Education
Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Toronto
May 2020 - Present
- Supervisors: Eyal de Lara and Frank Rudzicz
PhD Computing Science
University of Toronto
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
- Supervisors: Eyal de Lara and Frank Rudzicz
- Research focus: Using machine learning and continuous sensing on mobile/wearable devices to monitor patients with chronic diseases
- Thesis: Towards Continuous Mobile Sensing for Remote COPD Monitoring
Bachelor of Science (with Distinction)
Simon Fraser University
Sep 2011 - Jun 2014
- In Computer Science with a Major in Software Systems
- GPA: 4.0/4.33
Work Experience
Tabiat Research
CEO and Co-Founder
May 2019 - Present
- A start-up enabling wearable sensing for health monitoring
University of Toronto
Teaching Assistant
Sep 2014 - Present
- C4M - Computing for Medicine (Fall 2018, Winter 2019)
- HLP101 - Help desk (Fall 2018)
- CSC 2228 - Advanced Topics in Mobile and Pervasive Computing: Cloud Computing (Fall 2017)
- CSC 207 - Software Design (Winter 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2015)
- CSC 148 - Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2014)
Samsung Research America
Research Intern
May - Aug 2017
- Worked with the Digital Health Team on smartwatch based sensing
Athabasca University
Research Assistant
May - Aug 2014
- Used the R environment to analyze data, running cluster analysis and various other statistical methods
- Presented a research poster at LASI-14 at Harvard University
Simon Fraser University
Teaching Assistant
Jan - May 2014
- Designed and developed testing framework for student assignments
- Courses: CMPT 213 - Object oriented design in Java (Spring 2014)
Publications
Starlight: Fast Container Provisioning on the Edge and over the WAN
Jun Lin Chen, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gable, Eyal de Lara
19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22 Fall), April 2022
Unobtrusive Monitoring of COPD Patients using Speech Collected from Smartwatches in the Wild
Tina Sedaghat, Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Tatiana Son, Tiago H. Falk, Moshe Gabel, Alex Mariakakis, Eyal de Lara
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), March 2022
Hindsight is 20/20: Retrospective Lessons for Conducting Longitudinal Wearable Sensing Studies
Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Tatiana Son, Andrea Gershon, Robert Wu, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), March 2022
Remote COPD Severity and Exacerbation Detection Using Heart Rate and Activity Data Measured from a Wearable Device
Abhishek Tiwari, Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara, and Tiago H. Falk
43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), October 2021
CoughWatch: Real-world Cough Detection Using Smartwatches
Daniyal Liaqat, Salaar Liaqat, Jun Lin Chen, Tina Sedaghat, Moshe Gabel, Frank Rudzicz, Eyal De Lara
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2021
WristO2: Reliable Peripheral Oxygen Saturation Readings from Wrist-Worn Pulse Oximeters (Honorable mention)
Caleb Phillips, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara
Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (WristSense), March 2021
Skin tone, Confidence, and Data Quality of Heart Rate Sensing in WearOS Smartwatches
Ishita Ray, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara
IEEE PerCom International workshop on Pervasive Health Technologies (PerHealth), March 2021
Wrist02: Reliable Peripheral Oxygen Saturation Readings from Wrist-Worn Pulse Oximeters
Caleb Phillips, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara
arXiv, June 2019
WearBreathing: Real World Respiratory Rate Monitoring using Smartwatches
Daniyal Liaqat, Mohamed Abdalla, Pegah Abed-Esfahani, Moshe Gabel, Tatiana Son, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Frank Rudzicz, Eyal de Lara
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (UbiComp) (23% acceptance rate), June 2019
Talk2Me: Automated linguistic data collection for personal assessment
Majid Komeili, Chloe Pou-Prom, Daniyal Liaqat, Kathleen Fraser, Maria Yancheva, Frank Rudzicz
PloS ONE, April 2019
Challenges with Real-World Smartwatch based Audio Monitoring
Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Hisham Alshaer, Frank Rudzicz, Eyal de Lara
Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications, June 2018
Munich, Germany
Feasibility of using a smartwatch to intensively monitor patients with COPD
Robert Wu, Daniyal Liaqat, Eyal de Lara, Tatiana Son, Frank Rudzicz, Hisham Alshaer, Pegah Abed, Andrea Gershon
JMIR mHealth and uHealth., February 2018
A Method for Preserving Privacy During Audio Recordings by Filtering Speech
Daniyal Liaqat, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang
IEEE Life Sciences Conference, December 2017
Sydney, Australia
A Novel Algorithm for Activity State Recognition Using Smartwatch Data
Ebrahim Nemati, Daniyal Liaqat, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang
IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point of Care Technologies Conference, November 2017
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Uncovering student learning profiles with a video annotation tool: Reflective learning with and without instructional norms
Negin Mirriahi, Daniyal Liaqat, Shawn Dawson, Dragan Gasevic
