I’m Sachita, and I am PhDing at Northwestern University in Technology and Social Behaviour, a joint PhD program spanning Communication Studies 💬 and Computer Science 🖥️.

I work right at the intersection of human-computer interaction and journalism, and design interactive AI-based systems that help science and tech journalists explore newsworthy scientific research, and offer supports for brainstorming around it for their reporting. Doing this work at a communication school is super interesting: it means I am nudged to design and devise HCI/AI/NLP-based solutions based on problems people actually face, as well as loop back to study their impacts on these communities.

Beyond my research, I also enjoy reading, watching films (and reviewing them on Letterboxd), amateur photography, and tennis! I help run the HCI + Design book club at Northwestern, and also log the books I read on here.

In 2020, I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering at BITS Pilani’s Goa Campus in India, which is a beautiful place. It’s really heaven on earth, if there is any. I feel incredibly lucky I got to experience this :) I also conducted research at other pretty campuses, such as Microsoft Research India (virtually, boo!), Northwestern University, IISc Bangalore, IISER Pune, and IIT Madras.