Hi. I'm Tesh/Nitesh Goyal
For more than a decade, I have been researching and designing at the intersection of AI and safety, usualy for social good. I have been fortunate to have great collaborators to have impact at Google, Yahoo Labs, and Bloomberg previously across multiple domains.
I also invented Sensemaking Translucence, a design metaphor to overcome the cognitive challenge of confirmation biased decision-making for detectives solving crime, deployed in REFLECTIVA
. I am incredibly slow at updating this website. So, please do contact me directly
- Awards:
- Multiple internal Awards at Google, USA 2016 - 2023
- The Robert Mozia Graduate Student Of The Year Award by Cornell May, 2016
- Selected as Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum with Turing and other Awardees April, 2016
- Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 5%) for REFLECTIVA, negative impact of biases at CSCW 2016 February, 2016
- Received Grant for Students and Early Stage Researchers from Developing Countries at INTERACT 2015 September, 2015
- Awarded for Teaching Information Science/Computer Science 2300: Intermediate Web Design & Programming May, 2015
- Awarded the Graduate Student of the Year at Cornell May, 2015
- Awarded Cornell MEng Computer Science Project Award for my research project implemented by Sarah Alabdullatif and Karthic Ashokan May, 2015
- Selected as a Colman Leadership Program Fellow January, 2015
- Awarded Travel Grant to US Ignite Summit in Chicago June 13, 2013
- ICTD 2010 work about designing for immigrant children in developed world nominated to ITID Journal (Top 1%) June 11, 2011
- Awarded Travel Grant by UN to present at ACM/IEEE ICTD 2010 in London December 1, 2010
- Awarded German Government Grant Funding for Master's Thesis Research at University of California, Berkeley August, 2009
- Awarded First RWTH Aachen Research Brand Ambassador to US/Canada 2009-10 July, 2009
- Top 1% at National Mathematics Olympiad, India June, 2001
- National Champion at Extempore Competetion, India June, 1996
- News:
- Three RAI works: Responsible AI values and Practitioner challenges, PAIR/AI Guidelines utilization and Biases in Human Annotations accepted at ACM CHI 2023 February, 2023
- Serving as Co-Technical Program Chair in the Organizing Committee for ACM CHI 2023 April, 2022 - April, 2023
- Started a new position at Google Research to lead some of our efforts in the Responsible AI space March, 2022
- Globally launched Harassment Manager to help journalists/activists with Twitter/Thomson Reuters March, 2022
- Work about Importance of Identity in ML Dataset Annotations accepted at ACM CSCW 2022 March, 2022
- We are running a Workshop about Social Presence in Virtual Spaces at CHI 2022 January, 2022
- Work about Designing to manage online harassment using ML accepted at CHI 2022 December, 2021
- Serving as Doctoral Consortium Chair in the Organizing Committee for IMX 2021 January, 2021
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair, and Organizing Committee for CHI 2021 December, 2020
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair, and Organizing Committee for CHI 2020 December, 2019
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair for CSCW 2020 March, 2020
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair for CSCW 2019 March, 2019
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair, and Organizing Committee for CHI 2019 December, 2018
- Work about Google Cloud IoT presented at UbiComp October, 2018
- Work about Measuring User Engagement on mobile web pages, while at Yahoo! Labs accepted at JASIST January, 2018
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair, and Organizing Committee for CHI 2018 September, 2017
- Serving on Program Committee as Associate Chair for CSCW 2018 August, 2017
- Work about intelligent interruption management using GSR presented at PACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2017 June, 2017
- Invited to Schloss Dagstuhl for VR/AR/IoT Seminar January, 2017
- We are organizing ECSCW 2017 Workshop - Social Matching Meets Big Social Data Science January, 2017
- Webmaster & on Program Committee for CHI 2017 October, 2016
- Am at Google for the summer. It is mostly qualitative research about self-empowerment, and a bit about pride ! June, 2016
- Work about designing location-aware mobile devices, RAMPARTS accepted at CHI 2016 December, 2015
- Doctoral Consortium at AAAI HCOMP 2015 September, 2015
- Selected for the Doctoral Consortium at 15th IFIP TC.13 INTERACT 2015 May, 2015
- Head TA-ing INFO/CS 2300. Using "learning@scale" to create avenues for peer-to-peer learning & manage workload for instructors March, 2015
- Founded and President for Out in Stem - oSTEM@Cornell Since October, 2014
- Head TA for a very popular course, INFO/CS 1300 Intro to Web Design with Prof. Dan CosleySeptember, 2014
- Interned at Yahoo Labs, London, UK with excellent Dr./Prof. Mounia Lalmas August, 2014
- Loved my trip to CHI 2014 in Toronto, Canada where I presented our work in collaborative sensemaking and Student Volunteered. PS: I was voted for the "Social Butterfly SV" Award!!! June 1, 2014
- Loved my trip to CSCW 2014 in Baltimore, MD where I had execllent conversations with great folks interested in collective sensemaking. March 1, 2014
- Head TA for a very popular course, INFO/CS 2300 Intermediate Web DesignJan 15, 2014
- With all this talk about JFK assassination & deliberate lack of sharing between agencies, we are building upon solo sensemaking from CHI 2013 , into collaborative sensemaking at CHI 2014. Accepted.Dec 10, 2013
- Got back from the amazing CHI 2013 where I presented our approach to evaluating complex sensemaking and analysis toolsMay 8, 2013
- TA-ing INFO4400 (Advanced HCI Design) with Prof. Gilly LeshedMay 6, 2013
- Student Rep for Faculty Hiring at Information Science and am excited about the great bunch of folks joining us later this year! May 4, 2013
- Demo-ed our work on collaborative information analytics, SAVANT at CSCW 2013 Feb 24, 2013
- This website was incepted! Jan 27, 2013