The HESTIA Lab
Human-Empowered SysTems
& Intelligent Applications
Ongoing Research Initiatives
Towards Human-in-the-Loop Trustworthy & Explainable GenAI
10/2025 – Present
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​Ubiquitous Healthcare with Mobile Sensing
10/2024 – Present
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​Human-Centric Immersive Video Streaming in NextG Network Systems
5/2024 – Present
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Research Tree
People
Ph.D. student
- Shuaikang Hou (Fall 2025 – Present)
Master student
- LaxmiPrasanna Ravikanti (Fall 2025 – Present)
Bachelor students
- Liberty Ikpeogu (Fall 2025 – Present)
- David Salas (Fall 2025 – Present)
- Syed Shuja Syed (Fall 2025 – Present)
- Youssef Garas (Fall 2025 – Present)
- Nitesh Kumar (Fall 2025 – Present)
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Gallery
Shuaikang presenting our paper in MobiHoc'25 - XR Security
Shuaikang presenting a poster in the 1st XR Security workshop
Authors of the paper
Shuaikang presenting our paper in MobiHoc'25 - XR Security