Prof. Eiman Kanjo

Role

Prof. Kanjo is currently a Professor of Pervasive Sensing at the Computer Science Department. She conducts research in Mobile Sensing, Pervasive Computing, Affective Computing, and Data Science.

Prof. Kanjo has been named among the 2022 Top 50 Women in Engineering by The Women’s Engineering Society (WES)- published by the Guardian newspaper.

Eiman currently leads the Smart Sensing and IoT Lab/team (Winner of the Vice Chancellor's Outstanding Research Team Award 2020/2021).

Prof. Kanjo is the Award Lead of the new NTU-Turing Data Science Network funded by the Alan Turing Institute -Turing Development Network Award (TDNA)

NTU among universities to receive first-ever Turing Network Development Awards

UK universities receive first-ever Turing Network Development Awards

https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/eiman-kanjo

Eiman also leads https://www.tagwithme.co.uk an IoT and AI Pervasive Gaming and Social Prescribing platform currently setup at both Rufford Country Park (Tag in The Park) and Highbury Mental Hospital (Tag 4 Active Lives).

Prof. Kanjo is a technologist who works closely with industry, local authorities and end user organisations to solve real-world problems. She works closely with Nottingham County Council and Nottingham City Council on developing its Smart Cities strategy and she is the technical lead of the NTU Smart Campus project.

Prof. Kanjo was first to coin the phrase 'Mobile Sensing' and wrote some of the earliest papers on the subject (GeoMobSens and Mobsens). She also built the first noise monitoring system using the phone-based microphone (NoiseSpy). Her current work (EnvBodySens) on studying and quantifying the impact of Environment on wellbeing using Mobile Sensing, Deep Learning, Data Science and AI, complements her work on Urban Computing in order to make sense of a place (NeuroPlace, ShopMobia).

Also, Eiman is also an expert in developing digital technologies for Mental Health and she has been involved in a wide range of projects in this area, including (NotiMind). She works closely with Mental Health networks and charities and currently developing novel Fidgeting Interfaces to reduce Anxiety and Stress among adult and school children. She often employs data science and on-device processing (on Edge Computing) to create privacy-preserving pervasive tools that can transform wellbeing.

Eiman's team is active in developing tools and solutions to minimise the risk of COVID19, and recently developed a low-cost wearable for social distancing and contact tracing.

Eiman is the module leader of the following mobile and pervasive Computing modules ( Google Android):

• Mobile Platform Applications (MPA), Final year level, Computer Science cluster
• Mobile Interactive Systems, MSc level

For latest updates and announcements follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eimankanjo/

Twitter:      https://twitter.com/EimanKanjo

----------***New our Tag In the Park game is out, Try it out at Rufford Park:-------

www.TagWithMe.com

“Tag In The Park” is an interactive mobile game that is available on both Apple Store and Google Play:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tag-in-the-park-rufford-abbey/id1569788927
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umair.beacons_plugin_example&hl=en_GB&gl=US

The game uses a mix of tags and AI quizzes and challenges in an open setting. Please come and try it at Rufford Country Park in Nottinghamshire.
Central to the game, is a treasure hunt challenge that actively persuades participants to identify a set of specific places or objects by following the clues that are given to them.

*New Job Opportunity  KTP Associate  

*new* Tag4ActiveLives is also setup at Highbury Mental Health Hospital.

