Published multiple papers, including works on OrganicHAR (Activity Discovery in the wild), students' perception of smart classrooms, and context detection from daily activity patterns. Received the CMLH Transactional Fellowship and the Cylab Presidential Fellowship.
Research Experience
Actively engaged with the Edusense classroom sensing project and the Autonomous project (supporting people with Dementia). Worked at Bidgely UtilityAI on promoting energy efficiency using smart meter disaggregation. Served as a Teaching Assistant for User Focused Sensing Systems at CMU and interned at Microsoft Research.
Education
Joined Bidgely UtilityAI in August 2017; obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi in July 2017; started his Ph.D. at CMU in August 2020, advised by Dr. Yuvraj Agarwal, and had the opportunity to work closely with Dr. Mayank Goel, Dr. Amy Ogan, and Dr. John Zimmerman.
Background
A 6th year Ph.D. student in Societal Computing (S3D) at Carnegie Mellon University, passionate about building hardware and software systems. Research interests include enhancing the utility of smart environments, promoting human-AI collaboration for user health and wellness, while addressing privacy concerns.
Miscellany
Actively looking for job opportunities for the summer of 2026.