2026

• OWL: Geometry-Aware Spatial Reasoning for Audio Large Language Models. Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Bashima Islam. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026. [link]
• Hair Noise Analysis and Mitigation for Smart Glasses Audio Captures. Subrata Biswas, Daniel Wong, Bashima Islam, Sanjeel Parekh, Vladimir Tourbabin. ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026. [link]

2025

• RAVEN: Query-Guided Representation Alignment for Question Answering over Audio, Video, Embedded Sensors, and Natural Language. Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Bashima Islam. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025. [link]
• Mindfulness Meditation and Respiration: Accelerometer-Based Respiration Rate and Mindfulness Progress Estimation to Enhance App Engagement and Mindfulness Skills. Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, David creswell, Jordan Albert, Patrick O'Connell, Shawn Fallon, Mathew Polowitz, Xuhai orson Xu, Bashima Islam. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/Ubicomp), 2025. [link]
• QUADS: Quantized Distillation Framework for Efficient Speech Language Understanding. Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Bashima Islam. Interspeech 2025, 2025. [link]
• LOCUS: LOcalization with Channel Uncertainty and Sporadic Energy. Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Alex Colwell, Jack Adiletta, Bashima Islam. 22nd International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2025. [link]
• EfficientMic: Adaptive Acoustic Sensing with a Single Microphone for Smart Infrastructure. Jack Adiletta, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Shiwei Fang, Bashima Islam. 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys), 2025. [link]
• LLaSA: A Multimodal LLM for Human Activity Analysis Through Wearable and Smartphone Sensors. Sheikh Asif Imran, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Subrata Biswas, Bashima Islam. Generative AI and Foundation Models for Human Sensing Workshop, UbiComp, 2025. [link]
• UNIT: Scalable unstructured inference-time pruning for MAC-efficient neural inference on MCUs. Ashe Neth, Sawinder Kaur, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Subrata Biswas, Asif Salekin, Bashima Islam. arXiv preprint, 2025. [link]
• Machine learning-based estimation of EMG baseline noise standard deviation without rest trials. Naisargi Mehta, Bashima Islam, Edward A. Clancy. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 2025. [link]
• FATE: A Fourier Accelerated Tensor Engine for Neural Networks. Jack Adiletta, Bashima Islam, Ulkuhan Guler. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems MWSCAS, 2025. [link]
• Anti-Sensing: Defense Against Unauthorized Radar-Based Human Vital Sign Sensing with Physically Realizable Wearable Oscillators. Md Farhan Tasnim Oshim, Nigel Doering, Bashima Islam, Tsui-Wei Weng, Tauhidur Rahman. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025. [link]
• Poster: LYNX: An Open-Source Platform for In-Ear Multimodal Sensing. Musa Guler, Hikmet Bisen, Pranav Khurana, Bashima Islam. MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (MIT URTC), 2025.
• Biobehavioral sensing platform for capturing infant states/health and environmental input via ecg, motion, and audio signals. Nancy L McElwain, Mark A Hasegawa-Johnson, Romit Roy Choudhury, Ashutosh Dhekne, Bashima Islam. Google Patents, 2025.
• ECG Statement Classification and Lead Reconstruction using CNN-based Models. Kiriaki J Rajotte, Bashima Islam, Xinming Huang, David D McManus, Edward A Clancy. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025.
• Comparing Quantization Methods for On-Edge ECG Interpretation using Multi-Task CNN. Kiriaki J Rajotte, Bashima Islam, David McManus, Xinming Huang, Edward A Clancy. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2025.
• Dataset: A Novel Aliasing vs Non Aliasing Audio Dataset for Always-On IoT Microphone Experimentation. Jack Adiletta, Khan Mohammad Nur Hossain, Matthew Reynolds, Shiwei Fang, Bashima Islam. Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2025.

