Awards

Awards and Distinctions

Red Dot Design Award

2025Chenfeng Gao

Google Research Scholar Award

2025Karan Ahuja

ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award

2025Karan Ahuja

Paper Awards

Augmented Object Intelligence with XR-Objects

Mustafa Doga Dogan, Eric J. Gonzalez, Andrea Colaco, Karan Ahuja, Ruofei Du, Johnny Lee, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, David Kim

UIST '24: Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

SXSW Innovation Awards 2025 Finalists
IMUPoser: Full-Body Pose Estimation using IMUs in Phones, Watches, and Earbuds

Vimal Mollyn, Riku Arakawa, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison, Karan Ahuja

CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Honorable Mention Award
TriboTouch: Micro-Patterned Surfaces for Low Latency Touchscreens

Craig Shultz, Karan Ahuja, Daewha Kim, Chris Harrison

CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Honorable Mention Award
Pose-on-the-Go: Approximating Partial User Pose with Smartphone Sensor Fusion and Inverse Kinematics

Karan Ahuja, Sven Mayer, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Fast Company Innovation by Design Finalist
PrivacyMic: Utilizing Inaudible Frequencies for Privacy Preserving Daily Activity Recognition

Yasha Iravantchi, Karan Ahuja, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison, Alanson Sample

CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Honorable Mention Award
LightAnchors: Appropriating Point Lights for Spatially-Anchored Augmented Reality Interfaces

Karan Ahuja, Sujeath Pareddy, Robert Xiao, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

UIST '19: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalist
MeCap: Whole-Body Digitization for Low-Cost VR/AR Headsets

Karan Ahuja, Robert Xiao, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

UIST '19: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Honorable Mention Award
Ubicoustics: Plug-and-Play Acoustic Activity Recognition

Gierad Laput, Karan Ahuja, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

UIST '18: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Fast Company Innovation by Design Finalist