Publications

2026

MorsEar: Toward Generalizable Low-Resource Covert Messaging via Earable-Based Inertial Sensing Main Track Core A* Honourable Mention Award

Chugh, G., Ghosh, I., Roy, N., Chakraborty, S., & Chakraborty, S.

CHI 2026

SensingHCISecurity

VectionSense: Multimodal Inertial-Physiological Cybersickness Detection in Consumer VR Workshop Core A*

Layal, K., Kumar, A., Chugh, G. & Chakraborty, S.

SAXR 2026 Workshop co-located with CHI 2026

HealthcareSensing

HydratEar: Non-Invasive Hydration Monitoring using In-Ear Acoustic Reflectometry Main Track Core A*

Chugh, G. & Chakraborty, S.

PerCom 2026

HealthcareSensing

Fed-CASQ: Enhancing Class-Wise Accuracy in Pervasive Federated Learning with Class-Aware Scaling and Quantization Main Track Core A*

Dey, E., Ravi, A., Shinde, G., Chugh, G., Ghosh, I., Misra, A., & Roy, N.

PerCom 2026

ML / AISystems

EarFence: Lightweight Ultrasonic Defense for Smart Earbuds Against Hidden Commands WiP Track Core A*

Vadthya, S., Chugh, G. & Chakraborty, S.

PerCom 2026

SensingSecurity

CompulsEar: Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors Detection using Earable-Based Inertial Sensing WiP Track Core A*

Kumar, A.*, Sharma, S.*, Chugh, G.* & Chakraborty, S. (*Equal Contribution)

PerCom 2026

HealthcareSensingHCI

SpineSense: Earable-Based Inertial Sensing for Spine Movement Monitoring to Combat Neck Pain Q1 Journal

Garvit Chugh, Suchetana Chakraborty and Sandip Chakraborty

PACMHCI (EICS) 2026

HealthcareSensing

WristSense: Sensing Hidden Wrist Strain in Routine Activities via Inertial Tokenization and LLM-Based Feedback Main Track Core A*

Garvit Chugh, Ananya Mondal, Sandip Chakraborty and Suchetana Chakraborty

SenSys 2026

HealthcareSensingML / AIHCI

Experience: From Sensors to Service: Advancing Ambient Living with an AIoT Community Testbed Main Track

Chugh, G., Mondal, A., Osho, & Chakraborty, S.

COMSNETS 2026

SystemsSensing

2025

High-Order Moments Conditional Domain Adaptation Networks for Wearable Human Activity Recognition Main Track Core A

Indrajeet Ghosh, Garvit Chugh, Abu Zaher Md Faridee, Nirmalya Roy

CIKM 2025, Seoul, South Korea

ML / AISensing

BiteSense: Earable-Based Inertial Sensing for Eating Behaviour Assessment Main Track Core A*

Garvit Chugh, Indrajeet Ghosh, Suchetana Chakraborty and Sandip Chakraborty

PerCom 2025

HealthcareSensing

EarDesk: An Adaptive Desktop BLE Framework for eSense IMU Data Collection and Configuration Artifacts Paper Core A*

Garvit Chugh*, Sameeran Zhingre* and Suchetana Chakraborty (*Equal Contribution)

PerCom 2025

SystemsSensing

Tracking Ephemeral and Residual Emotions via Earable Inertial Sensing During Media Consumption WIP Paper Core A*

Sameeran Zhingre, Garvit Chugh, and Suchetana Chakraborty

PerCom 2025

HealthcareSensingHCI

Unlocking Eye Gestures with Earable Inertial Sensing for Accessible HCI Poster Paper

Garvit Chugh, Suchetana Chakraborty and Sandip Chakraborty

COMSNETS 2025

HCISensing

2024

β-Decode: Attention-based Decoding Temporal Artifacts via Unsupervised β-Variational Autoencoder

Indrajeet Ghosh, Garvit Chugh, Abu Zaher Md Faridee, and Nirmalya Roy

CODS-COMAD 2024, IIT Jodhpur, India

ML / AI

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition via Self-Ensembling and Conditional Embedding Alignment Short Paper Core A*

Indrajeet Ghosh, Garvit Chugh, Nirmalya Roy, and Kasthuri Jayarajah

ICDM 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE

ML / AISensing

2023

Exploring Earables to Monitor Temporal Lack of Focus during Online Meetings to Identify Onset of Neurological Disorders

Garvit Chugh, Suchetana Chakraborty, Ravi Bhandari and Sandip Chakraborty

IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023, pp. 126–137

HealthcareSensingHCI

Demonstration of LegalHelper: A Low-cost Tool for Smart Translation and Creation of Legal Contracts Demo Paper

Garvit Chugh and Suchetana Chakraborty

COMSNETS 2023

HCISystems

enVolve+: Inertial Sensing to Reinforce Involvement of Silent Listeners during an Online Interaction Poster Paper

Garvit Chugh, Suchetana Chakraborty and Sandip Chakraborty

COMSNETS 2023

SensingHCI

2022

enVolve: Are You Listening? Inertial Sensing to Monitor the Involvement of Silent Listeners during an Online Interaction Core A*

Garvit Chugh, Suchetana Chakraborty, Ravi Bhandari and Sandip Chakraborty

UbiComp/ISWC ’22 Adjunct, ACM

SensingHCI

2021

An Improved Ensemble Based Intrusion Detection Technique using XGBoost Journal

Bhati, B. S., Chugh, G., Al-Turjman, F., & Bhati, N. S.

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2021

ML / AISecurity

Patent

A Multimodal Headband System For Activity Recognition And Biometric Data Collection Patent

Chugh, G., Chakraborty, S., & Chakraborty, S.

Patent Application Number 202531105540 (Filed, October 2025)

HealthcareSensingSystems

Under Review

EarControl: Towards Earable-Based Hands-Free Interaction for Mobile Devices Under Review

Chugh, G., Ghosh, I., Faridee, A.N.Z., Roy, N., Chakraborty, S., & Chakraborty, S.

Under review, 2026

HCISensing

An Evaluation of Earable-Based Inertial Sensing for Understanding Eating Behaviour Under Review

Chugh, G., Ghosh, I., Chakraborty, S., & Chakraborty, S.

Under review, 2026

HealthcareSensing

MSSL: Real-Time Complex Activity Recognition from Multiple Unlabeled IMU Data Streams Under Review

Mondal, A., Chugh, G., & Chakraborty, S.

Under review, 2026

ML / AISensingSystems

Efficacy of Earables to Monitor Spontaneous Reactions (A Proxy for Mental Health) to On-Screen Stimuli in Real Time Under Review

Zhingre, S.*, Chugh, G.*, & Chakraborty, S. (*Equal Contribution)

Under review, 2026

HealthcareSensingHCI