News

• Summer 2026 The lab hosted two students through the NSF Systems and Bioengineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program (opens in new tab).
• Summer 2026 Freya Nardelli (opens in new tab) wins 2nd place in the poster competition (photos (opens in new tab)).
• Spring 2026 Zhiyuan Wang (opens in new tab) successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congrats Dr. Wang!
• Mar 2026 Zachary King joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
• Mar 2026 CALLM paper accepted at ACM CHI 2026: Understanding Cancer Survivors' Emotions and Intervention Opportunities via Mobile Diaries and Context-Aware Language Models.

• Nov 2025 Indrajeet Ghosh (opens in new tab) joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
• Oct 2025 Invited Speaker at IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference — Workshop on Digital Health Technologies and AI.
• Oct 2025 Featured Speaker at NSF Smart Health Frontiers: Combating Cancer with Advanced Technologies.
• Fall 2025 Mark Rucker (opens in new tab) successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congrats Dr. Rucker!
• Jun 2025 Invited Speaker at South China Normal University — Aberdeen Institute of Data Science and AI.
• Jun 2025 IEEE SmartComp Research Tutorial: "Deploying smart sensors for human subjects" with M. Rucker and Md Sabbir Ahmed (opens in new tab).
• 2025 New paper in npj Health Systems: Stakeholder-centric participation in large language models enhanced health systems.
• 2025 New paper in IEEE Trans. Affective Computing: Wearable sensor-based multimodal physiological responses of socially anxious individuals in social contexts on Zoom.
• 2025 New paper in Proc. ACM IMWUT: Multimodal Sensing and Modeling of Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Breast Cancer Survivors.
• 2025 SocialPulse preprint: On-Device Social Interaction Detection using smartwatch multimodal sensing.

• 2024 Received UVA Research Achievement Award.
• 2024 New paper in Proc. ACM HCI, CSCW: CommSense — A Wearable Sensing Computational Framework for Evaluating Patient-Clinician Interactions.
• 2024 Alejandro Vistorte Salgado joins the lab as a PhD student.

• 2023 New paper in Proc. ACM IMWUT: Detecting social contexts from mobile sensing indicators in virtual interactions with socially anxious individuals.