Sougata Sen Sougata

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani Goa Campus. Prior to joining BITS, I completed two postdocs, one at Northwestern University, and another at Dartmouth College. I earned my Ph.D. in 2017 from the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University, where I was supervised by Prof. Archan Misra.

My research is at the crossroad of computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, preventive medicine, and human computer interaction. I build systems that can accurately, automatically and unobtrusively detect, monitor, and predict various human activities and behaviors, as they happen in the physical world. To realize these systems, I apply appropriate machine learning (ML) techniques on sensor data from personal devices such as smartphones and wearables, and infrastructure-based Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices. I also work towards developing techniques and identifying approaches that can increase the acceptability of these systems by reducing privacy concerns associated with them. More recently, I have started focusing on deploying deep learning techniques on resource constrained devices to enable real-time, and on device inference.

My research interest includes: Mobile and Wearable computing; Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing; IoT systems and applications; Mobile health;

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2022
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CSIS, BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus
NH 17 B Bypass road, Zuarinagar,
Goa, 403726, India
  sougatas goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

News and Updates

  •  Pinned news    Aug 2021 - I received the Google Faculty Award to support machine learning courses, diversity, and inclusion at universities.
  • Jan 2022 - Our paper titled HeatSight: Wearable Low-power Omni Thermal Sensing received the best presentation award at UbiComp/ISWC'21. Congratulations Rawan.
  • Jan 2022 - Our paper titled OCEAN: Towards Developing an Opportunistic Continuous Emotion Annotation Framework has been accepted for publication at PerCom WiP'22. Congratulations, Akhilesh.
  • Dec 2021 - Our paper titled ActiSight: Wearer Foreground Extraction using a Practical RGB-Thermal Wearable has been accepted for publication at PerCom'22. Congratulations, Rawan.
  • Dec 2021 - Our paper titled Detecting screen presence with activity-oriented RGB camera in egocentric videos has been accepted for publication at HCCS'22 workshop co-located with PerCom'22. Congratulations, Amit.
  • Dec 2021 - Our paper titled Impacts of Image Obfuscation on Fine-grained Activity Recognition in Egocentric Video has been accepted for publication at CoMoRea'22 workshop co-located with PerCom'22. Congratulations, Soroush.
  • Nov 2021 - Our paper titled A Comparative Study between ECG-based and PPG-based Heart Rate Monitors for Stress Detection has been accepted for publication at NetHealth'22 workshop colocated with COMSNETS'22. Congratulations, Anuja.
  • Nov 2021 - The journal version of our paper titled VibeRing: using vibrations from a smart ring as an out-of-band channel for sharing secret keys has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. .
  • Oct 2021 - The arXiv version of our paper titled Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science is available here.
  • Sept 2021 - Our paper titled HeatSight: Wearable Low-power Omni Thermal Sensing was presented at UbiComp/ISWC'21. Congratulations, Rawan. Check out the cool video
  • Sept 2021 - Our paper titled Exploring the challenges of using food journaling apps:A case-study with young adults has been accepted for publication at EAI MobiQuitous'21. Congratulations, Tejal and Jaskaran.
  • Aug 2021 - We are again organizing the WristSense workshop, co-located with PerCom'22. Do consider submitting your research to the workshop.
  • May 2021 - Our paper titled Recurring verification of interaction authenticity within bluetooth networks was presented at WiSec'21. Congratulations, Travis.
  • Jan 2021 - I have joined BITS Pilani Goa campus' CSIS Department as an Assistant Professor.
  • Oct 2020 - Our paper titled VibeRing: using vibrations from a smart ring as an out-of-band channel for sharing secret keys was nominated for the best paper award at IoT'20. Check out the paper here.
  • Oct 2020 - Our paper titled Evaluating the Reproducibility of Physiological Stress Detection Models has been accepted in IMWUT. Congratulations Varun. You can find the paper here.
  • Sept 2020 - Our paper titled NeckSense: A Multi-Sensor Necklace for Detecting Eating Activities in Free-Living Conditions was the runner-up for viewer's choice best presentation award at UbiComp'20. Congratulations Shibo. Check out the website here.
  • Sept 2020 - Our poster titled VibroScale: Turning Your Smartphone into a Weighing Scale was awarded the best poster award at UbiComp'20. Congratulations Shibo. Check out the website here.
  • Sept 2020 - We are again organizing the WristSense workshop, co-located with PerCom'21. Do consider submitting your research in the workshop.
  • Sept 2020 - Our paper titled "Annapurna: An automated smartwatch-based eating detection and food journaling system" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
  • August 2020 - Our poster titled "VibroScale: Turning Your Smartphone into a Weighing Scale" will be presented in UbiComp 2020.
  • June 2020 - I will attend the IoT conference and present our paper titled VibeRing: Using vibrations from a smart ring as an out-of-band channel for sharing secret keys.
  • June 2020 - Our paper titled NeckSense: A Multi-Sensor Necklace for Detecting Eating Activities in Free-Living Conditions has been accepted in IMWUT and will be presented in UbiComp'20.
  • Apr 2020 - Our paper titled Measuring children's eating behavior with a wearable device has been accepted for publication at ICHI'20.
  • Sept 2019 - Our paper titled "Continuous Detection of Physiological Stress with Commodity Hardware" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.
  • Aug 2019 - I have joined Northwestern University as a postdoctoral scholar under Prof. Nabil Alshurafa and Prof. Josiah Hester.
  • Jul 2019 - We are again organizing the WristSense workshop, co-located with PerCom'19. Do consider submitting your research in the workshop.
  • Jun 2019 - Our poster titled "Using vibrations from a smartRing as an out-of-band channel for sharing secret keys" has been accepted and will be presented in UbiComp'19
  • Oct 2018 - I attended the UbiComp/ISWC conference in Singapore and presented our paper titled I4S : Capturing Shopper's In-store Interactions.
  • Sept 2018 - Our paper titled The Case for a Commodity Hardware Solution for Stress Detection has been accepted in the Mental Health and Wellbeing workshop, colocated with UbiComp'18.
  • Aug 2018 - Our paper titled Auracle: Detecting Eating Episodes with an Ear-mounted Sensor has been accepted in IMWUT and will be presented in UbiComp'18.
  • Jun 2018 - Our paper titled I4S : Capturing Shopper's In-store Interactions has been accepted and will appear in the proceedings of ISWC 2018.
  • Mar 2018 - Our paper titled Annapurna: Building a Real-World Smartwatch-based Automated Food Journal has been accepted and will appear in the proceedings of WoWMoM 2018.
  • Mar 2018 - Presented my work related to eating gesture monitoring at CTBH. [ Video]
  • Dec 2017 - I have joined Dartmouth College as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Prof. David Kotz's group.
  • Nov 2017 - Our paper titled Smart Monitoring via Participatory BLE Relaying has been accepted and will appear in the proceedings of Comsnets 2018.
  • May 2017 - I successfully defended my dissertation. The official version of the dissertation can be found here.