{"id":24,"date":"2018-11-09T20:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:34:06","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Human Health Analytics (AHHA) Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1403\" height=\"571\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-66\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/02\/header.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/02\/header.jpg 1403w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/02\/header-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/02\/header-1024x417.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/02\/header-768x313.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1403px) 100vw, 1403px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-10 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Mobile &amp; Personalized Health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Research and develop innovative sensors, informatics methods, and systems<br>towards proactive, evidence-based, and personalized healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h4>NEWS &amp; UPDATES<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our paper, &#8220;Contrastive Learning Model for Wearable-based Ataxia Assessment&#8221;, was selected as a Featured Article in the April 2026 issue of IEEE TBME.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee as been appointet Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE EMBC Proceedings, September 2025 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.embs.org\/press\/embc-eic-sunghoon-ivan-lee\/\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/ivan-lee-named-editor-chief-ieee-engineering-medicine-and-biology-conference\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>Ignacio Gavier, a PhD student in our group, received the Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the College of Information and Computer Sciences, July 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee is serving as a Senior Editor for IEEE TBME, the flagship journal for IEEE EBMS, January 2025.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Juhyeon Lee, a PhD student in our group, received the Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the College of Information and Computer Sciences, May 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee received an R01 grant from NIH\/NICHD via the NSF\/NIH Smart and Connected Health program on \u201cA Sensing Platform Monitoring Interactions with Daily Objects to Assess Real-World Motor Performance in Stroke Survivors.\u201d This exciting project is a collaboration between UMass and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Mary Ellen Stoykov). Oct 2023. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/pioneering-health-tracker-stroke-survivors-will-use-body-transmit-data?_gl=1*p8cm6s*_gcl_au*NDExNDI3Njg2LjE2OTc0NzAwNTg.*_ga*MzM3Mzc0MDc4LjE2NTgyNzUyNTc.*_ga_21RLS0L7EB*MTY5ODY4NzkwNC40MDkuMS4xNjk4Njg3OTE1LjAuMC4w\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/pioneering-health-tracker-stroke-survivors-will-use-body-transmit-data\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20230922\/New-sensor-design-could-revolutionize-rehabilitation-for-stroke-survivors.aspx\">Media 3<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>Our research has received the Best Demo Award from IEEE BSN, Oct 2023. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/bsn.embs.org\/2023\/\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>Our research was featured in the UMass Magazine article &#8220;Form, Meet Function,&#8221; Apr 2023. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/magazine\/spring-2023\/why\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Oubre (PhD&#8217;22) receives the 2021-2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, Feb 2023.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee will serve as the General Co-Chair of IEEE BSN 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee has been endowed as a Manning Faculty Fellow in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst, Sept 2022.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee has served as a Co-Chair of the NIH Review Panel for the NICHD NCMRR Early Career Research Award, July 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Our alumnus, Dr. Hee-Tae Jung (PhD&#8217;19 and Postdoc&#8217;22), will join the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Hee-Tae.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee will serve as the Conference Co-Chair of ACM SenSys 2022.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee has served as an Editor for IEEE EMBC 2022.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Our recent paper at ACM IMWUT\/UbiComp &#8220;ShaZam: Charge-Free Wearable Devices via Intra-Body PowerTransfer from Everyday Objects&#8221; was invited to be highlighted at ACM Get Mobile.