Team
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Nirmalya Roy is currently an Associate Professor in the Information Systems department at University of Maryland Baltimore County. He directs the Mobile, Pervasive and Sensor Computing Group (MPSC). He was a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University from January 2012 to June 2013. Prior to that, he worked as a Research Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore from 2010 to 2011. He was as a postdoctoral fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin from 2008 to 2009. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2008 and 2004 respectively. He did his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2001.
Research Interests:
Pervasive Computing and Middleware (activity recognition, energy efficient remote monitoring, QoI, physiological data modeling)
Wireless SensorNetworks (sensor data stream processing, sensor-driven decision making, embedded sensor system)
Smart Environments (sensor-driven smart healthcare and rehabilitation, a fine-grained building energy monitoring and control)
Ph.D. Students
PhD Student (Spring 2017 – Present)
Research Interests:
Signal and Image Processing
Multi-Inhabitant Activity Recognition
Machine Learning
PhD Student (Spring 2017 – Present)
Research Interests:
Data Mining
Social Media Analytics
Machine Learning
PhD Student (Fall 2017 – Present)
Research Interests:
Wireless Sensor Networks
Cyber Physical Systems
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Social Media Analytics
Android Application
David Welsh
PhD Student (Fall 2017 – Present)
Research Interests:
Mobile gunshot detection
Bio-metrics for firearm training
Embedded firearm sensors
Firearm behavior recognition
PhD Student (Spring 2018 – Present)
Research Interests:
Micro Activity Recognition
Deep Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation
Computer Vision
Sensor Fusion
Timothy Casey
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Education Data Mining (EDM)
Data Visualization and Usage
Project Management
Remote Sensing
PhD Student (Spring 2018 – Present)
Research Interests:
Sensor Data Mining
Machine Learning
Image Processing
Natural Language Processing
PhD Student (Fall 2018 – Present)
Research Interests:
Machine Learning
Domain Adaptation
Micro Activity Recognition
Computer Vision
Emon Dey
PhD Student (Fall 2019 - Present)
Research Interests:
Wearable Computing
Signal Processing
Machine Learning Applications
Cyber Physical Systems
PhD Student (Spring 2020 – Present)
Research Interests:
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Machine Learning Theory, and Application
PhD Student (Spring 2020 – Present)
Research Interests:
Sensor based human activity recognition
Computer vision
Deep learning
Master's Student
Indrajeet Ghosh
M.S. Student (Fall 2018 - Present)
Research Interests:
Micro Activity Recognition
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Graduated Ph.D. Students
Mohammad Arif Ul Alam, Assistant Professor, U Mass Lowell [Thesis: Context-Aware Multi-Inhabitant Functional and Physiological Health Assessment in Smart Home Environment] [Fall 2017] [PDF]
H M Sajjad Hossain, Microsoft Research [Thesis: Active Activity Recognition with Context-Aware Annotator Selection] [Spring 2019] [PDF][PPT]
MD Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Philips Research [Thesis: Cross-Domain Scalable Activity Recognition Models in Smart Environments] [Spring 2019] [PDF][PPT]
Nilavra Pathak, Expedia [Thesis:Analysis of Energy Disaggregation for Sustainable Building Applications] [Spring 2019] [PDF][PPT]
Former Masters and Undergraduate Students
Vishak Iyer [Thesis: Human Activity Recognition using Bluetooth Signals] [Spring 2017] [PDF]
Sarthak Pathak, Software Developer, Stone Harbor Investments Partners, New York [Thesis: A Holistic Cyber-Physical System to Detect Anomalies in Smart Home Appliances] [Spring 2017] [PDF]
Bipendra Basnyat, P.E., Ph.D. Student, UMBC [Thesis: Feasibility Study of Design & Development of Cyber-Physical Device for Real-Time Detection of Flash Floods in the Smart City] [Spring 2017] [PDF]
Fatimah Alqurmti [Thesis: Detecting Makeup Activities Using Internet-of-Things] [Summer 2019] [PDF]
Joseph Taylor [Undergraduate Student]