Research, Writing & Projects
For more details on my background, head over to the CV section of the webpage.
Below is a selection of academic writings, policy briefs, and independent projects I authored or contributed to.
Supervising professors and institutions are acknowledged where relevant.
Academic Writings
To Grow or Not to Grow? Economic Growth vs. Reduction of Relative Poverty
2018 — Supervised by Prof. Arunava Sinha
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Trends in Spousal Violence and Female Labour Force Participation in India
2021 — Supervised by Prof. S.K. Ritadhi (Econometrics)
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A Game-Theoretical Approach to Understanding Basic Attention Token (BAT) & Its Influence on User Attention
2022 — Supervised by Prof. Nishant Chadha
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Inequality as Ideology and Institution: Reading Annawadi through Boo and Piketty
2020 / Updated in 2022— Supervised by Prof. Arvind Subramanian
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How Could a COVID-19 Pandemic-Wide Insurance Encourage Workers to Choose Employment?
2020 — Supervised by Prof. Ghosh (Microeconomics)
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Corporate vs. Consumer: A Case on How a Home Appliance Company Sued Its Consumer
2023 — Supervised by Dr. Lantz Fleming Miller
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AI Art and Design Perceptions: A Sociological, Philosophical, Economics and Technical Study
2020 — Supervised by Prof. Debayan Gupta
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Twitter, Stock Prices and Sentiments: Predicting the Stock Price of Twitter Inc. Using Sentiment Analysis
2022 — Supervised by Prof. Sugat Chaturvedi
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Gender and Media
2021 — Supervised by Prof. Neha Dixit
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Media and the Global War on Terror
2020 — Supervised by Prof. Maya Mirchandani
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Photography, Art, Viewing and Comparisons
2021 — Supervised by Prof. Tisha Srivastav
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Critical Review: Discrimination and Racism in The Merchant of Venice: From the 16th Century to the 21st Century
2018 — Supervised by Prof. Arunava Sinha
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Policy & Briefs
Economic Implications of WhatsApp’s Lawsuit Against the Government of India
2021 — Published by Takshashila Institution
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🎧 Apple Podcast Discussion
Cyberpolitik #2: Disentangling Civilian & Cyber Infrastructure
2021 — Published by Takshashila Institution (HighTechIR Series)
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Projects
E-Charging Infrastructure Setup at Ashoka University
2020–2022 — Spearheaded with the Pro-VC and University Founders
Led the initiative to install electric-vehicle charging stations on campus, coordinating with university leadership, vendors, and technical teams. The chargers were successfully implemented and now support sustainable transportation on campus.
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Accessible & Secure CAPTCHA Prototype
Sep 2021 – Apr 2022 — Computer Science Research. Supervised by Prof. Debayan Gupta
Developed a blind-friendly, accessible, GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA alternative. The project presents an innovative, secure CAPTCHA model through a detailed case study.
Sustainable Dance-Floor (Piezoelectricity Project)
2023 — Computation & Creativity. Supervised by Prof. Debayan Gupta
Created a functioning prototype of a piezoelectric dance-floor tile capable of converting kinetic energy into electrical output.
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Design Thinking for Climate Action (University of Toronto Collaboration)
Mar 2022 — Sustainable Development Sprint
Designed and tested prototypes addressing climate-change challenges as part of a cross-university design-thinking module.
Partition Project: Sentiment Analysis & GIS Mapping
2022 — Research Assistant to Prof. Johannes Burgers
Contributed to a digital-humanities research project analyzing pre- and post-Partition literature. Built a database by scraping textual sources, conducted sentiment analysis in R, and used GIS tools to map shifts in inter-community sentiment, highlighting increasing negative sentiment among specific religious and income groups.
Contributions
Working Paper on Governance of DCNs I: Categorisation of Harms
2021- The Takshahshila Institution. Written by Prateek Waghre & Vishal Ramprasad Contributed to the Digital Harms framework project, which involved analysing the extent of harms being attributed to DCNs (Digital Communication Networks). Working Paper Link