ABOUT ME

My name is Ha Le and I’m a third year PhD student in Computer Science at Northeastern University. My research areas are HCI and Ubiquitous and Wearables Computing. Particularly, I worked on multimodal data annotation interfaces for human activity and behavioral recognition. I combined different device form factors, input modalities and sensors to design software that empower people to monitor their data and train their own machine learning models.

I received my Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2022. During my 4 years at Gustavus, I did research under the supervision of Prof. Louis Yu, Jillian Downey and Jacob Siehler.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Collecting self-reported physical activity and posture data using audio-based ecological momentary assessment
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
Ha Le, Rithika Lakshminarayanan, Jixin Li, Varun Mishra, and Stephen Intille
[link][paper]

Detecting Sleep Disruptions in Adolescents Using Context-sensitive Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Feasibility Study
Proceedings of the 18th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth)
Rithika Lakshminarayanan, Arushi Uppal, Ha Le, James C. Spilsbury and Stephen Intille
[link][paper]

mHealth-Based Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention to Improve the Physical Activity Levels of Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR Research Protocols
Rachel L Carey*, Ha Le*, Donna L Coffman, Inbal Nahum-Shani, Mohanraj Thirumalai, Cole Hagen, Laura A Baehr, Mary Schmidt-Read, Marlyn S R Lamboy, Stephanie A Kolakowsky-Hayner, Ralph J Marino, Stephen S Intille, Shivayogi V Hiremath
[link]

A feasibility study on the use of audio-based ecological momentary assessment with persons with aphasia
ASSETS ‘23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Jack Hester, Ha Le, Stephen Intille, Erin Meier
[link]

Investigating Student Participation and Performance in Calculus I Courses that Utilize Standards-Based Grading
Honorable Mention at Undergraduate Research Project Competition (USRESP)
Electronic Undergraduate Research Conference (eURC) (To be presented)
Ha Le, Rachel Erickson, Kaylee Vick, Jillian Downey
[paper][code/dataset] [poster]

A study on Channel Popularity in Twitch
Ha Le, Junming Wu, Louis Yu, Melissa Lynn
[paper][presentation][code] [poster]

One-dimensional Port-and-Sweep Solitaire Armies
Filip Belik, Ha Le, Jacob Siehler
[paper][presentation]

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring 2020 - now: Introduction to Computer Science I&II (MCS-178,177)
Spring 2021, Spring 2022: Principles of Programming Languages (MCS-287)
Fall 2021: Intro to Computer Organization (MCS-284)
Spring 2020 - Fall 2021: Pre-Calculus, Calculus I, Calculus II, Multivariables Calculus (MCS-119,121,122,222)

AWARDS AND FUNDINGS

Summer 2021 Jeff Roseoff Fund for undergraduate summer research in MCS department ($2000)
Summer 2020 Stephen Hilding Fund for undergraduate summer research ($3000)
Count Folke Bernadotte International Student Scholarship for international students ($120 000)

NEWS

10/5/24-10/9/24: I will be presenting my work on audio-uEMA at Ubicomp/IWSC 2024!