Shovito Barua Soumma
Graduate Service Assistant,
Biodesign Center for Personalized Diagnostics
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6161 E Mayo Blvd #319 Phoenix, AZ 85054
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Mail code: 8620Campus: Dtphx
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Student Information
Graduate StudentBiomedical Informatics and Data Science
Health Solutions
Graduate Student
Computer Science (Biomedical Informatics)
Ira A Fulton Engineering
Long Bio
Shovito Barua Soumma is currently a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, hailing from Bangladesh. He is a Graduate Research Associate at the Embedded Machine Intelligence Lab (EMIL) led by Professor Dr. Hassan Ghasemzadeh. His research primarily focuses on machine learning, digital health, algorithm design, health monitoring system development and human behavior modeling using wearable sensors. Shovito is driven by a passion for developing systems that enhance human interaction and address everyday challenges.
Awards and Honors
- (April 2026) 2025–2026 Inaugural Faculty Women’s Association (FWA) Research Award for Graduate Students.
- (March 2026) Best Poster Award, 2026 ASU College of Health Solutions Faculty Research Day.
- (February 2026) Graduate Fellowship from the College of Health Solutions.
- (February 2026) Student Travel Award to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) section U on Statistics.
- (November 2025) GSG Jumpstart Research Grant. Total: $750.00
- (November 2025) Best Poster Award Runner Up, IEEE BSN 2025 Conference
- (September 2025) Recognized as an IEEE BHI 2025 NSF-EMBS-Google Sponsored Young Professional NextGen Scholar
- (September 2025) Graduate College Q2 Travel Grant for attending the IEEE BSN 2025 Conference in LA.
- (September 2025) NSF Travel Award
- (June 2025). Graduate College Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025 Conference in Denmark.
- (May 2025). ASU CHS Graduate Student Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025.
- (May 2025). ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Travel Award for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025.
- (February 2025). Graduate Fellowship from the College of Health Solutions.
- (February 2025) Best Poster Award at the 2025 CHS Faculty and Staff Research Day.
- (November 2024). Fall 2024 ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Outstanding Research Award.
- (September 2024). Graduate College 2024-25 Q2 Travel Award to attend IEEE BHI'24 Conference. Total: $300.00
- (September 2024). Seed Grant in the CHS Heat and Health Student Research Challenge, 2024, Arizona State University [News] [Pitch Fest Story]. Total: $50,000.00
- (July 2024). Pilot funding for the research proposal in the CHS Heat and Health Student Research Challenge, 2024, Arizona State University. Total: $5000.00
- (January, 2024). Graduate Research Support Program Research Grant. Graduate & Professional Student Association, Arizona State University. Total: $750.00
Education
- Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Arizona State University (Aug 2023 - Present)
- MS in Computer Science, Arizona State University (Aug 2025 - Present)
- MS (with Distinction) in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Arizona State University (May 2025)
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2022)
Google Scholar URL
ORCID Profile ID
Research Interests
- Mobile Health
- Machine Learning
- Human Behavior Modeling
Research Group
Publications
- Ebrahim Farahmand*, Shovito B. Soumma*, N. Taheric, and Hassan Ghasemzadeh. 2026. Hybrid Attention Model Using Feature Decomposition and Knowledge Distillation for Glucose Forecasting. IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), January 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10703 [Impact factor: 9.2, *: equal contribution]
- Shovito Barua Soumma, Daniel S. Peterson, Shyamal H. Mehta, and Hassan Ghasemzadeh. 2026. Self-Supervised Learning and Opportunistic Inference for Continuous Monitoring of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare (ACM Health), January 2026. https://doi.org/10.1145/3802589 [Impact Factor: 8.0]
- S.B. Soumma, A. Arefeen, SM Carpenter, M. Hingle, H. Ghasemzadeh. “SenseCF: LLM-Prompted Counterfactuals for Intervention and Sensor Data Augmentation”, In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), November 3–5, 2025, Los Angeles, CA.
- A. Machiraju, E. Farahmand, S.B. Soumma, A. Arefeen, Carol Johnston, H. Ghasemzadeh. “Time-Aware Cross-Attention for Multi-Modal Sensor-Based Blood Glucose Forecasting”, In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), November 3–5, 2025, Los Angeles, CA.
