Karan Ahuja Named to Forbes '30 Under 30 Asia 2024'

Professor Karan Ahuja was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30 Asia 2024" list in the “Healthcare and Science” category.

Ahuja will join Northwestern Engineering's Department of Computer Science as a Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor in Computer Science this August. He is currently a visiting faculty researcher at Google, leading efforts on Google XR.

Ahuja also won a 2024 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Outstanding Dissertation Award, which recognizes excellent dissertation research in human-computer interaction (HCI). Ahuja earned a PhD in HCI from Carnegie Mellon University in 2023, co-advised by Chris Harrison and Mayank Goel.