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Nivedita Arora is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University. She holds the title of Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design and is also an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Her research focuses on embodied systems, exploring how intelligence arises from physical structure, energy flow, and interaction with the environment. Her work spans sustainable computational materials, precision agriculture, and human-centered systems, emphasizing scalable and field-deployable designs. Arora's research includes energy-autonomous systems that integrate sensing, computation, and actuation into physical substrates.