I am a Ph.D. student in the Living Edge Lab within the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My work focuses on applications of edge computing in cyber-physical systems. I have extensive experience benchmarking and optimizing the motion-to-photon latency of these systems.

Publications

• J. Xu, M. Bala, T. Eiszler, X. Chen, Q. Dong, A. Chanana, P. Pillai, and M. Satyanarayanan, "TerraSLAM: Towards GPS-Denied Localization," 2025 ACM MobiSys, Anaheim, California, US, 2025.
  ACM MobiSys 2025
• A. Chanana, "Analyzing the OODA Loop of an Edge-enabled Autonomous Drone System," Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Master's thesis, December 2024.
  Master's Thesis
• M. Bala, A. Chanana, X. Chen, Q. Dong, T. Eiszler, J. Xu, P. Pillai, and M. Satyanarayanan, "The OODA Loop of Cloudlet-Based Autonomous Drones," 2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Rome, Italy, 2024.
  IEEE/ACM SEC 2024
• A. Chanana, M. Bala, T. Eiszler, J. Blakley, and M. Satyanarayanan, "Benchmarking Drone Video Stream Latency in SteelEagle," Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech. Rep. CMU-CS-24-128, May 2024.
  Tech Report

Education

I received both my undergraduate and master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

• M.S. Computer ScienceDec 2024
• B.S. Information Systems, Additional Major in Computer ScienceMay 2021

About Me

I grew up in Delhi, India, and one of my favorite things to do there was bike around the city. In 2018, I joined the Ballroom Dance Club at CMU and started dancing ballroom competitively. I absolutely love dancing, and the waltz is my favorite. I have developed a recent interest in learning Rueda de Casino. My favorite street food is the raj kachori.