Taneea Agrawaal - Doctoral Researcher SRI Graduate Affiliate

Taneea Agrawaal

Doctoral Researcher SRI Graduate Affiliate

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Taneea Agrawaal is a doctoral researcher in Computer Science at the University of Toronto specializing in human-centered climate research that blends HCI, participatory design, and explainable AI to make climate data and models more place-based and environmentally just. With 11 years of experience spanning research, industry (Goldman Sachs), and open-source contributions, she combines rigorous academic inquiry with practical full-stack development—her GitHub work improving UI and account flows in the notable OpenFarm project illustrates this blend. Advised by climate and computing scholars, her dissertation reframes climate technologies around critical data practices and community participation rather than purely technical optimization. An active advocate for diversity in tech and longtime open-source contributor, she leverages organizational and editorial roles (ACM-W newsletter) to amplify inclusive practices in computing. Unusually for a climate-focused researcher, she brings prior finance industry experience and a hacker’s curiosity—preferring a laptop, a puzzle, and coffee—to bridge domain knowledge, systems thinking, and hands-on engineering.

11 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Toronto

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Graduate Senior Seconday Education from C.B.S.E(XIIth Pass), Graduate Senior Seconday Education from C.B.S.E(XIIth Pass) at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

English, Hindi, Punjabi

Github Skills (12)

html10

uid10

rails10

front-end-development10

ui-design10

ruby-on-rails10

erb10

angularjs9

javascript8

rspec7

garden4

agriculture4

Programming languages (5)

ShellHTMLPerlJupyter NotebookRuby

Github contributions (5)

openfarmcc/OpenFarm

Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:94 commits, 18 PRs, 69 comments in 6 months

Contributions summary:Taneea primarily focused on improving the user interface and front-end elements of the application, specifically related to guide creation and display. They added and modified HTML and Ruby code to implement features such as guide creation links, tag styling, and image display using a lightbox directive, enhancing the user experience. Additionally, the user contributed to back-end code, improving user account confirmation flows and incorporating unit tests to ensure code reliability.

gardeningknowledgerailsplantsdatabase

TanSA05/OpenFarm

Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

Contributions:97 pushes, 27 branches, 2 comments in 6 months

gardeningknowledgedatabasefarminggrow

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