Nivedita Arora
Nivedita Arora

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I’m a 4th year Ph.D. Computer Science student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Gregory Abowd and Prof. Thad Starner. I am part of the GT Ubicomp Lab and work on the Computational Materials initiative.

My research focuses on re-imagining the future of mobile and ubiquitous computing by embracing an alternative view of computing where the physical surfaces would be covered with a “computational material” which can self-sustain itself to sense, compute, actuate and communicate as well as have the capability of being manufactured at large scale.

I am a multi-disciplinary researcher who often collaborates with researchers in material science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electronics and design to explore the challenges and solutions for the exciting new age of Internet of Materials (IoM).

Previously, I have done Masters in Interactive Computing and Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology and Bachelors in Information Technology from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi Univeristy.

I have published in ACM IMWUT,  Communications of the ACM and SIGMOBILE GetMobile Magazine.  I have also received 1 Distinguished paper and 2 Best Posters awards for my work. 

Ph.D. Dissertation Projects

Example 1: Self-sustainable Mechanical Vibration and Sound Sensing

1. SATURN : Self-powered Thin Flexible Microphone

2. ZEUSSS :


3. Surface++ :

4. VibroMaterial :


Example 2: Self-sustainable Water Leak detection
SWELED

Example 3: Self-sustainable Gas Sensing
1. CO-SENSE :
2.

Other Research Projects

Publication

N. Arora, T. Starner and G. D. Abowd. SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials. Communications of the ACM, July 2020. (To be published)

A. Waghmare, Q. Xue, D. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. Mittal, N. Arora, C. Byrne, T. Starner and G. D. Abowd . UbiquiTouch: Self Sustaining Ubiquitous Touch Interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2020

N. Arora, J. Yu, H. Oh, T. Starner and G. D. Abowd. SATURN: Technical and Design Challenges in Building a Self-sustainable Sound and Vibration Sensing Material. GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. January 2020 [ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights]

N. Arora, Q. Xue, D. Bansal, P. McAughan, R. Bahr, D. Osorio, X. Ma, A. Sample, T. Starner and G. D. Abowd. Surface++ : A Scalable and Self-sustainable Wireless Sound Sensing Surface. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys (pp. 543-544), June 2019. [Best Poster] \href{https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3328615}

N. Arora, and G. D. Abowd. ZEUSSS: : Zero Energy Ubiquitous Sound Sensing Surface Leveraging Triboelectric Nanogenerator and Analog Backscatter Communication. Adjunct Publication of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October, 2018.\ \textbf{\textcolor{red}{[Best Poster]}} \href{https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3266108}{ \textcolor{blue}{ \underline{pdf}}}

N. Arora, S. L. Zhang, F. Shahmiri, D. Osorio, Y.-C. Wang, M. Gupta, Z. Wang, T. Starner, Z. L. Wang, and G. D. Abowd. SATURN: A thin and flexible self-powered microphone leveraging triboelectric nanogenerator. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and
Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 2 (2), June 2018. \ \textbf{\textcolor{red}{[Distinguished Paper (Top 3\%)]}} \href{https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3214263}

N. Arora, L. Freil, I. Walker, T. Starner, M. M Jackson. Towards Mobile and Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces. Proceedings of the 6th International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting, organized by the BCI Society, May 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337209191_Towards_Mobile_and_Wearable_Brain-Computer_Interfaces

Service

  • Group Meeting Coordinator, Computational Materials Group, Georgia Tech (2017-present)
  • Organizer, CHI Workshop, Self-SustainableCHI: Sustainable Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions (2020)
  • Panelist for Georgia Tech MS HCI Seminar, “Reasons for Getting a Ph.D and life ahead” (2019)
  • Organizer, UbiComp Broadening Participation workshop, Ubicomp Conference, Singapore (2018)
  • Georgia Tech Grad Group leader (2018)
  • Paper Reviewer :
    – UbiComp/IMWUT (2016, 2017,2018,2020),
    – Mobile HCI (2018),
    – ISWC (2017),
    – CHI(2018,2019,2020)
  • Instructor, Girls Who Code Georgia Tech Chapter (2017)
  • Group meeting coordinator, Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Georgia Tech (2016-2018)
  • Student Volunteer, Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Osaka, Japan (2015)
  • Founder, Mobile Development Group, Delhi University (2011 – 2012)

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Computing (Spring 2019)
  • Teaching Assistant, Graduate Group Orientation course (Fall 2018 )
  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Summer 2018)
  • Teaching Assistant, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (Spring 2017)
  • Mentor, Texas Instruments Summer Internship Workshop, Delhi University (2014)
  • Student Mentor for Mobile Applications, Google Developer Group (GDG), Delhi (2014)
  • Teacher, Each one Teach One, Times of India initiative to teach poor children in Delhi, India (2009)

References

Fun Projects