Yasha Iravantchi
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  • Receiving the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize

    Receiving the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize from UM CSE for my dissertation on privacy-preserving sensing.

    1 min read   ·   November 11, 2025

    2025   ·   awards   dissertation   PhD   privacy   ·   Awards

  • MagDesk Receives Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2025

    Our MagDesk paper on magnetically-sensed augmented desks received the ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2025.

    1 min read   ·   October 07, 2025

    2025   ·   awards   ubicomp   MagDesk   paper   ·   Awards

  • From Ubicomp to Clinical AI: My Research Pivot

    How my research evolved from privacy-preserving ubiquitous computing to clinical AI for chronic pain management, and what connects the two.

    4 min read   ·   July 10, 2025

    2025   ·   ubicomp   clinical-AI   pain   research   privacy   ·   Research

  • PhD Done. Coming Home to California.

    Completing my PhD at UMich and starting as a T32 postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's SNAPL, coming home to California to work on clinical AI for pain management.

    4 min read   ·   May 15, 2025

    2025   ·   transition   PhD   Stanford   SNAPL   ·   News

  • HandSAW Accepted to IMWUT

    A wrist-worn device capturing Surface Acoustic Waves to detect object interactions with >99% per-user accuracy and 91.6% unseen-user accuracy.

    2 min read   ·   January 01, 2025

    2025   ·   Papers

  • SoK Accepted to PETS

    A systematization of knowledge examining 114 works on usable privacy-aware sensing, revealing design patterns and research gaps across communities.

    2 min read   ·   November 02, 2024

    2024   ·   Papers

  • Polaris Presented at MobiCom

    The first vision-free fiducial marking system using magnetic sensing for reliable pose estimation and navigation in NLOS scenarios.

    2 min read   ·   November 01, 2024

    2024   ·   Papers

  • MagDesk Accepted to IMWUT

    An interactive tabletop workspace using 112 magnetometers for real-time 3D tracking of passive magnets with millimeter accuracy.

    2 min read   ·   October 01, 2024

    2024   ·   Papers

  • PrivacyLens Presented at PETS

    Combining thermal and RGB sensing to remove personally identifiable information from images on-device with 99.1% sanitization rate.

    2 min read   ·   June 10, 2024

    2024   ·   Papers

  • SAW ECG Presented at EMBC

    Using surface-acoustic-wave microphones on the neck to transform heart acoustic signals into ECG waveforms for unobtrusive cardiac monitoring.

    1 min read   ·   June 09, 2024

    2024   ·   Papers

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