Educational Technology Research & Development, May 2016
Sidewinder: An Energy Efficient and Developer Friendly Heterogeneous Architecture for Continuous Mobile Sensing
Daniyal Liaqat, Silviu Jingoi, Eyal de Lara, Ashvin Goel, Wilson To, Kevin Lee, Italo De Moraes Garcia, and Manuel Saldana
ASPLOS 2016 (22% acceptance rate), April 2016
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Invited Talks
- Panel: Birds of a Feather - COVID-19 and Mobile Systems, MobiSys 2020, 18 June 2020
- Validating Smartwatches for COPD Patient Monitoring, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 6 February 2020
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and the Future (Speaker and Panelist), Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, York University, 26 October 2019
- Experiences in Real-World Continuous Sensing with Android Smartwatches, Mobilize Center, Stanford University, 25 July 2017
- Experiences in Real-World Continuous Sensing with Android Smartwatches, Samsung Research America, Mountain View, California, 15 July 2017
Professional Activites
- Web Chair for ACM MobiSys 2020
- Reviewer UbiComp, 2020, 2021
- Reviewer USENIX ATC, 2019
- Reviewer HotMobile, 2019
- Reviewer Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2018
- Reviewer IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC), 2018
- Reviewer European Conference On Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL), 2016, 2017, 2018
Posters
An Accelerator for Fast Container-based Applications Deployment on the Edge
Jun Lin Chen, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara
Symposium on Edge Computing, Nov 2020
Virtual
Speech in Smartwatch based Audio
Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Hisham Alshaer, Frank Rudzicz, Eyal de Lara
MobiSys, June 2018
Munich, Germany
Feasibility of Using Android Smartwatches for Nearly Continuous Monitoring of Patients with COPD
Robert Wu, Daniyal Liaqat, Eyal de Lara, Tatiana Son, Frank Rudzicz, Hisham Alshaer, Pegah Abed, Andrea Gershon
American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2018
San Diego, CA
Towards Ambulatory Cough Monitoring using Smartwatches
Daniyal Liaqat, Rob Wu, Tatiana Son, Andrea Gershon, Hisham Alshaer, Eyal de Lara, Frank Rudzicz
American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2018
San Diego, CA
WearCOPD - Monitoring COPD Patients Remotely using Smartwatches
Daniyal Liaqat, Ishan Thukral, Eyal de Lara, Parco Sin, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Hisham Alshaer, Frank Rudzicz
MobiSys, June 2016
Singapore, Singapore
Feasibility of Using Smartwatches to Remotely Monitor Patients with COPD
Andrea Gershon, Daniyal Liaqat, Parco Sin, Eyal de Lara, Frank Rudzicz, Hisham Alshaer, Robert Wu
American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2016
San Francisco, California
Sidewinder: An Energy Efficient and Developer Friendly Heterogeneous Architecture for Continuous Mobile Sensing
Daniyal Liaqat, Silviu Jingoi, Eyal de Lara, Ashvin Goel, Wilson To, Kevin Lee, Italo De Moraes Garcia, and Manuel Saldana
ASPLOS 2016, April 2016
Atlanta, Georgia
Feasibility of a Smartwatch and Smartphone Application to Remotely Monitor Patients with COPD
Andrea Gershon, Robert Wu, Daniyal Liaqat, Parco Sin, Eyal de Lara
Clinical Impact Through Innovation Expo, February 2016
Toronto, Canada
Profiling Students Based on Usage of Video Annotation Software
Daniyal Liaqat, Dragan Gašević, Vitomir Kovanovic
Learning Analytics Summer Institute, June 2014
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Other Publications
The Ground Truth Trade-Off in Wearable Sensing Studies
Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Salaar Liaqat, Eyal de Lara, Andrea Gershon, Frank Rudzicz
arXiv, January 2020
Sidewinder: Efficient and Easy-to-Use Continuous Sensing
Daniyal Liaqat, Silviu Jingoi, Wilson To, Ashvin Goel
GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, July 2016
Using Mobile Sensing to Predict Episodes of Medical Conditions
Daniyal Liaqat
MobiSys - PhD Forum, June 2016
Singapore, Singapore
Conferences Attended
- International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), London, UK, Sep 2019
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Montreal, Canada, Dec 2018
- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Munich, Germany, Jun 2018
- American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2018
- IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2017
- International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Maui, HI, Sep 2017
- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Singapore, Singapore, Jun 2016
- International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Atlanta, GA, Apr 2016
- Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI), Cambridge, MA, Jun 2014
Open Source Projects
COVFEFE
- Fast, multi-threaded tool for extracting lexicosyntactic (including lexical norms and grammatical complexity), semantic (including information content), pragmatic (including topic modeling and rhetorical structure theory), and acoustic features
Cache-em-all
- A simple decorator to cache the results of function calls
PyPiper
- A fast, parallel and extensible pipelining framework for Python
Resume Generator
- Python application to automatically generate a Resume/CV and website from a JSON file
Projects
Ups and Downs
Developer
Sep - Dec 2016
