Kaivan Shah

User Experience Researcher and UX research consultant

San Francisco, California

Joined May 2026

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Summary

Practitioner of mixed-methods UX research who applies both qualitative and quantitative techniques to improve product experiences. me

Experienced across corporate and consulting environments, moving from intern and researcher roles into senior research positions and freelance consulting. rocketreach+1

Has academic and technical background in HCI and contributed to peer-reviewed research on multimodal image captioning for the visually impaired. aclanthology+1

Maintains a software/project portfolio demonstrating engineering skills (Android, Java, HTML5, Python) in addition to UX research work. devpost

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Multi-Modal Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired

January 1, 2021

Proposes modifying an image-captioning system to incorporate text detected in images as an input feature and uses a pointer-generator network to accurately reproduce detected text; reported improved performance on the VizWiz dataset.

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Kaivan Shah

Summary

Work

FounderTiny Times2025–Present

UX Research ConsultantFreelance2025–Present

Senior UX ResearcherKeller Williams Realty, Inc.2021–2024

User Experience ResearcherThe Predictive Index2020–2021

CapstoneCity of Indianapolis2018–2020

UX Research InternThe Predictive Index2019–2019

UX ResearcherTECHVED Consulting2017–2018

Sales And Market Research InternO.C. Tanner2016–2017

Education

Executive MBASofia University2024–2025

Master's degree, Human-Computer InteractionIndiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis2018–2020

HCI Monsoon Course 2017 (Human-Computer Interaction)Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay2017–2017

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information TechnologyUniversity of Mumbai2012–2016

Projects

Software portfolio (Devpost: kaivan29)

Writing

Multi-Modal Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired