Deepak Ganesan, PhD, is a professor and Manning Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at UMass Amherst, and co-principal investigator for MassAITC. He also served as director of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM) at UMass Amherst from 2019–2024 and led its efforts toward end-to-end design of new health sensors from prototyping and fabrication to mobile health (mHealth) applications. He also served as the sensors-to-information thrust lead for the Mobile Data to Knowledge (MD2K) center funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Ganesan received his PhD in computer science from UCLA in 2004. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006, the IBM Faculty Award in 2008, and the UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence in 2019. He was selected as a UMass Junior Faculty Fellow in 2008, and a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2009. He has served as program co-chair for ACM Mobicom 2024, MobiSys 2017, ACM SenSys 2010, and IEEE SECON 2013. His work has been recognized by ACM SIGMOBILE and ACM Research Highlights, a Test of Time Award at SenSys 2022, and best paper nominations or awards at various top conferences in computer science including ACM MobiSys, Mobicom, CHI, Ubicomp and IEEE SECON. He is an ACM Fellow.