XRDS About Us

XRDS: About Us

Editors-in-Chiefs	Karan Ahuja Ross Teixeira
Web Editor	Gaurang Bansal
Feature Editors	Jiayi Li Joewie Koh Cathy Fang Sainyam Galhotra Jasmine Lu Muskaan Chopra Raiful Hasan
Department Editors	Anukruti Mathur Jasmine DeHart Jayati Dev Soumyasnigdha Kundu Kun Jin Manandeep Tejas Morkar Ashka Shah Nupur Shiturkar Arbert Hao
Digital Content Editor
Special Projects Editors
Bloggers
Departments Chief
News Editors
Social Media Editor
XRDS Alumni	Diane Golay, Travis Faas, Bryan Knowles, Gierad Laput, Oana Niculaescu, Anshuman Majumdar, Parang Saraf, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Apoorva Bhalla, Judeth Oden Choi, Eliezer Bernart, Talia Kohen, Gunnar Wolf, Jeremy Warner, Cori Faklaris, Ophir Friedler, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Jennifer Jacobs, Okke Schrijvers, JHarsh Thakkar,Nidhi Rastogi, Yang Shen, Shefali Bhatnagar, Vasileios Kalantzis, Alok Pandey, Anirvana Mishra, Apoorvaa Singh, Asmaa Rabie, Billy Rathje, Chris Harrison, Daniel Gooch, Derek Bronish, Dmitry Batenkov, Doris Lee, Erin Carson, Fahad Khalid, Finn Kuusisto, Gideon Juve, Hanieh Moshki, Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Jason Thibodeau, Marinka Zitnik, Michael Bernstein, Poornima Kalyan Sundaram, Richard Gomer, Rob Simmons, Rohit Goyal, Roger Finnegan, Ryan K.L.Ko, Sean Follmer, Sergiy Bogomolov, Sumit Narayan, Shudong Hao, Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne, Tom Bartindale, Vaggelis Giannikas, Vicente Garcia Diaz, Peter Kinnaird, Derek Bronish, James Stanier, Malay Bhattacharyya, Marius-Tudor Benea, Anirban Basu, Jed Brubaker, Ben Deverett, Daniel Gooch, Debarka Sengupta, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Hannah Pileggi, Somdip Dey, Shawn Freeman, Luigi De Russis, John Kloosterman, Michael Zuba, Ryan Kelly, Virginie Lerays, Arka Bhattacharya, Shelby Solomon Darnell, Claudia Schulz, David Byrd, Jay Patel, Veronica Estrada-Galinanes, Soumya Jindal, Tejas Khot, Nur Al-Huda Hamdan, Adrian Scoica, Pedro Lopes, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Maria Kechagia, Norene Kelly, Prachi Kumar, Olivia Simpson, Udayan Umapathi, Darshit Patel, David Guerra, Abdelrahman Hosny, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Vassilios Karakoidas, Wolfgang Richter, Abhineet Saxena, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Gunnar Wolf, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Daniela Zieba, Amari Lewis, Jovian Anthony Jaison, Henri Maxime Demoulin, Numair Khan, Sepideh Maleki, Johanna Schacht

	Karan Ahuja Carnegie Mellon University, USA Co-Editor-in-Chief Karan is a Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He uses his background in computer vision, signal processing and applied machine learning to create novel sensing and interaction technologies. This enables a broad range of applications spanning across various domains, including augmented & virtual reality, health monitoring, activity recognition and context-aware computing. He is a Siebel Scholar and the Editor-in-Chief of XRDS (formerly Crossroads), a flagship student-led magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). His research has been widely disseminated, being covered by TechCrunch, Engadget, NPR, Fast Company, Collegiate Inventors Competition and ScienceDaily among others.
	Ross Teixeira Princeton University, USA Co-Editor-in-Chief Ross Teixeira is a second-year Ph.D. candidate at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and a Siebel Scholar. His work measures internet infrastructure to answer pressing public policy questions intersecting society and the internet, with an emphasis on privacy, access, and bias against marginalized groups.

