Are you interested in working with national experts to co-invent and/or test new AI-based mobile health (mHealth) technologies for your ongoing projects?
The mDOT Center is an NIH-funded national resource for developing mHealth capabilities. It is hosting office hours to recruit new health research collaborators. These collaborations can extend your current project and help you generate pilot data for your next grant, with a potential to increase your impact on science, future technologies, and health outcomes.
Dr. Santosh Kumar is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Memphis and the Director of the NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K), which is headquartered at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2006, where his dissertation won a presidential fellowship. In 2010, Popular Science magazine named him one of America’s ten most brilliant scientists under the age of 38 (called “Brilliant Ten”). In 2011, he chaired the “mHealth Evidence” meeting jointly organized by NIH, NSF, RWJF, and McKesson Foundation to establish evidence requirements for mHealth. In 2013, he was invited to meet with the NIH Director to advise him on NIH efforts in the area of mHealth and was invited to the White House to give a talk on the future of Biosensors. In 2014, he co-organized and co-chaired the NSF-NIH Workshop on Computing Challenges in Future Mobile Health (mHealth) Systems and Applications. He holds the distinction of receiving the largest grants from both NIH ($10.8 million in 2014) and NSF ($4 million In 2016) in the history of the University of Memphis. Santosh’s research seeks to define new frontiers in the discipline of mobile health (mHealth). His decade-long work has involved collecting mobile sensor data from over 100 human volunteers for 25,000+ hours in their natural environments as part of various scientific user studies. His collaborative research involves more than twenty faculty members from fifteen institutions, spanning a variety of disciplines, making his projects highly transdisciplinary. Google Scholar
Dr. James Rehg is the director of the Heal Care Systems Engineering Center (HCESC) and Founder Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering, with join faculty appointments in the Department of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge Research Lab of DEC (and then Compaq) from 1995-2001, where he managed the computer vision research group. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2001 and a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship from Georgia Tech in 2005. He and his students have received best student paper awards at ICML 2005, BMVC 2010, Mobihealth 2014, and Face and Gesture 2015, and a 2013 Method of the Year Award from the journal Nature Methods. Dr. Rehg serves on the Editorial Board of the Intl. J. of Computer Vision, and he served as the Program co-Chair for ACCV 2012 and General co-Chair for CVPR 2009, and will serve as Program co-Chair for CVPR 2017. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds 25 issued US patents. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, and robot perception. Dr. Rehg is the lead PI on an NSF Expedition to develop the science and technology of Behavioral Imaging, the measurement and analysis of social and communicative behavior using multi-modal sensing, with applications to developmental disorders such as autism. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the NIH Center of Excellence on Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). Google Scholar
Office Hours:
June 2024
Tuesday, 6/11: 10:00 – 11:00 AM CT – Dr. Santosh Kumar
Wednesday, 6/12: 3:00 – 4:00 PM CT – Dr. James Rehg
May 2024
Tuesday, 5/7: 10:00 – 11:30 AM CT – Dr. Santosh Kumar
Wednesday, 5/8: 3:00 – 4:30 PM CT – Dr. James Rehg
Thursday, 5/9: 3:00 – 4:30 PM CT – Dr. James Rehg
Friday, 5/10: 9:30 – 11:00 AM CT – Dr. Santosh Kumar