ECE Departmental Seminar

From Macro to Micro: Understanding Human Motion In the Wild

Prof. Shubham Jain
Stony Brook University, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 9/30/22, 1:30pm
Light Engineering 250 

Abstract:  Modern environments are alive with sensors, such as smartphones, wearables, vehicles, and cameras. However, despite the plethora of sensors, direct sensing of desired events is difficult in the real-world. This is primarily due to large amounts of noise introduced by our movements during everyday tasks, in addition to lack of dedicated sensors and deployment difficulties. We address this challenge by modeling movements to design and develop mobility-aware systems. This has opened up new opportunities in both urban tech and mobile health. This talk will explore our research efforts in leveraging pervasive sensing devices, towards developing a multi-modal data integration and interpretation framework. I will discuss sensing frameworks for urban spaces and the mHealth space. We have designed real-time monitoring tools that can capture fine-grained measures of users’ health in uncontrolled environments. In building these data-driven frameworks that introduce mobility-awareness in non-homogeneous sensors, we introduce new avenues for smart cities and healthcare analytics in the real-world. 

Bio: Shubham Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University where she leads PiCASSo (Pervasive Computing and Smart Sensing) Lab. Her research interests lie in cyber-physical systems, mobile health, and data analytics in smart environments. Her research has been published in conferences like ACM MobiSys, ACM/IEEE IPSN, and IMWUT. Her work on pedestrian safety has been featured in several media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal. She received her PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in 2017.