Faculty DirectoryKaran Ahuja
Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
Email Karan Ahuja
Website
Sensing, Perception, Interactive Computing and Experiences (SPICE) Lab
Departments
Education
PhD, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India
Biography
Karan Ahuja is the Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northwestern University where he directs the Sensing, Perception, Interactive Computing and Experiences (SPICE) Lab. His research group creates computing technologies that sense, track and understand humans to augment their interactions and assist them in their daily lives. Many of his projects have been open-sourced, deployed in the wild, licensed, shipped as product features impacting over 200 million users, and have influenced flagship products at leading Fortune 100 companies. He received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2023 and B.Tech. in Computer Science in 2017. Karan is a recipient of several prestigious honors, including the Forbes 30 under 30 (2024), MIT 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia (2024), ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024), and ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition (2025).