👋🏽 I design and evaluate sociotechnical systems to support expert-led crowdsourcing, collective action, and content moderation.
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science with a focus in HCI at Virginia Tech where I’m advised by Dr. Kurt Luther in the Crowd Intelligence Lab. In my research, I take a mixed-methods approach that draws upon my training in computer science and human–computer interaction. I first conduct qualitative inquiry of collective action “in the wild.” Next, I build social computing and crowdsourcing tools that introduce new social dynamics. I then empirically evaluate these tools through experiments, log analysis, user studies, and longitudinal deployments.
Here is my CV. You can also view a full list of my publications here or view them on my Google Scholar profile. My email address is sukrit at vt dot edu.
News: Full paper accepted to CHI 2022 titled “Compete, Collaborate, Investigate: Exploring the Social Structures of Expert-led OSINT Investigations”!
Now: Using trace ethnography and social network analysis, I am studying an online community whose goal is to identify rioters who took part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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