education & experience

Responsible Computing Group, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy · Supervisor: Asia Biega

Research: Understanding ownership frameworks in GenAI systems

Thesis: To Consent or Not to Consent: Analyzing the Account Aggregator (AA) Ecosystem Using Puttaswamy Principles. Supervisor: Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala

Relevant modules: Technology and Human Rights · Law, Policy, and Ethics · Anthropology of Capital and Mass Media · State, Market, and Economy · Data, Research Design, and Descriptive Methods · Causal and Inferential Methods

Relevant modules: Intellectual Property Law · Law of Contracts · Jurisprudence · Constitutional law · Legal Writing · Drafting, Pleading, and Conveyancing

Volunteer project: Transcribing interviews on willingness to share Aadhaar with healthcare providers at the National AIDS Research Institute

Enrolled in the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Worked as a subject matter expert on gig work in the Employment Working Group at the G20 Summit 2023; co-drafted outcome policy documents and supported delegate negotiations.

Gained direct exposure to how platform governance questions get negotiated into actual multilateral policy text.

Analyzed 120+ stakeholder interviews across the platform economy; co-authored the Fairwork Y3/Y4 India reports; vetted worker agreements with Swiggy, Zomato, UC, and Flipkart.

Used semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis methods to conduct a large-scale qualitative interview study.

Mixed-methods research on science, technology, and innovation (STI) diplomacy and AI in foreign ministry operations, using conceptual modeling, Twitter text analysis, and R for data visualization.

Applied conceptual modeling and text analysis to foreign policy data.

Drafted a police training manual on gender-based violence, implemented across 200+ police stations in Bihar, as part of an RCT that was testing the efficacy of a novel police program.

Drafted a training manual that had real-world implementation at scale.

Conducted and analyzed interviews with women domestic and care workers, as well as platform executives in Bangalore, to draft a structured observational guide covering the business models of 50+ online platforms and their adherence to labour laws.

Early experience in qualitative interviewing and structured comparative analysis.

Managed the Trademark Prosecution department, handling a collective IP portfolio of 50+ clients; assisted in civil litigation, litigation drafting, caveat filings, and due diligence.

Managed 150+ client portfolio across trademark prosecution and industrial design; drafted and negotiated 100+ commercial contracts, including privacy policies.

Awarded Remarkable Record of Performance (Q2/Q3 2018).

Built years of hands-on IP prosecution experience, now grounding current research on ownership frameworks in AI ecosystems.

Assisted on cyber law matters, developed training materials for cyber law awareness; vetted and drafted anti–sexual harassment workplace policies and related training materials.

Drafted and vetted commercial agreements, legal notices, and MoUs; supported litigation drafting.