About
Ashutosh Sabharwal works in two independent areas – digital health and mobile communications. He is the founding director of the Rice Digital Health Initiative (dhi.rice.edu) and is the Co-director of a new Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute (www.hmrdhi.org). His digital health research focuses on developing devices and applying data science to quantify behavior-biology pathways across many diseases. Concurrent to his research in digital health, he also works in mobile communications technologies. He was one of the inventors of in-band full-duplex communications, a technology used in wireline and wireless standards. He founded the WARP project (warp.rice.edu), an open-source project used by 150+ research groups worldwide. He received the 2017 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2018 IEEE Advances in Communications Award, the 2019, 2021, and 2025 ACM Test-of-time Awards, the 2019 ACM MobiCom Community Contribution Award, the 2023 ICC Best Paper Award, and the 2025 BHI Best Paper Award. His research has led to multiple startups and FDA-approved products. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the National Academy of Inventors.
Expertise: Digital Health, Bio-behavioural sensing and data science, Medical devices, Mobile networks