<\/li>\n<li>Featured Article \u2013 \u201cEstimating Ground Reaction Force and Center of Pressure using Low-Cost Wearable Devices\u201d at the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), April 2022 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.embs.org\/tbme\/articles\/estimating-ground-reaction-force-and-center-of-pressure-using-low-cost-wearable-devices\/\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/low-cost-sensor-equipped-insole-developed-monitor-gait-patients-mobility-impairments\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/low-cost-sensor-equipped-insole-developed-monitor-gait-patients-mobility-impairment\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Our recent study on \u201ca technology that can potentially enable charge-free wearable devices by transferring power via human skin while users interacting with instrumented daily objects\u201d received multiple media coverages\u00a0[<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/skin-game-transformative-approach-uses-human-body-recharge-smartwatches?_gl=1*1aylxmp*_ga*MTUxODYwOTM4Ni4xNjI1NTE0NTM2*_ga_21RLS0L7EB*MTYyNTc3NDUzNy43LjEuMTYyNTc3ODAwMy4w&amp;_ga=2.166286206.1175405168.1625514536-1518609386.1625514536\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/skin-game-transformative-approach-uses-human-body-recharge-smartwatches\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zrJwZRauO4E&amp;t=1s\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee is selected as a UMass ADVANCE Fellow for catalyzing equity for UMass faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee received an R21 grant from NIH on \u201cA Patient-Centered Serious Games for Remote Cognitive Training in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.\u201d This exciting project is a collaboration between UMass, Rutgers University, University of Montreal, and Woori Soft, April 2021. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/serious-play-tablet-based-video-games-may?_gl=1*3a91ev*_ga*MTUxODYwOTM4Ni4xNjI1NTE0NTM2*_ga_21RLS0L7EB*MTYyNTc3NDUzNy43LjEuMTYyNTc3NzgwNC4w&amp;_ga=2.233012062.1175405168.1625514536-1518609386.1625514536\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/serious-play-tablet-based-video-games-may-help-people-mild-cognitive-impairment\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lee was selected as a Lilly Fellow for Teaching Excellence, April 2021.\u00a0[<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/lee-receives-umass-lilly-teaching-fellowship-design-health-informatics-course\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee has been recognized as a Senior Member of the IEEE.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee received an R01 grant from NIH on \u201cAchieving Optimal Motor Function in Stroke Survivors via a Human-Centered Approach to Design an mHealth Platform.\u201d This exciting project is a collaboration between UMass, Harvard Medical School (Paolo Bonato), University of Maryland College Park (Eun Kyoung Choe), and FormSense (Nathan Ramasarma), August 2020. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/research-will-test-finger-worn-sensor\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/lee-awarded-nih-grant-test-finger-worn-sensor-tracks-stroke-survivors-arm-movements\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/livescience.tech\/2019\/10\/18\/umass-amherst-scientists-developing-necklace-like-wireless-device-to-improve-understanding-of-schizophrenia\/\">Media 3<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rehabpub.com\/conditions\/neurological\/stroke-neurological\/ring-designed-to-measure-post-stroke-arm-weakness-is-focus-of-nih-funded-study\/\">Media 4<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee participated in an international task force examining the role of mobile health technology in COVID-19 pandemic. [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=8937520\">Paper<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/task-force-examines-role-mobile-health\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.massachusetts.edu\/news\/task-force-examines-role-mobile-health-technology-covid-19-pandemic\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/lee-rahman-task-force-examining-role-mobile-health-technology-covid-19-pandemic\">Media 3<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/coronavirus\/2020\/08\/umass-scientists-help-study-mobile-techs-role-in-monitoring-covid-19-patients.html\">Media 4<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Featured Article of the Issue \u2013 \u201cEstimating Upper-Limb Impairment Level in Stroke Survivors using Wearable Inertial Sensors and a Minimally-Burdensome Motor Task\u201d at the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems &amp; Rehabilitation Engineering (IEEE TNSRE), March, 2020 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/tnsre.embs.org\/2020\/03\/10\/estimating-upper-limb-impairment-level-in-stroke-survivors-using-wearable-inertial-sensors-and-a-minimally-burdensome-motor-task\/\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee received an R01 grant from NIH on \u201cAcoustic Sensing-Based Wearable system for Monitoring Social Dysfunction in Schizophrenia.