March 2023 – Present

Perception, Cognition, and Culture in India and the U.S.

Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Alexandra Carstensen & Dr. Viridiana Benitez — ASU

Designed tasks to understand the impact of culture on cognition, relational reasoning and perception in children and adults in India and the U.S.

May 2025 – Present

GlobalBabies

Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda — NYU

Contribute to the PLAY project by analyzing infant behavioral and environmental data to investigate the quantity, type, and accessibility of toys in home settings. Conduct in-home observational data collection with families in New York City, documenting infant interactions with toys and everyday household objects.

March 2023 – August 2024

Antisemitism

Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Jeffrey Sherman — UC-Davis

Designed face recognition study to understand the racial discrimination experienced by Jewish.

August 2020 – August 2021

Understanding the effect of image captioning with description on working memory

Graduate Researcher (Thesis), PI: Dr. Hemanth D & Dr. Troy McDaniel — ASU

Collected various neural images and generated image descriptions to build a game to understand the memory distortion concept in humans. Collected data from the participants by enabling them to play the game at regular intervals of time.

January 2020 – January 2021

EMBRACE Project

Research Assistant, Laboratory for Embodied Cognition, PI: Dr. Arthur Glenberg — ASU

Revamped the reading comprehension intervention for emerging readers within the EMBRACE project, an iPad app designed to enhance children's cognitive development by fostering embodied mental models during reading.

May 2020 – September 2020

PERACTIV, a novel wrist-worn camera device

Research Assistant, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, PI: Dr. Troy McDaniel — ASU

Collected data from our lab designed wrist-worn wearable haptic device to detect grasping interactions to benefit individuals with disabilities. Designed and developed a website for processing the collected data and contextual image tagging the data.

May 2017 – August 2017

Decoding (un)known opponent's game play, a real-life badminton eye tracking study

Research Assistant, Centre for Cognitive Science, PI: Dr. Kavita Vemuri — IIITH

The objective is to form a model that estimates optimal gaze patterns and time duration. Studied the differences in the decision-making process in badminton players when playing against professional and amateur opponents using the visual information obtained from Tobii eye-tracking glasses.

August 2015 – August 2017

Building Games for Pattern Recognition Intelligence

Research Project (Honors), PI: Dr. Kavita Vemuri — IIITH

Designed and implemented an online serious game correlating some patterns from Standard Raven's IQ test questions to the patterns in nature, using Unity. Conducted Standard Raven's IQ test on 4th and 5th standard students. Analyzed the scores obtained in the game with the Standard Raven's IQ set scores.