HABits Lab (Prof. Nabil Alshurafa's Lab at NU)
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Dr. Nabil Alshurafa directs Northwestern University's Health Aware Bits (HABits) Lab Rewriting how we study human behavior through sensors!
Northwestern University
Joined July 2016
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I will be looking for 1-2 PhD students to start Fall 2026 to join me in the @northwesterncs @NorthwesternEng and @NorthwesternMed departments! Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Funding is available. If you want to build technologies that actually improve people’s health reach out!
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📢 New research is revolutionizing fitness trackers for people with obesity! 🏋️⌚ Read our @nature scientific report + watch our media story on how an innovative algorithm is transforming the way we measure heart rate and energy expenditure: https://t.co/ofefhweMdK
#PrevMed #NU
news.northwestern.edu
‘Fitness shouldn’t feel like a trap for the people who need it most’
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Dive into the world of wearables with @ABC's latest article featuring Dr. Nabil Alshurafa's insights on the benefits & risks of this emerging technology. Stay informed about the future of health monitoring! #PrevMed #NUDPM🔗:
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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants to encourage all Americans to use wearables to track health metrics. What are the benefits and drawbacks?
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The future of health tech is here, and it's tailored for those with obesity! ⌚🏋️ Read on to discover how this groundbreaking algorithm from @HAbitsLab enhances fitness tracking and personalization:
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@KSamChi @CdotRomano @MahdiPedram91 #CTA: If you care about better obesity treatments, please like/share — public science moves faster with public support.
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@KSamChi @CdotRomano @MahdiPedram91 Massive thanks to the @NIH (K25 / @NIDDKgov ) and all participants — this work took years and wouldn’t exist without public support.
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@KSamChi @CdotRomano @MahdiPedram91 🔥 Big news: our HABits Lab just published in Nature — we discovered 5 distinct overeating patterns that could reshape how we treat obesity. We followed people with obesity for two weeks using wearable cameras + sensors to see what, when, where, and how they eat.
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NEW: "More accurate fitness tracking for people with obesity" A fantastic piece by @KSamChi of Northwestern Now about our recent work on wearable fitness tracking algorithms! S/O to Lab members Boyang Wei, @CdotRomano, Bonnie Nolan, @MahdiPedram91 !! https://t.co/mV9IfStMt1
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‘Fitness shouldn’t feel like a trap for the people who need it most’
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"New Wearable Algorithm Improves Fitness Tracking in Obesity" - a new article by @Medscape on our recent research in wrist-based energy estimation! S/O HABits Lab team who worked on this project: Boyang Wei, @CdotRomano, Bonnie Nolan, @MahdiPedram91! https://t.co/IgwgZwqxmk
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"RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks?" by @ABC A timely piece about @SecKennedy's recent endorsement of wearable health technologies—including an interview with yours truly! Are wearables for everybody? Read more here! https://t.co/8japOXIDzZ
abcnews.go.com
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants to encourage all Americans to use wearables to track health metrics. What are the benefits and drawbacks?
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Happy to see @BehavioralMed doing some good things for the environment at #SBM2025 with a plant-based food day and eco-friendly activities!
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I'm at San Francisco attending #sbm2025 @BehavioralMed. Come check out our panel discussion at titled: Everybody Eats: Selecting from the buffet of technology-enhanced dietary assessment options! Posters, Live Research Spotlight, and more today and tomorrow! Come say hi!
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It also shows results using part of our National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) R21 data (441.9 hours)!
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And how fun, they got to meet and chat with @AndrewYNg! This work aims to improve our ability to detect activity using multiple sensors (RGB and thermal). The paper presents a novel mid-fusion architecture, RTFVNet, for multi-class hand-to-mouth gesture recognition.
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So proud of HabitsLab student Meixi and Glenn(PhD candidate) for their abstract "Multimodal Hand-to-Mouth Gesture Recognition," which was accepted at @RealAAAI -2025 as a poster session, they were selected an an oral presentation (13%), and received an Outstanding Paper award!
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Excited to share our latest paper on HabitSense: a privacy-aware, AI-enhanced multi-modal wearable platform that detects health-risk behaviors 📷🌿 Read on for key insights! 👇 #mHealth #WearableTech #AI #DigitalHealth
https://t.co/BTWs4xoHbs
https://t.co/1kQyVGx6OM
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#BSN2024 Research & Industry Panel Discussion with @roozyg of @epicorebio, @stevexuMD of @Sibel_Health, @jesunshine of @Google, and Alexander Adams of @GeorgiaTech! Great conversation on how we can work together to get research off the shelf!
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#BSN2024 Research & Industry Panel, @roozyg of @epicorebio presents brilliant product research on soft microfluidic wearables for hydration management, featuring work w/ @TeamMessi, @serenawilliams, and @jaytatum0! A fantastic kick-off to our third and final day! #bsn24
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