Publications
2021
Yasha Iravantchi, Karan Ahuja, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison, Alanson Sample. PrivacyMic: Utilizing Inaudible Frequencies for Privacy Preserving Daily Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), 2021 Best Paper HM Award DOI 
2020
Yasha Iravantchi, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison. Digital Ventriloquism: Giving Voice to Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20), 2020 DOI
2019
Yang Zhang, Yasha Iravantchi, Haojian Jin, Swarun Kumar, and Chris Harrison. 2019. Sozu: Self-Powered Radio Tags for Building-Scale Activity Sensing. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 973-985. DOI
Yasha Iravantchi, Yang Zhang, Evi Bernitsas, Mayank Goel, and Chris Harrison. 2019. Interferi: Gesture Sensing using On-Body Acoustic Interferometry. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 276, 13 pages. Best Paper HM Award DOI
Yasha Iravantchi, Mayank Goel, and Chris Harrison. 2019. BeamBand: Hand Gesture Sensing with Ultrasonic Beamforming. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 15, 10 pages. DOI
Sunyoung Kim, Yasha Iravantchi, Krzysztof Z. Gajos. SwellFit: Developing a Wearable Sensor for Monitoring Peripheral Edema. In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-52), 2019 Handle
2016
Sunyoung Kim, Yasha Iravantchi, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Barbara Grosz. SwellFit: a Wearable Sensor for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) 2016, 2016.
2015
Sunyoung Kim, Yasha Iravantchi, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Barbara Grosz. Exploring opportunities for social infrastructure in congestive heart failure management. In Proceedings of the CSCW 2015 workshop on Moving Beyond e-Health and the Quantified Self, 2015.
CV
Talks and Lectures
2016
How to Make Your Own Wearable (Pre-collegiate Program Workshop) 
– Harvard Active Learning Labs, Cambridge, MA (Jul 19 2016)
“Labs in the Wild”: Teaching Signal Processing Using Wearables and Jupyter Notebooks in the Cloud – SciPy 2016, Austin, TX (Jul 14 2016)
Wearable Signal Processing Using Docker Notebook Containers on AWS 
– JupyterDays Boston, Cambridge, MA (Mar 17 2016)
2015
How to Measure Things (ES100 Sensior Capstone Workshop) – Harvard Active Learning Labs, Cambridge, MA (Oct 2015)
How to Control and Sense (ES100 Sensior Capstone Workshop) – Harvard Active Learning Labs, Cambridge, MA (Sept 2015)
EE Zero-to-Sixty Workshop 
– Harvard Active Learning Labs, Cambridge, MA (Jan 2015)
2014
Data Measurement and Analysis (ES 100 Senior Capstone Lecture) – Harvard Active Learning Labs, Cambridge, MA (Oct 2014)
Teaching
Course Support – Senior Capstone Engineering Design Projects (ES 100; 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017):
Course Development and Course Support – The Joy of Electronics - Part I (ES 52; 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017):
Course Development, Course Support, and Teaching Fellow – Biological Signal Processing (ES 155; Spring 2016, Fall 2016):
Course Support – Introduction to Electrical Engineering (ES 50; Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016):
Course Support – Applied Electromagnetics (ES 151; Spring 2016):
Teaching Fellow – Introduction to Electrical Engineering (ES 50; Spring 2012, 2013):
Teaching Fellow – Physiological Systems Analysis (BE 110, Fall 2013):