I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham and a visiting researcher at the Mobile Systems Research Lab at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

My interest is to learn sensing data recorded in phones and wearables. In particular, building systems to collaboratively learn in a resource efficient and privacy preserving way using Federated Learning and fully distributed Gossip Learning. I’m interested in various types of applications: graph analysis, mobile-health, and mobility.

Recent Research News:

• Nov-2023: A digest paper accepted Royal Society Open Science on mobile health sensing link
• Oct-2023: Named as the Spotlight Researcher by the Cambridge Public Health link
• Jun-2023: Workshop paper from Evelyn (MPhill at U. Cambridge) is accepted at FL4Data-Mining workshop in KDD-2023.
• May-2023: Our conference paper on distributed spatial data management is accepted in EDBT-2024.
• Apr-2023: Our conference paper on Gossip Learning is accepted in IJCAI-2023 paper
• Apr-2023: Our journal paper on Early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease has won the best publication of the year (2022) award from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge link.
• Mar-2022: I have organized a workshop on Using Mobiles and Wearables for Public Health in association with Cambridge Public Health and Precision Health Initiative.