Member, Gnowledge Lab | Cognition, learning sciences, interactive media, philosophy of science
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Durgaprasad Karnam is a member of the Gnowledge Lab and a research scholar at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, working within its Learning Sciences Research Group. He holds a BTech (Hons) in Electrical Engineering (2011) from IIT Kharagpur, and came to education research through a Teach For India fellowship and community projects with school children in Govandi and Dharavi.
His doctoral work designed interactive new media for learning vectors — a Touchy-Feely Vectors interface that supplies the geometric manipulations a paper medium cannot, used to study how students’ model-based reasoning and conceptual behaviour change. The thread runs through his earlier Interactive Vectors for Model-based Reasoning (ICCE, 2016, with Harshit Agrawal, Deepa Mishra and Sanjay Chandrasekharan).
With Nagarjuna G., Ravi Sinha and Ashish Pardeshi, he asked how making and tinkering reshape teachers’ sense of STEM in Figuring the ‘making’ with Indian teachers: Can we re-imagine STEM learning? (ICLS, 2020).
Most recently he co-authors, with Nagarjuna G., the 2026 preprint The Sensation Modulating Network: Haltability as the Architectural Ground for Object-Directed Phenomenology — part of the lab’s Sensation Modulating Network work and the Roots of beingHuman research thread, with companion code in SMN-Hydrogen.
Outside research he is an amateur flautist, and sketches and writes poetry.
To collaborate with the lab community, the recommended channel is metaStudio.org.