Year 2015
- Fall'15:
Congratulations to the authors of 3 ACM UbiComp'15 papers. One proposes a
model to detect smoking, the second to detect stress, and third to visualize continuous stress.
Year 2014
- Fall'14: NIH announced 11 Big Data (BD2K)
Centers of Excellence awards on 10/9/14. Our team of 11 universities
(Cornell Tech, Georgia Tech, Memphis, Michigan, Ohio State,
Northwestern, Rice, UCLA, UCSD, UCSF, UMass) and Open mHealth is very
fortunate to have received an NIH Center of Excellence on Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). Congratulations to the entire team. Details on research agenda and the team are on MD2K website.
Congratulations to the authors of ACM UbiComp'14 paper. It proposes a
model to predict avaibility of users to engage in just-in-time
interventions. (paper)
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Gave talks at NIDA Intramural Research Program (2/4), NIH mHealth Training Institute (2/5), NSF Medical CPS Workshop (2/6), UCLA Medical School (3/6), Marquette University (4/11), ACM IPSN (4/15), SBM Annual Meeting (4/25), NIH OppNet Sleep & Stress Meeting (5/15), AAAS Workshop on mHealth and Law (6/16), and NIH SOBC Annual Meeting (6/23).
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Congratulations to the authors of ACM IPSN'14 paper. It shows detecting
cocaine use from ECG data is feasible in the field environment. (paper)
Year 2013
- We received three new grants,
an R01 from NIDA (NIH), a Smart Health grant from NSF, and a CSR Large
grant from NSF. The R01 is to predict abstinence in newly abstinent
smokers using AutoSense, the Smart Health grant is to develop a
contactless physiological sensor called EasySense, and the CSR Large grant
is to study privacy in mobile health.
- Awarded Distinguished Research Award from University of Memphis Alumni Association
Year 2012
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Congratulations to Dr. Karen Hovsepian for getting a tenure-track
position at Troy University. He completed one-year postdoc position
with us. This postdoc position is now open for new applications.
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Videos of some of my invited talks are available online - National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dartmouth College.
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Congratulations to the SmokeTrack authors. The SmokeTrack paper was accepted at ACM IPSN 2012 conference.
- Invited to speak at NSF Workshop on Measuring Data for Population Health (Washington, D.C.).
Year 2011
- Congratulations to
the WiSeMANet Lab. In 2011, we had regular papers accepted at ACM IPSN, ACM SenSys, ACM CHI, ACM UbiComp, and ACM Wireless Health. The IPSN'11 paper on Stress Inferencing was
nominated for best paper award. Earlier, the AutoWitness
paper was nominated for best paper award at the ACM SenSys'10
conference.
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Chairing the national meeting on "mHealth Evidence" co-organized by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKesson Foundation, NIH, and NSF. The meeting will be at NIH campus on 8/16.
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Co-Chairing the TPC of 1st mHealth workshop at ACM SenSys'11 called "mHealthSys". Also, co-chairing the TPC of NetHealth'12 Workshop and MSN'11 Conference.
- Welcome to Dr. Karen Hovsepian, who joined us in August'11 as our
third postdoctoral fellow. He is a machine learning expert and was a
postodoctoral fellow at Emory University in Bioinformatics before joing
us.
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Congratulations to
Andrew and Animikh.Their privacy paper was accepted in ACM CHI'11
conference, a premier venue in Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Year 2010
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Selected by the Popular Science magazine as one of America's "Brilliant Ten" young scientists for 2010. My profile in this featured article is here. A press release from the university is here, a subsequent story appears here, a story in the Commercial Appeal newspaper appears here, and a television clip from WREG/Channel 3 is here.
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Congratulationsto
Animikh Ghosh (an M.S. graduate from our lab) for securing a position with Infosys Research (SETLabs). He joined SETLabs
as a Junior Research Associate.
- Dr. Santosh was selected a First Tennessee Entrepreneurship
and Innovation Fellow by the First Tennessee Foundation for 2010-2011.
- NIH awarded two new competitive supplements to the AutoSense
project. One supplement supports the integration of a new alcohol
sensor from Giner
Inc. called WrisTAS onto the arm band of the AutoSense
wearable sensor suite, the other supplement is supporting the
validation of in the illicit drug abuse population as part of the
ongoing EXACT study at NIDA Intramural Research Program in Baltimore.
- A demo
for the first version of our AutoWitness burglar
tracking system appeared at the SenSys 2009 conference. We also
had one paper accepted at Infocom 2010 and two papers accepted in IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) in 2009.
