🎉 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!

We are very excited to announce the call for papers for the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2025) to be held in the stunning city of Los Angeles, California, USA. Please visit bsn.embs.org/2025/contrib... for details #BSN2025

New paper alert! These analyses demonstrated that age was the most consistent factor associated with adherence & retention in #digitalhealthstudies, while sex & race showed variability in participation patterns...

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

Following the publication of our paper "Data from the All of Us research program reinforces the existence of activity inequality", we are excited to announce that our code is now available as a Featured Workspace on the All of Us Research Workbench platform (workbench.researchallofus.org/library)!

Our PI @drjessilyn.bsky.social is a speaker & session chair this week at the 24th Precision Medicine World Conference (#PMWC2025) co-hosted by Stanford and UCSF in CA! Her session "Predicting Disease and Managing Health Through Wearables Technologies" will be on Feb 7 under Track 4 ‼️

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!

‼️New PUB alert‼️ This paper makes a strong case for continuing to make the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP) – Autonomic more collaborative, which will enable more robust and reproducible research in biobehavioral health! #autonomicnervoussystem #biobehavioralhealth #digitalbiomarkers

We are excited to have @csunbme.bsky.social join our lab and help us continue to move the Digital Biomarker Discovery Project forward. Welcome!

Starting 2025 with a 🎉 bang 🎉 with a lab pub in one of the top 2 journals in our field! Check it out if you are interested in learning more about how we can leverage digital health technologies to uncover activity inequality #BME #DHT #activityinequality #research @drjessilyn.bsky.social

📢 Excited to share our new publication in @thelancet.bsky.social Digital Health! 🚀 @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social & @evidation.bsky.social report key factors in adherence and retention in #DigitalHealth studies w/ insights for inclusive & effective study design: www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

What a beautiful day to send @willkewang.bsky.social off on the next phase of his journey from @dukeubme.bsky.social to NYC! We won't fret since the @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social is full of Wills (at least for today ;) Go get 'em, Will!

Congratulations to our post-doctoral associate Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam for being selected as Vice Chair of the International Microwave Symposium 2025 Subcommittee 32 (Other Innovative MHz-to-THz Systems and Applications) for the TPRC meeting in San Juan in January 2025! #IEEEMTT #IMS2025

#Time-series analysis methods pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36298367/ www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20... The #EventDTW algorithm enables #Multimodal monitoring to align biosignals of different and dynamic sampling rates. Also see Will's head-to-head comparison of time series classification techniques

# circadian monitoring using wearables pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35416084/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35475141/ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Shift work-related circadian interruptions can be quantified using wearables. Potential here for developing #DigitalBiomarkers of circadian disruption.

#equitable #sleep #algorithm development: proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a... Data: physionet.org/content/drea... Take home message: common wearables' sleep detection algorithms don't work as well for people with sleep disorders or who are shift workers.

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!

I've had the pleasure of working with @drjessilyn.bsky.social and her @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social to cover several publications and announcements from her lab. She's changed the way I think about the biometric data I collect on my smartwatch:

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!