Hello, my name is Aisvarya!
I am a computational journalist at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, where I study the uses and impact of AI tools in journalism.
Brown Institute’s Magic Grant supports my work on PollFinder.ai.

SOME PUBLISHED WORK
Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | experiment-design, analysis, writing, graphics
AI Search has a Citation Problem  
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | experiment-design, analysis, writing, graphics
AI Chatbots Can Search the Web – So Why Don’t They?
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW | writing
How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW | writing
TRACKERS and TOOLs
AI Deals and Disputes Tracker
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | data-structuring, design, dev
Platforms and Publishers Timeline
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | data-structuring, design, dev
Presentations
(Panel) AI Search and News
FEB 2026 | Tow Center
Navigating the shift to generative search
SEPT 2025 | ONA
OA, Attribution, and Addressing Faculty AI Concerns
May 2025 | SPARC
Can LLMs Extract Transparency Metrics from Text Descriptions of Polling Methods
MAY 2025 | American Association for Public Opinion Research 
Using Large Language Models to Help Newsrooms Aggregate Polls For the 2024 Election
Oct 2024 | Computation + Journalism Symposium
(Panel) Editing AI-powered Journalism | What We Have Learned So Far
SEPT 2024 | AI and the newsroom: Navigating what’s next  (Organized by Tow Center for Digital Journalism)
PAST WORK