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2024

Last Updated: Oct 30, 2024

[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, SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFERENCE FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF FREEZING OF GAIT IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE, US Patent filed on 08-09-2024, Reference No. 63/681,752. [applied]
[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.

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

[2022-10] 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

[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