Akshay Nagarajan

Employment

• Renaissance Philanthropy Research Engineer and Lead
  2026 - Present

Education

• University of California San Diego PhD
  2020 - 2026
• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Amritapuri Campus MTech Robotics and Automation
  2014 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Ludic Sonata
  Constructionism Conference Proceedings 2025 DOI: 10.21240/constr/2025/60.X
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• Introducing Data Literacy in the Classroom using Sound Exploration Tools
  EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings 2023 DOI: 10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102886
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• STEAM for all: a vision for STEM and arts integration
  International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition 2022 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.13053-2
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• Autonomous Payload Delivery using Hybrid VTOL UAVs for Community Emergency Response
  Proceedings of CONECCT 2020 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies 2020 DOI: 10.1109/CONECCT50063.2020.9198490
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• Social making: Teaching children to design solutions for the global goals
  Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020 2020 DOI: 10.1145/3397617.3397834
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• Focusing on Teacher Education to Introduce AI in Schools: Perspectives and Illustrative Findings
  Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2019 2019 DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2019.00021
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• Aim for the sky: Fostering a Constructionist learning environment for teaching maker skills to children in India
  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 2018 DOI: 10.1145/3213818.3213830
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• All aboard for the joy of making! teaching user centered design and tinkering to middle school children in India
  Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2018 2018 DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2018.00015
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• Design, observe and tinker: A constructionist approach to introduce maker skills in rural schools
  Proceedings - IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2018 2018 DOI: 10.1109/ICALT.2018.00074
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• Technology Acceptance, Sociocultural Influence and Gender Perception of Robots: A Human Robot Interaction Study with Naive Users in Rural India
  RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2018 DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525589
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