Abhishek Karwankar

👋 Welcome! I’m Abhishek, a first year Ph.D. student, advised by Dr. Matthew Louis Mauriello in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware, where I design tangible and interactive user interfaces to support music composition, therapeutic engagement, and accessibility—particularly for children with autism and diverse sensory preferences. I also closely work with Dr. Daniel Stevens.

My research bridges human-computer interaction (HCI), audio signal processing, machine learning, participatory design, accessibilty and visualizations, often through systems that combine multimodal music libraries, visualization-driven analysis, and emotion-aware recommender models. I develop tangible and immersive systems, and collaborate with music therapists, composers, and families to co-create meaningful, measurable experiences.

My work has been published at prestigious venues such as ACM IDC, and AAAI ICWSM, and includes contributions to open-source tools, user interfaces for affective computing, and LLM-integrated pipelines for mental health datasets designed to support research in user experience, sentiment analysis, application evaluation, and human-AI collaboration.