I am an assistant professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington (UW) where I lead the Learning, Epistemology, and Design Lab (LED Lab).
I study new ways in which young people can learn with and about data—especially in contexts of the communities that they live, learn,and play in. As a part of my research, I have designed systems to enable children to design and develop their own data analysis tools, evaluated design changes in existing systems that allow more creative possibilities with data, and studied how children question and critique data and data-driven systems. I am committed to learning experiences and communities that are welcoming to all. Toward this, I have studied learner experiences with digital tools translated into the languages they speak at home, and have analyzed differences in participation patterns across genders in interest-driven and informal online learning.
As our society becomes increasingly data-driven and data-mediated, it is important to have more voices heard in imagining and shaping how and if data gets collected and used. Through my work with young people, I attempt to sow the seeds for such futures.
I received my doctorate from MIT in 2016, where I was a part of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group, and my work was centered around the Scratch programming language and online community. Before coming to UW as an assistant professor, I was an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, I was a Moore/Sloan Data Science and Washington Research Foundation Innovation in Data Science postdoctoral fellow with the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. During this time, I was hosted by the Community Data Science Collective at the UW Department of Communication, and I was also affiliated with the Human-Centered Data Science Lab.
My research has received recognition and awards at several human-computer interaction conferences (DIS, CHI, CSCW, VL/HCC, IDC). In 2014, I was selected as a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Education.
Murtaza Ali, Sourojit Ghosh, Prerna Rao, Raveena Dhegaskar, Sophia Jawort, Alix Medler, Mengqi Shi, and Sayamindu Dasgupta
ACM ICER 2023 [ACM DL ]
Sucheta Ghoshal and Sayamindu Dasgupta
Best paper ACM DIS 2023 [ACM DL ]
Aayushi Dangol and Sayamindu Dasgupta
ACM IDC 2023 [ACM DL ]
Ruijia Cheng, Aayushi Dangol, Frances Marie Tabio Ello, Lingyu Wang, and Sayamindu Dasgupta
ACM IDC 2023 [ACM DL ]
Ruijia Cheng, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill
Honorable mention ACM CHI 2022 [ACM DL ]
Sejal Khatri, Aaron Shaw, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill
Honorable mention ACM CHI 2022 [ACM DL ]
Laura March and Sayamindu Dasgupta
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW 2020 [UNC Institutional Repository] [ACM DL]
Emilia Gan, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Sayamindu Dasgupta
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW 2018 [ACM DL ][Blog Post]
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
Samantha Hautea, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S) 2017 [ACM DL][Blog Post]
Ricarose Roque, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Sasha Costanza-Chock
Social Sciences. 2016; 5(4):55 [MDPI ]
J. Nathan Matias, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill
ACM CHI 2016 [ACM DL ]
Sayamindu Dasgupta, William Hale, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Shane M. Clements, Abdulrahman Y. idlbi, Chris Willis-Ford, and Mitchel Resnick
Best short paper IEEE VL/HCC 2015 [pre-print PDF][IEEE DL]
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Mitchel Resnick
ACM Inroads (2014) [ACM DL]
Sayamindu Dasgupta
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (2014) [ScienceDirect]
Extended version of IDC paper listed below.
Sayamindu Dasgupta
IDC 2013 [ACM DL]
Extended version invited and published in IJCCI as part of “IDC 2013 best papers” section.
Lining Yao, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Nadia Cheng, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Ostap Rudakevych, and Hiroshi Ishii
ACE 2011 [ACM DL]
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
In Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children Edited by Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, and Candice Odgers. MIT Press. (2023) [MIT Press ]
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández
In Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs. Edited by Nathan Holbert, Matthew Berland, and Yasmin Kafai. MIT Press. (2020) [MIT Press]
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
Poster for the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2017) [ACM DL (abstract)] [Poster]
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill
Position paper for Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science (a CSCW 2016 workshop). [PDF]
Sayamindu Dasgupta
Position paper for Blocks and Beyond: Lessons and Directions for First Programming Environments (a VL/HCC 2015 workshop). [IEEE DL]
Lining Yao, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Nadia Cheng, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Ostap Rudakevych, and Hiroshi Ishii
ACM CHI 2011 Extended Abstracts (alt-chi) [ACM DL]
Lining Yao, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Nadia Cheng, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Ostap Rudakevych, and Hiroshi Ishii
ACM CHI 2011 Extended Abstracts (CHI work-in-progress poster) [ACM DL]
Sayamindu Dasgupta
International Conference on Designing for Children - With focus on ‘Play + Learn’ (2010)
PhD Thesis, MIT (2016)
Masters Thesis, MIT (2012)
The best way to contact me is over email. I’m not very good about monitoring my social media accounts, so Twitter DMs, Facebook messages, LinkedIn messages, etc. are most likely to go unanswered.