Tanzeem Choudhury

Associate Professor

Information Science, Cornell University

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2014

Saeed Abdullah, Mark Matthews, Elizabeth Murnane, Geri Gay, and Tanzeem Choudhury. Circadian Computing: How “Early to Bed and Early to Rise” Makes Some of Us Unhealthy and Sleep Deprived. To appear in the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2014.

Tauhidur Rahman, Alexander T Adams, Mi Zhang, Erin Cherry, Bobby Zhou, Huaishu Peng, Tanzeem Choudhury. BodyBeat: A Mobile System for Sensing Non-Speech Body Sounds. Appears in the proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2014.

Mark Matthews, Saeed Abdullah, Geri Gay, and Tanzeem Choudhury. Tracking Mental Well-Being: Balancing Rich Sensing and Patient Needs. Appears in Computer, 47.4(2014).

Tauhidur Rahman, Mi Zhang, Stephen Voida, and Tanzeem Choudhury. Towards Accurate Non-Intrusive Recollection of Stress Levels Using Mobile Sensing and Contextual Recall. Appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2014.

Phil Adams, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Tauhidur Rahman, Mark Matthews, Amy Voida, Geri Gay, Tanzeem Choudhury, and, Stephen Voida. Towards Personal Stress Informatics: Comparing Minimally Invasive Techniques for Measuring Daily Stress in the Wild. Appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2014.

Jamie Snyder, Eric Baumer, Stephen Voida, Phil Adams, Megan Halpern, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Geri Gay. Making Things Visible: Opportunities and Tensions in Visual Approaches for Design Research. Human-Computer Interaction.

2013

Nicholas Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew Campbell, and Feng Zhao. Community Similarity Networks. Appears in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Chen Zhenyu, Nicholas Lane, Guiseppe Cardone, Mu Lin, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell. Unobtrusive Sleep Monitoring Using Smartphones. Appears in the Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2013.

Stephen Voida, Tanzeem Choudhury, Geri Gay, Mark Matthews, Phil Adams, Mashfiqui Rabbi, JP Pollak, Mengxi Chi, Matthew Green, Andrew Campbell, Nic Lane, and Hong Lu. Personal Informatics Can Be Stressful: Collecting, Reflecting, and Embedding Stress Data in Personal Informatics. Appears in the Proceeding of Personal Informatics Workshop, CHI 2013.

2012

Mu Lin, Nicholas Lane, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Xiaochao Yang, Hong Lu, Giuseppe Cardone, Shahid Ali, Afsaneh Doryab, Ethan Berke, Andrew Campbell, and Tanzeem Choudhury. A Scalable Approach for Multidimensional Wellbeing Monitoring: Community and Energy Based Adaptation of Mobile Sensing and Feedback. Appears in the Proceedings of Wireless Health 2012, October 2012.

Hong Lu, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Gokul Chittaranjan, Denise Frauendorfer, Marianne Schmidt, Andrew Campbell, Daneil Gatica-Perez, and Tanzeem Choudhury. StressSense: Detecting Stress in Unconstrained Acoustic Environments using Smartphones. Appears in the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2012 , September 2012.

Saeed Abdullah, Nicholas Lane, and Tanzeem Choudhury. Towards Population Scale Activity Recognition: A Scalable Framework for Handling Data Diversity. Appears in the Proceedings of AAAI 2012, JULY 2012.

Andrew Campbell and Tanzeem Choudhury. From Smart Phones to Cognitive Phones. Appears in IEEE Pervasive , Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 7-11, July-September 2012.

2011

Nicholas Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shane Eisenman, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell. Cooperative Communities (CoCo): Exploiting Social Networks for Large-scale Modeling of Human Behavior. To appear in IEEE Pervasive – Special Issue on Large-scale Opportunistic Sensing.

Mashfiqui Rabbi, Shahid Ali, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Ethan Berke. Passive and In-situ Assessment of Mental and Physical Well-being using Mobile Sensors. To appear in the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2011, September 2011. Beijing, China.

Nicholas Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew Campbell, and Feng Zhao. Enabling Large-scale Human Activity Inference on Smartphones using Community Similarity Networks. Appears in the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2011, September 2001. Beijing, China. Best paper nominee (5 out of 300)

Ethan Berke, Tanzeem Choudhury, Shahid Ali, and Mashfiqui Rabbi. Objective Sensing of Activity and Sociability: Mobile Sensing in the Community. Appears in the Annals of Family Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 344-350, July 2011. [commentary]

Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew Campbell, Mashfiqui Mohammod, Mu Lin, Xiaochao Yang, Afsaneh Doryab, Hong Lu, Shahid Ali and Ethan Berke, BeWell: A Smartphone Application to Monitor, Model and Promote Wellbeing, Pervasive Health 2011-- 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Dublin, 23-26 May 2011

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, James Kitts, and Jeff Bilmes. Inferring Colocation and Conversation Networks from Privacy-senstive Audio with Implications for Computational Social Science. Appears in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, volume 1, issue 2, January 2011. 

