The Speakers

IEEE WIE ILC(International Leadership Conference) founding Chair

• Ms. Nita is Senior Director, Engineering Lead Design Center-Farmington at Otis; an IEEE Foundation director; and a mentor for several IEEE Women in Engineering summits—has been voted IEEE CS 2022 president-elect (2023 president).

• She is active with multiple IEEE CS committees, the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee, several IEEE Women in Engineering committees, and the IEEE New Hampshire executive committee.

• She will serve as the 2023 IEEE CS president for a one-year term beginning 1^st January 2023. The president oversees IEEE CS programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE CS program boards and committees

Founder CTO, ClientJoy Inc., Ahmedabad

• Ms. Anupama is Co-founder & Chief of Product at Clientjoy.

• She is a CNBC TV 18 Young Turk and was named in the top 50 Most Influential Women in Technology by Yourstory.

• She has started her career with a web-design studio which she grew to a team of 55 people before building Clientjoy.

• At Clientjoy she is helping 4000+ agencies in 90+ countries to grow their business and manage their clients. Clientjoy is on a mission to build an Agency OS and help 100K Agencies Grow, Fulfil & Earn. They have won several awards including Hot 100 awards by CIO Choice, Tech 30 Awards by Your story and 5 startups to watch out for by INC42. They have raised 3 rounds of equity financing and are a 28 people team.

• She is a problem solver at heart, when she is not working on Clientjoy, she spends her time doing urban farming and exploring various art forms

Founder CEO, Intervene Laboratories, Ahmedabad

• Director and CEO of Intervein Laboratories, Ahmedabad, India

• She is a pharmacy graduate and has an extensive experience of the pharmaceutical industry of over 30 years.

• After working for Cadila Pharmaceuticals for more than 10 years, she co-founded her own company, a central laboratory catering to clinical research for pharma companies in 2005. Apart from the leadership skills she also has hands on experience of bioanalytical method development and validations in GCP/GLP compliant environments. During the enterpreneural journey she has honed the skills of business leadership, making strategic decisions and managing clients.

• Intervein laboratories caters to Indian as well as International pharmaceutical companies delivering services which are accepted by all regulatory bodies like US FDA, European agency as well as UK agency.

• The company has a highly technical team of 30 people including medical doctors, doctorates and other masters graduate

Founder CEO of Anukriti, Pune

• Promoting Indian Handicrafts & Handlooms in India and oversees for the past eight years through Anukriti. Painter turned entrepreneur. Was associated with and organization as a curator for few years and organized various events and took part in prestigious exhibitions. Associated with weavers from different parts of India.

• She is a self-made artist who started entrepreneurial journey with a six day Art exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar in 2012.

• She launched Anukriti in Pune in 2013 with the intention of promoting ancient and almost extinct handlooms and handicrafts. Products of Anukriti are available on Amazon & Flipkart.

• Her company made strategic retail partnership with Malaka Spice and EitherOr. It also exports and organizse handloom exhibitions. Anukriti has started stitching division with downtrodden women where it empowers women through training and skill development for their sustainability.

• Anuradha ji is a painter herself, and above all she is a creative leader.

• She holds a BA in Economics degree from Patna Women’s College, Patna, Bihar. She received “Woman of Substance” award presented by Women TV

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Bombay, India

"Design and Development of an Internet of things enabled wearable ExG measuring system with a novel signal processing algorithm for electrocardiogram"

• She has published close to 300 peer reviewed journal and conference papers.

• She is the inventor/co-inventor of 11 granted Indian patents and 6 granted U.S. patents.

• Her research areas span from devices and sensors to the integrated instrumentation circuits and sensor systems and analog/mixed-signal/RF design.

• Dr. Shojaei has served on the Technical Program Committee of several IEEE conferences, including WSN Track Chair of the IEEE Sensors Conference 2018 and 2019. She is of the three TPC chairs of VLSI Design Conference 2022.

