Sugam Budhraja
PhD · Head of Data & AI at Sahha
He leads the AI and research behind Sahha's health products, turning passive smartphone and wearable data into health scores, digital biomarkers, and behavioral archetypes. With a PhD in Computer Science from Auckland University of Technology, his research spans multimodal, explainable AI in health, including phone-only models for depression-risk prediction from passive data alone.
Wearable and behavioral health dataHealth AI and machine learningDigital biomarkersPassive smartphone sensingExplainable AI
36 articles
- The Health AI Wars: Apple, Google, Samsung, and OpenAI Are Racing to Coach You — and Data, Not Models, Will Decide It Jun 25, 2026
- Orthosomnia: How Sleep Trackers Are Making Us Anxious About Sleep — and What Good Design Does Instead Jun 18, 2026
- WWDC 2026: What Apple's Redesigned Health App, Better Sleep Tracking, and Delayed AI Coach Mean for Developers Jun 11, 2026
- Apple Watch vs Oura Sleep Data: Why Wearables Disagree, and How to Build On It Anyway Jun 4, 2026
- Google Just Unified the Android Health Stack: What Google Health, the Gemini Coach, and FHIR Medical Records Mean for Developers May 28, 2026
- Why Most Health App Users Churn Within 90 Days — And What the Data Says About Fixing It May 15, 2026
- Gamification and Behavioral Nudges in Health Apps: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Health Data Changes May 8, 2026
- AI Health Coaching Is Here: How LLMs Trained on Wearable Data Are Replacing Generic Health Advice Apr 30, 2026
- Remote Patient Monitoring Is Going Consumer: How Wearables Are Crossing the Clinical Divide Apr 23, 2026
- Nutrition Tracking Is Getting a Data Upgrade: AI Food Scanning, Consumer CGMs, and the Convergence With Health Data Apr 16, 2026
- Digital Mental Health Is Moving Beyond Self-Report — How Behavioral Data From Phones and Wearables Is Changing the Game Apr 9, 2026
- Corporate Wellness Is Moving From Surveys to Passive Health Data — Here's What That Means Apr 2, 2026
- Women's Wearable Tech in 2026: Why FemTech Is Digital Health's Biggest Gap — and Fastest-Growing Market Mar 26, 2026
- How Longevity Apps Are Tracking Biological Age With Wearable Biomarkers Mar 19, 2026
- From Reactive to Predictive: How AI Is Transforming Personal Health Analytics Mar 10, 2026
- The State of Wearable Health Data in 2026: Market Trends, Challenges, and What Comes Next Mar 5, 2026
- How Passive Health Data Collection Works on iOS and Android (Without a Wearable) Feb 26, 2026
- Data-Driven Personalization in Fitness Apps: From Generic Plans to Adaptive Coaching Feb 19, 2026
- Apple HealthKit vs Google Health Connect: What Developers Need to Know Feb 12, 2026
- How Health Insurers Are Using Wearable Data to Cut Claims and Reward Prevention Feb 5, 2026
- How GLP-1 Medications Are Reshaping Digital Health and Fitness Feb 1, 2026
- HIPAA-Compliant Health Data APIs: A Checklist for Product Teams Jan 22, 2026
- Build vs Buy: The True Cost of Health Data Infrastructure Jan 15, 2026
- The Sleep Tech Market in 2026: Why Sleep Data Is the Most Valuable Metric in Consumer Health Jan 8, 2026
- Connected Fitness and the Gym Tech Stack: How Health Data Is Reshaping the Fitness Club Industry Jan 1, 2026
- The Cold-Start Problem in Health Apps: How to Personalize Before You Have Data Dec 11, 2025
- Sahha Ships Rebuilt Data Pipeline and Overhauled SDKs Across All Platforms Dec 10, 2025
- How to Deduplicate Health Data Across Wearables: A Developer's Guide Dec 4, 2025
- How to Normalize Wearable Data Across Providers: A Developer's Guide Nov 27, 2025
- Wearables, Nearables, and Ambient: A Field Guide to Health-Tracking Devices in 2025 — and What Their Data Is Actually Worth Nov 20, 2025
- Sahha Raises $1.2M to Scale Health and Wearable Data Engagement API Jul 21, 2025
- Introducing Sahha Insights: Trend Detection and Population Comparisons for Health Data Apr 1, 2025
- Sahha Launches Archetypes: Dynamic Behavioral Profiling From Health and Lifestyle Data Jan 20, 2025
- Real-Time Health Scores and On-Demand Biomarkers Now Available on Sahha Jan 8, 2025
- Sahha Introduces Smartphone-Based Sleep Estimation After Apple Drops iPhone Sleep Tracking in iOS 18 Dec 12, 2024
- Sahha Launches the Readiness Score: Recovery, Strain, and Sleep in One Daily Signal Sep 17, 2024