Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, PhD

Wehr Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Computer Science
Marquette University
1313 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
Phone: 414-288-5222
Fax: 414-288-5472
Email: sheikh.ahamed (at) mu.edu
Office: 386 Cudahy Hall
Complete list of publications from DBLP

Dr. Ahamed's major research interests include mHealth, Smartphone based healthcare (iPhone/iPad/Android), mobile and pervasive computing, emotion-based/affective computing, and security and privacy in computing. He is Director of the Ubicomp Research Lab at Marquette University.

For complete information on research activities, please see my CV:
Long version (pdf)
Short version (pdf)


Research in the News

An mCARE study on patterns of risk and resilience for children with ASD in Bangladesh in the November issue of Nature Scientific Reports
Artificial Intelligence of Things in Sports Science in the November 2019 edition of Computer Magazine
IEEE Talks Big Data: Sorel Reisman & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
MRI Application with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Thinking Outside the Clinic - securely transferring health information among clinics
CTSI Discovery Radio - Eye Institute 40th Anniversary
Veteran's communication project
Veteran's communication project

Current Grants and Projects

PI. Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Remote Experience Sampling Method (mCARE) National Institutes of Health. July 2018.

Co-PI. Robotically-enhanced Neuroimaging of Memory and Prediction in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders - A Pilot Study. April 2013 - current.

Co-PI. iPeer: Sociotechnical Support System for Veterans. HWPP. January 2013 - current

Co-PI. American Indian M-health Smoking Dependence Study. National Institutes of Health. August 2012 - July 2017.

PI. Breast Cancer Palliation Study III. IBCRF. September 2012 - 2016.

Recent Publications

Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. "An mCARE study on patterns of risk and resilience for children with ASD in Bangladesh," Nature Scientific Reports, 2021. 11:21342.

M. H. Aziz, M. K. Hasan, A. Mahmood, R. Love and S. I. Ahamed, "Automated cardiac pulse cycle analysis from photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals generated from fingertip videos captured using a smartphone to measure blood hemoglobin levels," in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3068658.

Munirul M. Haque, Masud Rabbani, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Golam Rabbani, Faruq Alam, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, "Grant Report on mCARE: Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)", J Psychiatry Brain Sci. 2021;6:e210004. https://doi.org/10.20900/jpbs.20210004

Sakib N, Ahamed SI, Khan RA, Griffin PM, Haque MM, Unpacking Prevalence and Dichotomy in qSOFA and SIRS: A Data-driven Approach backed by Sepsis Pathophysiology JMIR Medical Informatics. 15/09/2020:18352 (forthcoming/in press)

Leret, Stacee M., Rosemary White-Traut, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Pippa Simpson, Riddhiman Adib, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Rachel Schiffman. Pilot Study Protocol of a mHealth Self-management Intervention for Family Members of Pediatric Transplant Recipients. Research in Nursing & Health, Wiley, DOI: 10.1002/nur.22010. December 2019.

Love. R.R., & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. "The Marquette Palliative Care System" [Online First], IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.84475. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/the-marquette-palliative-care-system

Love, R.R., Ferdousy, T., Paudel, B.D., Nahar, S., Dowla, R., Adibuzzaman, M., Ahsan, G.M.T., Uddin, M., Salim, R., and Ahamed, S.I.: Symptom levels in care-seeking Bangladeshi and Nepalese adults with advanced cancer. J Global Onc 2016. (in press)

Md Munirul Haque, Ferdaus Ahmed Kawsar, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard Love, Rumana Dowla, David Roe, Syed Hossain, Reza Salim: Findings of e-ESAS: a mobile based symptom monitoring system for breast cancer patients in rural Bangladesh. CHI2012: 899-908

Munirul M. Haque, Ferdaus Ahmed Kawsar, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard Love, Rumana Dowla,David Roe, Tahmina Ferdousy, Reza Selim: Findings of mobile based palliative care system: towards formulating a generic framework for measuring QoL.PervasiveHealth 2014: 1-8

Md Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard Love, Ragib Hasan, Rumana Dowla, Tahmina Ferdousy, Reza Salim: e-ESAS: Evolution of a participatory design-based solution for breast cancer (BC) patients in rural Bangladesh. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 19(2): 395-413 (2015)

Current Graduate Students
  • Kazi Shafiul Alam (PhD)
  • Adib Anik (MS)
  • Kazi Zawad Arefin (PhD)
  • Arafat Mahmood Rahat (PhD)
  • Masud Rabbani (PhD)
  • Parama Sridevi (PhD)
  • Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith (PhD)
  • Ishrak Zarid (PhD)
  • Shiyu Tian (PhD)
  • Sayeda Farzana Aktar (PhD)
  • Raihan Mia (PhD)
  • Parmita Basak Upama (PhD)
  • Nihel Charfi (PhD)