sudershan [at] cmu.edu

I am a final-year Ph.D. student in Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yuvraj Agarwal and closely collaborate with Prof. Chris Harrison, Prof. Mayank Goel, and Prof. Anind K. Dey.

My research interests lie at the intersection of systems, applied artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), and health domains. Specifically, I specialize in building large-scale, deployable sensing systems for smart environments with a primary goal to develop secure, privacy-focused reliable software and systems. My work has led to the establishment of a first-of-its-kind IoT sensor network testbed, comprising over 300 multimodal sensor nodes, through the deployment of the Mites system in the newly constructed CMU TCS building. Along these lines, my current projects include:

  • Building a large-scale ubiquitous sensing infrastructure for real-world at-scale sensor deployments to study new applications, privacy implications and devise new privacy abstractions.
  • Building user-friendly machine learning platforms for IoT applications specifically, developing new techniques for data featurization, learning events, and developing foundation machine learning models for human activity recognition and various health and well-being applications.

If any of this resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you. The best way to reach me is sudershan [at] cmu.edu. Feel free to reach out if you have questions about my work or want to chat!

📢   I'm currently seeking full-time opportunities. If you're aware of any opportunities, please reach out to me. Here is my resume and CV.

Publications | Google Scholar

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Kirigami: Lightweight Speech Filtering for Privacy-Preserving Activity Recognition using Audio
Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Haozhe Zhou, Mayank Goel, Yuvraj Agarwal.
IMWUT 2023

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TAO: Context Detection from Daily Activity Patterns using Temporal Analysis and Ontology
Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Prasoon Patidar, Yuvraj Agarwal
IMWUT 2023

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Mites: Design and Deployment of a General-Purpose Sensing Infrastructure for Buildings
Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Chen Chen, Anurag Maravi, Mike Czapik, Yang Zhang, Chris Harrison, and Yuvraj Agarwal.
IMWUT 2023

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FitNibble: A Field Study to Evaluate the Utility and Usability of Automatic Diet Monitoring in Food Journaling Using an Eyeglasses-based Wearable.
Abdelkareem Bedri, Yuchen Liang, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Geoff Kaufman, and Mayank Goel.
IUI 2022

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MLIoT: An End-to-End Machine Learning System for the Internet-of-Things
Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Anurag Maravi, Prahalladha Mallela, Yuvraj Agarwal
IoTDI 2021

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Vista: Spatial DataRepresentation for Smart Buildings
Matilda Kathryn Ferguson, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Yuvraj Agarwal
BuildSys 2020

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Who can Access What, and When? Understanding Minimal Access Requirements of Building Applications
Jason Koh, Dezhi Hong, Shreyas Nagare, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta
BuildSys 2019

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Supporting Maintenance Operations for IoT-Based Activity Recognition Using Transfer Learning
Matus Tomlein, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Anind Dey
arXiv 2018

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CharIoT: An end-user programming environment for the IoT
Matus Tomlein, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Anind Dey
IoT 2017

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📢   News

08/23: I was awarded the 2023 CyLab Presidential Fellowship

07/23: Paper on TAO-context sensing paper gets accepted to Ubicomp'23

04/23: Completed my Thesis Proposal!

01/23: Mites paper gets accepted to Ubicomp'23, see you in Cancún!


Patents

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Virtual sensor system
Yuvraj Agarwal, Christopher Harrison, Gierad Laput, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Chen Chen, Abhijit Hota, Bo Robert Xiao, and Yang Zhang
U.S. Patent Application 16/591,987,filed January 30, 2020

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