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I am a doctoral student advised by Dr. David Ribes at the department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle).

I study the intersections of power, scientific knowledge, technological systems, and organizations.
Currently, I inspect the organizational processes and assembly of networks through which social critique is translated and eventually transformed into novel technical capacities.


I also build multimedia projects.

Publications

1. (forthcoming) Sayan Bhattacharjee and David Ribes. 2025. Technical Responses To Critique: The Case Of Skin Tone. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages.[Honorable Mention]
2. Pooja Upadhyay, Sayan Bhattacharjee, and Shreyasha Paudel. 2024. Positionality of Re-searchers Identifying with the "Global South": Shared Heritages, Ways of Thinking and Doing Research. In Companion of the 2024 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24), November 9–13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages.

                               

Recent Work

Since joining the doctoral program at HCDE in 2021, I have worked on several projects such as a qualitative researcher: 

• Community Perspectives on Offshore Wind with Dr. Shana Lee Hirsch (2024 - 2025)
  
• the Production of Astronomical Knowledge in LSST with Dr. Anissa Tanweer (2023)
  
• An Unrepresentative  Democracy: How Disinformation and Online Abuse Hinder Women of Color Political Candidates in the United States with the Center For Democracy and Technology (2022) 
• the research infrastructures of MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS) with Dr. David Ribes (2021)
  

I have also been the Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate level (500) courses: 

• HCDE 519: Qualitative Research Methods with Caitie Lustig
  
• HCDE 508: Visual Communication Design with Chad Hall.
  

Conferences and Workshops

1. AAS 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, March 2025, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Presented paper "Skin and Tones: Translating the Social in Consumer Smartphone Camera Technologies" in the “Fields of Translation: Navigating Knowledge, Power and Culture in Contemporary India” panel.
2. HCIC 2024 Human-Computer Interaction Consortium Workshop, June 23-27, 2024, Delavan, Wisconsin, USA. Theme: "Future and History of HCI". HCIC is a prestigious invitation-only consortium bringing together leading researchers to discuss emerging themes and future directions in human-computer interaction.
3. 4S 2023 (Online) Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, November 8-11, 2023, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Attended virtually.
4. CSCW 2023 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, October 14-18, 2023, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Attended and presented an extended abstract at Historicism in/as CSCW Method: Research, Sensibilities, and Design workshop.
5. IAMCR OCP 2023 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, July 9-13, 2023, Lyon, France. Virtually presented research paper titled "A Critical Inquiry into Computational Photography" in the Mediated Communication, Public Opinion, and Society section.
   

Earlier Work

Previously, I worked as Project Manager (Production) at the Center for Education Innovation and Action Researchin Mumbai, India on their CLIx project. I also worked as an ethnographer with the For Digital Dignity project. I cherish the teaching-learning environment greatly: I have been actively engaged in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level since 2019.