Apoorva Chauhan is a postdoctoral fellow in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo, Canada. She is working on the teachable robot project which has the objective of designing a teachable robot and using it as an experimentation platform to study technology-mediated learning.

Apoorva graduated with Ph.D. in Computer Science in July 2019 from Utah State University (USU), Utah, USA. Her research excellence has been recognized at USU with three prestigious awards: Outstanding Graduate Researcher in the Computer Science Department (2018), Doctoral Researcher of the Year in the USU College of Engineering (2018), and Outstanding Graduate Scholar in the USU College of Engineering (2018).

Apoorva's research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Crisis Informatics, User Centered Design, and Education Research.