I am a Research Assistant Professor in the ECE department and the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, where I direct the Human Signals lab. I hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from UT Austin, a master's from the MIT Media Lab and a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech.
In my research, I develop and study systems and computational methods for sensing, recognizing and modeling the entire span of people's everyday activities and context. By enabling the finely-grained measurement of human behaviors at multiple levels of detail, and combining it with biological data and continuous physiological monitoring, I am interested in building personalized health models and tools that can characterize and forecast various states of health and disease from sensor data.
I am a member of DICE, WNCG and the Intelligent Systems Group at the iSchool. I am also currently an Associate Editor of IMWUT.
Contact Info
ethomaz at utexas dot edu
Twitter: @ethomaz
EER 7.818
2501 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712
Office Hours: By appointment
News
June 2018
We are actively looking for UT undergrads and master students to join our group. If you are interested in doing research in wearable computing, mobile health, HCI, activity recognition, and predictive health, check this.
April 2018
We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award. Over the next year, we will explore how conversational assistants such as Google Home can be used as a health sensor.
February 2018
We will be presenting our most recent work in automated dietary assessment at Ubicomp 2018: Detecting Eating Episodes by Tracking Jawbone Movements with a Non-Contact Wearable Sensor, by Chun, Bhattacharya, and Thomaz.
November 2017
We got a privacy journal article accepted for IMWUT: Mitigating Bystander Privacy Concerns in Egocentric Activity Recognition with Deep Learning and Intentional Image Degradation. This work will be featured at Ubicomp 2018.
September 2017
We have a new home: our lab is now located on the 7th floor of the new Engineering and Education Research Center (EERC or simply EER) building, located at Speedway and Dean Keeton.
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