Kasthuri Jayarajah

Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Office: GITC 4204

Research Areas
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Artificial Intelligence of Things
Human-Autonomy Teaming


CV Research Statement

NEWS

10/2024Two papers accepted on using EEG for practical applications circumventing challenges around noise and low spatial resolution at CODS-COMAD'24 and EAI Mobiquitous'24. Congratulations, Indrajeet and co-authors at UMBC and ARL DEVCOM!
09/2024I'll be serving on the TPC of IEEE PerCom'25 and ACMHotMobile'25, and co-chairing the EWSN Journal Track. Pls consider submitting!
08/2024Happy to organize the Phd Forum and the EDGE-Well workshop@Percom'25 with Shahriar, Sougata, Sourav, and Dheryta!
06/2024Paper titled "GestRight: Understanding the Feasibility of Gesture-driven Tele-Operation in Human-Robot Teams" accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS'24. Congratulations, Kevin!
04/2024Happy to receive seed funding with Shelly Levy-Tzedek at BGU for our collaborative project on "Improving the Effectiveness of Socially Assistive Robots through Wearable Sensing". Thank you, Institute for Future Technologies!
03/2024I'll be serving as Associate Editor for IROS'24.
03/2024Paper titled "ARSFineTune: On-The-Fly Tuning of Vision Models for Unmanned Ground Vehicles" accepted at IEEE DCOSS-IOT'24. Congratulations, Masud, Zahid, and co-authors at UMBC and ARL!
02/2024Demo titled "Attention and Mobility-Aware On-Device Perception for Mobile Augmented Reality" accepted at ACM HotMobile'24. Congratulations, Mayooran!
11/2023I'll be serving on the TPC of MobiSys'24, EWSN'24 and IWQoS'24. Please consider submitting!
09/2023I've joined NJIT as an assistant professor in the dept. of CS.
06/2023Happy to mentor the second cohort of Maryland Robotics Center-ARL Summer interns along with Sean Gart (ARL)!
02/2023Our work on gesture-controlling robots was featured in Baltimore CBS News/WJZ Tv!
12/2022Our paper "AirDrop: Towards Collaborative, Multi-Resolution Air–Ground Teaming for Terrain-Aware Navigation" was accepted at ACM HotMobile'23!
08/2022Our vision for highly interactive, attention-sharing human-drone teams will be presented at SmartWear co-located with ACM MobiCom'22!
05/2022Happy to mentor the MRC-ARL Summer Student Team Research on "Air-deploying Legged Robots" along with Sean Gart (ARL), at UMBC this summer!
12/2021Our work on retrofitting vision DNNs to enable lightweight collaborative intelligence has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM'22!
11/2021I've joined UMBC as a research faculty.
10/2021I'll be serving on the MobiSys'22 Program Committee. Please consider submitting your work (Deadline 20th Dec)!
02/2021I'll be speaking at the Voices of Data Science conference organized by UMass, Amherst. Join us here!
01/2021I'll be serving as a Student Volunteer Co-Chair for UbiComp'21 and Web Co-Chair for MobiSys'21!
12/2020Our paper titled "The Role of Group Cohesiveness in Targeted Mobile Promotions" has been accepted to the Journal of Business Research (Special Issue on Mobile Applications)!
10/2020I've been selected to participate in the EECS Rising Stars Early Career Workshop, hosted by UCBerkely, this year!
07/2020I'm teaching COR1305 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics (formerly, Computer as an Analysis Tool) this Fall!
01/2020I'll be on leave till 06/20 (baby on the way!).
12/2019Our paper titled ""Five Challenges in Cloud-Enabled Intelligence and Control" was accepted to the ACM Trans. on Internet Technology.
09/2019I was named a Finalist for the Gaetano Borrielo Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp'19.
06/2019Our paper titled "Inferring Accurate Bus Trajectories from Noisy Estimated Arrival Time Records" was accepted to IEEE ITSC 2019.
05/2019Our paper titled "Resilient Collaborative Intelligence for Adversarial IoT Environments" was accepted to FUSION 2019.
02/2019Our paper titled "BuSCOPE : Fusing Individual & Aggregated Mobility Behaviorfor "Live" Smart City Services" was accepted to MobiSys 2019.
10/2018Our paper titled "Predicting Episodes of Non-Conformant Mobility in Indoor Environments" was accepted to IMWUT, Vol.2, Issue 4, 2018.
08/2018Our paper titled "Exploiting the Interdependency of Land Use and Mobility for Urban Planning" was accepted to the 7th International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), co-located with UbiComp'18.
08/2018Our paper titled "The Role of Urban Mobility on Retail Business Survival" was accepted to IMWUT, Vol.2, Issue 3, 2018.
07/2018I've been awarded the SMU Multidisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019.
10/2017We are one of the top 5 teams in the DataSpark Open Task Mobility Challenge Finals of the CIKM AnalytiCup !.
08/2017Invited to talk at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge on the topic of "Understanding Urban Events with CrowdSourced Data".
07/2017Won the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship.
07/2017Attending the Urban Analytics Data Dive at the Alan Turing Institute in London.
07/2017Our working paper titled "Role of Group Cohesiveness in Consumers' Responses to Mobile Promotions" was accepted to the Association of Consumer Research Conference, 2017.
05/2017Our proposal on leveraging multi-modal sensors for city-scale event detection is through to the Semi Finals at the CIKM AnalytiCup 2017 - Mobility Challenge!
05/2017I've been invited to the TPC of the ACM S3 Workshop. Consider submitting!
05/2017I'm spending this Summer at the Computer Laboratory in University of Cambridge.
08/2016I'm spending this Fall at CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
05/2016Our paper titled "Can Instagram Posts Help Characterize Urban Micro-Events?" was accepted to FUSION 2016.
05/2016Our paper titled "Fusing WiFi and Video Sensing for Accurate Group Detection in Indoor Spaces" was accepted to the 3rd Intl' Workshop on Physical Analytics (co-located with MobiSys 2016).
03/2016Our paper titled "LiveLabs: Building In-Situ Mobile Sensing & Behavioural Experimentation TestBeds" was accepted to MobiSys 2016.
03/2016We are organizing the first ever Women's Workshop at MobiSys'16!