- In Sep 2009, we received a new large ($2.7
million) collaborative project from the National Science Foundation (as part of the Network Science and Engineering program) called "FieldStream" to
develop a data management framework for personal sensor
networks that are deployed for exposure biology studies in natural
environments of human participants. The project brings together nine
faculty members from six universities (CMU, Georgia Tech, UMass, UCLA,
Minnesota, and Memphis (lead)) who possess expertise spanning various
relevant disciplines in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and
Psychology.
- In Sep 2009, we received a new one year collaborative
project from the National Institutes of Health (as a supplement to
our existing AutoSenseproject)
called "Personalized Stress
Inferencing" to develop a new machine learning based system for
personalized inferencing of perceived psychosocial stress in natural
environments of human participants. The project brings together seven
faculty members from five universities (CMU, Pittsburgh, Ohio State,
Minnesota, and Memphis) who possess expertise spanning various relevant
disciplines in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Behavioral
Science, Physiology, and Psychology.
- Fox13 TV News Channel Featured a story on AutoWitness. Here
is a link to the TV clip and link
to a recent video produced by the university's marketing department.
The story on AutoWitness appears here.
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- WiSe MANet Lab sweeps University Research
Forum awards in the Graduate Category. See here for details.
- Multiple new GRA positions are available
at the WiSe MANet Lab to work on
exciting new wireless sensor network applications (in both theory and
systems) as part of federally funded long-term projects. These
positions are mostly available for ambitious Ph.D. students.
Exceptional Masters students will be considered.
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- Dr. Kumar visited Georgia Tech (10/17/2007) and Clemson
University (11/9/2007) to give a talk titled "Coverage and
Connectivity in Wireless Networks: the Journey from Percolation to
Reliable Density Estimates". An abstract of the talk can be found here.
The slides of the talk (at Clemson) can be found here.
- NSF awards a collaborative grant for our AutoWitness
project.
- Multiple
new GRA positions are available at the WiSe MANet Labs to
work on exciting new wireless sensor network applications (in both
theory and systems) as part of federally funded long-term projects.
These positions are mostly available for ambitious Ph.D. students.
Exceptional Masters students may be considered.
- Two of our papers were accepted in the ACM MobiCom 2007 Conference. (See the
publication listing for details.)
- Our AutoSense
project was the feature article of Center for Community Health's
Spring/Summer 2007 newsletter. (Read more)
- Undergraduate and graduate students demonstrate their
wireless sensor network class projects that was carried out as part of
the TAF SIST grant that was awarded to us. (See the video)
- WiSeMANets labs grad
students win first prize on Annual CS Research Day held at the
University of Memphis. They demonstrated a preliminary version of the AutoWitness system. (Read More)
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- Wireless Sensor Network
technology is being introduced in several Computer Science courses
(Operating Systems, Networking and Information Assurance, and
Programming Languages) as part of new TAF SIST grant that was awarded
to Dr. Santosh Kumar (PI), Dr. Lan Wang, and Dr. Qishi Wu at the
University of Memphis.
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Post
Doctoral Fellows
Dr.
Moushumi Sharmin (2013-15) - Joined
Western Washington University in Sep 2015 as Tenure-track Assistant
Professor
Dr.
Andrew Raij (2009-10) - Joined
University of South Florida in 2011 as Tenure-track Assistant
Professor
Dr. Karen Hovsepian
(2011-12) - Joined
Troy University as Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Students
Mahbubur Rahman
(2009-) -
mmrahman(dot)(at)memphis(dot)edu
Syed Monowar Hussain (2010-)
Hillol Sarker (2012-)
Nazir Saleheen (2013-)
Rummana
Bari (2013-)
Soujanya
Chaterjee (2014-)
M.S. Students
Nusrat Nasreen (2013-)
Undergraduate
Students
Daniel Lissner (2009-2010)
Vineet Sathyan (2008-2009)
Alumni
Amin Ahsan Ali
(Ph.D., 2014) - Joined University of Dhaka as Assistant Professor
Somnath
Mitra (M.S., 2012) - eBay
Animikh
Ghosh (M.S., 2010) - GE Global Research, India
Salahuddin
Mohammad Masum (2010) - Ph.D.
Student, EECE,
University of Memphis
Maheshbabu Satharla (M.S.,
2010)
Bhagavathy Krishna (M.S.,
2009)
Tim Henry (B.S., 2008) -
Fedex, Memphis
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