Meera Radhakrishnan

Dr. Meera Radhakrishnan is a Research Fellow at the Data Science Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her research focuses on mobile and pervasive computing, wearable/IoT sensing systems, and applied machine learning for healthcare. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore Management University (SMU) and conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to academia, she worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys and a Research Scientist at SMU and A*STAR's IHPC.

Her work includes developing systems like W8-Scope for gym exercise monitoring, ERICA for free-weight mistake detection, and LiLoc for LiDAR-based localization. She has secured grants totaling AUD 315k+ for projects in wearable healthcare and trustworthy digital systems. Dr. Radhakrishnan actively serves on TPCs of top conferences (e.g., IEEE PerCom, IROS) and chairs sessions at IEEE events. She was recognized as one of Australia's top 25 women in data science (2024) and received the Abbe Grant (2023) and Best Paper Award (WristSense 2019).