Timothy C. Sweeney-Fanelli, Ph.D.
Tim earned his PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y. USA and Co-Founder of Affects AI LLC. Tim also has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering.His research is in Automated Emotion Recognition using Deep Learning, with a focus on embedded systems and real-time affect monitoring.
Publications
ECG-Driven Automated Personality Trait Identification
T. C. Sweeney-Fanelli, J. C. Au-Yeung, N. G. Venkataswamy, and M. H. Imtiaz, "ECG-Driven Automatic Personality Trait Identification," 2025 IEEE Microelectronics Design and Test Symposium (MDTS), IEEE 2025.Exploration of ECG Characteristics using Manual Feature Extraction
T. C. Sweeney-Fanelli, E. Sola-Thomas, N. G. Venkataswamy, J. C. Au-Yeung and M. H. Imtiaz, "Predicting Emotional States from Wearable ECG," 2024 IEEE 15th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 419-425Temporal CNN for Automated Feature Extraction using ECG
T. C. Sweeney-Fanelli and M. H. Imtiaz, "ECG-Based Automated Emotion Recognition Using Temporal Convolution Neural Networks," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 18, pp. 29039-29046, 15 Sept.15, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3434479.Clarkson University Affective Dataset (CUADS)
T. C. Sweeney-Fanelli and M. H. Imtiaz, "ECG-Based Automated Emotion Recognition Using Temporal Convolution Neural Networks," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 18, pp. 29039-29046, 15 Sept.15, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3434479.
Pending Publications
The publications below have been submitted for publication, and are still pending peer review.
Benchmark Framework and Case Study (Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, pending review)
T. C. Sweeney-Fanelli and M. H. Imtiaz. Bridging the Gap in ECG-Based Emotion Recognition: A Unified Evaluation of Deep Learning Models. TechRxiv
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