About Me
Hi, I'm Ushasi 👋 a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, building the next generation of AI-native wireless networks.
I work with Prof. Dinesh Bharadia in the WCSNG lab. Before my Ph.D., I earned my MS at UCLA and B.Tech at NIT Durgapur, and worked at Qualcomm on 5G NR protocol optimizations for extended reality (XR) applications.
Research Overview
My long-term vision is to build user-centric networked systems that connect application-level experience (QoE) with network control. Despite rich cross-layer telemetry, today’s networks remain largely unaware of how their decisions affect applications. This gap is particularly important for latency-sensitive workloads such as streaming, XR, and interactive AI, and even more so for robotics, where network delays can directly affect task success. My research explores how network behavior and control decisions shape application performance, with the goal of moving beyond traditional network metrics toward optimizing user experience and task outcomes.