Author: Nitin Sawhney (Aalto)

Nitin Sawhney is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. As a human-centered design researcher he examines the critical role of technology, civic media, and urban interventions in crisis and contested spaces.

Nitin engages user experience design, participatory action research, sensory ethnography, and multi-modal (speech/audio) approaches for complex contexts of human-machine interaction. Nitin has recently been conducting research at the intersection of AI and HCI for real-time news as well as humanitarian and crisis situations.