2024

• Preliminary Technical Validation of LittleBeats™: A Multimodal Sensing Platform to Capture Cardiac Physiology, Motion, and Vocalizations. Bashima Islam, Nancy L McElwain, Jialu Li, Maria I Davila, Yannan Hu, Kexin Hu, Jordan M Bodway, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. Sensors, 2024.
• InfantMotion2Vec: Unlabeled Data-Driven Infant Pose Estimation Using a Single Chest IMU. Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Nancy L McElwain, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Bashima Islam. 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2024. [link]
• Sound Tagging in Infant-centric Home Soundscapes. Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Jialu Li, Nancy L McElwain, Mark Hasegawa–Johnson, Bashima Islam. 2024 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2024. [link]
• Bootstrapping Health Wearables Powered by Intra-Body Power Transfer. Saad Ahmed, Eren Yildiz, Shashank Holla, Noor Mohammed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Jeremy Gummeson, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Josiah Hester. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2024. [link]
• The Internet of Batteryless Things. Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Marco Zimmerling, Przemys Pawe, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Brandon Lucia, Luca Mottola, Jacob Sorber, Josiah Hester. Communications of the ACM, 2024.
• Forearm Ultrasound based Gesture Recognition on Edge. Keshav Bimbraw, Haichong K Zhang, Bashima Islam. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2024. [link]
• Memory-efficient Energy-adaptive Inference of Pre-Trained Models on Batteryless Embedded Systems. Pietro Farina, Subrata Biswas, Eren Y, Khakim Akhunov, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kas Sinan Y. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2024. [link]
• Evaluating Users’ Experiences of a Child Multimodal Wearable Device: Mixed Methods Approach. Nancy L McElwain, Meghan C Fisher, Camille Nebeker, Jordan M Bodway, Bashima Islam, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. JMIR Human Factors, 2024.
• Missingness-resilient Video-enhanced Multimodal Disfluency Detection. Payal Mohapatra, Shamika Likhite, Subrata Biswas, Bashima Islam, Qi Zhu. Interspeech, 2024. [link]

2023

• EchoSense: Acoustic Sensing for Enclosed Structure Monitoring and Recognition. Michael Rothstein, Zhuolin Liu, Bashima Islam. IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (MIT URTC), 2023.
• An Empirical Study of Interference Features in Licensed and Unlicensed Bands for Intelligent Spectrum Management. Zhuoran Su, Kaveh Pahlavan, Bashima Islam. 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2023.
• Protean: Adaptive Hardware-Accelerated Intermittent Computing. Abu Bakar, Rishabh Goel, Jasper de Winkel, Jason Huang, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Przemyslaw Pawelczak, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Josiah Hester. GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 2023.
• Classification of infant sleep/wake states: cross-attention among large scale pretrained transformer networks using audio, ECG, and IMU data. Kai Chieh Chang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy L McElwain, Bashima Islam. 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), 2023.
• Amalgamated Intermittent Computing Systems. Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2023.
• Efficient Stuttering Event Detection using Siamese Networks. Payal Mohapatra, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Qi Zhu. IEEE International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
• Characteristics of Mid-Bands Interference in Wireless Spectrum Sharing for Mobility Support in 6G, Wi-Fi 7, and Beyond. Kaveh Pahlavan, Bashima Islam, Zhuoran Su, Edward Morgan. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 2023.
• An Empirical Study of Interference Features in Licensed and Unlicensed Bands for Intelligent Spectrum Management. Zhuoran Su, Kaveh Pahlavan, Bashima Islam. 2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2023.
• Self-Supervised Speech Enhancement using Multi-Modal Data. Yu-Lin Wei, Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Bashima Islam, Romit Roy Choudhury. NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Audio, 2023.
• Efficient and Safe I/O Operations for Intermittent Systems. Eren Yildiz, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Josiah Hester, Kasim Sinan Yildirim. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2023.

2022

• Protean: An Energy-Efficient and Heterogeneous Platform for Adaptive and Hardware-Accelerated Battery-free Computing. Abu Bakar, Rishabh Goel, Jasper De Winkel, Jason Huang, Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Przemys Pawe, Kas Sinan Y, Josiah Hester. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2022.
• Cyber–Physical Verification of Intermittently Powered Embedded Systems. Rose Bohrer, Bashima Islam. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
• Poster: Studying the Security Threats of Partially Processed Deep Neural Inference Data in an IoT Device. Argha Dhar, Arna Roy, Subrata Biswas, Bashima Islam. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2022.
• Speech disfluency detection with contextual representation and data distillation. Payal Mohapatra, Akash Pandey, Bashima Islam, Qi Zhu. Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on intelligent acoustic systems and applications, 2022.
• Breathing measurement and management using an electronic device. Md Mahbubur Rahman, Bashima Islam, Tousif Ahmed, Nathan Robert Folkman, Anh Minh Dinh, Sean Bornheimer, Ebrahim Nematihosseinabadi, Jilong Kuang, Jun Gao. Google Patents, 2022.

2021

• BreathTrack: detecting regular breathing phases from unannotated acoustic data captured by a smartphone. Bashima Islam, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Yusuf Ahmed, Md Mehedi Hasan, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Jilong Kuang, Jun Alex Gao. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp), 2021.

