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Dr. Adams’ research focuses on designing, fabricating, and implementing new ubiquitous and wearable sensing systems. In particular, he develops systems that enable remote monitoring and diagnostics for more pervasive healthcare. Dr. Adams leverages sensing, signal processing, and fabrication techniques to design, deploy, and evaluate novel sensing technologies.
Dr. Adams’ teaching focuses on applied and translational technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including health technology design and ubiquitous computing. He teaches Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MUC) and Health Sensing and Interventions (HSI).
Ilhamsyah, Rizky, John F. Dye, Daniel Struk, Sixuan Wu, Alexander T. Adams, and Peter J. Hesketh. "Experimental Study of Human Exhaled Breath-Like Humid Air Condensation on a Surface-Modified Aluminum in a Rectangular Flow Channel." Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications 18, no. 6 (2026): 061009.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4070790
Ilhamsyah, Rizky, Daniel R. Struk, Christopher A. Heist, Alexander T. Adams, Lou Ann Brown, Jean-Marie D. Dimandja, and Peter J. Hesketh. "Evaluation of Non-Targeted Compound Discovery Capability of Dehumidified Alveolar Exhaled Breath Collection by Using Stirbar Sorptive Extraction and Multidimensional Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Method." Journal of Chromatography A (2025): 466454.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2025.466454.
Garg, Poojita, Mingzhuo Ma, Hayley Jane MacKinnon, Michael Richley, Vikram Iyer, Shwetak Patel, and Alexander T. Adams. "DopFone: Doppler-Based Fetal Heart Rate Estimation Using Commodity Smartphones." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 9, no. 4 (2025): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3770671.
Fu, Yibo, Vivian Shen, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Bolei Deng, Alex Adams, and Josiah Hester. "SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 9, no. 4 (2025): 1-32.https://doi.org/10.1145/3770666.
Wilcox, Samuel, Yue Chen, and Alexander T. Adams. "MR-Tidal: A System for Efficient Respiration Tracking in Clinically Constrictive Environments." In 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2025.10.1109/BSN66969.2025.11337376.
Song, Kefan, and Alexander T. Adams. "Φ-Fetus: A Phantom In-Utero Fetus for Fetal Heart Simulation." In 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2025.10.1109/BSN66969.2025.11337594.
Wang, Yiyang, Rishabh Goel, Sheraz Hassan, Taegen J. Doscher, Shilin Wang, Lexington Allen Whalen, Aditya S. Gandhi et al. "PuffEM: An E-cigarette Sleeve for Estimating User Nicotine Intake." In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, pp. 129-133. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3721201.3721393
Wu, Sixuan, Kefan Song, Jason Cobb, and Alexander T. Adams. "Pump-Free Microfluidics for Cell Concentration Analysis on Smartphones in Clinical Settings (SmartFlow): Design, Development, and Evaluation." JMIR Biomedical Engineering 9 (2024): e62770. https://doi.org/10.2196/62770.
Song, Kefan, and Alexander T. Adams. "Application of microscopic smartphone attachment for remote preoperative lab testing." Frontiers in Digital Health 6 (2024): 1461559. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2024.1461559.