Dhruv Kumar

I am currently an assistant professor at BITS Pilani. I am currently on leave from IIIT Delhi where I have been since 2022. I continue to collaborate closely with students and faculty members at IIIT Delhi.

Before joining IIIT Delhi, I was a Post-Doc Researcher at Microsoft Research. Prior to Post-Doc, I completed my PhD under Abhishek Chandra in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. During my PhD, I also collaborated with Ramesh Sitaraman at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Long time back, I graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani.

I consider myself a scientist before a computer scientist. Hence, I am interested in solving real life problems even if they are simple and/or not strictly related to computer science. I am particularly interested in solving problems which are specific to developing countries such as India.

As part of computer science research, I am primarily interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Computing Education and ICT4D. Sometimes, I also work on Distributed Systems, Data Analytics and Machine Learning.