Hi! I'm Anushka :)
Hi! I'm Anushka :)
Some people study Artificial Intelligence
I study Natural "Stupidity" (Behavioral Economics / Experimental Psychology) and Artificial Intelligence applied to business (experimentation, user research, product, marketing) and larger values like democracy.
Currently, I'm a UPenn master's student specializing in the abovementioned areas.
Previously, I have:
Worked with EY, Cambridge, Irrational Labs, many startups, my own social entrepreneurship venture, and my own business
Led end-to-end mixed-methods projects in experimentation, user research, AI, product, and marketing (40K+ LinkedIn followers)
Ernst & Young Consulting 💰 (turning constraint into opportunity)
Lower budget than expected for product experiment, so I had to find other ways
Discovered we could vibecode full-fledged experiments with random assignment
Vibecoded a high-quality experiment (n=783) comparing user preference between three types of financial advisors: human, genAI, hybrid
Cut experimentation costs by 66 percent!
Behavioral Marketing Lab 🧠 (getting paid to learn)
My marketing business for product and research firms, which was like getting paid to learn
Main offer: 6x'd conversion rates (<5% to 30%+) within 30 days and reduced costs as compared to newsletters via core offer of a value-first, delightful 5-day email course
Side offer: social media management as I myself have 40,000+ LinkedIn followers
Dropped out of UChicago master's with a $20,000 scholarship to do this :P
University of Cambridge 📊 (great practice of getting rejected)
Extremely rare for a student studying in the Global South (my undergrad college) to be a researcher at Cambridge
Had to email and get rejected by 75+ profs before getting this
Researched how modes of data visualization impacts political bias (polarization) via experiments, and how to reduce it
Behavioral Futures Roadmap (my social entrepreneurship venture - I helped people achieve things I hadn't achieved myself) 🗺️
Placed 50+ underrepresented students into research at Stanford, Oxford, Yale, UPenn, etc. via freemium mentorship
Also made $1,500 in 5 days from 2-hour webinar using participatory design with 5-day marketing strategy
A leader in my field of behavioral science/design thinking said that I had democratized the field in India via extensive advocacy :)
All of these projects required way more user research, testing, iteration, and marketing than I thought haha!
As you can see, my career has been experimentation-led (I've tried a 100 things, failed at most. Learned, iterated, tried again)
And it's been weird (so weird that I've maybe kinda perhaps written a standup comedy set about it!)
You can see more of my projects and thought process in my portfolio here