
Faraaz Akhtar
AI and Health Researcher
Faraaz Akhtar is an AI & Health Researcher at Terra API, where he develops statistical and machine-learning methods to extract insights from large-scale wearable health data.

About
Faraaz Akhtar is an AI & Health Researcher at Terra API, where he works with large-scale wearable data to better understand human health using machine learning and statistical methods. He’s particularly interested in learning meaningful representations from physiological time-series and figuring out how to work with noisy, imperfect data collected in real-world settings. His previous work spans a range of problems in wearable health, including sleep, cardiovascular signals, and self-supervised learning approaches for physiological data.
Published Research

Alcohol Doesn't Ruin Your Sleep The Way You Think
March 30, 2026

Caffeine Kills Your Deepest Sleep First
March 17, 2026

Seasonal Effects on Sleep Performance
February 11, 2026

Sleep Metric Variation Across Wearables
January 22, 2026

The January Activity Spike: A two-day Story
January 15, 2026

Sleep Patterns Across the World
January 6, 2026

How HRV Actually Works
December 17, 2025




