Deepak Ganesan

Professor

Deepak Ganesan is a Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. He is the Director of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring at UMass Amherst, and a thrust lead for the NIH-funded MD2K Center for Excellence on Mobile Sensor-to-Knowledge. His recent work includes the design of novel wearable technologies such as smart clothing and low-power eye trackers to monitor health signals and robust detection of important health targets such as drug use and smoking. His work on wearable technologies has been recognized by Best Paper Awards and nominations at Mobicom, MobiSys, CHI and Ubicomp. In addition to academic endeavors, he is a co-founder of Lumme Inc, which focuses on wearable devices and machine learning for smoking cessation. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Current Research
My research interests include systems, networking and data management issues in wireless, sensor and mobile networks. I lead the Sensor Networks Research Group.

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2004
Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT, Madras in 1998
Received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2008
Selected as a UMass Junior Faculty Fellow in 2008, and a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2009
Program co-chair for ACM SenSys 2010, and IEEE SECON 2013, and co-chairing ACM HotWireless 2014

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Publications

Ali Kiaghadi, Zohreh Homayounfar, Jeremy Gummeson, Trisha Andrew, Deepak Ganesan, Phyjama: Physiological Sensing via Fiber-enhanced Pyjamas, Proceedings of ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (Ubicomp) 2019.

Soha Rostaminia, Alexander Lamson, Subhransu Maji, Tauhidur Rahman, and Deepak Ganesan. "W!NCE: Unobtrusive Sensing of Upper Facial Action Units with EOG-based Eyewear" Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3,1, Article 23 (March 2019).

Bhanu Teja Gullapalli, Annamalai Natarajan, Gustavo Angarita, Edward Gaiser, Robert Malison, Deepak Ganesan, and Tauhidur Rahman, On-body Sensing of Cocaine Craving, Euphoria and Drug-Seeking Behavior using Cardiac and Respiratory Signals, ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technologies, June 2019.

Ali Kiaghadi, Morgan Baima, Jeremy Gummeson, Trisha Andrew, Deepak Ganesan, Fabric as a Sensor: Towards Unobtrusive Sensing of Human Behavior with Triboelectric Textiles, Proceedings of SenSys 2018.

Soha Rostaminia, Addison Mayberry, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin Marlin, Jeremy Gummeson, iLid: Low-power Sensing of Fatigue and Drowsiness Measures on a Computational Eyeglass, Proceedings of ACM IMWUT 2017.

Annamalai Natarajan, Gustavo Angarita, Edward Gaiser, Robert Malison, Deepak Ganesan, and Benjamin Marlin, Domain Adaptation Methods for Improving Lab-to-field Generalization of Cocaine Detection using Wearable ECG, Proceedings of ACM Ubicomp 2016.

Deepak Ganesan

Cancer-related Fatigue: Biomarker Detection & Monitoring Using a New Wearable Technology

Institute for Applied Life Sciences