Welcome to UbiSys Research Group!

The Ubiquitous Systems (UbiSys) research lab, led by Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty, focuses on many areas of ubiquitous computing including novel user interface technology, health sensing, activity recognition, low-power sensing, and energy sensing by applying expertise in sensing, signal processing, embedded systems, circuits, and human-computer interaction.The UbiSys lab consists of an interdisciplinary team of investigators that tackle challenging research problems both from building the enabling hardware and software systems to the deployment and evaluation of these technologies in real-world settings, especially around health.

Research Area

Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing | Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks | Distributed Computing | Mobile Computing | Internet of Things | Edge Computing | Context-awareness | Applications: Assisted and Smart living, Smart health, CAVs, Environment and wildlife, Human sensing and interaction

PI

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur Since December 2020. My research interests are broadly in the domains of Ubiquitous Computing, IoT and Edge Computing, Wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, Distributed Systems and Smart city applications. To know more about the work, please explore this page. I am one of the founding members of UbiSys Research Group, in the department and actively involved in interdisciplinary research through IDRP - Smart Healthcare, IDRP - IoT & Applications and Centre of Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development (CETSD). Currently, I am working as an Area Editor of Ad Hoc Networks journal, Elsevier. Also I am involved in organizing many conferences including IEEE ANTS 2021 (as Tutorial Co-chair), IEEE LCN 2021, 2022, 2023 (as TPC member), COMSNETS 2022, 2023 (as TPC member), ICDCN 2023 (as Workshop Co-chair) to name a few.

Few ongoing research efforts

  • Understanding user behavior through inertial sensing
  • Task offloading and microservices management in MEC
  • Decentralized trust computation and reputation system in IoT and CPS
  • Context aware data sourcing from extreme edge
  • Situation-awareness in Connected and Autonomous vehicles
  • IoT intervention in wild habitat monitoring
  • Sensing as a service middleware for applications of human sensing

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014

    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | India

  • MTech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2011

    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | India

  • BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2009

    West Bengal University of Technology | India

Lab News

Prospective Members Apply Here!


  • Interns, BTP/MTP, PhD, Postdoc and design credits
  • A few PhD positions are available.
  • Looking for self-motivated BTech/MTech students (NET/GATE qualified) with high analytical skill, strong research aptitude and excellent academic background to join our research team. If you are interested to work with us and pursue PhD/Summer Internship/MTP/BTP, write to us with your updated resume.

Student Accomplishments

  • Garvit got ACM/IARCS Travel Grant Awardee for PerCom 2025!
  • Garvit got IEEE CS TCCC and TCPP STG Travel Grant Awardee for PerCom 2025!
  • Garvit got full paper publication at PerCom 2025! along with 1 WiP and 1 Artefact!
  • Sameeran got a WiP at PerCom 2025!
  • Osho , Garvit and Susmita presented their poster in COMSNETS 2025
  • Osho got full paper accepted at VTC Fall 2024
  • Osho visited UNSW, Sydney as a Junior Research Fellow
  • 3-D printed smart home and ambient sensing lab completed!
  • Ananya attended ACM BUILDSYS 2023.
  • [Publication] Ananya received acceptance for a full paper at IEEE/ACM BuildSys 2023!
  • [Publication] Monik presented a poster at COMSNETS 2024!
  • Garvit was a finalist in the Stanford EPIC Data Challenge, USA, Top 5 out of 61, 2023.
  • Garvit received a Research Internship at UMBC, USA [6 Months, September 2023 - Feb 2024].
  • Garvit served as Web Chair and Social Media Chair at COMSNETS.
  • CRG grant from SERB [2023-2026].
  • IRMG 2023.
  • Garvit received the TCS Fellowship and Prime Minister Research Fellowship.
  • [Publication] Garvit received an acceptance for a full paper at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023!

