Zulqarnain Rashid is a Senior Research Fellow and Technical Lead for Digital Healthcare at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). Joining King’s College London in November 2017, he has been actively leading numerous cross-functional projects. His role includes leading efforts in product development, collection and analysis of data from wearable devices and smartphones across various disease areas. He collaborates with project funders, clinicians, software developers and data scientists on several multidisciplinary grants.

Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Dundee, where he worked on Assistive Technologies in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. He designed and developed assistive mobile interfaces for individuals with severe communication and physical disabilities, focusing on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

He earned a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona in January 2016. His doctoral research focused on promoting the independent living of wheelchair users through the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher in the Biomedical Engineering department at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, specialising in healthcare and ubiquitous computing.

Zulqarnain has collaborated on the following projects:

• MAAM: Measuring Adult ADHD and Menstruation
• EDIFY: Eating Disorders: Delineating Illness and Recovery Trajectories to Inform Personalised Prevention and Early Intervention in Young People
• AIMS-2-TRIALS: Autism Innovative Medicine Studies - 2 – Trials
• ART-CARMA: ADHD Remote Technology (ART) Study of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
• RADAR-CNS: Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse – Central Nervous System
• ART: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Remote Technology
• RADAR-AD: Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse – Alzheimer’s Disease
• ACE-LP: Augmenting Communication using Environmental data to drive Language Prediction
• racerCaixa: Independent Shopping Experience for Visually and Mobility Impaired, Spain

Research Interests

• Digital Healthcare
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Accessibility
• Mobile Health (mHealth)

Key Publications

• RADAR-base Platform: Digital phenotyping of mental and physical conditions through remotely collected wearables and smartphone data
• RADAR-base: open source mobile health platform for collecting, monitoring, and analysing data using sensors, wearables, and mobile devices
• Using Augmented Reality and Internet of Things to improve accessibility of people with motor disabilities in the context of Smart Cities
• RADAR-base: Major Depressive Disorder and Epilepsy Case Studies
• An independent shopping experience for wheelchair users through augmented reality and RFID

Expertise and Public Engagement

Zulqarnain has given invited talks, including "Studies Using Wearable Devices", "Big Data in Urban Mental Health", "Wearable Devices and mHealth", as well as speaking about DevOps Solutions at DevOps Live. He has also written an article for The Conversation "Shopping is hellish for disabled people – augmented reality could be the fix".