Ananya Bhattacharjee

Ananya Bhattacharjee is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development. His research focuses on designing interactive, AI-driven interventions to enhance psychosocial well-being by dynamically adapting to users' individual and social contexts. He employs large language models and reinforcement learning to create personalized digital experiences that foster peer support, reflection, and stress management. Bhattacharjee has developed AI-driven mental health interventions that reached over 10,000 people in the United States. He has collaborated with Microsoft to incorporate personality traits in Copilot and partnered with several nonprofit organizations in the Global North and South to promote policy changes in helpline operations. Bhattacharjee's work bridges Human-Computer Interaction, AI, psychology, and social science, with publications in top venues such as CHI, CSCW, TOCHI, HCOMP, and JMIR, including one Best Paper and two Honorable Mentions at CHI. Bhattacharjee received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.