Bhawana Chhaglani

Bhawana Chhaglani is an assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology Department of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics and a faculty co-hire at the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.

Her research lies at the intersection of mobile sensing, ubiquitous computing, human-centered computing, and responsible AI for health and wellness. She has interned in Meta Reality Labs, Dolby Laboratories, Samsung Research, Nokia Bell Labs, and Microsoft Research. She was recognized as 2024 MLCommons Rising Star and ACM MobiSys Rising Star 2025. Her thesis on advancing privacy-aware ubiquitous sensing systems for healthier indoor environments won the best Ph.D. forum award at ACM CPS-IoT Week 2025.

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