Biography

Abdul Qadir Javaid received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, and Newcastle University, U.K., in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He obtained his M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2016. His PhD work focused on algorithm design and signal processing methods for home monitoring of cardiovascular and respiratory disease using Ballistocardiogram and Seismocardiogram methodologies. He also worked on sleep apnea detection using non-contact sensors such as radars and microphones.

His current research projects with Dr. Alex Mihalidis involve the design and application of machine learning techniques for analyzing gait of elderly adults and physiological monitoring using "Intelligent Textiles".

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal papers

1. Javaid, A.Q., Ashouri, H., Etemadi, M., Heller, J. A., Roy, S., and Inan, O. T., “Quantifying and Reducing Motion Artifacts in Wearable Ballistocardiogram Measurements during Walking to Assess Left Ventricular Health”, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, 2016.

2. Javaid, A. Q., Ashouri, H., Tridandapani, S., and Inan, O. T., “Elucidating the Hemodynamic Origin of Ballistocardiographic Forces: Towards Improved Monitoring of Cardiovascular Health at Home”, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM), 2015.

3. Javaid, A. Q., Wiens, A. D., Fesmire, N. F., Weitnauer, M. A., and Inan, O. T., “Quantifying and Reducing Posture-Dependent Distortion in Ballistocardiogram Measurements”, in Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of , vol.19, no.5, pp.1549-1556, Sept. 2015.

Peer-reviewed conference papers

1. Inan, O. T., Dorier, A., Dowling, S., Javaid, A. Q., Etemadi, M., Roy, S., De Marco, T., and Klein, L., “Activity-Contextualized Wearable Ballistocardiogram Measurements can Classify Decompensated versus Compensated Heart Failure Patients”, (Accepted) American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, (AHA’ 2016).

2. Inan, O. T., Javaid, A. Q., Dowling, S., Ashouri, H., Etemadi, M., Heller, J. A., Roy, J., and Klein, L., “Wearable Ballistocardiogram Measurements During Six Minute Walk Tests for Heart Failure Patients”, Minisimposiya – The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’16).

3. Javaid, A. Q., Dowling, Etemadi, M., Heller, J. A., Roy, S., Klein, L., and Inan, O. T., “Quantification of Posture Induced Changes in Wearable Ballistocardiogram Signals for Heart Failure Patients”, Computing in Cardiology Conference, 2016.

4. Inan, O. T., Javaid, A. Q., Dowling, S., Ashouri, H., Etemadi, M., Heller, J. A., Roy, S., and Klein, L., “Towards Wearable Monitoring of Left Ventricular Function for Heart Failure Patients at Home”, The 20th Annual Meeting of Heart Failure Society of America, 2016.

5. Javaid, A. Q., Noble, C. M., Rosenberg, R., and Weitnauer, M. A., “Towards Detection of Sleep Apnea Events by Combining Different Non-Contact Measurement Modalities”, The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’16).

6. Nguyen, V., Javaid, A. Q., and Weitnuaer, M. A., “Detection of Motion and Posture Change using an IR-UWB Radar”, The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’16).

7. Javaid, A. Q., Ashouri, H., and Inan, O. T., “Estimating Systolic Time Intervals During Walking Using Wearable Ballistocardiography”, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2016.

8. Javaid, A. Q., Noble, C. M., Rosenberg, R., and Weitnauer, M. A., “Toward Sleep Apnea Screening with an under-the-mattress IR-UWB Radar using Machine Learning”, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2015 IEEE, 9-11 Dec. 2015.

9. Toreyin, H., Javaid, A. Q., Ashouri, H., Ode, O., and Inan, O. T., "Towards ubiquitous blood pressure monitoring in an armband using pulse transit time”, in Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2015 IEEE , pp.1-4, 22-24 Oct. 2015.

10. Javaid, A. Q., Fesmire, N. F., Weitnauer, M. A., and Inan, Omer T., “Towards robust estimation of systolic time intervals using head-to-foot and dorso-ventral components of sternal acceleration signals” in Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-5, 9-12 June 2015. (Accepted for oral presentation, acceptance rate: 20%).

11. Nguyen, V., Javaid, A. Q., and Weitnauer, M. A., “Spectrum-averaged Harmonic Path (SHAPA) algorithm for non-contact vital sign monitoring with ultra-wideband (UWB) radar”, in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE , pp.2241-2244, 26-30 Aug. 2014.

12. Nguyen, V., Javaid, A. Q., and Weitnauer, M. A., “Harmonic Path (HAPA) algorithm for non-contact vital signs monitoring with IR-UWB radar”, in Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2013 IEEE , pp.146-149, Oct. 31 2013-Nov. 2 2013.

Patent

Weitnauer, M. A., Nguyen, V., Javaid, A. Q., “Systems and Methods for Extracting Physiological Characteristics Using Frequency Harmonics”.

a. US Patent Application 14/247070, filed: April 7, 2014.
b. Canada, CA 2848498, filed: April 7, 2014.