Hi, I'm Kapil.

I completed my Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) (a joint degree in Computer Science and Communication Studies) at Northwestern University, advised by Haoqi Zhang and Darren Gergle. My dissertation argued that developing a capacity for innovation work requires helping students develop their regulation skills, not just domain- or job-specific skills. I developed Situated Practice Systems that use Practice Objects—computational representations of a student's evolving practices and regulation gaps—to support coaching and help students adopt more effective practices, enabling more practice-centric approaches to learning and work.

My research draws from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Computing, the Learning Sciences, Management and Organizational Sciences, and Artificial Intelligence. My expertise spans HCI systems research—including design research, full-stack system implementation, and mixed-methods evaluation—and applied ML, including dataset annotation, synthetic data generation, foundation model post-training, and human-centered model evaluation.