Microsoft (Xbox), Redmond, USA

UX Research Intern | June 2024 - September 2024

• Conducted 13 usability studies to understand pain-points and opportunities for parental controls in video games.
• Initiated strategy for merging Microsoft's 6 parental control end-points into a single streamlined application.
• Established a taxonomy of mental models around parental controls and parenting styles for future designers and stakeholders to design video game parental controls.

GUII Lab, UCSC

Research Intern | September 2021 - Present

• Conducted 10 User Interviews with cultural stakeholders to establish a design framework for referencing cultural elements in video games, resulting in publications at CSCW'23, CHI'22, ICEC'22, and FDG'23.
• Conducted 3 large surveys, 10 player interviews, and used Statistical Methods to develop a player taxonomy that analyzes player perceptions of culture in video games.
• Conducted 2 diary studies and 2 Game Playtests for 21 days to study the correlation between video games and stress, resulting in publications in FDG'23, HCII'22, and CHI Play'22.

Meta, Menlo Park, USA

UX Research Intern | June 2022 - September 2022

• Conducted Generative Research for Facebook's Top of Home
• Conducted 12 User Interviews with Facebook users and discovered 4 major user expectations for Facebook Top of Home.
• Executed 18 Co-Design sessions and validated the design assumptions of the product design team for Facebook Top of Home.
• Prototyped 21 new experiences identified from Co-Design sessions for Facebook Top of Home.

Invento Robotics, Bangalore, India

R&D Engineer | June 2020 - March 2021; May 2018 - June 2018

• Executed 17 user interviews with stakeholders at various stages of a robot lifecycle, identifying 6 critical bottlenecks.
• Conducted card sorting to develop an information architecture module for robotic fleet management portals.
• UX insights contributed to a reduction in robot deployment time by 12 hours and increased robot fleet health by 34%.