Prerna Khanna
Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate,
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Aruna Balasubramanian working in the NetSys Lab.
My research interests include Mobile Systems, Sensing, and Accessibility. I envision leveraging ubiquitous sensing, signal processing, and virtualization techniques from systems to improve universal accessibility. My research tries to bring a systems perspective to human-computer-accessible interactions and has been published at leading venues like MobiCom, CHI, UbiComp, and HotMobile.
I am a recipient of the Paul Baran Young Scholars Celestini Prize India 2018 awarded by the Marconi Society for developing AirCognizer.
Publications
Hand Gesture Recognition for Blind Users by Tracking 3D Gesture Trajectory
Prerna Khanna, IV Ramakrishnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian
Runner Up Best Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day' 24
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
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Best Overall Presentation at SBU Graduate Research Day' 22
Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
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Qingqing Cao, Prerna Khanna, Aruna Balasubramanian, Nicholas D. Lane
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Prerna Khanna*, Tanmay Srivastava*, Shijia Pan, Shubham Jain, Phuc Nguyen
Social Impact Award at SBU Graduate Research Day' 21
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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*Co-primary authors
News
April 2024: 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.
Awards
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.
