Prerna Khanna
Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate,
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
I am on the job market for academic posotions starting in Fall 2026.
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I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Aruna Balasubramanian working in the NetSys Lab.
My research vision is to enable accessible computing interactions that move beyond touch-screens and voice. I work at the intersection of Mobile and Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Applied Machine Learning to develop lightweight interaction techniques using commodity wearables. My work primarily advances accessibility for users with visual impairments.
My research has been published at leading venues like MobiCom, SenSys, UbiComp, CHI, and ASSETS.
I have been fortunate to receive recognition for this work, including the CPS Rising Star, and Catacosinos Fellowship. I am also a recipient of the Paul Baran Young Scholars Celestini Prize India 2018 awarded by the Marconi Society for developing AirCognizer.
I have collaborated with Nokia Bell Labs and Meta Reality Labs during my PhD journey.
Publications
Prerna Khanna, Monalika Padma Reddy, IV Ramakrishnan, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian
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Prerna Khanna, IV Ramakrishnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian
🏆 Runner Up Best Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day' 24
Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
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Enabling Accessible and Ubiquitous Interaction in Next-Generation Wearables: An Unvoiced Speech Approach
Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
Prerna Khanna, Shirin Feiz, Jian Xu, IV Ramakrishnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian
🏆 Best Systems and Security Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day' 22
Rishiraj Adhikary, Dhruvi Lodhavia, Chris Francis, Rohit Patil, Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Nipun Batra, Joe Breda, Jacob Peplinski, Shwetak Patel
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 2023
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Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
🏆 Best Overall Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day' 22
Qingqing Cao, Prerna Khanna, Aruna Balasubramanian, Nicholas D. Lane
Prerna Khanna*, Tanmay Srivastava*, Shijia Pan, Shubham Jain, Phuc Nguyen
🏆 Social Impact Award at SBU Graduate Research Day' 21
Posters and Demos
Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
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Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
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Prerna Khanna*, Tanmay Srivastava*, Shijia Pan, Shubham Jain, Phuc Nguyen
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Rishiraj Adhikary, Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Aabhas A.Senapati, Nipun Batra
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Awards
Catacosinos Fellowship recipient for Excellence in Computer Science.
Runner Up Best Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day'24
Best Systems and Security Presentation: Awarded for AccessWear at Stony Brook Graduate Research Day'22.
Best Overall Presentation: Awarded for MuteIt at Stony Brook Graduate Research Day'22.
GGSIPU Gold Medalist, 14th Convocation of the University.
Social Impact Award: Awarded for JawSense at Stony Brook Graduate Research Day' 21.
Best Student of the Year 2016 - 2020, ICE Department: Awarded by Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, New Delhi.
Winner BVCOE EvoTech 2.0 2018.
Paul Baran Young Scholars Celestini Prize India: Awarded by Marconi Society, USA to honor the demonstration of innovation and blue-sky thinking in developing a telecom-based solution to a socioeconomic challenge for our work on the topic of Air Pollution Analytics System using Mobile Phone Camera Images.
News
June 2025: Joined Meta Reality Labs, Redmond (RLR- Audio) as a research intern.
June 2025: Our work on multimodal mobile free text entry for blind users has been accepted to ASSETS 2025.
April 2025: Awarded Catacosinos Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science.
Sep 2024: I am co-chairing S3 workshop at MobiCom 2024. See you in DC!
April 2024: Awarded CPS Rising Stars 2024.
March 2024: Our work on blind users' gestures awarded the Runner Up Best Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day'24.
Jan 2024: Our work with 3D gesture trajectories for blind users has been accepted to CHI 2024!
Sep 2023: Distinguished Travel Award, SBU
Nov 2022: AccessWear, our system design work for alternate gestures for blind users has been accepted to MobiCom' 23!
Oct 2022: AccessWear awarded the Best Presentation in Systems & Security domain at SBU Graduate Research Day'22.
July 2022: Unvoiced word recognition paper conditionally accepted to IMWUT!
June 2022: Joined Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge UK as a research intern.
May 2022: Demo accepted at MobiSys 2022!
Feb 2021: JawSense awarded Social Impact Award at the SBU Graduate Research Day'21.
Dec 2020: JawSense accepted to ACM HotMobile 2021.
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