Tahera Hossain

TAHERA HOSSAIN is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Japan. Her research focuses on modeling and understanding human behaviors within the context of healthcare applications, specifically in the fields of ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, and affective computing. Her work encompasses areas such as human-computer interaction, applied machine learning, computational behavior analysis, and behavior data analytics for healthcare applications. Her current research looks at ways of understanding and measuring health status and outcomes and verification studies in real field applications from real nursing care data and patient data analysis. She utilizes machine learning techniques to understand patients/elderly people’s real-life complex activities and modeling of human ambulatory multimodal time-series data including physiological, biological and behavioral data for measuring, predicting, improving, and understanding human physiology and behavior for health, wellbeing, and performance. Her research has been published in top-tier venues such as TOCHI (ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction), IMWUT (The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies) and UbiComp. Also, her research contributions have been recognized through various awards, including Outstanding Female AI Researchers 2023, the Excellent paper award at Activity and Behavior Computing Conference (ABC 2022), Best paper award at Activity and Behavior Computing Conference (ABC 2021), Best PhD Forum Presentation Award at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019), Best Poster Paper Award at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018), Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV 2018), and Best Student Award from IEEE Fukuoka Section 2018. Her co-authored paper also received the Young Researcher Award at the DICOMO Symposium in Japan. She earned her PhD from the Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan in 2021.