• Dr. Shojaei is fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering, Qualcomm-Faculty Awardee, 2021 and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council (2022-2024). She is listed as one of the 51 selected Women Achievers in STEM by CII all over India in 2021

Abstract

Small size healthcare wearables are becoming a part of the devices we regularly and sometimes daily carry and use. While these devices may seem relatively well developed but they still associated unsolved problems to be solved before they can be reliably used without any constraint. Analyzing the sources of distortion and methods of extracting the informative signal from the acquired raw waveform are coupled to the analog signal conditioning and signal processing. In this talk ExGSense, a designed, developed and tested ExG signal conditioning module (X: C, E, M, O) is introduced. The example ECG artefact removal algorithms and connectivity to the mobile phone, associated to ExGSense are also presented. Finally, the entire end-to-end solution with the comparison of achieved specifications are provided in the talk

Yahoo! Japan Research, Tokyo, Japan

"Hearable devices: New Directions with New Functions"

• Akihiko Sugiyama (a.k.a. Ken Sugiyama), affiliated with Yahoo! JAPAN Research after a long career at the NEC Central Research Labs., has been engaged in a wide variety of research projects in signal processing such as audio coding and interference/noise control.

• His team at NEC developed the world's first Silicon Audio in 1994, a precursor of iPod. He served as Chair of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) [2011-2012], as associate editors for several journals such as IEEE Trans. Signal Processing [1994-1996], as the Secretary and a Member at Large to the Conference Board of SPS [2010-2011], as a member of the Awards Board of SPS [2015-2017], as the Chair of Japan Chapter of SPS [2010-2011], and as a member of IEEE Fellow Committee [2018-2020]. He was a Technical Program Chair for ICASSP2012.

• He has contributed to 17 chapters of books and is the inventor of 217 registered patents with more pending applications in the field of signal processing in Japan, US, EPC, Canada, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, and Brazil as well as 7 registered trademarks. He received 19 awards such as the 2002 IEICE Best Paper Award, the 2006 and the 2018 IEICE Achievement Award, and the 2013 Ichimura Industry Award. He has delivered 162 invited talks in 85 cities of 29 countries.

• He is Fellow of IEEE and IEICE, and a Distinguished Industry Speaker for IEEE SPS [2020-2021], a Renowned Distinguished Speaker (The Rock Star) of IEEE CTS (Consumer Technology Society) (Class of 2020) and was a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE SPS [2014-2015] and for IEEE CTS [2017-2018]

Abstract

This talk presents new directions of hearable devices with new functions, namely personal authentication, inner-ear microphone, and an interface with new services. Personal authentication is performed by analyzing a reflection from the ear canal which exhibits different characteristics for each individual. An equal error rate of 0.97% is achieved with twelve feature components with a single-second signal emission. An inaudible signal may be emitted in the ear for the comfort of the user. Inner-ear microphone is a promising replacement of standard microphones. The hearable device can be used for both an output and an input device which is more robust to environmental noise than ordinary microphones. For enhanced quality of the input signal, an adaptive noise canceller may be combined in adverse environments. Hearable devices can also accommodate a new signal processing function to replace the background signal. Such a function is useful for virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) applications. Implementation of a personal authentications system on a smartphone and an inner-ear microphone on a DSP chip complement this talk

University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

"Wearable computing system based on body sensor networks"

• Giancarlo Fortino (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy, in 2000.

• He is currently a Full Professor of computer engineering with the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems, Unical. He is also a Guest Professor with Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), Wuhan, China; a High-End Expert with HUST, China; and a Senior Research Fellow with the Italian National Research Council ICAR Institute.

• He is the Director of the SPEME Lab, Unical, and the Co-Chair of joint labs on the IoT established between Unical and WUT and SMU Chinese universities.

• He is the Co-Founder and the CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems.

• He is the author of over 400 papers in international journals, conferences, and books.

