Curriculum Vitae

Education

Harvard University
PhD Student in History of Science (2024-present)
Research Focus: History of capitalism, technology, and computing in the United States

University of Cambridge
M.Phil., Economic and Social History (2024)
Thesis: 'The Intellectual Property Committee and the Making of TRIPS Agreement in the U.S. and India, 1970-1995'

Columbia University
B.A., History (2023)
Thesis: 'Patent Politics: The Pharmaceutical Industry, Technology Transfer, and the Fight for India’s 1970 Patent Act'

PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

Obsidian Based Reinforced Reading Tool
Independent technical project; extracts and summarizes text from given folder input in Obsidian via weekly email.

FreeRide
Collaborating with Professor Alexander Clark at Columbia; python package to intuitively model introductory microeconomic concepts for coursework.

This Website
Exciting learning experience to create a website from scratch thanks to Cursor, Figma, and Vercel — with a little help from my friends!

Contact

Department of the History of Science
Science Center
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

kvikram@g.harvard.edu