Anika Mahajan

Anika is a PhD student in the ACME lab and co-advised by Ellen Do and Mark Gross. She wants to create new educational technologies for astrophysics/astronomy. She is particularly interested in combining the benefits of interaction and immersion within planetariums. Before coming to ATLAS, Anika received her B.S. in Computer Science: Game Design with a minor in Astrophysics from UC Santa Cruz. 

Publications

Krithik Ranjan, Anika Mahajan, Rishi Vanukuru, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2025. “The Design Space of Tangible Interfaces for Computational Tinkerability”. In: Constructionism, vol. 8. (June 24-27, 2025, Zurich, Switzerland)