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Ehsan Kourkchi

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5ranked-venue papers
0as first author
5since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-5514-3354ORCID · corroborated

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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 3 · 3 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Network and information security
1 paper
Authentication and access control · 100%
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper
Wearable and physiological sensing · 100%

Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Authentication and access control
continuous authentication
1.012026
Know Me by My Pulse: Toward Practical Continuous Authentication on Wearable Devices via Wrist-Worn PPG · NDSS 2026
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Lightweight Cross-Device Sleep Tracking on the WeBe Wearable Platform
abstract
Wearable devices are widely used for continuous health monitoring, yet reliable sleep tracking on emerging platforms remains underexplored due to reliance on proprietary algorithms and device-specific activity representations. We present a lightweight and reproducible sleep tracking pipeline that operates directly on raw accelerometer signals. The method converts data into epoch-level activity features, applies temporal smoothing and normalized scoring, and performs sleep/wake classification using a globally calibrated threshold. We calibrate the model on the Multilevel Monitoring of Activity and Sleep in Healthy People (MMASH) dataset and evaluate it in a cross-device study using the WeBe wearable platform and a commercial ActiGraph device. On MMASH, the method achieves a mean absolute error of 41.6 minutes in Total Sleep Time (TST), with onset and offset errors of 6.3 and 7.4 minutes. On real-world WeBe data from three participants across five sessions, it achieves a mean TST error of 27.4 minutes and onset and offset errors of 13.9 and 8.0 minutes. In contrast, a commercial ActiGraph pipeline shows larger discrepancies relative to ground truth. These results demonstrate accurate and generalizable sleep tracking using a simple and reproducible pipeline.
Ehsan Kourkchi, Krishi Prashant Shah, Zequan Liang, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI2
2026 Know Me by My Pulse: Toward Practical Continuous Authentication on Wearable Devices via Wrist-Worn PPG
Zequan Liang, Ruoyu Zhang 0002, Ruijie Fang, Ning Miao, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, Chongzhou Fang
NDSS6
2025 Rapid Adaptation of $\text{SpO}_{2}$ Estimation to Wearable Devices via Transfer Learning on Low-Sampling-Rate PPG
abstract
Blood oxygen saturation$(\text{SpO}_{2})$is a vital marker for healthcare monitoring. Traditional$\text{SpO}_{2}$estimation methods often rely on complex clinical calibration, making them unsuitable for low-power, wearable applications. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning-based framework for the rapid adaptation of$\mathrm{SpO}_{2}$estimation to energy-efficient wearable devices using low-sampling-rate (25Hz) dual-channel photoplethysmography (PPG). We first pretrain a bidirectional Long ShortTerm Memory (BiLSTM) model with self-attention on a public clinical dataset, then fine-tune it using data collected from our wearable We-Be band and an FDA-approved reference pulse oximeter. Experimental results show that our approach achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.967% on the public dataset and 2.624% on the private dataset, significantly outperforming traditional calibration and non-transferred machine learning baselines. Moreover, using 25Hz PPG reduces power consumption by 40% compared to 100 Hz, excluding baseline draw. Our method also attains an MAE of$3.284\%$in instantaneous$\mathrm{SpO}_{2}$prediction, effectively capturing rapid fluctuations. These results demonstrate the rapid adaptation of accurate, low-power$\mathrm{S p O}_{2}$monitoring on wearable devices without the need for clinical calibration.
Zequan Liang, Ruoyu Zhang 0002, Krishna Karthik, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
BSN5
2025 Generalizable Blood Pressure Estimation from Multi-Wavelength PPG Using Curriculum-Adversarial Learning
abstract
Accurate and generalizable blood pressure (BP) estimation is vital for the early detection and management of cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we enforce subjectlevel data splitting on a public multi-wavelength photoplethysmography (PPG) dataset and propose a generalizable BP estimation framework based on curriculum-adversarial learning. Our approach combines curriculum learning, which transitions from hypertension classification to BP regression, with domainadversarial training that confuses subject identity to encourage the learning of subject-invariant features. Experiments show that multi-channel fusion consistently outperforms single-channel models. On the four-wavelength PPG dataset, our method achieves strong performance under strict subject-level splitting, with mean absolute errors (MAE) of 14.2mmHg for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and 6.4mmHg for diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Additionally, ablation studies validate the effectiveness of both the curriculum and adversarial components. These results highlight the potential of leveraging complementary information in multi-wavelength PPG and curriculum-adversarial strategies for accurate and robust BP estimation.
Zequan Liang, Ruoyu Zhang 0002, Mahdi Pirayesh Shirazi Nejad, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
BSN5
2025 Self-Supervised and Topological Signal-Quality Assessment for Any PPG Device
abstract
Wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) is embedded in billions of devices, yet its optical waveform is easily corrupted by motion, perfusion loss, and ambient light—jeopardizing downstream cardiometric analytics. Existing signal-quality assessment (SQA) methods rely either on brittle heuristics or on data-hungry supervised models. We introduce the first fully unsupervised SQA pipeline for wrist PPG. Stage 1 trains a contrastive 1-D ResNet-18 on 276 h of raw, unlabeled data from heterogeneous sources (varying in device and sampling frequency), yielding optical-emitter- and motioninvariant embeddings (i.e., the learned representation is stable across differences in LED wavelength, drive intensity, and device optics, as well as wrist motion). Stage 2 converts each 512-D encoder embedding into a 4-D topological signature via persistent homology (PH) and clusters these signatures with HDBSCAN. To produce a binary signal-quality index (SQI), the acceptable PPG signals are represented by the densest cluster while the remaining clusters are assumed to mainly contain poor-quality PPG signals. Without re-tuning, the SQI attains Silhouette, Davies-Bouldin, and Calinski-Harabasz scores of$0.72,0.34$, and 6,173, respectively, on a stratified sample of 10,000 windows. In this study, we propose a hybrid self-supervised-learning-topological-dataanalysis (SSL-TDA) framework that offers a drop-in, scalable, cross-device quality gate for PPG signals.
Ruoyu Zhang 0002, Zequan Liang, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
BSN4