I'm a data journalist interested in reporting on healthcare, higher education and the South Asian diaspora, especially at the intersection of food and culture. I was a molecular biologist in a past career and a poet in a past life.
Data from the NYC Department of Records shows the gender disparity in our urban landscape with only 22% of honorarily named streets honoring women.
City inspectors find unsanitary cafeteria conditions in almost one-third of Harlem public school buildings. Schools aren't required to tell parents.
Deplatforming, or censorship by internal or external sources of the accessibility to public events on campus, is alarmingly on the rise.
A data-driven analysis of contemporary hip-hop's most iconic rivalry, examining over 500 insults in the feudal discography.
As slower responses lead to increased cardiac deaths, advocates urge wider distribution of life-saving devices and educational campaigns to encourage their use.
Visualizing the mass censorship of books in American schools.
Analysing the disability related complaints lodged against U.S commercial airlines, over the past five years.
A prototype for a classifier that can take multiple menu items as input and categorize whether the food is vegetarian or contains meat, simultaneously providing a veggie score.
Analyzed the network of magic within the Harry Potter series using Social Network Analysis and developed an interactive visualization that depicts character-spell relationships.
What do the youth of India feel about the need for formal sexual education in classrooms? I analyse the results of a survey I conducted in collaboration with Untaboo, an Indian non-profit, during the 'Bois Lockerroom' harrassment scandal in Delhi schools.
The land use committee advocates for an innovative project to inform developers of community needs.
The subtleties of writing respectfully about non-white cuisines
I graduate from the M.S Data Journalism program at Columbia Journalism School in August 2025. I enjoy untangling stories hidden in data and learning tools and skills to visually represent complicated narratives. Previously I’ve written for The Berkeley Scientific Journal, The Daily Californian and Indian news outlets such as DNA, Mint and Times of India.
Before journalism, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology (Genetics) and Data Science. Over the course of 6 years, I’ve researched mating processes in yeast, virulence in Listeria and built computational pipelines to analyze single-cell genomic data
Me After 5pm: At great peril to my bank account, I’m an extreme foodie. Currently on a mission to calculate the hassle-to-quality ratio of the hardest restaurant reservations in NYC. My life would fall apart without my to-do list and I’m infamous for my ridiculously rigorous iced coffee making process.