\u201d This exciting project is a collaboration between UMass Amherst (Lee and Xiong) and Harvard Medical School (Holt and Coman), September, 2019. Media: [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/umass-amherst-scientists-developing-0\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-10\/uoma-uas101619.php\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2N2LdDl\">Media 3<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nepsy.com\/articles\/general\/researchers-at-umass-amherst-create-device-to-understand-schizophrenia\/\">Media 4<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Our ongoing research project on the development of batteryless wearable sensors has been featured in a number of press releases: UMass Research Next [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/researchnext\/feature\/beyond-batteries\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>] and MobiHealthNews [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobihealthnews.com\/news\/north-america\/umass-amherst-project-powers-wearable-sensors-human-skin\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Cover Page Article of the Issue \u2013 \u201cRemote Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Level based on Serious Mobile Game Performance\u201d at the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), May, 2019 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/jbhi.embs.org\/2019\/05\/06\/remote-assessment-of-cognitive-impairment-level-based-on-serious-mobile-game-performance-an-initial-proof-of-concept\/\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Oubre receives an Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, April, 2019 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/umass-graduate-students-again-among-top\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Incoming PhD student Juhyeon Lee received the UMass Amherst CICS Fellowship Award, March, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Armstrong Fund for Research \u2013 Prof. Ivan Lee receives a grant award from the Armstrong Fund for developing a batteryless wearable platform, March, 2019 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/umass-amherst-2019-armstrong-award-given\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/cics-assistant-professor-sunghoon-ivan-lee-leads-team-winning-2019-armstrong-research-award\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/nursing\/news-events\/news\/professors-yeonsik-no-and-sunghoon-ivan-lee-receive-armstrong-fund-science-award\">Media 3<\/a><\/strong><\/span>] .<\/li>\n<li>NIH Trailblazer Award for Early Career Investigators \u2013 Prof. Ivan Lee receives an R21 grant award from NIH NIBIB for developing a wearable system to longitudinally monitor joint function in patients with knee OA, September, 2018 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/lee-boyer-developing-wearable-system-assessing-knee-movement\">Media 1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/boyer-lee-developing-wearable-system\">Media 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]<\/li>\n<li>NSF CRII Award for Early Career Investigators \u2013 Prof. Ivan Lee received a Smart and Connected Health Research Grant Award for developing methods to monitor 3D upper-limb movement by leveraging motor control theories, July, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Lee has been elected as an Associated Member of the Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and System at IEEE Biomedical Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).<\/li>\n<li>Neev Kiran receives the 2018 STEM Diversity Fellowship from\u00a0the College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, April, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Xin Liu received the 21st Century Leaders Award at 2018 UMass Amherst Commencement, a campus-wide award given to only handful of outstanding seniors who are graduating [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/outstanding-graduates-be-honored-21st-0\">Link<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Xin Liu received the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Awards from the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), April, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Hee-Tae Jung received a NSF Student Travel Award to attend the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, and Body Sensor Networks (IEEE BHI\/BSN\u201918), Las Vegas, March, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Youngkyun Lee received the Commonwealth Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Xin Liu received the UMass Rising Researcher Award \u2013 the most prestigious award given to a handful of undergraduate students across campus, UMass Amherst, Nov, 2017 [<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/researchnext\/researcher\/research-ambitions\">Link1<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/cics-undergraduate-xin-liu-18-named-rising-researcher\">Link2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Oubre received the 2017 Graduate School Fellowship from the College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, Sept, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Xin Liu received the Commonwealth Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Xin Liu received a NSF Student Travel Award to attend the 2nd IEEE\/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (IEEE\/ACM CHASE 2017), Philadelphia, July, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS &amp; UPDATES Our paper, &#8220;Contrastive Learning Model for Wearable-based Ataxia Assessment&#8221;, was selected as a Featured Article in the April 2026 issue of IEEE TBME. Prof. Ivan Lee as been appointet Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE EMBC Proceedings, September 2025 [Media 1,\u00a0Media 2] Ignacio Gavier, a PhD student in our group, received the Dissertation Writing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advanced Human Health Analytics (AHHA) Laboratory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ahha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}