Biography
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where I am advised by Dr. Kurt Luther in the Crowd Intelligence Lab. I have software engineering and design research experience at Microsoft based on internship and full-time roles. I obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.
In my research, I take a mixed-methods approach that combines my skills in software development and human-computer interaction. I design sociotechnical systems that support and transform real-world investigations involving publicly available information (OSINT). My ongoing research focuses on generating and evaluating design ideas for Generative AI to address technical and collaborative challenges with OSINT investigations. Overall, I am interested in developing effective human-AI interactions for complex, collaborative work.
Publications
A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Venkatagiri, K. Luther. 2024. OSINT Research Studios: A Flexible Crowdsourcing Framework to Scale Up Open Source Intelligence Investigations. arXiv:2401.00928 (Forthcoming at 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 Interaction
- Crowdsourcing
- Future of Work
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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
Django, REST APIs, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, React, Heroku app hosting
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