- Mostafavi SM, Soumma SB, Peterson D, Mehta SH, Ghasemzadeh H. Detection and Severity Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease Through Analyzing Wearable Sensor Data Using Gramian Angular Fields and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors. 2025; 25(11):3421. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25113421
- Shovito Barua Soumma, S M Raihanul Alam, Rudmila Rahman, Umme Niraj Mahi, Abdullah Mamun, Sayyed Mostafa Mostafavi, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, “Freezing of Gait Detection Using Gramian Angular Fields and Federated Learning from Wearable Sensors”, The 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 14–17, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Sanyam Paresh Shah, Abdullah Mamun*, Shovito Barua Soumma, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, “Enhancing Metabolic Syndrome Prediction with Hybrid Data Balancing and Counterfactuals”, The 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 14–17, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Shovito Barua Soumma, Fahim Shahriar, Umme Niraj Mahi, Md Hasin Abrar,
Md Abdur Rahman Fahad, ASM Latiful Hoque, "Design and Implementation of a Scalable Clinical Data Warehouse for Resource-Constrained Healthcare Systems", The 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 14–17, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. - S. B. Soumma, A. Mamun, and H. Ghasemzadeh, “Domain-Informed Label Fusion Surpasses LLMs in Free-Living Activity Classification (Student Abstract)”, AAAI, vol. 39, no. 28, pp. 29495-29497, Apr. 2025.
- SB. Soumma, D. Peterson, H. Ghasemzadeh, SH. Mehta. AI-Powered Detection of Freezing of Gait Using Wearable Sensor Data in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2024; 39 (suppl 1).
Teaching Website URL
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BMI 310 | App Development for Pop Health |
Presentations
- (2026) Invited talk: Wearable AI Systems for Health Promotion and Disease Management
- (2024) Invited talk: Mobile App & Wearable Based in Home Parkinson Disease Management
Honors / Awards
- (April 2026) 2025–2026 Inaugural Faculty Women’s Association (FWA) Research Award for Graduate Students.
- (March 2026) Best Poster Award, 2026 ASU College of Health Solutions Faculty Research Day.
- (February 2026) Graduate Fellowship from the College of Health Solutions.
- (February 2026) Student Travel Award to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) section U on Statistics.
- (November 2025) GSG Jumpstart Research Grant. Total: $750.00
- (November 2025) Best Poster Award Runner Up, IEEE BSN 2025 Conference
- (September 2025) Recognized as an IEEE BHI 2025 NSF-EMBS-Google Sponsored Young Professional NextGen Scholar
- (September 2025) Graduate College Q2 Travel Grant for attending the IEEE BSN 2025 Conference in LA.
- (September 2025) NSF Travel Award
- (June 2025). Graduate College Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025 Conference in Denmark.
- (May 2025). ASU CHS Graduate Student Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025.
- (May 2025). ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Travel Award for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025.
- (February 2025). Graduate Fellowship from the College of Health Solutions.
- (February 2025) Best Poster Award at the 2025 CHS Faculty and Staff Research Day.
- (November 2024). Fall 2024 ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Outstanding Research Award.
- (September 2024). Graduate College 2024-25 Q2 Travel Award to attend IEEE BHI'24 Conference. Total: $300.00
- (September 2024). Seed Grant in the CHS Heat and Health Student Research Challenge, 2024, Arizona State University [News] [Pitch Fest Story]. Total: $50,000.00
- (July 2024). Pilot funding for the research proposal in the CHS Heat and Health Student Research Challenge, 2024, Arizona State University. Total: $5000.00
- (January, 2024). Graduate Research Support Program Research Grant. Graduate & Professional Student Association, Arizona State University. Total: $750.00
Professional Associations
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
- AAAI Student Member
- IEEE Student Member
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Member
- IEEE Young Professionals
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History
- Fall 2025-Spring 2027: 4 undergrad students (Capstone Project & Hon's Thesis)
- Fall 2024-Spring 2025: 1 undergrad student (Hon's Thesis), 1 MS student
- Fall 2024-Spring 2026: 4 undergrad students (Capstone Project)
Industry Positions
- IQVIA (Aug 2022 - April 2023) - The clinical research company is based in North Carolina, USA - Worked as a Backend Software Developer. Used .NET to create web apps. - Refactored some backend codes in .Net. - Documented API using Swagger. - Analyzed, estimated, and implemented new functionalities - Tested, debugged, diagnosed, and corrected errors using established testing protocols, guidelines, and quality standards. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, project managers, and quality assurance personnel, to ensure successful project delivery and client satisfaction.