• His research interests include agent-based computing, wireless (body) sensor networks, and the Internet of Things

Abstract

Wearable computing is a relatively new area of research and development that aims at supporting people in different application domains: health-care (monitoring assisted livings), fitness (monitoring athletes), social interactions (enabling multi-user activity recognition, e.g. handshake), videogames (enabling joystick-less interactions), factory (monitoring employees in their activity), etc. Wearable computing is based on wearable computing devices/interfaces such as sensor nodes (e.g. to measure heart rate, temperature, blood oxygen, etc), common life objects (e.g. watch, belt, etc), smartphones/PDA. Wearable computing has been recently boosted by the introduction of body sensor networks (BSNs), i.e. networks of wireless wearable sensor nodes coordinated by more capable coordinators (smartphones, tablets, PCs). Although the basic elements (sensors, protocols, coordinators) of a BSN are available (already from a commercial point of view), developing BSN systems/applications is a complex task that requires suitable design methods based on effective and efficient programming frameworks. In this talk, we will first discuss the state-of-the-art of currently available wearable computing systems based on BSNs. Then, we will focus on the main results achieved in the SPINE project (http://spine.deis.unical.it), currently led by Prof. Fortino’s research group, in terms of defined models, methodology, algorithms and real prototypes (e.g. activity/gesture recognition systems, fall detection systems, mobile ECG processing systems, elbow/knee rehabilitation systems, emotion recognition systems, etc.). Based on SPINE, we also developed C-SPINE to support the development of collaborative systems based on BSNs and able to detect/classify multi-user activity. Examples will be given in the area of COVID-19 tracing and support platforms. Finally, the DL will enumerate and discuss future research challenges along possible solutions in such exciting research domains

University of Rome, Italy

"Wearable sensors for monitoring movement in sports"

• Elena Bergamini holds a joint Ph.D. in Biongineering and Biomécanique et Ingénierie pour la Santé at the University of Bologna and Arts et MétiersParisTech.

• Currently she is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome “ForoItalico”.

• Her research concerns the development and application of methodologies based on the use of wearable technologies and allowing for the quantification of persons’ motor function in ecological contexts.

• Academic editor for PlosOne, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology – Biomechanics, and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.

• Secretary of the Directory Board of Italian Society of Movement Analysis in Clinics (SIAMOC) and Chair of the Sensors for Biomechanics Technical Committee within the Italy Chapter of the IEEE Sensors Council

Abstract

Wearable sensors for movement analysis are showing a huge potential for monitoring athletes’ technique and performance directly in the field. Their potential can be exploited for sports performance optimization as well as injury prevention and recovery. Furthermore, they are promising technology in the field of parasports as they could support in the athletes’ classification process and equipment customization. The present talk aims at: i) providing an overview about the working principles of wearable sensors for movement analysis in sports, and ii) presenting the state of the art in the use of these technologies in both sports and parasports contexts. Key factors for best practice and aware use of these sensors will be also presented

Co-founder and CEO of Proximal Soilsens Technologies

• She is a Principal Investigator for many Govt funded projects like BIRAC-SPARSH, ATAL NITI AAYOG, Nidhi Prayas, etc.

• She has been working on low-cost sensor devices for point of care applications in agriculture. Her dream is to bring affordable technologies to farmers and help their economic condition.

• She has completed her M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Bombay. She has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of reconfigurable computing, embedded systems, VLSI chip design, FPGA, MEMS/NEMS fabrication and bio-sensing.

• As a research scientist at IIT Bombay, she has worked on many key projects from industries like Tata Infotech, Siemens, Xilinx, BARC, etc and also. She has published her work extensively in top international journals and conferences. She has filed multiple Indian patents and has a US patent

• She is a political anthropologist with a doctorate from the University of Chicago.

• Her research interests lie broadly in the fields of contemporary political culture, regional studies, and gender studies in South Asia.