{"675254":{"#nid":"675254","#data":{"type":"news","title":" College of Computing Alumna Wins ACM Dissertation Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA College of Computing alumna has earned the highest honor given to doctoral candidates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENivedita Arora received the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acm.org\/media-center\/2024\/june\/dissertation-award-2023\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2024 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E during an awards ceremony on Saturday in San Francisco. Arora, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is the first Georgia Tech alumna to win the award, which includes a prize of $20,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora was a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing during the 2022-2023 academic year. She also earned her Ph.D. in computer science and her master\u2019s in human-computer interaction from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Northwestern, she directs the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vaklab.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVAK Sustainable Computing Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which re-envisions computing from a sustainability-first approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is the most prestigious recognition for doctoral research in our field,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/josiahhester.com\/cv\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah Hester\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing who mentored Arora during her postdoc. \u201cThe award is a testament to the recipient\u0027s exceptional contributions to the field of computing, marking them as a world-class leader and innovator.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora creates sustainable computational materials that harvest energy from their surrounding environments and can be responsibly disposed of at the end of their life cycles. Under the advisement of Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/thad-starner\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and former Georgia Tech Professor Gregory Abowd, she won the dissertation award for her work involving interactive sticky notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe interactive sticky notes perform computing tasks and allow wireless communication without battery dependency.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/repository.gatech.edu\/entities\/publication\/2528c1f9-789b-4fd7-8184-b40933c0c6c4\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Edissertation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ESustainable Interactive Wireless Stickers: From Materials to Devices on Applications\u003C\/em\u003E, Arora demonstrated that interactive sticky notes can capture audio, store it as memory, and relay it to another location. For example, an Amazon Alexa user can communicate commands to Alexa without being nearby.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith rising climate change and e-waste, it is imperative to build computing technologies with a sustainability-first approach,\u201d Arora said. \u201cMy dissertation represents this core thinking. I am honored that ACM has recognized my research on sustainable computational materials. I am extremely grateful to my advisers, collaborators, friends, and family for their support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer dissertation also earned Outstanding Dissertation recognition from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing in 2023. She also won the college\u2019s 2022 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora was a finalist in the 2022 Fast Company Design Innovation Competition. In 2021, She won the ACM Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Ubiquitous Computing Student Award and was named an EECS Rising Star and a Foley Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENivedita Arora received the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acm.org\/media-center\/2024\/june\/dissertation-award-2023\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2024 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E during an awards ceremony on Saturday in San Francisco. Arora, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is the first Georgia Tech alumna to win the award, which includes a prize of $20,000.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nivedita Arora received the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award during an awards ceremony on Saturday in San Francisco."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-06-27 17:44:03","changed_gmt":"2024-06-27 17:47:58","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674251":{"id":"674251","type":"image","title":"Untitled 2.001.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1719510287","gmt_created":"2024-06-27 17:44:47","changed":"1719510287","gmt_changed":"2024-06-27 17:44:47","alt":"Nivedita Arora receiving the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award","file":{"fid":"257745","name":"Untitled 2.001.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/Untitled%202.001.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/Untitled%202.001.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":484885,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/27\/Untitled%202.001.jpeg?itok=47mylSdw"}}},"media_ids":["674251"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"171949","name":"Alumni Awards"},{"id":"175978","name":"#sheisgtcomputing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}