	Gaurang Bansal National University of Singapore, Singapore Web Editor Gaurang Bansal is doctoral student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under Prof. Biplab Sikdar at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a recipient of the President Graduate Fellowship, 2020. He is also currently serving as Web Editor for ACM XRDS Magazine. Previously, he had completed his Master’s and Bachelor’s from BITS Pilani in 2020 & 2018, respectively. He is currently working on designing “Scalable Authentication Solutions for UAV Networks”. Having worked as mentor at IoT lab, BITS Pilani (2017-2020), with Dr. Vinay Chamola, his research interests also includes IoT, network security, blockchain, machine learning, and operating systems

	Anukruti Mathur University Of Petroleum and Energy Studies India Department Editor Anukruti Mathur, 20, is a vivid young writer, prolific speaker, and an exuberant debater. She is pursuing her graduation in Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology from the University Of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. Her primary interests include cloud computing, fog computing, software engineering, and open-source standards. Head girl in her school days, she has very distinctive administrating and organizing capabilities. Winner of several writing contests, she was declared the best speaker at Youth Parliament organized by leading Hindi national daily of the country.
	Soumyasnigdha Kundu SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India Department Editor Soumya is a final Year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. His research focuses around deep learning and computer vision and applying the same to medical image analysis and high energy physics problems. He enjoys listening to music and trying out different cuisines in his leisure time
	Manandeep Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India Department Editor Manandeep is a final year undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India. His topics of interest include Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. In leisure time, he enjoys listening to music, travelling and learning French language
	Ashka Shah University of Chicago Department Editor Ashka Shah is a 3rd year computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. She studies deep learning methods and explainability in drug discovery, and is more broadly interested in AI methods for science. She enjoys listening to science podcasts and baking banana bread.
	Nupur Shiturkar Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India Department Editor Nupur Shiturkar am a final year computer engineering undergraduate studying at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India. I have worked as the President of the PCCoE ACM-W Student Chapter in my third year. I love to get involved in extracurricular activities, have been a part of student development groups since school, and have even got opportunities to lead some of them. My topics of interest include web development and cybersecurity. I am currently studying Machine Learning as part of my final year project. In my free time, I like to record songs on karaoke or learn a dance routine.
	Albert hao Columbia University, USA Department Editor Albert Hao is a sophomore at Columbia University, studying Computer Science. He has worked on frontend/backend web development, machine learning, data science, and databases. He is also a student entrepreneur and has worked on a few startup projects, like OnTrack, an AI productivity app, and Entredev, a business development platform. He serves on Columbia's Interschool Governing Board, Columbia College Student Council, and University Life Events Council. Albert enjoys biking, lifting, reading, and playing volleyball in his free time.
	Joewie Koh University of Colorado Boulder, USA Feature Editor Joewie is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder mentored by Prof. Alessandro Roncone. In the Human Interaction and Robotics Group, he works primarily on problems at the intersection of robotics and reinforcement learning. He is also a student researcher in the NSF AI Institute for Student–AI Teaming, where he is developing an interactive AI partner for the classroom. Joewie is a graduate of Reed College [B.A. Mathematics], the University of London [BSc (Hons) Economics], and the Georgia Institute of Technology [M.S. Computer Science].
	Cathy Fang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Feature Editor Mengying (Cathy) Fang is an incoming graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She has received Best Paper recognition from ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020. Her research interest is in how spatial and context-aware computing experiences connect people and allow us to better explore the world.
	Raiful Hasan University of Alabama, Birmingham Feature Editor Raiful Hasan is a doctoral student in computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is NSF GRSP (ALEPSCoR) Scholar and working in UAB Secure & Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab). His research interests lie broadly at the intersection of mobile and wearable computing, human-computer interaction, Internet of Things, and smart city, with a focus on distracted pedestrian safety and bystanders privacy. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka (DU) in Bangladesh.
	Sainyam Galhotra University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Feature Editor Sainyam Galhotra is a PhD student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include data integration, clustering and fairness. He is a recipient of the “Best Paper Award” at FSE 2017 and the “Most Reproducible Award” at SIGMOD 2018 and 2019. He is the first recipient of the “Krithi Ramamritham Scholarship” at UMass for contribution to research in databases. In his free time, Sainyam likes to hike and play squash.
	Jasmine Lu University of Chicago, USA Feature Editor Jasmine Lu is a Human Computer Interaction PhD student at the University of Chicago. Her research revolves around wearables and haptics with a broader interest in how devices can alter conceptions of the boundaries between our bodies, machines, and nature. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion in computing as well as imagining alternative futures through technology. When relaxing, she loves to watch movies and doodle.
	Muskaan Chopra Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Feature Editor Muskaan Chopra is a UG Scholar at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh with a focus on Computer Science. She is currently leading the ACM Student Chapter of her college as the Chairperson. She is a very enthusiastic researcher and technical writer working in the field of data science and machine learning, and has published research papers in various international conferences and journals. She enjoys graphic designing and animations.