Current  Funded Projects & Research Fellows

• NTU-Turing DataScience Network (2022) funded by Alan Turing Institute Network Development Award (Award Lead).
• Tag4ActiveLives (2022) (Tech based Social Prescribing) funded by Research England, in collaboration with Nottinghamshire Healthcare, NHS Foundation Trust.
• EU ERDF/D2N2 funded project in collaboration with Nottingham University "Live Experiential and Digital Diversification: Nottingham (LEADD:NG)" in collaboration with Nottingham University (2022-2023), (£1.6m): LEADD:NG will support SMEs to use the full range of technologies required to deliver commercial online immersive experiences. These include interface technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and Internet of Things, but also enabling platform technologies including streaming, social media and data analytics that are required to integrate these into an online experience.  The project to bring the innovations and opportunities of the ‘live’ and digital ‘experience economy’ - a burgeoning area of development and investment - to both the visitor economy (culture, heritage, leisure, hospitality, retail) and the creative and digital industries (including design, fashion, gaming, film, publishing, music).
• Project: DCMS 5G Connected Forest: The consortium is led by Nottinghamshire County Council and includes Nottingham Trent University, Birmingham City University, Netmore IOT Solutions, Gooii, ISPB, Harworth Group, Centre Parcs UK, Stagecoach East Midlands and Parkwood Outdoor, (£10m).
• Project: Developing Tools using Internet of Things and Data Science for Crime Prevention, in Collaboration  with UCL Dawes Center for Future Crime, researcher: Dario Ortega Anderez, (£105k).
• Project: Mental Health Social Network Analysis using NLP and Graph Networks (in Collaboration with Alan Turing Institute), (£50,000), researcher.
• InnovateUK/KTP Associate in Smart Building- Sensor fusion- Data Analytics In collaboration with Scenariio Ltd (£120k), Researcher: Jack Hall.
• Project: Prototyping TangToys (Tangible Toys to Improve Mental Health): Explorative work for designing digital technology for and with Children with Intellectual Disability, ESRC  https://www.enurture.org.uk/funded-projects
• Project: Assessment Of Human Performance For Human-Autonomy Teaming, Intelligent Ship call, Funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). Phase1 (£85,000) and Phase2 (£250k).
• Project: "Design and Development of Collaborative UAV/Drones Network Platform", sponsored by the MTC (£83k).
• Project: Small Steps, Big Changes Evaluation Partner, Funded by Nottingham CityCare Partnerships, Nottingham CityCare Partnerships Default Scheme, (£2.2m).

Previous Projects I was involved in:

• Innovate UK /SBRI NTU PI
• British Academy NTU CO-I
• EPSRC MESSAGE (Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across Grid Environments) Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
• EPSRC Participate (Pervasive Computing for Mass Participation in Environmental Monitoring) Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham
• EU PERG (Pervasive Gaming ) Research Fellow at Nottingham University
• Scottish Enterprise iToys project Research Assistant
• Urban Green and Blue Spaces

Current Postdocs and Researchers

Kieran Woodward

Dario Ortega Anderez

Kyle Taylor

Will Parker

Jack Hall

Eman Younis (Research Visitor)

Mital Kinderkhedia (Research Visitor)

Current PhD Students

Director of Study (First Supervisor)

• Kieran Woodward, Project title: eFidGet: Smart Real-Time Tangible Interface to tackle affective mental health conditions including Stress

• Tom Johnson, Project Title: Multimodel Sensor Fusion Approach to study the impact of Environment on Wellbeing

• Amna Anwar, Project Title: The development of Platform & Algorithms for monitoring Crowdedness and Movement Flow
• Alanoud Alharbi, Project title: User Behaviour Analysis and Modelling from Unstructured Temporal Smartphone Data
• Michael Gibbs: Multimodel Sensor Data Processing on the Edge
• Bradley Patrick: IoT based user experiences

Second Supervisor

• Oonagh O'Brien , Project Title: Identification of Problematic Internet Use from College Internet Traffic Contrasted with Psychometric Evaluation from Same Student Body
• Amirkhashayar Naderian
  Project Title: Medical image concealment and anomaly detection using Deep Neural networks and compressive sensing
• Francesca Ryding
  Project Title:The effects of Social Networking Sites on Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  PhD student (coming soon):
• Gabriel Bonilla Zorita (DTA3 PhD student)
• George Milev (DTA3 PhD student)
• Francesca Horne  (Cutting Edge Digital Transformation in Adult Social Care)

Research Keywords: Mobile sensing, Data Science , Affective Computing / Digital Wellbeing, Smart Spaces, Digital Phenotyping, Multimodel Sensor information Fusion, Spatial Analysis and mapping, Proximity detection and Mapping, Edge Computing and On-Device Intelligence , People Count / Crowdedness. Flow and  Social Encounters, Environmental Monitoring and Impact on Health, Mental Health Social Networks.

