DEPARTMENTS
Sajana
Sajana

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

AB 108 Department of Architecture and Planning

Contact no:

0495 228 6917

Home Address:

  • Master of Design (M.Des) in Industrial Design at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

  • Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch) at National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC) Calicut

  • Educational Qualifications

    • Master of Design (M.Des) in Industrial Design at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

    • Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch) at National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC) Calicut

    Professional Experience

    • Assistant Professor at NMIMS School of Design, Mumbai

    • Visiting Faculty at Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies

    • Furniture Designer (Consultant) at Modulinea Modular Systems, Mumbai

    • Assistant Project Manager at Design Innovation Center, IDC, IIT Bombay

    • Architect at Architechnics, Bangaluru

    • Project Architect at Kochuthommen and Associates, Ernakulam

    Conferences

    Tere, R., Taunk, K., Guha Thakurta, A., & Allugalali, S. (2025). Morrie: Nudging the Toddlers to Drink More Water Through Behavioral Design. AIP Conference Proceedings, 3233, 020002. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0240469

    Joglekar, N., Prabhu, O., Guha-Thakurta, A., & Alungalali, S. (2025). Encouraging Preschool Kids to Eat Healthy and Averting Them from Developing an Unhealthy habit. AIP Conference Proceedings, 3233, 020001. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0235518

    Salian, Y., Ganatra, M., Thakurta, A., & Ali, S. (2025). Combating Binge-Watching Behaviour and Habits. AIP Conference Proceedings, 3233, 020003. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0235236

    Books (Refereed)

    Jafri, M., Nagdev, S., Guha Thakurta, A., & Ali, S. (2025). Inculcating a Behaviour Change Among Impulsive Online Shoppers: Adapting to Mindful Spending Habits. In Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 1 (pp. 357–369). Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7150-9_30

    Jafri, M., Alungalali, S., Thakurta, A.G. (2025). Empowering Working Mothers: Enhancing Parent–Child Connection During Work Hours. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V., Onkar, P.S., Shahid, M. (eds) Responsible and Resilient Design for Society, Volume 6. ICoRD 2025. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5503-8_5 

    Bhattacharjee, M., Bhogle, A., Bhanushali, M., Thakurta, A., Alungalali, S. (2025). Inculcating Responsible Habits for Pathological Online Gambling Behaviour for Young Adults. In: Bhutkar, G., Tom, S., Roy, D., Abdelnour-Nocera, J. (eds) Designing for Tomorrow: Innovation and Equity in Global Interaction Design. IDID 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 747. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00777-3_11

    Alungalali, S., Sarkar, I., Aind, A., & Sarkar, R. (2025). Whatever Floats Your Boat: Balancing mechanics in hybrid interactive game design. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’25). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744736.3749317

    1. Information Visualisation from The Interaction Design Foundation
    2. Essentials of Data Science with R Software -1: Probability & Statistical Inference from NPTEL
    3. Introduction to Internet of Things from NPTEL
    4. Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
    5. Using Python to Access Web Data
    6. Python Data Structures