
Hello,
I'm Sejal
I'm a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, jointly advised by Dr. Alex Mariakakis and Dr. Eyal de Lara. My research focuses on building intelligent systems that can sense, process, and infer human actions, physiology, and context. I primarily employ signal processing and machine learning techniques to realize such systems that have applications in healthcare, gesture/activity recognition and novel interactions.
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Before commencing my Ph.D, I graduated with a Bachelors in Technology from IIIT Delhi, with a major in Computer Science Engineering. As an undergraduate, I worked on multiple research projects under the guidance of Dr. Aman Parnami, Dr. Jainendra Shukla, and Dr. Mayank Goel, among others.
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I'm seeking research internship opportunities for Fall 2025. Please reach out if you think I’d be a good fit!
Research

Phoneme-Aware Acoustic Analysis of Natural Speech for Lung Function Assessment
Sejal Bhalla, Tien Han, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Eyal de Lara, Alex Mariakakis
IEEE ICASSP 2025
Coming soon!

Kenneth Christofferson, Sejal Bhalla, Joseph Cafazzo, Alex Mariakakis
EarComp Workshop, ACM UbiComp. Best Paper.

Sejal Bhalla, Salaar Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Eyal de Lara, and Alex Mariakakis
ACM UbiComp/IMWUT 2023

Sejal Bhalla, Dhruv Verma, S. V. Sai Santosh, Saumya Yadav, Aman Parnami, Jainendra Shukla
IEEE ACII 2023

Sejal Bhalla, Mayank Goel, and Rushil Khurana
ACM UbiComp/IMWUT 2021

Sejal Bhalla, Dhruv Verma, Dhruv Sahnan, Jainendra Shukla, and Aman Parnami
ACM UbiComp/IMWUT 2021