Career overview

Previously Prof. Kanjo worked for more than three years as a Research Associate in Mobile Sensing at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and also she was a member of the Cambridge eScience Centre(CeSC).

Dr Kanjo carried out research work at the MRL (Mixed Reality Lab), Computer Science, University of Nottingham, in the area of Pervasive Computing, location-based applications.

She has also worked as a researcher and developer in ICCAVE (the International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual Entertainment, University of Abertay Dundee, carrying out research work in the "Interactive Toys and Board Games project" which is sponsored by the Scottish Enterprise under the Proof of Concept Programme. View her publications and patents in this area.

Prof. Kanjo gained her PhD from the Computer Science Department, University of Abertay Dundee, UK, in the area of Pervasive and Tangible interfaces based on Computer Vision in 2005.

She also worked as a research visitor at Evolaris, Graz, Austria, in Summer 2011.

Please visit Dr Kanjo's webpage on our research group's website and personal website.

External activity

Recent Talks & Activities

Upcoming talk  "Can we use Data Science and AI to measure how addicted are we to Smart Phones? as part of the Nottingham Festival of Science Event:  "Science in the News – Are we addicted to the internet?" , Feb, 2020.

Invited talk, Overview of the Digital infrastructure for Smart Cities and Retail", meeting with 6 town councils around Nottingham, Jan, 2020.

Organised a workshop in collaboration with UCL Dawes Center for Future Crimes, with focus on Technologies for Crime Prevention. The workshop was attended by many stakeholders including the Home Office, Met Police, Comic Relief and many other charities and end users organisations. Dec, 2019.

Presented our vision for the Future High Street Bid as part of a workshop attended by retailers, city council representatives, Tech Companies, charities and SMEs, Dec, 2019.

Invited Talk at the Urban Analytics Workshop, "The Life cycle Of Urban Analytics", Birmingham University & Alan Turing Institute, 24th of October, 2019.

Invited talk (and invited workshop) at the British Geriatric Society, "Technology and Loneliness in Older People", April/2019 in Cardiff, to demonstrate the potential of technology for tackling Loneliness.

Invited Keynote to present during the Cross-Cutting Theme Symposium at the APS 2019 Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The topic of the symposium is “Me, My phone, and I’”.

A co-founding member of a newly formed research group looking at Mental Health, NLP and Social Media in collaboration with Manchester University, KCL, Oxford,  Warwick, and Nottingham Universities.

Invited Talk: "Beyond GPS: Proximity Detection for Tracking People" as part of the “Tracking People” network at Leeds University.

Invited Talk : "Beyond Text and images: Tackling loneliness with technology", at the Geriatric annual  Conference, London, June, 2018.

Invited Talk: t Oxford University, Oxford Retail Futures Conference: The changing role of place in a digital world, December 2017.

Invited Talk, Mobile Developer conference, CodeMobile Chester, March 2017.

Physical Activities for Older Adult UCL, London, 2017.

Physical Computing for Physical Activities, organized by Oxford University/UCL, 2017.

NTU Innovation Program for Small businesses, My Research, June 2017.

LATI, Welcome and Introduction to Research at the Computing Department, 2017.

BioMedEng Talk , Oxford University October 2016.

General Chair, 2015, Sensors Software Conference, Proceeding published by Springer, Coventry, UK.  Judge and mentor at many hackathons, Datathon, competitions.

Dr Kanjo was the general chair of the S-cube conference, 5th International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, October 5–7, 2014 - Coventry, Great Britain

Dr Kanjo is a member of the following:

• EPSRC review college  since 2009
• The advisory board of LifeBoat foundation
• A Fellow of HEA
• Athena Swan  panellist

Sponsors and collaborators

Eiman maintains a strong link to many Academic and industrial partners.

Also, Eiman works very closely with Nottingham City Council on a variety of projects in relation to its Smart Nottingham initiative.