Poojita Garg |
पूजिता गर्ग

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington 000! I am advised by Dr. Shwetak Patel and Dr. Vikram Iyer. My research focuses at the intersection of ubiquitous technologies and human-centered computing, with the goal of building useful, accessible, and equitable health sensing systems. Before coming to UW, I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology 000 ! Beyond research, I am committed to empowering women in STEM and serve as a Google's Women Techmakers Ambassador.

 
 

Please see the complete list of my publications on Google Scholar.

2025:

DopFone: Doppler-Based Fetal Heart Rate Estimation Using Commodity Smartphones

Poojita Garg, Mingzhuo Ma, Hayley Jane MacKinnon, Michael Richley, Vikram Iyer, Shwetak Patel, Alexander T Adams

IMWUT '25 (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)

paper  |  pdf  |  video  |  news article  |  King5 News

2024:

Tangible-MakeCode: Bridging Physical Coding Blocks with a Web-Based Programming Interface for Collaborative and Extensible Learning

Jin Yu, Poojita Garg, DoangJoo Synn, HyunJoo Oh

CHI '25 (Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

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The Subversive AI Acceptance Scale (SAIA-8): A Scale to Measure User Acceptance of AI-Generated, Privacy-Enhancing Image Modifications

Jacob Logas, Poojita Garg, Rosa I Arriaga, Sauvik Das

CSCW '24 (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)

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2021:

Research

Designing Chatbots for Supporting Gendered Frontline Health Work in India

Poojita Garg, Azra Ismail, Neha Kumar

CSCW '21 Workshop (The future of care work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice Workshop)

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2019:

Evaluation of Hand Movement Using IoT-Based Goniometric Data Acquisition Glove

Prashant Jindal, Rashi Aditi Ranjan, Poojita Garg, Pranav Raj, Parneet Kaur, Varun Karan, Ishan Madhav and Mamta Juneja

ICIIL’ 19 (In Proceedings of International Conference on IoT Inclusive Life)

paper  |  pdf  |  patent

2026:

Multi-agentic Framework for Developing and Evaluating Biometric-based Multimodal Synthetic Personas: A Case Study on Pregnancy and Postpartum Users

Poojita Garg, Conor Heneghan, Katherine A Heller, Taedong Yun, Maja Mataric, Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu

ICLR' 26 (Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models)

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NEWS

Jul’ 26:> DopFone featured in UW’s series “I am CSE” 🎞️ !
Apr’ 26:> In Brazil 🇧🇷 to present my paper at ICLR’26 Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models!
Dec’ 25:> DopFone paper published in ACM IMWUT 2025
Jul’ 25:> In San Francisco 🌉 for an internship at Google!
Apr’ 25:> Tangible-MakeCode paper published in ACM CHI 2025
May’ 24:> Awarded International Peace Scholarship by the P.E.O
Apr’ 24:> SAIA-8 paper published in ACM CSCW 2024
Apr’ 24:> I'll be starting my PhD at the UW CSE later this Fall!