Lochan Pranav, spatial data scientist and product designer

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21 pages · updated Nov 2026

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01/Coming Soon to Your Block

A sign, an app and a text alert

Case study Film

img_ref: 01/03

What two rows of city data told me about the street outside a bedroom window.

580+permits, one block

26screens in Figma

48 hnotice the rules require

580+ permits // 2 nights // 26 screens // 48 h notice // 61 s film

NYC Film Permits lists streets, dates and hours for every shoot in the city, and two rows held Monitor Street in Greenpoint until 11:30 PM one night and 1:00 AM the next. A short film tells that night from inside the apartment. The answer is three things built on the same data: the No Parking sign productions already post, with a QR code; an app that shows your block the night before; and a text alert for any phone.

Role

Solo: research, story, film, sign and the 26 screen prototype.

Tools

Figma
FigJam
NYC Open Data
Video editing

Human Spatial Computing, NYU · Fall 2026 · SoloProject 1 of 6

Section 014 projects

GIS work

Maps and analysis from the master's, and a civic mapping tool built for a city office.

Map of Tulsa neighborhoods with community events plotted as green points

GIS01

Tulsa Event Monitor

2025 · Civic mapping tool · City of Tulsa Auditor's Office

A mapping tool for the City Auditor's Office that pulls community events from three platforms onto 493 geocoded venues.

Map of Manhattan and the Bronx with bus routes colored by slope percent

GIS02

MTA bus electrification

2026 · ArcGIS StoryMap · with Vaishnavi PotphodeNew

A five-stage GIS workflow using a 1 ft elevation model, nine depots and GTFS data to find the routes where terrain cuts electric bus range, then siting five shared charging stations.

Map of Miami-Dade County hospitals with 3 and 7 minute drive-time service areas

GIS03

Hospital accessibility, Miami-Dade

2026 · ArcGIS StoryMap · soloNew

Network analysis with two travel-speed models checked against Google Maps. About 890,786 residents live within 3 to 7 minutes of a hospital; 1,809,369 live beyond 7.

Web map of New York City subway lines over zoning districts

GIS04

The economics of proximity

2025 · ArcGIS StoryMap · with Milka Vincentiya and Vaishnavi Potphode

Why do New Yorkers value time over money? The HUD Location Affordability Index mapped at census-tract level across the five boroughs, with subway lines over zoning districts.

Section 027 projects

UI/UX design

Interfaces for government services, mobile apps and websites. Each case study states the problem, what I decided, and what happened.

A redesigned No Parking film shoot sign beside two phone screens: the block's shoot schedule and a text alert thread

UI/UX05

Coming Soon to Your Block

Fall 2026 · Human Spatial Computing, NYU · Solo · Built on NYC Film Permits

Two rows of open data held one Greenpoint block until 1 AM. A short film from inside the apartment, then a sign with a QR code, an app for the block and a text alert for any phone. 26 screens in Figma.

Redesigned Sarathi Parivahan license portal screens on a blue background

UI/UX06

Sarathi license portal

2022 · UX case study · Government service

The learner's license application, cut from seven scattered steps to one guided flow with DigiLocker uploads, UPI payment and a progress bar.

UI/UX07

SAVOR

2024 · Mobile app · Food surplus

Restaurants post what is left over, volunteers deliver it to donation spots, and streaks keep both sides coming back. Built from interviews with a restaurant, a canteen, a meat shop and a dairy.

UI/UX08

SUII suitcase rental

2022 · Mobile app concept · Rental service

Rent expensive, rarely used travel gear instead of buying it. Interviews, one persona, wireframes and final screens for browsing, booking dates and tracking a delivery.

UI/UX09

Mighty

Client work · Web and app design · Finance guidance startup

A new information architecture and visual system for an investment guidance platform, from the landing page to risk-profile onboarding.

UI/UX10

Saginaw Tattoo

Concept · Web design · Tattoo studio

A dark, editorial site for a tattoo studio: gallery, artists, style categories and booking, built around large black-and-white photography.

UI/UX11

Spar Agrotech

2023 · Web design and identity · Farmer producer company

A website and identity for a women-led farmer producer company in Pune, from the product range to the board of directors.

Section 033 projects

Brand and campaign

Campaign systems and films for two Bengaluru residential developments, designed at the startup that marketed them.

Brand12

Address Masters campaigns

2024 · Brand and campaign · Bangalore

Six months as the designer at an early-stage real estate startup: the campaigns for two developments, including two films shot and edited. 200+ creatives, 1,000+ buyer inquiries.

Brand13

SNN Estates Felicity

2024 · Campaign system · Social, digital and print

Interior photography, property ads and an amenity storytelling series for a development behind Manyata Tech Park.

Brand14

Visista OKAS

2024 · Campaign system · Social, digital and print

Property ads, lifestyle creatives and a biophilic positioning series for a luxury development in Judicial Layout.