2010

Nic Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Hong Lu, Daniel Peebles, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell. A Survey of Mobile Phone Sensing. Appears in IEEE Communications, September 2010. 

Hong Lu, Jun Yang, Zhigang Lu, Nic Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell. The Jigsaw Continuous Sensing Engine for Mobile phone Applications. Appears in the proceedings of Sensys 2010. 

Andrew T. Campbell, Tanzeem Choudhury, Shaohan Hu, Hong Lu, Matthew Mukerjee*, Mashfiqui Rabbi, and Rajeev Raizada. NeuroPhone: Brain-Mobile Phone Interface using a Wireless EEG Headset. Appears in the Proceedings of MobiHeld 2010. (* contact author, authors listed alphabetically)

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Jeff Bilmes. Discovering Long Range Properties of Social Networks with Multi-Valued Time-Inhomogeneous Models. Appears in the Proceedings of AAAI 2010. July 2010. Atlanta, GA.  

Daniel Peebles, Hong Lu, Nic Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell. Community-Guided Learning: Exploiting Mobile Sensor Users to Model Human Behavior. Appears in the Proceedings of AAAI 2010. July 2010. Atlanta, GA.

Emiliano Miluzzo, Cory Cornelius, Ashwin Ramaswamy, Tanzeem Choudhur, Andrew T. Campbell, Zhigang Liu. Darwin Phones: The Evolution of Sensing and Inference on
Mobile Phones
. Appears in Proceedings of MobiSys 2010. June 2010, San Francisco, CA.

2009

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Jeff Bilmes. Dynamic Multi-Valued Network Models for Predicting Face-to-Face Conversations. In the NIPS Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs. December 2009, Whistler, BC.

Janani Sriram, Minho Shin, Tanzeem Choudhury, and David Kotz. Activity-aware ECG-based Patient Authentication for Remote Health Monitoring. Appears in  the Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-Modal Interfaces (ICMI-MLMI)  2009.  November 2009, Cambridge, MA.

Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nic Lane, Tanzem Choudhury, and Andrew Campbell.  Sound Sense: Scalable Sound Sensing for People-Centric Applications on Mobile Phones. Appear in the Proceedings of Mobisys 2009.  June 2009, Krakow, Poland.

Beverly Harrison, Sunny C0nsolvo, and Tanzeem Choudhury. Using Multi-modal Sensing for Human Activity Modeling in the Real World. Appears in the Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Springer Verlag 2009.

Predrag Klasjna, Sunny Consolvo, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Richard Beckwith. Exploring Privacy Concerns about Personal Sensing. Appears in the Proceedings of Pervasive 2009. May 2009,  Nara, Japan.

2008

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, Jeff Bilmes, and James Kitts. Towards Automated Social Analysis of Situated Speech Data. Appears in the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2008. September 2008, Seoul, South Korea.

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Jeff Bilmes. Learning Hidden Curved Exponential Random Graph Models to Infer Face-to-Face Interaction Networks from Situated Speech Data. Appears in the Proceedings of AAAI 2008. July 2008, Chicago, IL.

Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, The Second Life of a Sensor: Integrating Real-world Experience in Virtual Worlds using Mobile Phones, Appears in the Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008), June 2008. Charlottesville, VA.

Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello, et.al. The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded System for Activity Recognition. Appears in the IEEE Pervasive Magazine - Special Issue on Activity-Based Computing, April 2008.

2007

Maryam Mahdaviani and Tanzeem Choudhury. Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition. Appears in the Proceedings of NIPS 2007. December 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

 Jianxin Wu, Adebola Osuntogun, Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Jim Rehg. A Scalable Approach to Activity Recognition Based on Object Use. Appears in the Proceedings of ICCV 2007. October 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Jeff Bilmes. Conversation Detection and Speaker Segmentation in Privacy Sensitive Situated Speech Data. Appears in the Proceedings of Interspeech 2007. August 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Henry Kautz. Capturing Spontaneous Conversation and Social Dynamics: A Privacy-Sensitive Data Collection Effort. Appears in the Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007). April 2007, Honolulu, HI.

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, Jeff Bilmes, and Henry Kautz. A Privacy Sensitive Approach to Modeling Multi-Person Conversations. Appears in the Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007). January 2007, Hyderabad, India.

Lin Liao, Tanzeem Choudhury, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz. Training Conditional Random Fields using Virtual Evidence Boosting. Appears in the Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007). January 2007, Hyderabad, India.

Shiaokai Wang, William Pentney, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tanzeem Choudhury and Matthai Philipose. Commonsense-based Joint Training of Human Activity Recognizers. Appears in the Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007). January 2007, Hyderabad, India.

2006

Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt, and Jonathan Lester. Towards Activity Databases: Using Sensors and Statistical Models to Summarize People's Lives. In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 29 No. 1, March 2006.

Timothy Sohn, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony Lamarca, Mike Chen, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, William Griswold, and Eyal de Lara. Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces. Appears in the Proceedings of Ubicomp. September 2006, Orange County, CA.

Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Gaetano Borriello. A Practical Approach to Recognizing Physical Activities. Appears in the Proceedings of Pervasive. May 2006, Dublin, Ireland.

Emmanuel Munguia-Tapia, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Matthai Philipose. Building Reliable Activity Models using Hierarchical Shrinkage and Mined Ontology. Appears in the Proceedings of Pervasive. May 2006, Dublin, Ireland.

2005

Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello, Sunny Consolvo, James Landay, Kate Everitt and Ian Smith. Sensing and Modeling Activities to Support Physical Fitness. In the Workshop Proceedings of Ubicomp (Workshop: Monitoring, Measuring and Motivating Exercise: Ubiquitous Computing to Support Fitness). September 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

Danny Wyatt, Matthai Philipose and Tanzeem Choudhury. Unsupervised Activity Recognition using Automatically Mined Common Sense. Appears in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). July 2005, Pittsburg, PA.

Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, Nicky Kern, Gaetano Borriello and Blake Hannaford. A Hybrid Discriminative-Generative Approach for Modeling Human Activities. Appears in the Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005). July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tanzeem Choudhury, Jonathan Lester and Gaetano Borriello. Assessing Wellness by Sensing Everyday Activities and Interactions. In the Workshop Proceedings HCI Challenges in Health Assessment. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2005, Portland, OR.

Alex Pentland, Tanzeem Choudhury, Nathan Eagle, and Push Singh. Human Dynamics: Computation for Organization. In Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 503-511, March 2005.

2004

Tanzeem Choudhury and Sumit Basu. Modeling Conversational Dynamics as a Mixed Memory Markov Process. Appears in the Advances of Neural Information Processing Systems 17 (NIPS 2004). MIT Press, 2005. Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland, Characterizing Social Networks using the Sociometer. Appears in the Proceedings of the North American Association of Computational Social and Organizational Science. June 2004. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

2003

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland, Sensing and Modeling Human Networks using the Sociometer. Appears in the Proceeding of the International Conference on Wearable Computing. October 2003. White Plains, New York.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland. Modeling Face-to-Face Communication using the Sociometer. In the Workshop Proceedings of Ubicomp (Workshop: Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-face Communication in Public Spaces). October 2003, Seattle, WA.

Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson, Sumit Basu, and Alex Pentland, Learning Communities: Connectivity and Dynamics of Interacting Agents. Appears in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. July 2003. Portland, Oregon.

2002

Tanzeem Choudhury, Jim Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Alex Pentland. Boosting and Structure Learning in Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Audio-Visual Speaker Detection. Appears in the Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2002.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland. The Sociometer: A Wearable Device for Understanding Human Networks. In the Workshop Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Workshop: Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments). November 2002, New Orleans, LA.

2001

Sumit Basu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson and Alex Pentland. Towards Measuring Human Interactions in Conversational Settings. Appears in the Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cues in Communication), December 2001.

2000

Alex Pentland and Tanzeem Choudhury. Face Recognition for Smart Environments. In IEEE Computer Magazine - special issue on Biometrics, 33(2):50-55, February 2000.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland. Motion Field Histograms for Robust Modeling of Facial Expressions. Appears in the Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, September 2000.

1999

Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland. Multimodal Person Recognition using Unconstrained Audio and Video. In Second Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 1999). March 1999, Washington DC.


Workshop Abstracts

Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, Henry Kautz, and James Kitts. Creating Dynamic Social Network Models from Sensor Data. Presented at: International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. April 2006, Vancouver, B.C.

Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Gaetano Borriello. Choosing the Right Modalities and Features for Activity Recognition. Presented at: NIPS Workshop on Multi-modal Signal Processing, NIPS 2004, Whistler, B.C.

Sumit Basu and Tanzeem Choudhury. Learning Relationships from Conversational Patterns. Presented at: Snowbird Learning Workshop, April 2004, Snowbird, UT.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland. The Sociometer: A Wearable Device for Learning Human Networks. Presented at: Snowbird Learning Workshop, April 2003, Snowbird, UT.

Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland. The Sociometer: A Wearable Device for Understanding Human Networks. Presented at: International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. February 2003, Cancun, Mexico.

Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson, Sumit Basu and Alex Pentland. Learning Human Dynamics and Interactions. Presented at: Snowbird Learning Workshop, April 2002, Snowbird, UT.

Tanzeem Choudhury, Jim Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Alex Pentland. Multimodal Speaker Detection using Boosted Dynamic Bayesian Networks. Presented at: Snowbird Learning Workshop, April 2001, Snowbird, UT.


Theses

Tanzeem Choudhury. Sensing and Modeling Human Networks. Doctoral thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2004.

Tanzeem Choudhury. FaceFacts - Study of Facial Features for Understanding Expressions. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1999.

Tanzeem Choudhury. Face and Facial Feature Extraction and Tracking in Video Sequences. Bachelor's Thesis, University of Rochester, May 1997.