Bhuvan Sarupuri Ph.D.

All projects

Everything I have worked on that I can talk about publicly, grouped by the kind of problem it was.

Evaluating AI

Judging whether AI systems are actually good, and being clear about what the evidence cannot carry.

Evaluating AI

Evaluating an AI Conversation Service (VSA & Copilot)

Evaluation of two RAG-backed AI chat surfaces at TOPdesk: a self-service assistant and an operator-facing Copilot. Four recorded sessions, 147 answers judged case by case with a stated reason on every verdict, clustered into a root-cause taxonomy and fifteen findings ordered by how much evidence sits behind each.

๐Ÿงช 147 Answers Judged
๐Ÿ” 15 Ranked Findings
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Built at TOPdesk. Prompts, results, and customer data are internal and omitted.
Evaluating AI

NalaBheem โ€” Nutrition AI

Rigorous evaluation methodology for AI-powered nutrition advice, combining open coding of 100+ traces, custom error taxonomies, and systematic evaluation comparison.

๐Ÿ”ฌ 100+ Traces
๐Ÿ“Š 65% Pass Rate
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Product and strategy research

Studies and frameworks that changed what got built.

Product and strategy research

TOPdesk Progress Trail Redesign

Comprehensive user research mapping opportunities in incident management workflows through interviews, affinity mapping, and journey mapping with 10 participants.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ 10 Interviews
๐Ÿ“Š 7 Opportunities
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This project was completed in collaboration with team members at TOPdesk.
Product and strategy research

Knowledge Management Research

Mixed-methods study across four methods โ€” survey (n=31), card sorting (n=5), concept testing (n=7) and usability testing (n=19) โ€” on how knowledge managers structure a knowledge base and who they need to restrict access for.

๐Ÿ“‹ 31 Survey Responses
๐Ÿ’ฌ 62 Participants, 4 Methods
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Product and strategy research

Intelligent Front Door โ€” Readiness Framework

Readiness and maturity framework benchmarked against Gartner, Ivanti, HDI, SDI, and Forrester โ€” mapping where customers stand on the path to intelligent service delivery, informing product strategy, AI roadmap priorities, and long-term platform vision at TOPdesk.

๐Ÿงญ 6 Capability Dimensions
๐Ÿ“ˆ 5 Maturity Stages
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Product and strategy research

AI Readiness & Customer Maturity Assessment

Globally standardised customer maturity scoring program mapping product adoption across ~4,900 customers and 11 regional branches โ€” informing product strategy and the AI roadmap for intelligent service delivery.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ ~4,900 Customers
๐Ÿ“Š 6 Scoring Dimensions
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Product and strategy research

Connected Strategy for ITSM

A Wharton Strategic Management course project applying the Connected Strategy framework to mid-market ITSM: customer journey mapping, pain-point and information-flow analysis, and four strategy archetypes mapped onto AI-driven automation. Figures throughout are modelled targets, not measured outcomes.

๐ŸŽฏ 6 analysis worksheets
๐Ÿค– 4 strategy archetypes
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Research systems and operations

The tools and playbooks that let research reach decisions without a researcher in the middle of every one.

Research systems and operations

TOPdesk Research Copilot

A copilot that lets any product role run real research on their own, so a decision does not have to wait for a specialist. Say or type what you are working on, and it routes you to the right task, grounded in TOPdesk's own product documentation. Twenty tasks across the research lifecycle, built as configuration rather than code.

🧩 20 research tasks
🔗 6 chained workflows
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Self-directed, for TOPdesk. Built; feedback and adoption metrics pending.
Research systems and operations

Research Buddy โ€” AI-Assisted Research Retrieval

An internal tool, built and in use, putting six fragmented research and customer data sources behind a single plain-language query โ€” qual and quant agents run in parallel, then a third synthesises findings shaped to the asker's role, so research data flows into product and AI strategy decisions.

๐Ÿค– 5 of 6 sources live
๐Ÿ”Œ 3 role-shaped outputs
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Built at TOPdesk to help research reach more product decisions.
Research systems and operations

Standardising Feature Releases

Interviews and a discovery workshop with 7 stakeholders on why feature releases were inconsistent at TOPdesk, clustered into four categories of finding and turned into recommendations for product management, the UX guild, user guidance and marketing.

๐Ÿš€ 7 stakeholders
โšก 4 finding categories
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This project was completed in collaboration with team members at TOPdesk.

Earlier research

Doctoral and postdoctoral work in virtual reality.

Earlier research

Dancing in Virtual Reality

Research exploring motivation patterns and behavioural differences in VR dance platforms, uncovering insights on confidence, engagement, and social connection.

๐ŸŽฎ 292 participants
๐Ÿ“ˆ Published, The Visual Computer
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Academic publications

Six peer-reviewed papers on VR locomotion and interaction, plus the VR dance work published in The Visual Computer.