Sara Arunagiri

(she/her/hers)

Part-Time Lecturer

  • Data science
  • Machine learning
  • Fault tolerance
  • I/O in high-performance computing systems
  • PhD in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science — India
  • MS in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science — India
  • BE in Electronics and Machine Learning, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering — India

Sara Arunagiri is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned her doctorate and master’s in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. Arunagiri’s research focuses on data science and machine learning.

Arunagiri has over 15 years of experience working in the computer science industry and as an academic. Within the industry, she has conducted projects that have been ethno-social in nature, which involved cutting-edge technologies and diverse group interactions. As a research faculty working in the areas of high-performance computing, she served as a graduate committee member for thirteen graduate students and as a co-advisor for six master’s students and one doctoral student. She has won grants worth nearly 1.5 million dollars to further pursue her research interests.