Connected devices and weArables lab 

Principal Investigator: Dr. Kurian Polachan, Senior Member IEEE

Our group focuses on researching and prototyping hardware and systems for connected devices and wearables, with applications in healthcare, consumer electronics, and industrial IoT. Our specific research interests include developing hardware security measures to protect devices from unauthorized access, securing device communications at the physical layer, and engineering low-power devices and wearables with edge AI/ML capabilities for secure and privacy-preserving data processing and analytics.


Specific Research Interests

 

Hardware Security: Developing Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-based security measures to protect wearable devices from unauthorized access or replacement (e.g., PUFs for wearables).


Short-Range Secure Communication: Explore different modalities of secure and ultra-low-power short-range communication between wearables and off-body transceivers. (e.g., visible light communication, human body communication)


Edge-AI/ML: Application of tiny machine learning for resource constrained embedded systems. E.g., on-device abnormality detection of vital signs for healthcare applications.


Engineering Wearables: Developing ultra-low-power, rigid and flexible wearable devices for vital signs monitoring, supporting on-device machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection, secure short-range communication technologies and PUF-based hardware security measures.

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