HABits Lab (Prof. Nabil Alshurafa's Lab at NU) @HAbitsLab
Dr. Nabil Alshurafa directs Northwestern University's Health Aware Bits (HABits) Lab Rewriting how we study human behavior through sensors! thehabitslab.com Northwestern University Joined July 2016-
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NEW: "More accurate fitness tracking for people with obesity" A fantastic piece by @KSamChi of Northwestern Now about our recent work on wearable fitness tracking algorithms! S/O to Lab members Boyang Wei, @CdotRomano, Bonnie Nolan, @MahdiPedram91 !! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/0…
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"New Wearable Algorithm Improves Fitness Tracking in Obesity" - a new article by @Medscape on our recent research in wrist-based energy estimation! S/O HABits Lab team who worked on this project: Boyang Wei, @CdotRomano, Bonnie Nolan, @MahdiPedram91! medscape.com/viewarticle/ne…
"RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks?" by @ABC A timely piece about @SecKennedy's recent endorsement of wearable health technologies—including an interview with yours truly! Are wearables for everybody? Read more here! abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-…
HABits Lab (Prof. Nabil Alshurafa's Lab at NU) retweeted
Happy to see @BehavioralMed doing some good things for the environment at #SBM2025 with a plant-based food day and eco-friendly activities!
I'm at San Francisco attending #sbm2025 @BehavioralMed. Come check out our panel discussion at titled: Everybody Eats: Selecting from the buffet of technology-enhanced dietary assessment options! Posters, Live Research Spotlight, and more today and tomorrow! Come say hi!
HABits Lab (Prof. Nabil Alshurafa's Lab at NU) retweeted
Excited to share our latest paper on HabitSense: a privacy-aware, AI-enhanced multi-modal wearable platform that detects health-risk behaviors 📷🌿 Read on for key insights! 👇 #mHealth #WearableTech #AI #DigitalHealth dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… glenn-fernandes.com/projects/habit…
#BSN2024 Research & Industry Panel Discussion with @roozyg of @epicorebio, @stevexuMD of @Sibel_Health, @jesunshine of @Google, and Alexander Adams of @GeorgiaTech! Great conversation on how we can work together to get research off the shelf!
#BSN2024 Research & Industry Panel, @roozyg of @epicorebio presents brilliant product research on soft microfluidic wearables for hydration management, featuring work w/ @TeamMessi, @serenawilliams, and @jaytatum0! A fantastic kick-off to our third and final day! #bsn24
#BSN2024 presentation by @GeffenCooper of @UTAustin "Packet Pruning: Finding Better Energy Spending Policies for Batteryless Human Activity Recognition", draws standing ovation from Prof. Alexander Adams of @GeorgiaTech! A fantastic closer for day 2! More to come tomorrow!
#BSN2024 features wonderful presentation by @MeghnaRoyChowd9 of @Purdue, "Leveraging Ultra-Low-Power Wearables Using Distributed Neural Networks"! Part of the #bsn24 session on Biomedical Data and Computational Approaches!
In the #BSN2024 Panel on Public Policy & Tech/AI an incredible, multifaceted discussion emerged! Our most emphatic thanks go to the panelists: Rep. @rashidforil @US_FDA Digital Health Tech. Director Catherine Bahr @nu_ipham Director Abel Kho @mal_srh Director @PaoloBonatoPhD
Very interesting work by Ajan Subramanian of @UCIrvine! "Graph-Augmented LLMs for Personalized Health Insights: A Case Study in Sleep Analysis" Thanks, Ajan, for another great talk at #BSN2024! #bsn24 @IEEEembs bsn.embs.org
#BSN2024 AI/Health Monitoring session continues with @saeizadeh_a (of @Northeastern)'s excellent presentation, "A Multi-Modal Non-Invasive Deep Learning Framework for Progressive Prediction of Seizures"! #bsn24 #ieee #embs bsn.embs.org
#BSN2024 session 4 continues with a fantastic presentation by Nooshin Taheri-Chatrudi of @ASU, "Wavelet-Augmented Self-Supervised Learning for Accurate Classification of Cognitive Workload" Stay tuned for more #bsn24 ! bsn.embs.org
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