Saraschandra
Karanam, PhD
I study how people make decisions when technology becomes increasingly intelligent and complex
Human Decision-MakingHuman-AI SystemsEnterprise Technology
14+
Years in Research
Leading and executing research strategy for complex enterprise systems.
40+
Research Studies
Mixed methods across enterprise technology, HCI, and human-AI systems.
30+
Peer Reviewed Publications
Peer-reviewed conference and journal articles in the domain of crowdsourcing and information search
5
Granted US Patents
Patented inventions in use of crowdsourcing for business process outsourcing
Research Programs
All Programs →Three sustained programs exploring how people make decisions as technology becomes increasingly complex and intelligent.
01
Enterprise AI & Agentic Systems
"How do security professionals decide what to delegate to increasingly autonomous AI?"
2025–present · Cisco
02
Complex Enterprise Workflows
"How can technology empower domain experts to orchestrate complex infrastructure?"
2017–present · MathWorks + Cisco
03
Human Computation & Crowdsourcing
"How can business owners decide which crowdsourcing platform to choose to meet enterprise SLAs?"
2012–2014 · Xerox Research
Research Experiments
Explorations into new methods and applications of AI in research.
Experiment
AI-Augmented Research
"How can we use AI to help researcher's judgement?"
2025–present
Selected Publications
View All Publications →Karanam, S. & Van Oostendorp, H. (2017). Age-related effects of task difficulty on the semantic relevance of query reformulations. Proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2017, 77-96.[Link] Award
Karanam, S. & Van Oostendorp, H. (2016). Modeling Individual Differences in Information Search. Proceedings of the IndiaHCI conference 2016, 12-23. ACM.[Link] Award
Granted US Patents
View All Patents →Karanam, S., Balamurugan, C., Gupta, N., & Piratla, N. (2017). Methods and system for crowdsourcing a task. U.S. Patent Application Number. 9,710,769. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office[US9710769B2]
Dasgupta, K., Rajan, V., Ponnavaikko, K., & Saraschandra, K. (2016). Method and system for recommending crowdsourcing platforms. U.S. Patent Application Number: 9,489,624, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office[US9489624B2]