Charan Pushpanathan

Product Manager

Champaign, Illinois, United States2 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Human-Computer Interaction and Design Research
  • Strong background in Product Design for Fintech solutions
  • Proven experience in Collaborative Systems and Qualitative Research
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with expertise in Fintech and Human-Computer Interaction.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

ResearchProduct DesignProduct Strategy

Other Skills

Account AggregatorAssistive FrameworksCollaborative SystemsLending ServicesNeo-BankingPay LaterPaymentsQualitative ResearchResearcherSocial Computing

About

Research interests: Human-computer interaction, Design research, Learning science and science of intelligence University Email Address: charanp2@illinois.edu https://charanpushpanathan.com http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/charan-pushpanathan-prabavathi

Experience

Ischool at illinois

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States · On-site

Penn state college of information sciences and technology

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2024 – Apr 2025 · 8 mos · State College, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

  • With Dr. Luke Zhang
  • IST 505 - Foundations of Research Design in Information Sciences and Technology (Spring 2025)
  • IST 526 - Development Tools and Visualizations for Human-Computer Interaction (Spring 2025)
  • IST 402 - Emerging Issues and Technology: Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (Fall 2024)
  • IST 504 - Foundations of Theories and Methods of Information Sciences Research (Fall 2024)

Graduate Research Fellow

Nov 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · State College, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

  • With Dr. John M Carroll at Collaboration Innovation Laboratory.
  • Collaborative Systems, Synergies, Reciprocity and Qualitative Research.
Collaborative SystemsQualitative ResearchResearch

Hdfc bank

Product Designer

Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Account aggregator, Lending services, Payments and Assistive frameworks.
Product DesignAccount AggregatorLending ServicesPaymentsAssistive Frameworks

Angel startup

Founding Member

Aug 2022 – Oct 2022 · 2 mos · Remote

  • Social Computing in Capital Markets
Social ComputingProduct Strategy

Freecharge

Product Designer

Jul 2021 – Jan 2022 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Neo-Banking and Pay later
Product DesignNeo-BankingPay Later

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Information Sciences

Aug 2025 – Jan 2030

Penn State University

Master of Science - MS — Informatics

Aug 2023 – May 2025

Kumaraguru College of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Aug 2019 – Apr 2023

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