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2025

Last Updated: May, 2025

  • [2025-5] Shovito’s co-authored paper titled “Detection and Severity Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease by Analysis of Wearable Sensors Data Using Gramian Angular Fields and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks”, has been accepted for publication in the Sensors Journal.

  • [2025-5] Shovito received the Graduate College Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025 Conference.

  • [2025-5] Shovito received the CHS Graduate Student Travel Grant for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025 Conference.

  • [2025-5] Shovito received the ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Travel Award for attending the IEEE EMBC 2025 Conference.

  • [2025-4] Congratulations to Shovito for passing his PhD Comprehensive Exam.

  • [2025-4] Shovito’s paper titled “Design and Implementation of a Scalable Clinical Data Warehouse for Resource-Constrained Healthcare Systems” has been accepted at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) conference.

  • [2025-4] Shovito’s paper titled “Freezing of Gait Detection Using Gramian Angular Fields and Federated Learning from Wearable Sensors” has been accepted at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) conference.

  • [2025-4] Shovito’s co-authored paper titled “Enhancing Metabolic Syndrome Prediction with Hybrid Data Balancing and Counterfactuals” has been accepted at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) conference.

  • [2025-4-7] Suraj, mentored by Shovito successfully defended his Honors thesis. (Committee: Dr. Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Dr. Daniel Peterson, Shovito B. Soumma) [Picture]

  • [2025-2] Shovito was interviewed by Fox 10 News at the ASU Digital Health Summit sharing insights on AI-driven hydration monitoring solutions. [News Link]

  • [2025-2] Shovito won the Best Poster Award at the 2025 CHS Faculty and Staff Research Day.

  • [2025-2] Shovito received a Graduate Fellowship from the College of Health Solutions.

  • [2025-1] Shovito received ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG; previously GPSA) Travel Grant for an Individual Travel award for the fiscal year 2024-2025.

2024

  • [2024-12] Shovito received Graduate College 2024-25 Q3 Travel Award to attend AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25).

  • [2024-11] Shovito received Fall 2024 ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Outstanding Research Award.

  • [2024-10] Shovito and Abdullah’s extended abstract titled “Domain-Informed Label Fusion Surpasses LLMs in Free-Living Activity Classification” has been accepted to the AAAI'25 conference for publication and presentation.

  • [2024-10] Shovito’s abstract titled “Poster: Wearable-Based Real-time Freezing of Gait Detection in Parkinson’s Disease Using Self-Supervised Learning” got accepted at the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’24).

  • [2024-10] Shovito received ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG; previously GPSA) Travel Grant for an Individual Travel award for the fiscal year 2024-2025.

  • [2024-9] Shovito presented his poster at 2024 MDS Congressin Philadelphia.[Picture]

  • [2024-9] Shovito received Graduate College 2024-25 Q2 Travel Award to attend IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’24).

  • [2024-9] Team HydroGuard (Lead: Shovito B. Soumma, Asiful Arefeen, Saanya Aroura, Jiaqian Lee, Chau Nguyen; Mentors: Dr. H. Ghasemzadeh, Dr. Stavros Kavouras) won the seed grant ($50,000) in the 2024 CHS Student Heat and Health Research Challenge [News Article] [Pitch Fest Story] [Pictures].

  • [2024-8] Provisional Patent: S.B. Soumma, H.G. Zadeh, System and Methods for Label-Efficient Learning and Continuous Monitoring of Motor Function Symptoms, US Patent filed on 08-09-2024, Reference No. 63/681,752.

  • [2024-6] Shovito and Asif’s proposal, “HydroGuard: AI-Based Smart Hydration Management for High-Risk Medical Conditions”, awarded $5,000 pilot funding in the 2024 CHS Student Heat and Health Research Challenge.

  • [2024-5] Shovito’s abstract paper titled, “AI-Powered Detection of Freezing of Gait Using Wearable Sensor Data in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease” accepted at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders® (MDS Congress 2024), Philadelphia, USA.

  • [2024-1] Shovito received Graduate Research Support Program (GRSP) grant from ASU GPSA for Spring 2024 session.

2023

  • [2023-8] Shovito B. Soumma joined EMIL as a PhD student.
  • [2023-8] Shovito B. Soumma started his PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University

2022

  • [2022-10] Shovito’s paper titled “Machine Learning Approaches to Metastasis Bladder and Secondary Pulmonary Cancer Classification Using Gene Expression Data” got accepted at the International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT'22).
  • [2022-09] Shovito nominated for “Research Fellowship” from SPARRSO for his research proposal [undergrad thesis].
  • [2022-08] Shovito joined as a Full-Time Software Engineer in IQVIA
  • [2022-04] Shovito joined as an Adjunct Lecturer in East Delta University
  • [2022] Placed in top 30 of University Grants Commission(UGC)’s Mujib 100 Ideas Contest (Hackathon)
  • [2022] Got Dean’s List Award in 7th and 8th semesters

2021

Others

  • [2022-05] Fatima Fellowship: I was selected in the top 10% of 700 applicants from all over the world to work as a research intern at Harvard University.
  • [2020] Champion, Poster Presentation Competition, University Day 2020, RUET [YouTube] [Poster Link]
  • [2019] Runner Up, Innovative Project Idea Contest, University Day 2019, KUET
  • [2020] Certification for participating in Innovative Project Idea Contest, University Day 2020, RUET
  • [2013] Certification for participating in Bangladesh Physics Olympiad
  • [2012] Certification for participating in Bangladesh Math Olympiad