Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar is an assistant professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.

Nandakumar received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 2020. Her research focuses on developing and deploying computing technologies that can have a real-world impact and improve quality of life. She develops wireless sensing technologies that enable novel applications in various domains, including mobile health, user interfaces, precision agriculture, and Internet of Things (IoT) networks.

She developed the first contactless smartphone-based sleep apnea diagnosis system, which was licensed by ResMed Inc. and is now used by millions of users for sleep staging. She was recognized with the University of Washington Medicine Judy Su Clinical Research award, with the Paul Baran Young Scholar award by the Marconi Society, and as a Rising Star in EECS by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.