Professional
- Co-chair, COMSNETS Tutorials, 2022
- Technical program committee member, Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2021
- Committee member, Carnegie Mellon University Academic Advising Award, 2019
- Student Volunteers Coordinator, CPS Week 2017, Pittsburgh
- Student Organizer, Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications, co-located with MobiSys, 2015
- Shadow Technical Program Committee member, IPSN Conference, 2015
- Reviewer - IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine ’14, Conference on Decision and Control ’14 (External), CoNEXT ‘15 (External), IEEE ICC Optical Wireless Comm. Workshop ’16, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing ’16, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing '16, Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications '17, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine '17, Transactions on Mobile Computing '17, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '18, IEEE Sensors Journal '18, IEEE Access '18, IEEE Communications Letters '18, Transations on Sensor Networks '18
- Organizer, N2 (Networking Networking) Women meet, a seminar for women researchers at CPS Week, 2014
- Organizer, CyLab Student Seminars Series, Dec 2014-Dec 2016
K-12 Outreach
Over the years, I have gotten involved in several K-12 initiatives. My involvement has varied from being very brief to a few years. Most of these have been avenues where students get exposed to something new outside their classroom in a hands-on manner.
Introducing ECE to high-school students
I have volunteered with
ECE Outreach Spark Saturdays as a lab teaching assistant since Fall 2013 introducing ECE to high school students. The demand for the program grew over time and we wanted to make it reachable to a larger number of students. As a step towards that, Mary Beth Galanko and I initiated the
Mobile Labs Program, which I
co-chaired from Sep 2014-Dec 2016. In Spring 2015, we got our first funding from the
ProSEED/Crosswalk Seed Grant and piloted the program at Oakland Catholic High School, Pittsburgh and the program currently has standalone mobile lab modules in various areas of ECE, such as programming, Arduino, energy harvesting, building a radio circuit, audio analysis. From 2013-2015, I also assisted in the once-a-semester High/Middle School Days organized by Society of Women Engineers where we conduct a hands-on lab for school students on our campus.
Hands-on science for primary, middle school students
From Fall 2012 till Summer 2014 I volunteered with
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students (C-MITES). I assisted in mathematics, robotics and science hands-on classes for grade 1-5 students. For a brief period in 2013, I volunteered remotely (thanks to Janani Subramanian!) with
Agastya International Foundation, India in revising instructor manual for an Activity Based Learning module for teaching a physics course purely through experiments for grade 6-8 students. Through both these avenues, I found it interesting to be exposed to learning science through the experiment-observe-question-understand process.
Back in 2009, I volunteered for a year with
Youth for Seva in Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, where we conducted classes for children who had discontinued their schooling. As part of YFS, I also mobilzed funds for buying school kits to distribute to students in public schools in Bangalore.