Yasha Iravantchi

Hello there!

I am Yasha Iravantchi. I am a T32 Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (SNAPL), mentored by Sean Mackey. My current research focuses on developing AI-driven systems for clinical support in pain and functional forecasting as a part of chronic health management, focusing on equity, privacy, and usability. This empowers patients to become active participants in their own care.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, advised by Alanson Sample. My dissertation work focused on developing novel AI-driven sensing systems that incorporate hardware guarantees at the sensor level to protect user privacy. My committee members included Kang G. Shin, Gregory Abowd, Nikola Banovic, and Anna Kratz. My Ph.D. research was generously supported by the Meta PhD Research Fellowship and the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

My recent work has been recognized with the 2025 David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize from University of Michigan EECS and the ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award for MagDesk (2024). I am passionate about advancing accessible computing and currently serve as PC Associate Chair for CHI 2026, Web Chair for AccessSIGCHI, and Member at Large for AccessComputing.

At Stanford, I am pursuing an M.S. in Epidemiology to strengthen my foundations in clinical research methodology while developing AI systems that put patients at the center of their care journey.

news

Nov 11, 2025	Awarded the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize from University of Michigan EECS! 🏆 Grateful for the recognition of work on privacy-preserving sensing for ubiquitous health monitoring.
Sep 15, 2025	Started M.S. in Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Stanford! 📚 Combining technical expertise with clinical rigor to build better AI systems for healthcare.
Jun 09, 2025	I am joining the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab at Stanford Medical School as a T32 postdoctoral scholar!

latest posts

Nov 11, 2025	Receiving the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize
Jul 10, 2025	Research Pivot: Why Pain Management and Clinical AI?
May 15, 2025	PhD Completion and Starting at Stanford

selected publications

Polaris: Accurate, Vision-free Fiducials for Mobile Robots with Magnetic Constellation

Jike Wang, Yasha Iravantchi, Alanson P. Sample, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/mobicom/WangISSWC24,
  author = {Wang, Jike and Iravantchi, Yasha and Sample, Alanson P. and Shin, Kang G. and Wang, Xinbing and Chen, Dongyao},
  editor = {Shi, Weisong and Ganesan, Deepak and Lane, Nicholas D.},
  title = {Polaris: Accurate, Vision-free Fiducials for Mobile Robots with Magnetic
                 Constellation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile
                 Computing and Networking, {ACM} MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC,
                 USA, November 18-22, 2024},
  pages = {1560--1574},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3636534.3690711},
  doi = {10.1145/3636534.3690711},
  timestamp = {Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/mobicom/WangISSWC24.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

HandSAW: Wearable Hand-based Event Recognition via On-Body Surface Acoustic Waves

Kaylee Yaxuan Li, Yasha Iravantchi, Yichen Zhu, and 2 more authors

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 2025

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@article{DBLP:journals/imwut/LiIZPS25,
  author = {Li, Kaylee Yaxuan and Iravantchi, Yasha and Zhu, Yichen and Park, Hyunmin and Sample, Alanson P.},
  title = {HandSAW: Wearable Hand-based Event Recognition via On-Body Surface
                 Acoustic Waves},
  journal = {Proc. {ACM} Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.},
  volume = {9},
  number = {1},
  pages = {10:1--10:29},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3712276},
  doi = {10.1145/3712276},
  timestamp = {Fri, 09 May 2025 01:00:00 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/imwut/LiIZPS25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

SoK: (Un)usable Privacy: the Lack of Overlap between Privacy-Aware Sensing and Usable Privacy Research

Yasha Iravantchi, Pardis Emami Naeini, and Alanson P. Sample

Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2025

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@article{DBLP:journals/popets/IravantchiNS25,
  author = {Iravantchi, Yasha and Naeini, Pardis Emami and Sample, Alanson P.},
  title = {SoK: (Un)usable Privacy: the Lack of Overlap between Privacy-Aware
                 Sensing and Usable Privacy Research},
  journal = {Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.},
  volume = {2025},
  number = {1},
  pages = {472--490},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2025-0026},
  doi = {10.56553/POPETS-2025-0026},
  timestamp = {Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/popets/IravantchiNS25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}