I am a fourth year Computer Science PhD student in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work in the lass lab with Prof. Prashant Shenoy and Prof. Jeremy Gummeson. My research interests lie broadly in the area of Mobile and Wearable Sensing and Systems, IoT and Ubiquitous Computing. I am working on advancing audio sensing for healthier indoor environments.
During the summer 2023, I interned at Samsung Research America with Ebrahim Nemati and Jilong Kuang on lung health assessment using acoustic signals captured by hearables. During summer 2022, I interned at Bell labs UK in the Pervasive Systems group with Utku Acer, Chulhong Min, Si Young Jang, and Fahim Kawsar on Collaborative inference in wearable environment.
What's New?
April 2024: My internship work at Samsung Research, Cough-DL is accepted to IEEE EMBC 2024
April 2024: AeroSense accepted at IMWUT 2024.
April 2024: Awarded the inaugural Health Tech for the People Ethics Fellowship 2024
March 2024: Paper accepted at HotEthics 2024 Co-located with ASPLOS 2024
December 2023: Passed my portfolio – officially a Ph.D. candidate now!
September 2023: Received IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship 2023
May 2023: Started my internship at Samsung Research America with Digital Health Lab
May 2023: BreathEasy got accepted in EnvSys workshop, colocated with MobiSys 2023
February 2023: ACM HotMobile 2023 student travel award
December 2022: My Bell Labs internship work Cocoon got accepted in HotMobile 2023
November 2022: Serving as a Student Volunteer in SenSys 2022
September 2022: Presented FlowSense in UbiComp'22
June 2022: I am invited to serve as the Shadow PC on SenSys '22.
March 2022: This summer, I will be working as a Research Intern at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK.
January 2022: FlowSense got accepted at IMWUT 2022
December 2021: Received N2Women Travel Grant to attend MobiCom 2021
November 2021: FLAIR received best paper runner-up award at ACM BuildSys 2021
September 2021: Received Student grant to attend UbiComp 2021
September 2021: My work at MSR got accepted in BuildSys 2021
July 2021: Received Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 scholarship
June 2021: Secured second place in Stage 2 of VTS Drone Competition.
June 2021: Awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE Conference Grant to attend ACM MobiSys 2021
June 2021: Camera Communication meets Drone-based Sensing paper accepted at Internet of Lights Workshop colocated with MobiSys'21
May 2021: Received the 2021 David W. Stemple Scholarship for Systems Research from CICS, UMass Amherst
March 2021: I will be attending 2021 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women on April 23 and 24
December 2020: Our team has acclaimed third place in Stage 1 of VTS Drone Competition.
September 2020: Presented paper at “Light Up the IoT” - Workshop Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2020
August 2020: Started PhD at UMass Amherst remotely
July 2020: "Evaluating LED-Camera Communication for Drones" accepted in “Light Up the IoT” - Workshop Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2020
May 2020: "Gauntlet" accepted in ACM WearSys'20 (Mobisys), Toronto, Canada
April 2020: Selected as ACM SIGBED Scholar 2020
November 2019: Started working as a research intern at IIIT Delhi with Dr. P.B. Sujit.
October 2019: Secured Second position in ACM Student Research Competition held at ESWEEK 2019 (NYU)
June 2019: Started research internship at Microsoft Research Lab India, under guidance of Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Srinivasan Iyengar.
Research Experience
Research Assistant in LASS lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst (CICS) (August 2020 - Present)
Working on novel sensing systems for measuring airflow and ensuring optimum air circulation in indoor environments.
Advised by : Prof. Prashant Shenoy and Prof. Jeremy Gummeson.
Research Intern in Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA, USA (June 2023 - September 2023)
Worked on health sensing using hearables. Advised by : Ebrahim Nemati and Jilong Kuang
Research Intern in Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge , UK (June 2022 - September 2022)
Worked on on-body microphone collaboration for ambient intelligence.
Advised by : Utku Acer, Chulhong Min , Spencer Jang, and Fahim Kawsar
Research Intern at IIIT Delhi (November 2019 - April 2020)
Worked on exploring and mapping an area using efficient adaptive sampling algorithms.
Advised by Dr .P .B. Sujit.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Lab India (June 2019-August 2019)
Worked on building an orchestration engine for surveying using multiple UAVs.
Advised by Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Srinivasan Iyengar.
Project Intern at Aerogram, IIT Delhi (Dec 2018-Feb. 2019)
Worked on handling the server side of the network of air pollution monitoring sensor nodes.
Advised by Dr. Sarita Ahlawat
Remote Research Intern, Georgia State University (October 2018-March 2019)
Evaluating LED-camera communication for drones. Advised by: Prof. Ashwin Ashok
Summer Research Intern at IIT Delhi (June 2018-Aug. 2018)
Worked on implementing MAC layer for Visible Light Communication using MATLAB.
Advised by Dr. Brejesh Lall.
Trainee at Cyborgs Labs, Delhi (June 2017-Aug. 2017)
Summer Course on Embedded Systems and its Applications
Teaching Experience
CS328 Mobile and Ubiquitous Computings, Spring 2024
Instructor: Prof. VP Nguyen
CS328 Mobile Health Sensing and Analytics, Fall 2023
Instructor: Prof. Deepak Ganesan
INFO 190S Introduction to Programming, Fall 2022
Instructor: Tim Richards
CS328 Mobile Health Sensing and Analytics, Fall 2021
Instructor: Prof. Deepak Ganesan
CS121 Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers, Spring 2021
Instructor: Prof. Adam Kohan
Activities
Mentored in Undergraduate Research Volunteer Program at UMass Amherst (Dec. 2023–Jan. 2024)
Served as Student Volunteer for IEEE BSN 2023 (Oct. 2023)
Served as a Student Volunteer for ACM SenSys 2022 (Nov. 2022)
Social Media Chair of IEEE Pervasive (July 2022 – Present)
PhD Co-chair of GradCSWomen at UMass Amherst (Aug.2021–Dec. 2022)
Serving as Shadow Program Committee member (July 2022–Oct. 2022)
Mentored in Undergraduate Research Volunteer Program at UMass Amherst (Jun. 2021–Jul. 2021)
ACM N2Women Membership Co-chair (Apr. 2021–Present)
Mentored in Undergraduate Research Volunteer Program at UMass Amherst (Dec. 2020–Jan. 2021)
Participated in PhD Applicant Support Program organized by CICS CARE, UMass Amherst (Nov. 2020–Dec. 2020)
Awards
Awarded the inaugural Health Tech for the People Ethics Fellowship 2024
ACM HotMobile 2023 student travel award
Received N2Women Travel Grant to attend MobiCom 2021
Received best paper runner-up award at ACM BuildSys 2021
Received Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 Scholarship July 2021
Secured second place in Stage 2 of IEEE VTS Drone Competition. June 2021
Conference Grant ACM MobiSys 2021, ACM SIGMOBILE June 2021
Received David W. Stemple Scholarship for Systems Research, UMass Amherst May 2021
Selected to attend the 2021 CRA-WP Grad Cohort workshop Apr. 2021
Third place in Stage 1 of IEEE VTS Drone Competition Dec. 2020
Selected as ACM SIGBED Scholar 2020 Apr. 2020
Second Position in ACM Student Research Competition Oct. 2019
1st in eYantra - National Robotics Competition, IIT Bombay Apr. 2019
1st in Smart India Hackathon 2019 Mar. 2019
Winner of Hack-A-BIT Oct. 2018
2nd Runner-up in Smart India Hackathon 2018 Jun. 2018
Winner of EV Hackathon Apr. 2018
AIR 19 in IEEE Xtreme 11.0 Oct. 2017
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