
I speak about how people trust AI, explainability, and the research that keeps models honest.
Figma x SmashingConf, New York 2025
· Speaker, Intent-Driven AI & Explainability
UXPALOOZA 2025
· Featured Speaker, Designing with Intent
Kumbhathon Startup Festival 2025
· Invited Keynote, Intent-Driven UX for AI Products
UXPA International 2024
· Presenter, AI & UX: Future-Proofing Public Health
GenAI @DePaul 2024
· Panelist, Generative AI & Pedagogy Faculty Roundtable
Project NANDA
· SF Bay Area Lead, the human half of agent trust
Talks
Speaker · New York 2025
Figma × SmashingConf
Intent-driven AI interfaces: how anticipation, confidence thresholds, and human-in-the-loop controls earn trust without taking away agency.
Featured speaker & PRESENTER · 2025 & 2024
UXPALOOZA & UXPA International
Designing with Intent: the shifts product teams must track as AI moves from tools to agents.
Keynote and mentor · 2025
Intent-Driven UX for AI Products, plus mentoring early-stage teams at a national innovation platform co-initiated with MIT Media Lab.
WORKSHOP · 2019
Colgate × Deloitte Workshop
Shared research on how decisions impact think and helped the team turn it into practical next steps.
Keynote · DePaul
APIDA Elevate
Cultural identity and coalition-building as fuel for inclusive leadership, at the APIDA Cultural Center graduation ceremony.
Panelist · DePaul
Generative AI & Pedagogy Faculty Roundtable
One of four students chosen to advise 80+ faculty on bringing GenAI into teaching, from scenario modeling to personalized learning.
Awards
Project NANDA · Kumbhathon · 2026
An agentic AI companion for pilgrims at the Simhastha Kumbh Mela 2027. I worked on the UX side of the app. Launched in New Delhi by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
PathCheck Foundation
Global Hackathon Runner-Up
Amber Alert for Health: a scalable health-alert concept using real-time alerts and behavioral design to strengthen community readiness during public-health crises.
Deloitte
Recognized Top 1% Performer and 2x Award Winner (Move the Dot & Walk the Dot)
For exceptional client value, people-centered leadership, and sustained excellence across global engagements and insight-driven strategy.
DePaul UniversitY
2× Scholarship Recipient
DePaul’s highest graduate honor for leadership and innovation in STEM, and international recognition for advancing equity in science and technology.
IIT Delhi
National Finalist, Innovation Challenge
An accessibility solution that improved campus inclusion for 10,000+ students, run under India’s National Service Scheme.
Collinson Group UK · 2015
Rising Star, ICLP
For leading user research and insight strategy across loyalty programs for Starbucks, Samsung, Oracle, Adidas, L’Oréal, Shell, and others.
Community
Project NANDA
SF Bay Area Chapter Leader, Internet of AI Agents
Bringing Bay Area researchers, developers and founders together on identity, trust, and how autonomous systems verify each other.
Deloitte
Mentor and Program Collaborator, Education Access & Inclusion
Partnering with Teach For India, Educo, Udayan Care, the Aga Khan Foundation and others to make learning more inclusive for students from underrepresented communities for over 13K students.