Nurani Saoda is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. Her research is broadly focused on ubiquitous sensing through energy-harvesting systems with an emphasis on sustainable computing.

Ubiquitous computing remarkably extends the reach of sensing by pushing computation into physical objects with multifarious forms. The result is sensing at a tremendous scale to enable industrial control, building management, citywide environmental monitoring, and mass inhabitant (i.e, wildlife and marine life) tracking. The energy and resource demands of these computers are lifelong and dynamic.