CSE Colloquium: Earable Computing: An Emerging Area to Think About

Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the speaker.

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Abstract:

This talk will argue that “earables" could be the next milestone in mobile computing after smartphones. With numerous sensors, processors and radios getting embedded into modern earphones, these researchers envision a new eco-system around the ear. Earables will run voice assistants like Alexa, offer immersive acoustic experiences through AR/VR, sense human motion and gestures and track health metrics through the ear. The leap from today’s ear-phones to “earables” could mimic the transformation we have seen from basic-phones to smart phones. This talk will discuss core algorithmic problems that underlie this space, especially in the areas of sensing, acoustic signal processing and wearable computing.

Bio:

Romit Roy Choudhury is a professor and the Jerry Sanders Scholar of ECE and CS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests are in embedded sensing, applied signal processing and wireless networking. Along with his students, he received a few research awards, including the ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award, the UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2017 MobiSys Best Paper Award, etc. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2018. Visit Romit's research group (SyNRG) at synrg.csl.illinois.edu.