Research Scientist · RISE Lab, IIT Delhi

Sankar Balasubramanian

Applied AI Researcher · Personalized AI Architect · Human–AI Interaction Researcher · Agentic AI Systems Builder · Computational Designer · Affective Computing Researcher · XR Developer · Algorithmic Artist · & above all, a Teacher

Applied AI & Computational Design Researcher building personalized AI that understands how people think, feel, and who they are. My interests are four-fold: the Human — mind, emotion, and personality; the Agents and architectures that meet them; the Interactions between them — personal, trustworthy, and responsible; and the Design that weaves them together — on the path to human-centred superintelligence.

Sankar Balasubramanian — Research Scientist, RISE Lab, IIT Delhi
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Research Lens

Four lenses on human–AI interaction

Personalized AI starts with understanding people — and ends with designing how people and AI work together.

  1. The Human

    Understanding people

    How people think, feel and differ — modelled well enough for AI to adapt to the person, not just the prompt.

    • Cognition
    • Emotion
    • Personality
  2. Agents & Architectures

    Understanding the AI

    Agentic systems, structured prompting and models that adapt to physiological and neural signals.

    • Architecture
    • Prompting
    • Neuro-adaptation
  3. The Interaction

    Understanding the space between

    Interactions that are personal, trustworthy and responsible — where people stay in charge and trust is earned claim by claim.

    • Personalization
    • Trust & calibration
    • Responsibility & privacy
    • Agency & co-creation
    • Social & affective
  4. Design

    At every layer

    Design as the thread through all three — from the person to the service, the agent and the system.

    • Human
    • Service
    • Agent
    • System

Toward human-centred superintelligence — AI that amplifies people.

Selected Work

A window into my work

Studies, tools and agentic systems — from doctoral research to apps built for real people.

By the numbers

A decade of building, teaching and publishing

Peer-reviewed papers
34
Patents & designs
11
Research projects
35
Apps & devices built
52
Best paper awards
3
Awards & honours
16
Talks & videos
17
Workshops & invited talks
7

Code, by the day

A year of commits, as a skyline

Every GitHub contribution of the past year, one bar per day. Bar heights follow a logarithmic scale. @sankar-mechengg

Contributions
1,732
Active days
189 / 366
Longest streak
12 days
Busiest day
291

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Nov 2025 – Nov 2026

Affiliations & memberships

  • IIT Delhi
  • IISc Bangalore
  • RISE Lab
  • ACM
  • IEEE
  • ACL
  • The Design Society
  • Design Research Society
  • Association for Designers of India
  • AMM
  • EdTech Society

Let's collaborate

Let's build AI that understands people.

sankarb@iisc.ac.in