I am a fifth-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 Ph.D. 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. My research has been published at top-tier HCI conferences like CHI, CSCW, and DIS.

I have expertise in building and deploying technological probes to tailor the use of AI tools in collaborative and creative tasks. I am looking for Research Internships for Summer '25.

Publications

1. A. Mukhopadhyay, K. Luther. 2025. OSINT Clinic: Co-designing AI-Augmented Collaborative OSINT Investigations for Vulnerability Assessment. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 22 pages. (CHI 2025)
   

   • Introduces an OSINT clinic where students engage in real-world investigations, developing technical and collaborative skills.
   • Evaluates the impact of LLMs in skill acquisition, team dynamics, and cybersecurity vulnerability assessments.
   
   

2. A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Venkatagiri, K. Luther. 2024. OSINT Research Studios: A Flexible Crowdsourcing Framework to Scale Up Open Source Intelligence Investigations. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8.CSCW1 (2024): 1-38. (CSCW 2024)
   

   • Introduces OSINT Research Studios (ORS), a framework enabling collaboration between experts and trained novices for OSINT investigations.
   • Evaluates the system's ability to structure investigations into macrotasks, supporting high-quality, ethical outcomes and skill development.
   
   

3. S. Venkatagiri, A. Mukhopadhyay, K. Luther. 2023. CoSINT: Designing a Collaborative Capture the Flag Competition to Investigate Misinformation. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2551–2572. (DIS 2023)
   

   • Introduces collaborative capture-the-flag competitions (CoCTFs) as a method to enhance crowdsourced investigations of misinformation.
   • CoSINT, the platform implementation, merges competition and collaboration through structured workflows, gamified incentives, and knowledge sharing.

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