Ila Kumar
Graduate Research Assistant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIla Kumar is a PhD student and research engineer designing trauma-responsive socio-digital interventions that support youth well-being, with nine years of experience spanning UX, product, and applied research. Based at MIT after MS work in Affective Computing, she blends therapeutic best practices, co-design, and iterative prototyping to create digital spaces that help marginalized young people express themselves and form supportive connections. Her background ranges from building tutoring and counseling platforms at UPchieve to matching socioemotional research in K-12 settings at Character Lab, giving her both engineering chops and deep domain expertise in safety-centered design. Ila’s work is notable for centering reciprocity and healing-centered frameworks—she continually reflects on her role in practice and prioritizes partnerships with the communities she serves.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Lifelong Kindergarten group, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Lifelong Kindergarten group at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Germantown Friends SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), major in Psychology, minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), major in Psychology, minor in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
socket-io10
mongoose10
webpack10
vue9
javascript8
nodejs8
react8
mongodb8
gitlab6
typescript3
nextjs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UPchieve/web
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Online real-time tutoring platform
Contributions:123 commits, 41 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 4 months
real-timereactsocket-iotutoringjavascript
ilakumar/wellness-project
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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