Karan Ahuja
Affiliate Assistant Professor
United States
Summary
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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 (42)
pose10
activity-recognition10
doppler9
smartphone9
eye-tracking9
gestures9
openface9
computer-vision8
interaction8
python8
deep-learning8
pose-estimation8
machine-learning8
imu8
microphone8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FIGLAB/DirectionOfVoice
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Direction-of-Voice (DoV) Estimation for Intuitive Speech Interaction with Smart Devices Ecosystems
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
karanahujax/PUF
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 11 pushes in 5 years
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