Section 047 projects

Product design

Products from the B.Des, each taken from research and sketches to renders or a working model. Each page ends with a link to the full process board on Behance.

Product15

Filter coffee maker

Semester 6 · Appliance

A modern brewer that keeps the ritual of South Indian filter coffee, tested as a foam model.

Product16

Saffron oil bottle

Semester 4 · Packaging

Form and color taken from the saffron bud, with a cap that cannot get lost.

Render of a pink earpods case beside a phone and a mug

Product17

Earpods packaging

Semester 4, group of two · Packaging

A sliding case that opens without tearing, in four gradient variants.

Product18

Tesla perfume bottle

Semester 4 · Packaging

A faceted glass bottle with a polished cap, for a brand that does not sell perfume yet.

Product19

Home decor store

Semester 5 · Retail design

A 6 by 9 meter store laid out so the whole range is visible from the sofa.

Photographs of a hand-made black shoe with a cork sole

Product20

Sustainable shoes

Semester 5 · Eco design

Cork soles, post-consumer cotton uppers and organic cotton laces, prototyped by hand.

A wooden tree-shaped bookshelf against a plain wall

Product21

Tree bookshelf

Semester 5 · Furniture

A dado-jointed shelf sized from anthropometric data and built in wood.

By the numbersResults, drawn to scale

What the data said

Every figure is from the project itself

Hospital access in Miami-DadeResidents by drive time to the nearest hospital · Network Analyst, Spring 2026

1,612 within 3 min
890,786 3 to 7 min
1,809,369 beyond 7 min

Predicting housing and transport burdenR² on 2,120 NYC tracts, best of six cross-validated models · Machine Learning for Cities, Spring 2026

Housing only

0.485

With transit

0.710

148 tracts flagged as transit traps: high burden, low transit access, long commutes.

Tulsa Event MonitorCommunity venues geocoded through the Google Places API · City of Tulsa Auditor's Office, 2025

493venues on one map, from 3 event platforms, in 5 views

Experience2 roles

Work history

Full resume (PDF)

01City of Tulsa Auditor's Office, through NYU CUSPAug 2025 to Dec 2025

Graduate Research Assistant

Tulsa, OK · hybrid

Community outreach research for a ten-person city audit office, and the mapping tool that came out of it.

Details

Built the Event Monitor with one teammate, a Streamlit app in Python mapping Eventbrite, Facebook and LinkedIn events onto 493 geocoded venues, and led its UX from user research to Figma prototypes. The office now owns it.
Analyzed geospatial and demographic data to identify the neighborhoods the office was missing, and wrote case studies of the Austin, Oakland, Denver, San Diego and Portland city auditors.
Presented recommendations to cross-functional city stakeholders and delivered the final report in December 2025, from a mixed-methods study of the office's social media engagement, audit plans and community events.

Figma
Python
Streamlit
Google Places API
Eventbrite API
Geospatial analysis

493geocoded venues

5city auditors studied

Dec 2025final report delivered

6 tools

02Address Masters, early-stage real estate startupJan 2024 to Jun 2024

Graphic Designer, Product and UX

Bangalore, India

The designer at a startup marketing two residential developments and building an AI-driven analytics dashboard.

Details

Designed 12+ end-to-end product workflows and 40+ high-fidelity UI screens in Figma for the analytics dashboard, and partnered with engineers to turn the prototypes into production-ready interfaces.
Ran usability tests with 18 users and iterated on the findings, improving task efficiency by 32%.
Built a reusable component library that cut design iteration time by 25% and improved consistency across the product.
Produced 200+ marketing creatives across social, digital and print for two Bangalore developments and shot and edited two campaign films. The campaigns generated 1,000+ qualified buyer inquiries.

Figma
Photoshop
Illustrator
Photography
Video editing
Design systems
Usability testing

18users tested

32%faster tasks

1,000+buyer inquiries

7 tools

EducationAcademic

Two degrees, one line of work

New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

M.S. Urban Data Science, Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)

Aug 2025 to May 2027, expected · Brooklyn, NY

GPA3.77/ 4.0

GIS
Urban Spatial Analytics
Machine Learning for Cities
Applied Data Science

CUSP Rising Scholar Scholarship for academic performance · NYU CUSP Scholarship

MIT World Peace University

Bachelor of Design (B.Des), Product Design

Jun 2020 to Jun 2024 · Pune, India

GPA9.0/ 10

Product design
Industrial design
UX
Visual design

Four years from sketching and model making to renders, interfaces and brand systems.

Certifications · Google UX Design (2024) · Esri ArcGIS Pro: Fundamentals of GIS Languages · English, Hindi, Tamil, Japanese

Skills27 tools · 21 projects

Tools, and where each one was used

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The 21 projects on this site, plus one model without a page. Numbers on the tools count where each was used.

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