Recent News

Nov 6
2024
Boyang receives Live Research Spotlight award at SBM 2025

Boyang's work, 'Resource-Constrained Eating Detection: Enabling Just-in-Time Interventions via Wrist-Worn Sensors' was awarded Live Research Spotlight at SBM 2025.

Nov 5
2024
5 HABits Lab abstracts accepted at SBM 2025

Farzad, Boyang, Jiayi, Chris, and Soroush will present works at the 2025 Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM).

Oct 17
2024
IEEE BSN 2024 a huge success, thanks in part to HABits Lab organizers

BSN24 organized by Conference Co-Chair Nabil & OC Co-Chairs Chris, Bonnie, Glenn, and Mahdi.

Oct 14
2024
Farzad's paper accepted by Nature Digital Medicine

A machine-learned model for predicting weight loss success using weight change features early in treatment

Oct 1
2024
HABits Lab student Glenn Fernandes starts internship at Dolby

Glenn will spend time in California as part of his internship with Dolby

Aug 9
2024
Glenn's HabitSense paper accepted by ACM IMWUT

Glenn's work, 'HabitSense: A Privacy-Aware, AI-Enhanced Multimodal Wearable Platform for mHealth Applications' now appears in ACM IMWUT.

Jun 4
2024
HABits Lab Alum Shibo Zhang wins MDPI Sensors Best Paper Award

Awarded Paper: Deep learning in human activity recognition with wearable sensors: A review on advances

Mar 15
2024
Farzad receives Meritorious Abstract and Citation Awards at SBM 2024

Both awards were given to Farzad's work, 'Defining Overeating Phenotypes in Naturalistic Settings: Leveraging Mobile Health and Machine Learning'.

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07/08/2025

THOR: Thermal-guided Hand-Object Reasoning via Adaptive Vision Sampling

06/19/2025

Developing and comparing a new BMI inclusive energy expenditure algorithm on wrist-worn wearables

05/15/2025

The Role of Eating Time in the Associations Between Hunger, Appetite, Thirst, and Energy Intake"

04/11/2025

Multi-Modal Hand-to-Mouth Gesture Recognition in Activity-Oriented RGB-Thermal Footage

03/26/2025

Co-designing prediction data visualizations for a digital binge eating intervention

11/29/2024

A machine-learned model for predicting weight loss success using weight change features early in treatment

10/15/2024

When2Trigger: Evaluation Trade-Offs in Vision-Based Real-Time Eating Detection Systems

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