About Me

Hello! I’m Akanksha, a junior in Lehigh’s Integrated Business & Engineering Honors program, where I’m pursuing dual degrees in Industrial & Systems Engineering and Finance. I’m an international student from Mumbai, India. I’m passionate about the intersection of human behavior, computer interfaces, and algorithmic decision‐making, exploring how people and machines can collaborate more effectively.

This upcoming summer, I will be in Germany as I have received the Ruhr Fellowship to conduct academic research in the field of Business & Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Dortmund (TUD).

Portfolio

Sentiment Analysis on 10Ks

This project aims to determine whether the sentiment in 10-K filings contains value-relevant information for stock returns. Specifically, it investigates whether a document’s positive or negative tone correlates with better or worse stock performance.

Human Centered Computing - Empirical Studies in HCI

This study explores how low-income school teachers coped with increased isolation and stress during the shift to hybrid education post-COVID. (COMPASS ‘23)

Here’s a video recording of my presentation!

GSIF Paper

Human-centered design is essential when developing technologies aimed at improving people’s lives. This paper details the use of teacher feedback from focus group discussions to enhance our approach to addressing environmental problems and building a better educational-gaming application. My coauthors are teammates from the Save Tuba project, completed under the supervision of Dr. Khanjan Mehta, for the Global Social Impact Fellowship 2023.

Career Goals

I’m interested in the intersection of human behavior, decision processes, and data-driven systems. How can we design algorithms and tools that are not only technically sound, but actually work for the people who use them?

After my undergraduate education, my goal is to pursue a Ph.D. focused on human-centered design. I want to use my background in systems thinking and quantitative modeling to build smarter, more ethical, and more inclusive tools for decision-making in complex environments, especially in high-impact domains like healthcare. I believe understanding how humans interact with algorithms is critical to creating systems that enhance, rather than override, human judgment.

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