- Built Android application and backend to automatically detect changes in users mood based on sensor data
- Used sensors on Smartwatch to detect changes in physical behavior and speech patterns
- ECE1778: Creative Applications of Mobile Devices @ University of Toronto
Raytracer and Physical Simulation
Developer
Nov - Dec 2015
- Implemented a Raytracer in C++ featuring anti-aliasing, soft shadows, glossy reflections, texture mapping and environment mapping
- Created a physical simulation on top of the Raytracer
- Won the Wooden Monkey Award
- CSC2504: Computer Graphics @ University of Toronto
Exploring Micro-usage of Smartphones in the Presence of Smartwatches
Group member
Nov - Dec 2015
- Designed and conducted an experiment to observe differences in smartphone usage when participants did or did not have a smartwatch
- Analyzed smartphone usage data and compared usage behaviours
- CSC2514: Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Toronto
Examining Factors Encouraging or Hindering the Adoption of Wearable Technology
Author
Nov - Dec 2015
- Reviewed literature to highlight factors affecting the adoption of wearable technology
- CSC2514: Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Toronto
Automatic Cough Detector
Developer
Jan - May 2015
- Implemented and compared machine learning based cough detectors using SVMs, Logistic Regression and Neural Networks
- CSC2515: Machine Learning @ University of Toronto
Low-Latency, Scalable Sharding of a Software Defined Network (SDN) Controller
Designer
Sep - Dec 2014
- Extended the Kandoo controller by allowing arbitrary sharding of local controllers
- Developed two implementations of our design using Mininet and virtual machines in a network testbed
- Tested and benchmarked our implementations and compared it to existing solutions
- CSC2229: Software Defined Networking @ University of Toronto
Software Quality Analysis of JUnit
Developer
Mar - Apr 2014
- Performed mutation testing, static code analysis, dynamic analysis and performance testing on the JUnit open source project and reported issues and possible solutions
- Gained understanding of test plans, testing processes and tools used in software quality assurance
- CMPT473: Software Quality Assurance @ Simon Fraser University
Distributed and Scalable Data Store
Developer
April 2014
- Developed a scalable data storage system in Python. The system consisted of a load balancer, data servers, NoSQL database instances (Redis) and a queuing service
- System used either a strong or weak consistency model based on user request. Implemented a gossip algorithm using vector clocks to keep all database instances up to date
- CMPT474: Cloud Computing @ Simon Fraser University
Image Sharing Application on Amazon Web Services
Developer
January 2014
- Created and deployed a scalable image sharing and resizing application using Amazon Web Services
- Analyzed various design decisions that could affect scalability, reliability and performance
- CMPT474: Cloud Computing @ Simon Fraser University
Transit Vancouver Mobile App
Developer
January 2014
- Allowed users to search bus stops, bus routes and next bus departure time
- Used GPS to find nearby bus stops
- Developed for Windows Phone during a Microsoft 24 hour hackaton
MarkUs for Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Project (UCOSP)
Developer
Sep - Dec 2013
- MarkUs is an online assignment submission and grading tool used by the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and École Centrale de Nantes, France
- Worked on replacing SVN with Git as a backend for assignment submissions
- Attended code sprint at Mozilla's Toronto office
Digital Asset Manager
Developer, Repository and Standards Manager
Sep - Dec 2013
- Created Java based asset manager to catalog, display and search image, audio, video and text files
- Designed and implemented object model for project
- Contributed heavily to UI design and implementation
- CMPT373: Software Development Methods @ Simon Fraser University
Decaf Compiler
Developer
Sep - Dec 2013
- Created a compiler for Decaf language using Lex, Yacc and LLVM
- Implemented a tokenizer, parser and intermediate code generator
- CMPT379: Compilers @ Simon Fraser University
Transaction Based Web Server
Designer and Developer
December 2013
- Implemented an ACID compliant web server that allowed clients to read files and to initiate transactions, upload files and commit transactions
- Designed system to recover or abort transactions in case of failure
- Designed system to keep uncommitted files hidden from other users until committed
- CMPT431: Distributed Systems @ Simon Fraser University
Remote Mouse Android Application
Sole Developer
May - Aug 2013
- Designed and developed an Android application that allows using a phone as a mouse
- Used accelerometer and gyroscope sensors to control mouse cursor on remote PC
- Created a server application to run on the PC being controlled
- Designed wireless protocol for communication between application and server
- IAT381: Mobile Computing @ Simon Fraser University
Course Planner Android Application
Team Lead and Developer
Jan - Apr 2013
- Designed and developed an Android application to help students in the Software Systems program at SFU keep track of their degree progress and plan future courses
- Designed user interface, database architecture, and object model
- CMPT276: Software Engineering @ Simon Fraser University