Research Experience

Culture, cognition, perception, and relational reasoning

March 2023 – Present

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

Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Alexandra Carstensen & Dr. Viridiana Benitez — ASU
  • Designed a study with 10 tasks which have been previously used to understand the cross-cultural differences in visual attention, language, social reasoning, similarity reasoning and relational reasoning.
  • For the first wave, data has been collected from 200 participants in India and the U.S.
  • Pre-registration for this study can be found here.
May 2025 – Present

GlobalBabies

Research Assistant at Play and Language Lab, PI: Dr. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda — NYU
  • Contributed to the PLAY project by conducting video recorded home walkthroughs of infants.
  • Analyzed the infant videos to investigate the quantity, type, and accessibility of toys in home settings.
  • Analyzed the infant videos to understand infant-parent interaction with toys.
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.