I am an assistant professor in the Engineering Systems and Environment Department and the co-director of the Sensing Systems for Health Lab at the University of Virginia (UVA).
My human-centric research spans the domains of ubiquitous computing, data science, and pervasive health technologies. I am particularly interested in developing novel computational methods to support health and well-being.
In recent years, I have designed, developed, and deployed new assessment methods and intervention models for multiple health conditions such as depression, anxiety, cancer, infectious disease and traumatic brain injury. Please take a look at the projects I have been working on.
July 2020:I am recruiting a post doc in mobile computing and ubiquitous sensing. Job description can be found here.
February 2020:UVA 3 cavaliers program is introducing our Hit Alert Optics System project that uses sensor-based technology to enable athletes to prepare for an impending impact and avoid injury.
January 2020:UVAToday is describing our work on predicting Infectious disease and traumatic brain injury symptoms from smartphone sensor data. More ->
December 2019:Two of our papers have been accepted in the 11th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2020).
October 2019:We have been granted $350,000 from the Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) and Pfizer Inc. to work on "Real-time Monitoring and Modeling of Symptoms and Adverse Events in Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Oral Targeted Therapies for Tumors with Oncogenic Driver Mutations".
September 2019:We have been granted $350,000 from the Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) and Pfizer Inc. to work on "Real-time Monitoring and Modeling of Symptoms and Adverse Events in Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Oral Targeted Therapies for Tumors with Oncogenic Driver Mutations".
September 2018:We released SWear, an app deisgned for generalized human crowdsourcing on smartwatches. Check this out on Play store.
September 2018:I have been promoted to a Research Scientist at the University of Virginia. Hooray...
July 2018:We have three papers accepted in CHASE 2018.
July 2018:Our JMIR paper on Predicting Social Anxiety from GPS traces has been accepted.
April 2018: Two of our papers have have been accepted to be published in the proceedings of PervasiveHealth 2018. I will be in New York on May 21th to present my work on how to analyse passively sensed contextual data to understand compliance with smartphone-based EMA.
January 2018: I am invited to one of BHI 2018 special sessions entitled “Digital phenotyping: towards data-driven behavior change” to talk on how smartphones' sensors data can be used to measure the effectivness of healthcare interventions.
December 2017: Four of our papers have been accepted in BHI 2018. Very excited about learning more from the BHI community!
September 2017: Heading to UbiComp to present my work on how non-invasive mobile sensing technology can be used to passively assess and predict social anxiety.
February 2017: I moved from Canada to Charlottesville VA to join the University of Virginia as a postdoctoral research associate! Exciting time ahead.