# Anika Bhagavatula

> Human-AI Interaction Research & Design | Carnegie Mellon University & UC Berkeley

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anikabhagavatula

Hi! I’m Anika, a product designer with a background in neuroscience and HCI. I love building experiences that navigate complexity, feel human, and reflect the way we behave.

Reach out at anikabhagavatula@berkeley.edu!

## Work Experience
### Researcher @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2026 – Present | Berkeley, CA
Human-AI interaction patterns.

### Design Technologist @ BMW Group US
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Data-driven adaptive experiences.

### Product Designer @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
Design and strategy for AI-powered market trading platform.

### Designer @ Lunar Gala
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Pittsburgh, PA
Design and construction of 2 lines for Pennsylvania's largest fashion show.

### UX Research Intern @ CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Augmented Perception Lab: Developed user interface components for context-aware Augmented Reality headsets using LLMs - a collaboration with Meta Reality Labs.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Biological and Machine Intelligence Research Lab: used machine learning to decode stimuli and noise patterns in neurons to understand visual attention paradigms.

### Frontend Development Intern @ Xometry
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, NY
Built components for an entirely new Request-for-Quote module for improved interface usability. Modernized the codebase for consistency and scalability.

### Undergraduate Research Intern @ The Rockefeller University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Tarakhovsky Lab of Immune Cell Epigenetics and Signaling: researching cell susceptibility to viral infection.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Yttri Lab: examined how neural circuitry determines action selection decisions - the brain's motor, reward, and cognitive systems.

### Summer Science Research Program @ The Rockefeller University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
Tarakhovsky Lab of Immune Cell Epigenetics and Signaling: experimented with cell protein degradation during yellow fever virus infection.


## Education
### Masters of Information Management and Systems in Human Computer Interaction
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computational Neuroscience and Human Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### Wilton High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anikabhagavatula

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Last updated: 2026-04-13