Shivani Kapania

Shivani Kapaniais a Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, where she works with Sarah Fox on examining safety culture(s) across various sites within the AI supply chain.

She previously worked as a Research Intern with the FATE group at Microsoft Research, as a Fellow at Weizenbaum Institute, and as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher with the Google Research India and the Technology, AI, Society and Culture (TASC) team, focusing on mixed-methods research interrogating the practices of dataset production. Before joining Google Research, she worked as a Research Associate at IIIT Delhi with Pushpendra Singh. They developed a framework containing actionable guidelines for designing mobile applications for low-literacy users. She graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Delhi in 2019.

She is passionate about teaching, and spent a lot of time tutoring science and math to middle school students as a volunteer with the Aashmaan Foundation. She has also worked with UpGrad as an instructor of Data Science using Python for university students.