Elahe Soltanaghai

Biography

Elahe Soltanaghai is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research spans the areas of wireless sensing and networking with applications in IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Mixed Reality. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in CyLab. She received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Virginia. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of her research, her work has been published in premier conferences and journals in the areas of mobile and ubiquitous computing, wireless networks, and energy and infrastructure. She has been named one of the 10 Rising Star Women in Networking and Communications in 2021. She is also the recipient of 2020 ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award and 2019 EECS Rising Stars.

Learn more about Elahe Soltanaghai and her work at  https://elahe.web.illinois.edu/.