Garvit Chugh
Postdoctoral Researcher, Singapore Management University
Earable & wearable sensing · Human-computer interaction · Pervasive computing
- CHI 2026 Honourable Mention
- Prime Minister Research Fellow, 2023‑26
- 26Publications
- 16Fellowships & grants
- 1,095Students taught
- 24Researchers mentored
About
Building deployable earable and wearable sensing systems for health and everyday interaction, with Prof. Archan Misra at SMU. Ph.D. from IIT Jodhpur (2026), supervised by Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty and Dr. Sandip Chakraborty.
- 26PublicationsPeer-reviewed at ACM CHI, IEEE PerCom (×7), ACM SenSys, PACMHCI, CIKM, ICDM, CHASE, UbiComp and COMSNETS, plus a filed patent and papers under review.
- 12Sensing systems builtFrom prototype to user study: MorsEar, HydratEar, BiteSense, SpineSense, WristSense, EarControl, CompulsEar, EarFence, EarDesk, enVolve and more.
- 16Fellowships & grantsPrime Minister Research Fellowship, TCS Research Fellowship, SIGBED and Gary Marsden travel awards, PerCom, SenSys and COMSNETS travel grants.
- 1,095Students taughtTeaching assistant for 10 IIT Jodhpur courses, from Introduction to Computer Science to Mobile and Pervasive Computing.
- 24Researchers mentored2 M.Tech. theses, 2 B.Tech. theses and 20 research interns, plus ~60 project students supervised.
- 11Venues reviewed forCHI, CSCW, NeurIPS, KDD, TMC, PACMHCI and more. TPC for HeadSys at MobiSys 2026. COMSNETS chair roles 2024–2027.
Open to collaborations on wearable and earable sensing, digital health, guest lectures, and student mentoring.
Research
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Earable-Based Health Sensing
Developing health monitoring solutions using ear-worn IMU sensors: eating behaviour assessment (BiteSense), hydration monitoring (HydratEar), spine movement tracking (SpineSense), and covert messaging (MorsEar).
eSenseIMUBLEDeep Learning -
Behavioural & Focus Analysis
Inertial sensing to monitor involvement and attention during online interactions (enVolve). Detecting temporal lack of focus to identify onset of neurological disorders using earables.
Contrastive LearningLSTMCNNUbiComp -
Gesture & Accessibility
Eye gesture recognition with earable inertial sensing for accessible HCI. Wrist strain detection in routine activities via inertial tokenization and LLM-based feedback (WristSense).
HCIAccessibilityLLMTokenization -
AIoT & Smart Systems
Building intelligent IoT community testbeds for ambient living. Multimodal cybersickness detection in consumer VR (VectionSense). Ultrasonic defense for smart earbuds (EarFence).
IoTVRTestbedSecurity
Experience
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Singapore Management University · Full-timeSchool of Computing and Information Systems. Advisor: Prof. Archan Misra. Human-centred pervasive computing, wearable sensing, and intelligent ubiquitous systems. -
Visiting Researcher
University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyMPSC Lab under Prof. Nirmalya Roy. Domain adaptation for wearable human activity recognition. -

Teaching Assistant
Indian Institute of Technology JodhpurTen courses across Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Data Structures, Database Systems, Operating Systems, and more. Outstanding TA Award, 2022.
Education
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Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Dual Ph.D. – M.Tech., Computer Science and EngineeringPrime Minister Research Fellow (PMRF). Supervisors: Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur) and Dr. Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur).
Thesis: Wearables for Personal Well Being and Digital Health: A Pervasive Sensing Perspective -

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering
Publications
Selected recent work. 26 publications: 21 peer-reviewed, 1 filed patent, 4 under review.
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MorsEar: Toward Generalizable Low-Resource Covert Messaging via Earable-Based Inertial Sensing
Main Track Core A* Honourable Mention AwardCHI 2026 -
VectionSense: Multimodal Inertial-Physiological Cybersickness Detection in Consumer VR
Workshop Core A*SAXR 2026 Workshop co-located with CHI 2026 -
HydratEar: Non-Invasive Hydration Monitoring using In-Ear Acoustic Reflectometry
Main Track Core A*PerCom 2026 -
Fed-CASQ: Enhancing Class-Wise Accuracy in Pervasive Federated Learning with Class-Aware Scaling and Quantization
Main Track Core A*PerCom 2026 -
EarFence: Lightweight Ultrasonic Defense for Smart Earbuds Against Hidden Commands
WiP Track Core A*PerCom 2026
Honours & awards
- Departmental Rank 1 – M.Tech.–Ph.D., IIT Jodhpur (2026)
- CHI 2026 Honourable Mention Award for MorsEar (2026)
- Invited poster presentation at ACM ARCS 2026, IIT Hyderabad (2026)
- Received OmniBuds earable platform by Nokia Bell Labs, UK (2025)
- Finalist – Green Fintech Hackathon, RBI Innovation Hub with IIT Jodhpur, Top 4 out of 519 (2024)
- Finalist – Stanford EPIC Data Challenge, USA, Top 5 out of 61 (2023)