Tapan Parikh
Associate Professor, Cornell Tech - NY, USANY, USA
I have only flown once since the pandemic started. I try to fly as little as possible, but I do not want to deny the rest of my family the chance to visit new places and experience a “normal” life. I have agreed to compromise to fly one time a year for a family vacation, and another time for a soccer tournament the kids want to play in. I do not often go to conferences or other events. I wish this attitude was more pervasive in society, so there would be less resistance, and less pressure from soccer clubs and professional organizations.
Tapan Parikh is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech in New York City. His research interests include human-computer interaction and the design and use of information technologies for youth empowerment and civic development. He teaches the Remaking the City course at Cornell Tech, which connects graduate students with civic organizations to work on service learning and design projects for local impact. Previously, he was one of the founders of the Information and Communications Technologies and Development (ICTD) research area, and helped start several international social enterprises working in agriculture, microfinance and health. He has received the NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, a UW Diamond Early Career Award and was named Technology Review magazine’s Humanitarian of the Year in 2007.