Sruti Ragavan
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolSruti Ragavan is an HCI and software engineering researcher and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at IIT Kanpur with 13 years of industry and academic experience bridging practical development and user-centered research. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, theoretical analysis, computational modeling, and tool-building to improve how programmers find and work with code, including novel contributions like a theory of variations for version-foraging. She held a postdoc at Microsoft Research Cambridge and earned multiple Best Paper awards during her PhD at Oregon State, reflecting strong publication impact in HCI/SE venues. A former application developer at Thoughtworks, she brings product-minded engineering experience to her lab, where she is actively recruiting students. Notably, she blends deep theoretical thinking with hands-on system design—making her research both conceptually rigorous and immediately useful to developers.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sri Sankara Vidyalaya, Tambaram, ChennaiComputer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
Sanskrit, Tamil, English
Github Skills (14)
predictive9
scriptcs8
factor8
csx8
theory8
nuget6
csharp5
machine-learning5
dotnet5
roslyn4
text-editor4
philosophy2
relational-algebra2
edtech1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IFT-SE/pfis3
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:148 commits, 1 PR, 110 pushes in 3 years 4 months
predictive-modelsfactormastermachine-learningpredictive
sruti-s-ragavan/sruti-s-ragavan.github.io
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Academic web page
Contributions:8 pushes in 6 months
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