Deepak Ganesan

Deepak Ganesan is a professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS). Ganesan's research is at the intersection of low-power sensing and communication, networked systems, and machine learning to enable pervasive sensing at scale for societal applications. His recent work includes the design of ultra-low passive radios for wearables, novel wearable technologies such as low-power eye trackers to monitor health signals, and robust detection of important health targets such as drug use, smoking, and overeating. He is a thrust lead on the NIH funded MD2K Center for Excellence on Mobile Sensor-to-Knowledge and on the executive committee of the Center for Personal Health Monitoring at UMass Amherst.

Ganesan is the director of the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (MassAITC), a multidisciplinary initiative spanning UMass Amherst, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brandeis University and Northeastern University, and also directs the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM) at UMass Amherst. He received his PhD in computer science from UCLA in 2004 and his bachelor's in computer science from IIT, Madras in 1998. He is an ACM Fellow.

Ganesan received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2008. He was selected as a UMass Junior Faculty Fellow in 2008, and a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2009. He was a program co-chair for ACM SenSys 2010, IEEE SECON 2013, and co-founded the ACM HotWireless workshop in 2014. His recent work has been recognized by a Best Paper Award Runner-up at Mobicom 2014, a Best Paper Award at CHI 2013, and two honorable mentions at Ubicomp 2013.