🎉 We're Headed to CHIL 2025! 🎉
7 Members of Our Lab Are Attending the 6th Annual Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning #CHIL2025
📍 Berkeley, California
📅 This Week! Follow along here: lnkd.in/epPcq5Hf
👀 Stay tuned for updates on our contributions and collaborations from the conference!

🎉 We are proud to announce that Lauren Lederer, PhD student, was awarded the Duke University Traineeship in the Advancement of Surgical Technology (TAST) fellowship!

To learn more: tast-nrt.pratt.duke.edu
#BME #womeninSTEM #surgicaltechnology #graduatefellowship

We are proud to announce a partnership with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), alongside scientific and industry leaders, to use data collected from consumer wearables to reduce opioid use disorder deaths by developing interventions to help prevent relapse.

🔗 To learn more: lnkd.in/gXYGTqKu

👏 Congrats to Sarah Jiang for being awarded the #NationalScienceFoundation 2025 #GraduateResearchFellowship! This 5-year program is to "help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States" & will provide 3 years of financial support 👏

‼️Congrats‼️ to Peter Cho for successfully defending his PhD dissertation last Friday: "Leveraging Wearable Data to Understand Behavioral Patterns and Predict Influenza-like Illnesses." We are proud of the commitment & dedication he has shown in his research over the last 6 years in this lab!

Please join us for Peter Cho's dissertation defense tomorrow, March 28th, at 1:00 pm EST - all are welcome to join in person or via Zoom!

Banff was not a bad place for @drjessilyn.bsky.social to spend the week for the #EmergingStatisticalMethodsforDigitalHealthData workshop! On Monday morning, she hosted a session called "The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring" sharing her work with fellow scientists!

Please join a few of our students for the Responsible AI Symposium poster session on Friday, Feb 28th, from 12 to 1 pm at the Duke Karsh Alumni Center! Our students will present on 2 main topics: demographic data reporting in #predictivemodels and using #LLMs to assist literature reviews

PhD student @anitasilver13.bsky.social presented at the Society of Duke Research Fellows Research Lunch this afternoon. Her talk highlighted her current research, which focuses on investigating the relationships between the #gutmicrobiome, #physicalfitness, and #cardiometabolichealth

We take our #research AND #birthdays seriously! The last 2 months have been full of celebrations, personal & professional, here in our lab! One of our favorite ways to celebrate birthdays is with a good, old-fashioned cake during lab meetings. We can't wait to see what the rest of the year holds!

Yesterday our lab had the honor of hosting a Digital Health Workshop for a class of 9 high school students in their J-term course "How To Be A Good Biomedical Engineer," instructed by Marjorie Letitia Hubbard, PhD, from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics!

Post-doc Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam, Ph.D. co-chaired the "Wireless Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence" session at #IEEERadioWirelessWeek2025 in Puerto Rico earlier this week!

PhD Student Lauren Lederer showcased her research at the UCSF-Stanford #CERSISummit last weekend, presenting 👏 2 👏 1st-author posters through our work with Triangle CERSI and Digital Medicine Society. Let's keep using technology and research to address critical challenges in opioid use disorder!

We would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to our own Will Wang who successfully defended his dissertation today titled "Sleep Health and Wearable Technology: Algorithmic Development towards Field-based Sleep Monitoring"!
Congrats Dr. Wang - we cannot wait to see you continue your bright career ahead!

Congratulations to our very own @anitasilver13.bsky.social who has been selected as a 2024 ICME Fellow! She presents the below talk and poster on November 13th in Boston, MA. Check out her presentation if you are attending the International Conference on Microbiome Engineering! #ICME2024 #BME #Duke

Our lab is developing tools to help change our society's reactive, treatment-based healthcare system. We believe that a next generation proactive, preventative healthcare system is possible through a combination of new technology development and shifts in culture and policy surrounding healthcare!