Manaswi Saha
Principal Researcher (Research Manager) at Accenture
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolManaswi Saha is an Associate Principal Researcher at Accenture Labs with 10 years of applied R&D experience designing human-centered technology for collaborative decision-making and future workplace experiences. With dual PhD training from University of Maryland and University of Washington, she blends rigorous HCI methods, crowdsourcing, and geovisualization to translate complex stakeholder needs—especially around urban accessibility—into deployable tools and policy-relevant insights. Her work spans academia and industry, from leading Project Sidewalk’s city-scale accessibility data efforts to prototyping AI- and audio-enabled navigation aids for people with visual disabilities. Based in San Francisco, she brings deep multidisciplinary collaboration experience, having partnered with policymakers, disability advocates, and product teams to surface usable, equitable interactions for emerging technologies. An interesting throughline in her career is turning grassroots data collection into civic impact, demonstrating a rare mix of technical engineering, field deployment, and stakeholder-driven design.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School, High School at Cathedral Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at University of MumbaiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of MarylandMaster of Computer Applications, Master of Computer Applications at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Bengali, Hindi, Korean
Github Skills (4)
accessibility10
openstreetmap10
google-streetview10
react9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manaswisaha/manaswisaha.github.io
Mar 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
manaswis/cse-550
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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