👋🏽 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.

I believe that 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!

research

papers

Ritik Batra and Kaitlyn Yi Ran Lee. 2022. Redycler: Daily Outfit Texture Fabrication Appliance Using Re-Programmable Dyes. In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3502424

Alice Agogino, Hae Young Jang, Vivek Rao, Ritik Batra, Felicity Liao, Rohan Sood, Irving Fang, R. Lily Hu, Emerson Shoichet-Bartus, John Matranga. 2021. Dynamic Placement of Rapidly Deployable Mobile Sensor Robots Using Machine Learning and Expected Value of Information. In Proceedings of the ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Volume 13: Safety Engineering, Risk, and Reliability Analysis; Research Posters. Virtual, Online. V013T14A027. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2021-70759