Research Team
Kanchan Javalkar
Urban Automation TeamM.Eng. Computer Science
Cornell University
Kanchan is an M.Eng. computer science student at Cornell, focused on building intelligent software systems that combine AI and scalable software engineering to solve real-world problems. She completed her undergrad in computer science and cognitive science at The University of Texas at Dallas, and previously interned at Goldman Sachs where she worked on the Vendor Data Products team within Data Engineering on part of an agentic workflow to onboard vendor data into the firm.
She has experience working on projects involving multi-agent workflows, LLMs and VLMs, alongside full-stack software engineering and scalable data systems. Outside of school she enjoys playing tennis, pickleball, making/trying matcha, travelling, and spending time with friends.
Focus areas
Projects
Heatscape NYC
Urban heat intervention planner — 10,081 populated cells scored on 43 indicators and matched to the cooling intervention their context supports.
Project overview
URIS Mapper
A causal diagram platform — build a loop map, let it find the reinforcing and balancing structures, and ask what a change would propagate to.
urismapper.com