I am a Lisa Wissner-Slivka & Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northwestern University where I direct the Sensing, Perception, Interactive Computing & Experiences (SPICE) Lab . I received my Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2023 and B.Tech. in Computer Science in 2017. I am a recipient of the Forbes 30 under 30, MIT 35 innovators under 35 Asia Pacific, ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition, and ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. I have recently been a Visiting Research Scientist at Google leading efforts on Augmented Reality and Experiences, and have previously worked at Apple, Microsoft Research, Meta Reality Labs and IBM Research.
I publish my research at premiere venues in computer science. Please refer to SPICE Lab Publications.
My research group creates cutting-edge computing technologies that sense, track, and understand humans to augment their interactions and assist them in daily life. We tackle challenging research problems in high-impact application areas such as mobile health sensing, extended reality, embodied perception and natural user interfaces. We leverage expertise in novel sensors & sensing techniques, embedded systems, multimodal learning, computer vision, and on-device machine learning to deploy and evaluate these technologies in real-world settings. Many of our projects have been open-sourced, deployed in the wild, licensed, shipped as product features (including features used by over 100 million users) and have influenced flagship products at leading companies like Google and Apple.