Prerna Khanna
Research Assistant at Stony Brook University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrerna Khanna is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at Stony Brook University with eight years of research and engineering experience at the intersection of mobile and cyber-physical systems, HCI, applied machine learning, and accessibility. She designs lightweight interaction techniques for commodity wearables to expand non-visual and non-touch smartphone interactions, with a focus on improving accessibility for people with visual impairments. Her internships and research roles span industry leaders and top labs—including Meta Reality Labs, Nokia Bell Labs, and Carnegie Mellon—where she built tiny-ML pipelines for wearables and conversational audio interaction techniques. Prerna’s background in instrumentation and embedded R&D informs a rare blend of hardware-aware algorithm design and human-centered evaluation, evidenced by projects from prosthetic cost reduction to lung-health sensing in masks. Based in New York, she combines rigorous academic training with practical systems-building that moves accessible interaction research toward real-world deployment.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityAISSCE Science PCM, AISSCE Science PCM at Loreto Convent SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (28)
python9
machine-learning9
apk9
deep-learning9
android-framework9
android8
tensorflow8
packaging8
kivy8
android-apk8
data-science7
neural-network7
sparkfun7
climate-change7
packager7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SBUNetSys/AccessWear
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
prerna-khanna/Air-Cognizer
Jun 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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