Dishita Turakhia - Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Dishita Turakhia

Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

New York, New York, United States

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Dishita Turakhia is an HCI researcher and faculty member whose work sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Learning Sciences, focused on designing systems that teach physical skills—from motor and fabrication skills to maker practices—using ubiquitous sensing, AR/VR/XR, and generative AI. She earned a PhD in EECS from MIT with a minor in Brain and Cognitive Science and holds multiple master’s degrees bridging computation and architecture, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor and spatial-design sensibility. Her lab-scale entrepreneurship includes raising over $2.2M in grants (including NSF awards and MIT ILI support) and a Meta PhD Research Fellowship, signaling both scholarly impact and fundable, applied directions. Before academia she practiced as a licensed architect and co-led a design firm, contributing computational design and award-winning projects across London, Singapore, Bern and Mumbai. Now based in New York as HCI faculty at NYU Tandon, she brings eight years of interdisciplinary research and industry experience to building immersive, practice-oriented learning technologies. A less obvious strength is her ability to translate architectural fabrication workflows into sensor-driven learning interventions, enabling novel ways to teach hands-on skills.

8 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MSc (Distinction) EmTech (Emergent Technologies and Design), MSc (Distinction) EmTech (Emergent Technologies and Design) at Architectural Association

B.Arch (First Class) Design and Planning, B.Arch (First Class) Design and Planning at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies

Exchange Student Architecture, Exchange Student Architecture at HTA-BE Hochschule für Technik und Architektur Bern

English

Github Skills (4)

hci10

react7

javascript7

fabrication4

Programming languages (1)

HTML

Github contributions (2)

HCIELab/hcielab.github.io

Oct 2018 - Jun 2022

HCI Engineering group official website

Contributions:105 commits, 68 pushes in 3 years 8 months

reactjavascriptcss3hciengineering

HCIELab/fabpub

Nov 2017 - Nov 2018

Personal Fabrication Research in HCI and Graphics: An Overview of Related Work

Contributions:14 pushes in 11 months

hcifabricationgraphics

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