Biography
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, focusing on Human-AI Collaboration and Crowdsourcing. I am advised by Dr. Kurt Luther in the Crowd Intelligence Lab. I was a Software Engineer at Microsoft before starting my PhD and obtained a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.
I design sociotechnical systems that transform real-world investigations involving the discovery and verification of publicly available information (OSINT). My research focuses on understanding challenges, developing design ideas, building Generative AI tools, and evaluating them to address technical and collaborative challenges with complex sensemaking tasks.
I have expertise in developing and deploying technological probes to explore the design space around the use of AI tools in collaborative and creative tasks. I am looking for Research Internships for Summer '25.
Publications
A. Mukhopadhyay, K. Luther. 2024. OSINT Clinic: Co-designing AI-Augmented Collaborative OSINT Investigations for Vulnerability Assessment (Under Revision at CHI 2025)
A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Venkatagiri, K. Luther. 2024. OSINT Research Studios: A Flexible Crowdsourcing Framework to Scale Up Open Source Intelligence Investigations. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8.CSCW1 (2024): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637382 (CSCW 2024)
S. Venkatagiri, A. Mukhopadhyay, K. Luther. 2023. CoSINT: Designing a Collaborative Capture the Flag Competition to Investigate Misinformation. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2551–2572. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595997 (DIS 2023)
Download my resumé
- Human-AI Collaboration
- Crowdsourcing
- Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2021 - Present
Virginia Tech
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M.S. in Computer Science, 2021 - 2023
Virginia Tech
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Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014 - 2018
Jadavpur University, India
Skills
Agentic Workflows, LLM APIs, Django, REST APIs, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, React
Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, ANOVA, Seaborn, Matplotlib
Co-design, Design-based Research, Scenario-based Design, Research through Design, Contextual Inquiry, Human-Centered Design
Journey Mapping, Contextual Inquiry and Analysis, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Survey Design, Semi-structured Interview, Thematic Analysis
Experience
- Research Assistant at the Crowd Intelligence Lab with Dr. Kurt Luther.
- Relevant Coursework - Human-AI Interaction, Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Usability Engineering, Computer Supported Collaborative
Responsibilities included:
- Lead a generative research study on trust in Copilot-driven AI experiences
- Develop a scenario-based study design on the effectiveness, preferred methods of interaction, and potential issues in three information worker scenarios
- Present recommendations for system relevance, transparency, human control, and data privacy
Responsibilities included:
- Explore 3D map interactions in Mixed Reality through a human-centered approach
- Identify challenges, brainstorm ideas, prototype and evaluate intuitive navigation interactions for Hololens 2
Responsibilities included:
- Full stack development using C#, React, Python
- Improvement of service reliability and API performance
- Proof of concept for auto-tagging feature in SharePoint
Projects
Human-AI Interaction Course project 2021
We design a notebook to allow the user to upload an image of a person and modify the pose of that person by dragging and dropping body joints.
We use CoCosNet-v2 to synthesize the image of the reposed person. We use OpenPose to extract the pose of the person. We use IPython widgets to enable interaction with the extracted pose.
Contact
- anirban@vt.edu
- 15404493700
- Blacksburg, VA 24060
- Connect with me on LinkedIn