Brooklyn, NY · M.S. Urban Data Science, NYU Tandon

Lochan Pranav

Product designer and spatial data scientist.

I work on the layer between city data and the people who use it. On one side, spatial analysis and machine learning in GIS and Python. On the other, interfaces that make the findings usable. Trained in product design, now finishing an M.S. in Urban Data Science at NYU.

Education
M.S. Urban Data Science, NYU Tandon, May 2027B.Des Product Design, MIT World Peace University, 2024
Based in
Brooklyn, New York
Available
Full-time from June 2027Internships in summer 2027Part-time now

All projects20

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GIS work4

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

Brand and campaign3

Campaign systems for two Bengaluru residential developments, and the startup where I designed them.

UI/UX design6

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

Product design7

Products from the B.Des, each taken from research and sketches to renders or a working model. Full process boards are on Behance.

About

I studied product design at MIT World Peace University in Pune and spent 2024 as the designer at Address Masters, an early-stage startup in Bangalore, working across the product and its marketing.

In 2025 I moved to Brooklyn for the M.S. in Urban Data Science at NYU Tandon. Through NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress I spent a semester with the City of Tulsa Auditor's Office, where my teammate and I built a mapping tool the office now uses to plan community outreach.

The through line is data that people have to act on. Designers usually hand that problem to someone else. I would rather understand the data well enough to design the right thing, and increasingly, to build it.

Product and UX
Figma, prototyping, usability testing, design systems, UX research, information architecture
Industrial design
Rhino, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Keyshot, Blender, hand sketching, model making
Data and GIS
ArcGIS Pro, Network Analyst, location allocation, hot spot analysis, cartography, Python with pandas and scikit-learn, SQL, R
Building
Streamlit, REST APIs (Google Places, Eventbrite), HTML and CSS. Currently learning LLM tool use and MCP.

Contact

Based in Brooklyn. Open to full-time roles from June 2027, internships in summer 2027, and part-time work now.