Abhay Sheel Anand

Hey, 

I am a Computer Science PhD candidate in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work with Prof. Deepak Ganesan and Prof. Ravi Karkar at the intersection of HCI and health, in particular my current work focuses on designing technology to support the Alzheimer's population. I am currently exploring ways to better understand the cognitive state of a patient with dementia and how they express themselves.

UPDATES:

• May 2024: Attended ACM CHI 2024 - Hawaii, USA.

• Mar 2024: Short paper accepted at CHI '24 workshop on HCI and Aging: New Directions, New Principles

• Sep 2023: Received Jim Gray Scholarship of Computer Science, UMass Amherst

• Jul 2023: MenstruWear (work done at IIIT Delhi) accepted at ACM CHItaly'23

• Jan 2023: Teaching Assistant for Intro to HCI course.

• Aug 2022: Shifted to the Amherst, MA

• March 2022: Accepted UMass Amherst for pursuing PhD under Profs. Deepak Ganesan and Ravi Karkar

• Jan 2021: Joined Weave Lab @ IIIT Delhi, advised by Prof. Aman Parnami.

• July 2020: [Publication] "Evaluating LED-Camera Communication for Drones" accepted in Light-up-the-IoT workshop (in conjuction with ACM MobiCom 2020)

• Presented paper at ACM WearSys'20 on June 19th 2020 (Virtually)

• May 2020: Joined NUS-HCI lab remotely as Research intern under Prof. Shengdong Zhao

• May 2020: [Publication] "Gauntlet" accepted in ACM WearSys 2020 (Mobisys), Toronto, Canada

• Oct 2019: Attended ESWEEK (Embedded systems week) 2019 held at New York University

• Sep 2019: Awarded by Prime minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi and Minister of Education of Singapore, Mr. Ong Ye Kung for Singapore India Hackathon at IIT Madras

• Aug 2019: Awarded travel grant of $1200 to attend ESWEEK 2019, New York by ACM & Microsoft research 

• Aug 2019: Started working under Dr. P.B. Sujit(now IISER, Bhopal), CORAL Labs, IIIT Delhi

• July 2019: Won Smart India Hackathon, Hardware edition 2019 at SRM University, Chennai.