Curriculum vitae
Jatin Alla
HCI researcher · Co-founder, Kairos AI · Bangalore ↔ Santa Cruz
I build things because a stranger once sat with me when I was sick and seven. — J.A.
Education
B.S. Cognitive Science, HCI / AI specialization
GPA 3.76 · Dean's List · Honors in major.
Research positions
Pre-Doctoral Researcher, Health & Wellness
- Led a year-long project on LLMs as fitness coaches, in collaboration with the Fitbit team.
- Researched ethical AI in healthcare with Google's PAIR team.
- Designed and ran qualitative studies for food-app vision models.
- Pitched innovation work directly to the Fitbit co-founder.
Co-founder & lead researcher
- Co-founded the Center for Applied Values & Ethics in Advancing Technologies.
- Led the center's first empirical line of work on algorithmic manipulation on Twitter.
- Designed and built the Twitter Analysis Tool (TAT) to surface algorithmic bias.
Current
Co-founder, with Shalini Verma
AI-assisted transformational coaching. Beta launched September 2025 with four participants. Building both the AI pattern-recognition layer and running every coaching session.
Publications
- AAMAS 2024 (Published). Foodlens: computer vision for food recognition. Co-authored, Google Research Bangalore.
- CHI 2025 (Submitted). Coaching LLMs and AI ethics in health contexts. First author.
Skills & areas
Human-Computer Interaction · AI ethics · Cognitive science · Machine learning & LLMs · Qualitative research methods · Mixed-methods study design · Well-being & technology addiction · Coaching frameworks (Enneagram, somatic, chakra) · Python · figma · prototyping
References
Available on request. Email jatinalla2000@gmail.com.