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Indian-origin senior wins Dean’s award at UT Austin
She has been recognized for a capstone project that developed product-growth analytics for an AI ed-tech startup.
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Anushka Pathak - Tue, 23, Dec 2025
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Chinmayee Channuri, who received the Fall 2025 Dean’s Choice Award / Courtesy: University of Texas at Austin
Chinmayee Channuri, an Indian-origin student at the University of Texas at Austin, has received the Fall 2025 Dean’s Choice Award for her capstone project developed at the School of Information.
The recognition was awarded for Channuri’s project, 'Building Product Growth Metrics for Voila Voice,' created in collaboration with Voila Voice, an early-stage AI-based education technology startup.
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The project focused on analyzing user behavior during the company’s growth phase and identifying meaningful indicators of product-market fit. As part of the work, Channuri mapped the end-to-end user journey and developed dashboards aligned with key stages of discovery, engagement, and retention.
“During my time at the iSchool [School of Information], I learned to see analytics as a design problem grounded in user empathy, not just a technical exercise,” Channuri was quoted as saying by the university press.
"Rather than centering my work on surface-level metrics, I designed product-growth dashboards that highlighted meaningful user behavior and real signals of product value," she added.
The project marked a key academic milestone, reinforcing her interest in product leadership driven by data clarity and user-centered insights. Faculty reviewers cited the project’s practical application and interpretability as factors in its selection.
Channuri is currently working at Microsoft’s Austin campus and is expected to graduate in 2026. She has also served as marketing director for the Texas Product Engineering Organization, where her work included website development and prototyping using Figma and Adobe Suite.
She is a double major in informatics at the UT Austin School of Information and management information systems at the McCombs School of Business.
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