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68
Citations
18365
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2089
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1054

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Prize in Computing For contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.
  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to sustainability sensing, low-power wireless sensing, and mobile health.
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Shwetak N. Patel is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of medicine and computer science, with a focus on biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence. The scientist's work is situated within multiple subfields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, human-computer interaction, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their primary research topics concentrate on areas such as non-invasive vital sign monitoring, optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques, hemodynamic monitoring and therapy, digital mental health interventions, machine learning applications in healthcare, heart rate variability and autonomic control, and tactile and sensory interactions.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Multi-Task Temporal Shift Attention Networks for On-Device Contactless Vitals Measurement, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • EfficientPhys: Enabling Simple, Fast and Accurate Camera-Based Cardiac Measurement, 2023, 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • GLOBEM, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Towards Accurate Differential Diagnosis with Large Language Models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models, 2025, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Daniel McDuff, Xin Liu, Yuntao Wang, Vikram Iyer, and Girish Narayanswamy.

Their publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work, with numerous papers featured in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature

Shwetak N. Patel has been recognized by professional organizations through multiple awards, including the ACM Prize in Computing awarded in 2018 for contributions to sensing systems for sustainability and health. They were named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for work in sustainability sensing, low-power wireless sensing, and mobile health. Additionally, they are a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

    Karl Koscher;Alexei Czeskis;Franziska Roesner;Shwetak Patel

  • Whole-home gesture recognition using wireless signals

    Qifan Pu;Sidhant Gupta;Shyamnath Gollakota;Shwetak Patel

  • ElectriSense: single-point sensing using EMI for electrical event detection and classification in the home

    Sidhant Gupta;Matthew S. Reynolds;Shwetak N. Patel

  • At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

    Shwetak N. Patel;Thomas Robertson;Julie A. Kientz;Matthew S. Reynolds

  • At the flick of a switch: detecting and classifying unique electrical events on the residential power line

    Shwetak N. Patel;Thomas Robertson;Julie A. Kientz;Matthew S. Reynolds

  • SoundWave: using the doppler effect to sense gestures

    Sidhant Gupta;Daniel Morris;Shwetak Patel;Desney Tan

  • Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid

    J Froehlich;E Larson;S Gupta;G Cohn

  • Evaluating and Informing the Design of Chatbots

    Mohit Jain;Pratyush Kumar;Ramachandra Kota;Shwetak N. Patel

  • The Georgia Tech aware home

    Julie A. Kientz;Shwetak N. Patel;Brian Jones;Ed Price

  • The design and evaluation of an end-user-deployable, whole house, contactless power consumption sensor

    Shwetak N. Patel;Sidhant Gupta;Matthew S. Reynolds

  • SpiroSmart: using a microphone to measure lung function on a mobile phone

    Eric C. Larson;Mayank Goel;Gaetano Boriello;Sonya Heltshe

  • Accurate and privacy preserving cough sensing using a low-cost microphone

    Eric C. Larson;TienJui Lee;Sean Liu;Margaret Rosenfeld

  • HydroSense: infrastructure-mediated single-point sensing of whole-home water activity

    Jon E. Froehlich;Eric Larson;Tim Campbell;Conor Haggerty

  • GripSense: using built-in sensors to detect hand posture and pressure on commodity mobile phones

    Mayank Goel;Jacob Wobbrock;Shwetak Patel

  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs and the Adoption of Health-Related Technologies for Older Adults

    Stephen Thielke;Mark Harniss;Hilaire Thompson;Shwetak Patel

  • The design and evaluation of prototype eco-feedback displays for fixture-level water usage data

    Jon Froehlich;Leah Findlater;Marilyn Ostergren;Solai Ramanathan

  • uTrack: 3D input using two magnetic sensors

    Ke-Yu Chen;Kent Lyons;Sean White;Shwetak Patel

  • Humantenna: using the body as an antenna for real-time whole-body interaction

    Gabe Cohn;Daniel Morris;Shwetak Patel;Desney Tan

  • DoppleSleep: a contactless unobtrusive sleep sensing system using short-range Doppler radar

    Tauhidur Rahman;Alexander T. Adams;Ruth Vinisha Ravichandran;Mi Zhang

  • PowerLine positioning: a practical sub-room-level indoor location system for domestic use

    Shwetak N. Patel;Khai N. Truong;Gregory D. Abowd

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew S. Reynolds
Matthew S. Reynolds University of Washington
Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University
Julie A. Kientz
Julie A. Kientz University of Washington
Dan Morris
Dan Morris Google (United States)
Desney S. Tan
Desney S. Tan Microsoft (United States)
Jon E. Froehlich
Jon E. Froehlich University of Washington
Gillian R. Hayes
Gillian R. Hayes University of California, Irvine
Nicolas Villar
Nicolas Villar Microsoft (United States)
James Fogarty
James Fogarty University of Washington
Benjamin G. Zorn
Benjamin G. Zorn Microsoft (United States)

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