Bio:
Anirudha is a professor in the interaction design stream in the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India. Anirudha is involved in designing interactive products for emergent users in developing economies. He has worked in diverse domains including healthcare, literacy, Indian language text input, banking, education, and industrial equipment. He has been the co-general chair of several conferences including INTERACT 2017, and India HCI 2004, 2010, 2013 and 2016. Since 2007, Anirudha has represented India on IFIP TC13. Since 2013, he is the director of HCI Professionals Association of India. He got the IFIP Outstanding Service award in 2015 and the IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award in 2019. He has worked on the ACM SIGCHI Asian Development Committee. He is currently the VP Finance on the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee, a member of the India HCI Steering Committee, and the chair of the INTERACT Steering Committee.
He is on review committees of leading HCI conferences and was the co-chair of the programme committee of the first India HCI conference held in December, 2004 in Bangalore. Anirudha represents India on IFIP TC13. Before joining IIT Bombay, Anirudha worked in the field of interaction design for software, multimedia and the Internet. Anirudha has a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and an MDes in Visual Communication also from IIT Bombay.