MD2K

Researchers use mobile sensors to identify lapses in smoking cessation, stress

By Aditi Pai 10:45 am October 14, 2015

Lead Researcher Santosh Kumar Just one year into the four-year Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) initiative, research project academics at 11 different universities have undertaken to identify adverse health events and risk factors using mobile sensor data. The group has already been able to build computational models that identify a risk factors for stress as well as ways to identify...

NIH's $10.8M grant for sensor-enabled congestive heart failure, smoking cessation tools

By Aditi Pai 08:38 am October 13, 2014

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an $10.8 million grant to launch a new initiative, called Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K), which will see a team of researchers working to better understand and develop tools that leverage data from health sensors and wearables. The team of researchers will be led by University of Memphis computer scientist Dr. Santosh Kumar. This...