Md Sabbir Ahmed
Provost's Fellow
Ph.D. student, Systems Engineering
About
I am working with Prof. Laura Barnes at the Sensing Systems for Health Lab (S²He). I am also affiliated with the Cyber-Physical Systems Link Lab.
At the S²He lab, I work on on-device sensing system development for understanding and detection of social interaction and context-aware micro-interventions for social anxiety. Besides, I am contributing to the system development for real-time cancer patient-clinician interaction. My developed on-device systems for smartwatches have been used for research projects in collaboration with the Dept. of Psychology and a project in collaboration with the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at UVA.
Selected Publications
WatchAnxiety: A Transfer Learning Approach for State Anxiety Prediction from Smartwatch Data. IEEE EMBS-BSN'25.
Md Sabbir Ahmed, Noah French, Mark Rucker, Zhiyuan Wang, Taylor Myers-Brower, Kaitlyn Petz, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes
A Minimalistic Approach to Predict and Understand the Relation of App Usage with Students' Academic Performance. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, Issue MHCI.
Md Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Mohammad Abdul Hadi, Ekram Hossain, Nova Ahmed
Awards
Provost's Fellowship (2023 - Present), UVA
NSF Student Travel Grant of $2000 to attend IEEE SmartComp'25 at UCC, Ireland.
NSF Student Travel Award of $795 to attend IEEE-EMBS BSN'25 at UCLA, USA.
Special recognitions for outstanding reviews for ACM CHI'24 and ACM IMWUT.
Gary Marsden Travel Award to participate at ACM MobileHCI’23, ACM SIGCHI.
Top 1% in European Alliance for Innovation, 2022.
Travel Grant from ACM SIGCHI Development Fund to attend Asian CHI'21.
Gary Marsden Travel Award to attend ACM CHI’21.