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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. Before joining Aalto, I worked as a Digital Futures postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University in Sweden, after completing my Ph.D. at Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India.

I work in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design for health and wellbeing. I design and develop user-centered technologies that facilitate a deeper understanding of the body, moving beyond clinical metrics to foster a more meaningful relationship with personal health.

My work challenges traditional health paradigms by centering the lived experience through qualitatively examining the sociocultural complexities that shape health and how individuals attend to their bodily needs and through designing technologies and interactions that foregrounds the richness of embodied, somatic experience of connecting with oneself. This includes engaging with critical feminist perspectives, soma design, and research-through-design methods.

My recent work explores how we can design soft wearables to support bodily changes across life stages, particularly those associated with reproductive cycles and beyond. This research addresses the design of wearables that interact intimately with the body, alongside the interaction design challenges of supporting the dynamics of body movement and rhythm. The work is situated at the intersection of soma design, machine learning and haptics/wearables.

Much of my work has focused on women’s health across diverse global contexts. I have extensively worked on maternal and child health, breastfeeding, and intimate health. My research on improving training and learning opportunities for community health workers, known as ASHAs, in India received the Grand Challenges Award (Round 20) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.