Mashfiqui Rabbi
Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMashfiqui Rabbi is a Research Assistant Professor and applied researcher with 8+ years building mobile health systems that infer daily behaviors from smartphone sensors to deliver personalized, just-in-time interventions. His work spans academic and industry settings—Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Apple Health AI, OptumLabs/UnitedHealth—and includes deployed projects like MyBehavior, SARA, ReVibe and StreeSense that translate sensing and sequential decision theory into real-world behavior-change apps. He combines expertise in mobile sensing, personalization, adaptive intervention design, and behavior change with a strong background in scalable inference toolkits for activity and mood detection. Notably, he has moved ideas from lab prototypes to production-influencing research at major health and tech organizations, demonstrating an unusual blend of rigorous HCI/ML research and practical product impact. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell and a long track record of cross-disciplinary collaborations in digital mental and physical health.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeH.S.C. (equivalent to A-level) Science, H.S.C. (equivalent to A-level) Science at Notre Dame CollegeB.Sc. in Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc. in Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyS.S.C. (equivalent to O-level) Science, S.S.C. (equivalent to O-level) Science at St.Gregory's High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (3)
substance5
mhealth3
data-collection2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
StatisticalReinforcementLearningLab/SARAv2
May 2019 - Mar 2022
SARA V2
Contributions:2 releases, 830 commits, 134 PRs in 2 years 10 months
StatisticalReinforcementLearningLab/SARA-Version1
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
SARA (Substance Abuse Research Assistant)
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
substanceassistantabusemhealthengagement
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