Ishita Chordia is an equity-driven urban researcher and data analyst dedicated to alleviating the systemic conditions that perpetuate poverty. As Associate Director of the Center for Urban Research at Georgia Tech, she collaborates with the City of Atlanta to measure and evaluate the city’s place-based neighborhood revitalization strategy. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “Beloved Community,” her work integrates social justice principles, data-driven policymaking, and community engagement to support neighborhood flourishing. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington, a Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2024). Acceptance rate: 27%.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 8(CSCW2):1-32, 2024.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2023).
Best paper award (top 1%)
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW, 3:78(1-22), 2019.