Collaborators

Dr. Nirmalya Roy
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Dr. Sajal K. Das
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Dr. Sandip Chakraborty
IIT Kharagpur, India
Dr. Salil Kanhere
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Pankaj Bharadwaj
AIIMS Jodhpur, India
Dr. Naresh Nebhinnani
AIIMS Jodhpur, India
Dr. Tanu Gupta
AIIMS Jodhpur, India

Meet the Team

Riya Samanta
Postdoctoral Research

Seamless Man-Machine Interface for Next Generation Wargaming

Garvit Chugh
PMRF Scholor, Dual MTech-PhD Scholor

Mobile and Pervasive Computing

Ananya Mondal
SRF, PhD Scholar

IoT, Sensing as a Software

Osho
SRF, PhD Scholor

Next-gen vehicular network

Kondagurle Sukitha
PhD Scholor

Sensor Reliability and Trust Modeling in CPS and IoT

Susmita Mondal
PhD Scholor

Blockchain in CPS and IoT

Akhil Bhatia
Part Time PhD Scholor

Cloud and distributed computing

Kamal Kumar Gola
Part Time PhD Scholar

Under water WSN

Monik Raj Behera
Executive MTech Scholar

Federated Learning in a P2P

Sameeran Zingre
MTech Scholar

Earable Sensing

Alok Dutta
MTech Scholor

Efficacy of Wearables in Real-Time Detection of User Behavior During Screen Interaction

Vishwwanath Singh
MTech Scholor

Pervasive System

Himanshu
MTech Scholor

Automatic Speech Recognition

Bidyut Saha
Research Assistant

Seamless Man-Machine Interface for Next Generation Wargaming

Mayank kumar
Research Assistant

Seamless Man Machine Integration for Next Generation Wargaming

Lab Alumni

Priyal Jain
MTech Scholor

CPS Security

Nayanita Saha
MTech Scholor

IoT, Sensing as a Service

Recent Conference Proceedings

BiteSense: Earable-Based Inertial Sensing for Eating Behaviour Assessment

accepted in IEEE Percom 2025

A Cost-Sensitive LSTM Model for Driving Risk Assessment from Vehicular Trajectory Data

accepted in 100th IEEE Vehicular technology Conference (VTC-Fall)

Context-Aware Daily Activity Recognition from Natural Acoustic Signals

accepted in 9th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) 2024

Local-FedGT: Decentralized Federated Learning using Game Theory in Dynamic Topology

in the 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp. 651-655, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427470. [poster paper]

Sense as you go: A context-aware adaptive sensing framework for on-road driver profiling

in the proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '23), pp. 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600100.3623734

Exploring Earables to Monitor Temporal Lack of Focus during Online Meetings to Identify Onset of Neurological Disorders

to appear in the proc. of 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)

Demonstration of LegalHelper: A Low-cost tool for Smart Translation and Creation of Legal Contracts

Demo Paper to appear in the proc. of COMSNETS 2023

enVolve+: Inertial Sensing to Reinforce Involvement of Silent Listeners during an Online Interaction

Poster Paper to appear in the proc. of COMSNETS 2023

crossTrustChain: CrossChain Interoperability using Multivariate Trust Models

To appear in the proc. of COMSNETS Cybersecurity and Privacy Workshop 2023

Recent Journal Publications

UniPreCIS : A data pre-processing solution for collocated services on shared IoT

Networking and Internet Architecture, ArXiv

A survey of mobility aware Multi-access Edge Computing: Challenges, use cases and future directions

Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier (2022): 103044

Where Do All My Smart Home Data Go? Context-aware Data Generation and Forwarding for Edge-based Microservices over Shared IoT Infrastructure

Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier

Deep Unsupervised Methods towards Behavior Analysis in Ubiquitous Sensor Data

Internet of Things Journal, Elservier

Projects

Seamless Man-Machine Interface for Next-generation Wargaming.

Budget: 6.67 Crore, Tenure: 2024-2027, Coordinating DRDO Lab: ISSA, Collaboration: IIT Kanpur

SensePod: An AIoT based testbed to promote Sensing as a Service for ambient living.

Role: PI. Cost: 41.9 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: SEED Grant, IIT Jodhpur, 2022.

Detecting behavioural health disorders of older adults using self supervised learning and casual reasoning.

Sponsoring Agency: NSF-TIH Indo-USA Joint Collaboration Program. TIH ISI Kolkata. Role: Co-PI. Cost: 69.90 Lakhs

Design of a Cuffless Continuous BP Monitoring Device.

Role: Co-PI. Cost: 18Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: Johari Digital Healthcare Ltd. 2021-2022

Inventorization of the wildlife towards a sustainable campus.

Role: PI. Cost: 2Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: CETSD Campus Sustainability Program, IIT Jodhpur (JCKIC) 2021-2022

Demonstration Centre for Smart Graded-Water Supply Grid.

Role: Co-PI. Cost: 40 Lakhs. Sponsoring Agency: JCKIC

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