2020

• Automated time synchronization of cough events from multimodal sensors in mobile devices. Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Y Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Bashima Islam, Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Daniel McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang, Jun Alex Gao. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2020.
• Scheduling Computational and Energy Harvesting Tasks in Deadline-Aware Intermittent Systems. Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. IEEE International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2020. [link]
• PhD Forum Abstract: Scheduling Tasks on Intermittently Powered Systems. Bashima Islam. 2020 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2020.
• Zygarde: Time-Sensitive On-Device Deep Inference and Adaptation on Intermittently-Powered Systems. Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/Ubicomp), 2020. [link]
• Intelligent Chargers will Make Mobile Devices Live Longer. Alma Probstl, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Naehuck R Chang, Samarjit Chakraborty. IEEE Design and Test Journal, 2020. [link]
• BreathEasy: Assessing Respiratory Diseases Using Mobile Multimodal Sensors. Md Mahbubur Rahman, Mohsin Yusuf Ahmed, Tousif Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Daniel McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang, Jun Alex Gao. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2020.
• Differences in reliability and predictability of harvested energy from battery-less intermittently powered systems. Nithya Sampath, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. Journal of Emerging Investigators. www. emerginginvestigators. org, 2020.

2019

• WiP: On-device training from sensor data on batteryless platforms. Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Seulki Lee, Shahriar Nirjon. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2019.
• LoRaIn: Making a Case for LoRa in Indoor Localization. Work in Progress Paper. Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, (PerCom), 2019. [link]
• Time-Aware Deep Intelligence on Batteryless Systems. Work in Progress Paper. Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Seulki Lee, Shahriar Nirjon. Brief Presentations Proceedings (RTAS 2019), 2019. [link]
• Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System. Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon. ACM Proceedings on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UBICOMP), Volume 3, Issue 4, 2019. [link]
• Poster Abstract: On-Device Training from Sensor Data on Batteryless Platforms. Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2019. [link]
• Improving pedestrian safety in cities using intelligent wearable systems. Stephen Xia, Daniel de Godoy Peixoto, Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter R Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019.

2018

• Paws: A Wearable Acoustic System for Pedestrian Safety. Daniel de Godoy, Bashima Islam, Stephen Xia, Md Tamzeed Islam, Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Yen-Chun Chen, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter R Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang. Orlando, USA, 2018. [link]
• Demo Abstract: A Motion-Triggered Stereo Camera for 3D Experience Capture. Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. 2018 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2018.
• Duty-Cycle-Aware Real-Time Scheduling of Wireless Links in Low Power WANs. Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2018. [link]
• Glimpse.3D: A Motion-Triggered Stereo Body Camera for 3D Experience Capture and Preview. Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2018. [link]
• Rethinking Ranging of Unmodified BLE Peripherals in Smart City Infrastructure. Bashima Islam, Mostafa Uddin, Sarit Mukherjee, Shahriar Nirjon. ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2018. [link]
• A Smartphone-Based System for Improving Pedestrian Safety. Stephen Xia, Daniel de Godoy, Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter R. Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang. IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2018. [link]
• Marble: Mobile Augmented Reality using a Distributed BLE Beacon Infrastructure. Chong Shao, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2018. [link]

2017

• SoundSifter: Mitigating Overhearing of Continuous Listening Devices. Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon. ACM Proceedings Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2017. [link]
• Trusted Worrier: A low-cost and high-accuracy user authentication system for firearm exploiting dynamic hand pressure biometrics. Md Shihabul Islam, Mohammad Ali, Kazi Hasan Zubaer, Saiyma Sarmin, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, ABM Alim Al Islam, Asif Mohaisin Sadri. 2017 International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), 2017.
• Preventive maintenance of centralized HVAC systems: use of acoustic sensors, feature extraction, and unsupervised learning. Ravi Srinivasan, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Zeyu Wang, Tamim Sookoor, Omprakash Gnawali, Shahriar Nirjon. Building Simulation 2017, 2017.

2016

• High Performance Approximate Computing by Adaptive Relaxed Synchronization. Bashima Islam, Faysal Hossain, Rifat Shahriyar. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC), 2016. [link]
• A System for Identifying and Visualizing Influential Communities. Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali. Workshop on Social Data Analytics and Management, (VLDB), 2016. [link]
• Demo Abstract: SEUS: A Wearable Multi-Channel Acoustic Headset Platform to Improve Pedestrian Safety. Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Daniel de Godoy, Stephen Xia, Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter R. Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang. ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (Sensys), 2016. [link]

2014

• Poster Abstract: Super-savior: A System to Aid Combating Harassment and Violence Against Women. Tanzila Choudhury, Bashima Islam, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam. Proceedings of Workshop on Women Empowerment through ICT: Higher Studies, Research and Career (WE-ICT), 2014. [link]

2013

• Demo Abstract: Happy Watch: A Portable Health Monitoring System. Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Zaheen Mustakin, MM Haque, Hasan Shahid Ferdous. Workshop on Design and Implementation of Emerging & Computing Systems (WDIECS), 2013.