Technology and societal impact
I am passionate about using technology for greater social good. As one focus, I have worked on improving mental health outreach through technology. Check out the MindNotes app for mental health, built in collaboration with NIMHANS hospital.
I also work on how machine learning systems can be used to optimize the reach or impact of societal interventions.
Improving mental health awareness and support through technology
- Helping improve the efficacy of mental health helplines in India (Pendse et al., 2021; Pendse et al., 2020)
- Enabling ‘moments of change’ in online peer support forums (Pruksachatkun et al., 2019; Pendse et al., 2019; Saha & Sharma, 2020; Sharma et al., 2020; Kushner & Sharma, 2020)
- The role of technology in improving mental health outcomes (missing reference)
Optimizing public awareness and government health programs
- Learn2Earn: mobile airtime incentives for public awareness campaigns (Swaminathan et al., 2019; Mehta et al., 2020; Mothilal et al., 2019)
- Suggesting who to prioritize for healthcare workers to maximize tuberculosis medicine adherence (Killian et al., 2019)
Computational social science
- Predicting history: Predicting historical events before they happen (Risi et al., 2019)
- The challenges of prediction and explanation in social systems (Hofman et al., 2017; Martin et al., 2016)
References
- CHI 2021“Can I Not Be Suicidal on a Sunday?”: Understanding Technology-Mediated Pathways to Mental Health SupportIn Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2021
- CHI 2020“Like shock absorbers”: Understanding the human infrastructures of technology-mediated mental health supportIn Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2020
- CHI 2019Moments of Change: Analyzing Peer-Based Cognitive Support in Online Mental Health ForumsIn Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2019
- CSCW 2019Cross-Cultural Differences in the Use of Online Mental Health Support ForumsProc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Nov 2019
- ICWSM 2020Causal Factors of Effective Psychosocial Outcomes in Online Mental Health CommunitiesProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2020
- ICWSM 2020Engagement patterns of peer-to-peer interactions on mental health platformsProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2020
- WWW 2020Bursts of Activity: Temporal Patterns of Help-Seeking and Support in Online Mental Health ForumsIn Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020, Apr 2020
- CSCW 2019Learn2Earn: Using Mobile Airtime Incentives to Bolster Public Awareness CampaignsProc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Nov 2019
- COMPASS 2019Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the FieldIn Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Jul 2020
- COMPASS 2019Optimizing peer referrals for public awareness using contextual banditsIn Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Jul 2019
- KDD 2019Learning to Prescribe Interventions for Tuberculosis Patients Using Digital Adherence DataIn Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Jul 2019
- Nature Human Behav.Predicting historyNature Human Behaviour, Jun 2019
- SciencePrediction and explanation in social systemsIn Science, Jun 2017
- WWW 2016Exploring limits to prediction in complex social systems: Predicting cascade size on twitterIn Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, Apr 2016