Aadya Pawar

Aadya

PAWAR

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AboutMe
Aadya smiling in front of a red brownstone door in New York at night

I recently graduated from Purdue University with my bachelor's, double-majoring in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, with minors in Psychology & Critical Disability Studies.

I care about using technology to build human-centric systems. One of my key interests is exploring accessibility and technology.

I'm originally from Mumbai, India but have made West Lafayette, Indiana my home for the last 4 years.

Currently, in New York.

NowTechnical Business Analyst III · Bank of America

Projects

Product Portfolio5 case studies: the problem, the user, the competitors, and the thinking behind what I built.

Check out NEXUS's eye gaze mode & SignBridge. Play around! I'm really happy I was able to figure these out.

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College Portfolio

WebDesign
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College Portfolio

All my involvements and achievements from college, in a fun interactive way

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Disability Visibility India

AccessibilityWeb
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Disability Visibility India

Designed and coded the official website and disability toolkit, lifting outreach by 70%

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S&P 500 Forecasting Model

LSTMFinance
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S&P 500 Forecasting Model

Implemented an LSTM-based time-series forecasting model on S&P 500 data, improving trend prediction accuracy by 18%

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Cricket League Prediction

MLSports data
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Cricket League Prediction

Developed a machine learning model that predicts cricket player performance from real-world statistics with 80% accuracy

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Nexus

Assistive techRobotics
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Nexus

Unified fragmented assistive tech into one activity-based interface for children with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, raising functional independence from 10% to 80%

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Little Luxuries

EconomicsData viz
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Little Luxuries

Mapped little-luxury trends against the economy with an SEM model on 33 years of Census data, finding search trends lead consumer confidence

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These are some that I enjoyed working the most on

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RESEARCH

Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research

Research Assistant · 2023 – Present

NLP sentiment models and Tableau dashboards for research data across 14+ Big Ten schools, improving faculty insights by 80%.

NLPTableauQualtrics

Child Automated Speech to Text

Student Researcher · 2023 – 2024

A PyTorch phoneme classifier that improved speech-to-text accuracy for child speech by 12%.

PyTorchTransformersSpeech

GRAIL Lab

Student Researcher · 2025 – Present

Building a deepfake database and ML models to study AI-generated media and its social impact.

DeepfakesMLSocial media

DConfusion

R Package Developer · 2025 – Present

An R package that standardizes classifier metrics, improving model comparison accuracy by 15%.

RCRANStatisticsPaper pending

Papers

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SIGCHI submission · 2026

SignBridge: A Bidirectional Sign Language Translation Prototype for Cross-Sign-Language Deaf-to-Deaf Communication

Aadya Pawar, Elina Shah, Savni Maheshwari, Ayomide Arulogun, Lama Alzahrani

A prototype for sign-to-text and sign-to-sign translation across sign languages. In a 7-participant study, multilingual support and interactive correction were rated significantly above neutral.

Research report · 2025

Little Luxuries: Testing the Lipstick Effect in Modern Consumer Behavior

Tanushree Paidichetty, Aadya Pawar, Sruthi Visvanathan

Tests the lipstick effect with Google Trends, FRED, Kaggle and 404 months of Census retail data. Beauty sales rose in each of the last three recessions.

INDUSTRYso far

May 2026 – now
NOW

Bank of America

Technical Business Analyst III

Own global FRTB commodity capital calculators end to end. Led end-to-end data sourcing and validation for 14 workstreams, and write the business requirements and FRDs.

Aug 2025 – now

BASF × The Data Mine

Project Manager / TA

Ran 8 bi-weekly sprints for an 11-person team, lifting delivery efficiency by 25%.

Summer 2025

Panasonic North America

Database Design & ML Intern

Built a centralized database and ML forecasting model that made tariff predictions 80% more accurate across 15+ business units.

Summer 2024

FANUC America

Paint Shop Dispense Engineering Intern

Built a computer vision defect detection system for industrial robots that cut inspection time by 25%.

COMMUNITY& causes

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Founder

InnovateHER Hacks

A 36-hour, women-focused hackathon for 300+ hackers, run two years in a row.

$80k raised!
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Founder

Disability Visibility India

A disability resource toolkit and community, with a 15-member team.

200+ members
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Director

Purdue Student Government

Campus initiatives and policy reviews for 50,000+ students. Bricklayer Award.

50,000+ students
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Project Manager

PurdueThink

Led the growth strategy that turned Boilerexams into a scalable startup.

3 new projects
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Founder

Smartphone Project

Artwork Collective raises funds so kids in remote rural areas can learn online.

art → access

Toolkit

Want tolearn

The creative-tech skills on my list next. Tick one off when I get there.

OFF THEClock

The things I do for fun when I'm not building.

Currently learning

Guitar

Learning how to play the guitar, one chord at a time.

Progress: just getting started
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Writing

Notes App Thoughts

My Substack, where I write out the thoughts that start in my notes app.

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LEARNMoreABOUT ME

Looking to build at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, social equity, business and accessibility.

Feel free to reach out for collaborations.

Product Portfolio

How I think about the products I build: who it's for, what's broken today, who else is trying, and the insight that makes mine different.