Karan Ahuja
Lisa Wissner-Slivka & Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
United States
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Top SchoolKaran Ahuja is an Affiliate Assistant Professor and Wissner Slivka faculty in Computer Science at Northwestern University with 11 years of experience at the intersection of human-computer interaction, computer vision, and applied machine learning. He holds a PhD in HCI from Carnegie Mellon and bridges academic research with industry practice through visiting research roles at Google and internships at Apple, Meta Reality Labs, Microsoft, and IBM. His work emphasizes sensing, AR/VR, and camera systems—skills honed in Camera Incubation and Wireless Sensing as well as AR/VR groups—bringing lab-grade innovation toward real-world product problems. Equally at home designing user-centered experiments and building prototype systems, he translates HCI theory into deployable sensing and interaction technologies. Though primarily academic, his repeated industry collaborations signal a pragmatic focus on translational research that informs both papers and products.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (35)
smartphone10
doppler10
human-computer-interaction10
activity-recognition10
gestures10
openface10
imu9
pose-estimation9
human-activity-recognition9
audio8
inverse-kinematics8
speech8
data-science7
pytorch7
microphone7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karanahujax/PUF
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 11 pushes in 5 years
FIGLAB/Vid2Doppler
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
This is the research repository for Vid2Doppler: Synthesizing Doppler Radar Data from Videos for Training Privacy-Preserving Activity Recognition.
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 6 months
activity-recognitionhuman-computer-interactionhuman-activity-recognitionhuman-pose-trackingdoppler
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