Aditya Vashistha is an Assistant Professor at Cornell’s Ann S. Bowers College of Computing with a decade of experience bridging machine learning, human-computer interaction, and ICT for development. He earned his MS and PhD from the University of Washington and has a track record of translating research into real-world systems—from IVR Junction voice forums deployed across multiple countries to the Swara Android app enabling rural communities to curate and access content. His work at Microsoft Research and in collaborations with IIT Bombay focused on scalable crowdsourcing, community moderation, and voice-based social media for underserved populations. Comfortable moving between field deployments and rigorous experiments, he combines deep technical expertise with empathy-driven design to tackle access and inclusion challenges. Based in Ithaca, he brings both academic rigor and product-mindedness to projects that measurably increase information access in low-resource contexts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, 3.9, Masters of Science, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Washington
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, 9.3, Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, 9.3 at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
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Aditya Vashistha - Assistant Professor at Cornell University