1. Community GIS

    1. Researched the need

    2. Led the development

    3. Led a workshop

  2. MakerGhat -

    1. Teaching

    2. Mentoring

  3. ACM SIGCHI summer school - New Delhi Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI

    1. Hosted by Google, Microsoft Research and SIGCHI

    2. Led a session on the work at MakerGhat

MakerGhat - IIT Bombay

During the summer of 2019 I interned at MakerGhat, a maker-space serving the urban poor of Bombay through a partnership between IIT Bombay and Georgia Tech. I worked on a variety of projects at both MakerGhat and IIT Bombay and attended the ACM SIGCHI summer school Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI in New Delhi.

1. Community GIS

Led a team in architecting, designing and developing a GIS (Geographic Information System) to share civic data with the citizens who it impacted. Government and IIT Bombay research data on road quality, water access and sanitation was converted into Shapefiles, a geospatial vector data format, and uploaded to the online repository and visualization tool we built.

I met with the a number of university labs at IIT Bombay and KJ Somaiya College of Engineering to understand the research data they wished to tag geospatially and share. Pictured here is the CTARA lab at IIT Bombay.

I met with the a number of university labs at IIT Bombay and KJ Somaiya College of Engineering to understand the research data they wished to tag geospatially and share. Pictured here is the CTARA lab at IIT Bombay.

Here is the development team in our workspace, taking a break to eat together. Development work was divided between building the Community GIS platform and tagging civic data geospatially to create Shapefiles.

Here is the development team in our workspace, taking a break to eat together. Development work was divided between building the Community GIS platform and tagging civic data geospatially to create Shapefiles.

We architected a solution that used Geoserver and PostgreSQL hosted on a server at IIT Bombay as our backend repository for GIS layers. The frontend was built using Geonode, Django and Leaflet.JS and used existing Geoserver web services to communica…

We architected a solution that used Geoserver and PostgreSQL hosted on a server at IIT Bombay as our backend repository for GIS layers. The frontend was built using Geonode, Django and Leaflet.JS and used existing Geoserver web services to communicate with the database.

This is the repository of geospatial layers that can be tagged to aid with filtering and sorting.

This is the repository of geospatial layers that can be tagged to aid with filtering and sorting.

This is an example of the visualization map data for a single layer.

This is an example of the visualization map data for a single layer.

Click here for the current, live version of the website. *Note this project is ongoing and the nature of the website may change

2. MakerGhat

Besides working on the Community GIS project I mentored young adults, taught English and led a workshop on GIS applications for social sciences.

The Makerghat community

The Makerghat community

Teaching English to gradeschool children

Teaching English to gradeschool children

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Visited homes

Visited homes

Led hikes and other events

Led hikes and other events

Led a session on the Community GIS project as part of the workshop GIS Application for Social Sciences at IIT Bombay

Led a session on the Community GIS project as part of the workshop GIS Application for Social Sciences at IIT Bombay

3. Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI

Attended the ACM, SIGCHI summer school Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI in New Delhi. Led a session on the work at MakerGhat and was also an MC and student volunteer.

This event was hosted by Google, Microsoft Research and SIGCHI

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