Karan Ahuja
Karan is the Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northwestern University where he directs the Sensing, Perception, Interactive Computing and Experiences (SPICE) Lab. His research interests are in the areas of Machine Learning and Sensing, Ubiquitous Computing and Human-Computer Interaction. He received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2023 and B.Tech. in Computer Science in 2017. Karan is a recipient of the Forbes 30 under 30 (2024), MIT 35 innovators under 35 Asia Pacific (2024), ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024), and Siebel Fellowship (2022).
PhD Students
Vasco is a PhD student in Computer Science. His research explores the intersection of machine learning & adaptive sensing systems.
Chenfeng (Jesse) is a PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior. His research focuses on immersive experiences to bridge physical and virtual worlds
Yiquan is a PhD student in Computer Science. His research focuses on machine learning for wearable devices that interact with the physical world and human users.
Xuanyou (Zed) is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science whose research focuses on the intersection of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with multimodal sensing systems.
Aidan is a PhD student exploring on device Machine Learning and behavioral sensing systems for digital health, activity understanding, and affective computing.
Researchers
Taeyoung is a pre-doctoral researcher developing multimodal machine learning, sensing and interaction techniques for XR and ambient environments.
Suril is a visiting scholar investigating deep learning techniques for adaptive sensing, representation learning, and real-time human understanding.
Naoto is a visiting PhD student from the University of Tokyo researching AI-assisted communication and learning systems, bridging education, cognition, and intelligent interfaces.