👋🏽 hi, i'm ritik!
I am a second-year PhD student at Cornell Tech in NYC, advised by Thijs Roumen and Steve Jackson. Before this, I was a software engineer at Stripe working on the one-click checkout experience. In 2022, I graduated from Berkeley with a BS in EECS and minors in political economy and data science.
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools for manufacturing have a long way to go. In my research, I aim to bridge the gap between natural materials and the computational tools we can use to "make stuff" by studying fabrication with a classical crafting lens rather than an industrial one. Through this work, I hope to develop guidelines for the design and development of computational tools that lead to more sustainable manufacturing practices.
Feel free to reach out at [first_name]@infosci.cornell.edu!
papers
CAMeleon: Interactively Exploring Craft Workflows in CAD
Shuo Feng, Yifan Shan, Xuening Wang, Ritik Batra, Tobias Weinberg, Thijs Roumen
in submission
SplatOverflow: Asynchronous Hardware Troubleshooting
Amritansh Kwatra, Tobias Weinberg, Ilan Mandel, Ritik Batra, Peter He, François Guimbretière, Thijs Roumen
chi 2025 🏆 honorable mention
texTENG: Fabricating Wearable Textile-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Ritik Batra*, Narges Pourjafarian*, Samantha Chang, Margaret Tsai, Jacob Revelo, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
augmented humans 2025 🏆 best paper
Redycler: Daily Outfit Texture Fabrication Appliance Using Re-Programmable Dyes
Ritik Batra*, Kaitlyn Yi Ran Lee*
tei 2022
Dynamic Placement of Rapidly Deployable Mobile Sensor Robots Using Machine Learning and Expected Value of Information
Alice Agogino, Hae Young Jang, Vivek Rao, Ritik Batra, Felicity Liao, Rohan Sood, Irving Fang, R. Lily Hu, Emerson Shoichet-Bartus, John Matranga
imece 2021
industry
hci & visualization
research intern (su25)
link consumer experience
full-stack swe (fa22–fa23)
android foundations
swe intern (su21)
workplace solutions
summer analyst (su20)
mobile engineering
swe intern (su19)
teaching
info6410: hci & design
head ta @ cornell tech (fa24)
break through tech ai program
head ta @ cornell tech (su24)
info 2300: intermediate design and programming for the web
graduate ta @ cornell (sp24)
info 4240: designing technology for social impact
graduate ta @ cornell (fa23)
compsci 186: introduction to database systems
teaching assistant @ berkeley (sp22)
compsci 160: user interface design and development
teaching assistant @ berkeley (su21)
compsci 61b: data structures
lab assistant & content mentor @ berkeley (fa20)
creative
i like making "stuff"
learning pottery
wood cutting board
resin chess pieces
knit scarf
floor loom weaving
knitting beanies
owl 3D print
3D printing with paint
moon drip drawing
glass planet
animated dance clip
broadway dance class
lady strandbeest
wood stool
3d animation
photography
creative coding
laser etched plate
customize air force ones
