👋🏽 hi, i'm ritik!
I am a third-year PhD candidate 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.
Computational tools for fabrication have been largely designed for homogeneous materials, or materials that are uniform, predictable and engineered. This choice privileges materials that have been pre-processed, stripping away natural variation while generating significant waste. My research investigates the following question: How do we design computational tools for fabrication with heterogeneous materials?
To reach me, send me an email at: ritik at infosci dot cornell dot edu
google scholarlinkedindigital gardenpapers
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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
ahs 2025 🏆 best paper
older/short
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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
research intern • summer 2025
Link Consumer Experience
full-stack swe • 2022-2023
Android Foundations
swe intern • summer 2021
Corporate Workplace Solutions
summer analyst • summer 2020
Mobile Engineering
swe ios intern • summer 2019
teaching
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
🌆
INFO5920: Specialization Project for Connective Media, Health Tech, and Urban Tech
graduate ta • cornell tech • fall 2025
🎨
INFO6410: HCI and Design
head ta • cornell tech • fall 2024
🤖
Break Through Tech AI
head ta • cornell tech • summer 2024
🌐
INFO2300: Intermediate Design and Programming for the Web
graduate ta • cornell (ithaca) • spring 2024
🌍
INFO4240: Designing Technology for Social Impact
graduate ta • cornell (ithaca) • fall 2023
🗄️
COMPSCI186: Introduction to Database Systems
teaching assistant • berkeley • spring 2022
🎛️
COMPSCI160: User Interface Design and Development
teaching assistant • berkeley • summer 2021
🌳
COMPSCI61B: Data Structures
lab assistant & content mentor • berkeley • fall 2020
stuff
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Reading Research-y Stuff
making: anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture (tim ingold) • tools for conviviality (ivan illich) • vibrant matter (jane bennett) • things we could design: for more than human-centered worlds (ron wakkary) • cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things (michael braungart, william mcdonough)
Reading Non-Research-y Stuff
project hail mary (andy weir) • exhalation: stories (ted chiang) • educated (tara westover) • house of caravans (shilpi suneja) • the happiest man on earth (eddie jaku) • the little prince (antoine de saint-exupéry) • shoe dog: a memoir by the creator of nike (phil knight)
Making Stuff
learning pottery
wood cutting board
resin chess pieces
knit scarf
floor loom weaving
knitting beanies
owl 3D print
3D print and paint
moon drip drawing
glass planet
animated dance clip
broadway dance class
lady strandbeest
wood stool
3d animation
taking photos
creative coding
laser etched plate
customize air force ones
