Misha Sra

About

Misha Sra is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Her work fundamentally reimagines how humans can interface with technology—not just through screens or wearables, but through living systems and predictive AI. Sra’s landmark paper, “Living Bits” (2020, 71 citations), introduced a paradigm-shifting concept: harnessing the trillions of microbes living on and inside the human body as biological computers. This work opened an entirely new frontier in HCI, demonstrating how open-source biotechnology can enable designers and engineers to create interactive systems that sense and respond to the body’s microbial ecosystem. More recently, Sra has advanced AI-driven human behavior prediction with “TR-LLM” (2025), integrating trajectory data with large language models to enable scene-aware action forecasting. This work addresses critical challenges in autonomous robotics, such as handling occlusions and incomplete observations in real-world environments. Sra’s research is notable for its bold, interdisciplinary vision—bridging biology, computing, and design—and for its potential to transform fields from healthcare to ambient intelligence. Her contributions continue to inspire a new generation of researchers to think beyond traditional interfaces.

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1. 1
   Living Bits

   71 citations · 2020
2. 2
   TR-LLM: Integrating Trajectory Data for Scene-Aware LLM-Based Human Action Prediction

   3 citations · 2025

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