Shyama Sastha Krishnamoorthy Srinivasan

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PhD Candidate at CHCC and IIIT-Delhi, researching with HCI + Critical Computing to design and develop an HCAI Framework for Collective Care. View/Download my CV

About Me

Hello there! I’m Sastha Srinivasan, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate (Thesis: HCAI for Collective Care) at IIIT-Delhi, co-advised by Prof. Pushpendra Singh and Prof. Mohan Kumar. With 3+ years of hands-on experience, my doctoral research focuses on leveraging AI/ML with sensing to create social impact in proactive health and wellbeing suitable to the Collective Care settings prevalent in Global South contexts like India by integrating ubiquitous computing, human–computer interaction, and artificial Intelligence. I investigate how people seek, interpret, and share health information, design culturally aware engagement systems such as TV-based interactive care for older adults, and develop GenAI-powered tools for making health information more accessible. Through my research, I aim to create deployable, context-sensitive technologies that bridge the gap between algorithmic innovation and real-world care practices.

My prior industrial experiences leading cloud products, analytics dashboards, and ML/AI pipeline deployments that saved time and money across industries support my ability to think for scale (if needed) in my research. I hold a Master’s in Computer Systems Engineering (specializing in IoT) from Northeastern University under the guidance of Prof. Peter O’Reilly, where I also interned at Bose Corporation, developing an automated testing suite for smart home security. Passionate about interdisciplinary computing research, I also work on side projects that intersect AI with computing education. In my downtime, you’ll find me enjoying strategy games (digital and tabletop), reading with a cup of cocoa, or out exploring places.

Research Interests

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[Publications]

2025

Collective Care Sample Prototype

Unpacking Personal(?!) Health Informatics: An Investigation of Awareness, Understanding, And Leveraged Utility in India

SS K Srinivasan, M Kumar, P Singh

CSCW, 2025

Understanding people's PHI use and ways to operationalize tech for Collective Care.

[PDF] | [DOI]
TIES

Leveraging Familiarity with Television to Enrich Older Adults' Engagement and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study Using Video Probes

SS K Srinivasan, M Kumar, P Singh

CSCW, 2025

Exploring the use of TV for older adults' social connectedness, security, and wellbeing.

[PDF] | [DOI]
Mental Health LLM

Demystifying Mental Health Reports Through an LLM-based Approach

SS K Srinivasan, A Bahadur, S Singh, S K Gupta, V Jain, K S Deb, M Kumar, P Singh

CHI EA, 2025

Simplifying mental health diagnoses for patients and providing summaries for doctors.

[PDF] | [DOI]

2024

BLIPS Bluetooth Locator

BLIPS: Bluetooth Locator for Indoor Positioning

SS K Srinivasan, S Singh, P Singh, M Kumar

ACM COMPASS, 2024

Evaluating a BLE locator using AoA for real-time indoor positioning with high accuracy.

[PDF] | [DOI]
Hybrid Teaching Report

Experience Report on Teaching Hybrid Mode

SS K Srinivasan, A Gupta, P Jalote

SIGCSE TS, 2024

Exploring hybrid teaching for an introductory programming course.

[PDF] | [DOI]

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Teaching

Services

Reviewing and Program Committees (PC)