Bio
Aruna Balasubramanian is an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University. She is currently spending her sabbatical year at SUNY Korea, She received her Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then was a Computing Innovations Fellow at the University of Washington. She works in the area of networked systems. Her current work consists of (1) improving QoE and equitable access of Internet applications, (2) improving the usability, accessibility, and privacy of mobile systems, and (3) sustainable NLP. She is the recipient of the SIGMOBILE Rockstar award, a Ubicomp best paper award, a Computing Innovation Fellowship, a VMWare Early Career award, several Google research awards, and the Applied Networking Research Prize. She is passionate about improving the diversity in Computer Science and leads the diversity committee at Stony Brook, is the faculty advisor for the WiCS and WPhD groups at Stony Brook, and is an active member of the N2Women group.