NEWS

• Our following papers were accepted by 2025 IEEE 14th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2025). [4 July 2025]

  • Saskovets M, Lohachov M, Liang Z.  Cortisol Estimation Using Wearable Wristbands: Comparing Multilevel Modelling and Machine Learning.

  • Carvalho CF, Liang Z. Short-Term Glucose Prediction in Diabetes: Comparing Deep Learning Training Paradigms.

  • Hossain FMM, Tan DJG, Mohamed IA, Ayun QQ, Matsunaga S, Junaideen AS, Liang Z. From Skin to Screen: Real-Time Wound Monitoring with a Smart Bandage and Smartphone.

  • Ahmed H, Liang Z. Design and Development of a Smartwatch App for Mood Tracking, Reflection and Regulation.

  • Senanayake A, Liang Z. CE-LAH: Contextualized Embeddings for Longitudinal Analysis of Human Anxiety.

  • Raj P, Liang Z. Design and Implementing a mHealth Application for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) Screening.

  • Karunarathna TS, Liang Z. Bottom-Up Feature Selection for Continuous Glucose Prediction Using Wearable Data.

• We will give the following presentations at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. [2 July 2025]

  • Karunarathna T, Beten A, Lococo L, Baig A, Hoang N, Liang Z. Impact of Cross-Subject Distribution Shifts on Glucose Prediction Using Wearable Data. 

  • Hoang  N, Karunarathna T, Liang Z. Elevating Sleep Monitoring Accuracy in Wearable Trackers via Multi-Level Modeling.

• We will give the following presentations at the World Sleep 2025, the premier international meeting in sleep and circadian science and medicine. [1 July 2025]

  • Liang Z,  Hoang N, Karunarathna T. Uncovering Sleep-Linked Glucose Dynamics in Healthy Individuals Using Wearable Data. (Acceptance rate for oral presentation = 14.3%) 

  • Liang Z, Melcer E,  Hoang  N, Hwang D, Chen S, Khotchasing K. Delivering Sleep Hygiene Interventions through Smartwatch-based Serious Sleep Games.

  • Liang Z, Chapa-Martell MA. Visualizing Temporal Patterns in Sleep Tracker Accuracy: A Novel Approach to Validating Consumer Sleep Technologies.

  • Liang Z. Improving Sleep Stage Classification from Consumer Wearables Using a Two-Level Machine Learning Framework with Selective Correction.

  • Liang Z. Unpacking the Discrepancy Between Subjective and Wearable-Measured Sleep: A Neurophysiological Perspective Using fNIRS.

  • Liang Z. Bedtime Stress and Prefrontal Cortex Hemodynamics During Sleep: A Pilot Study Using Wearable fNIRS and Salivary Biomarkers.

  • Hoang N, Liang Z. Interpretable Machine Learning Using Questionnaire Data: A Scalable Approach for Sleep Apnea Screening.

• We hosted an open lab for Chairman Mr. Nagamori, which was made possible by the hard work of our lab members and our wonderful interns from The Ohio State University. [26 June 2025]

• Our following paper was accepted by Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology (Q2), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Marina Saskovets, Mykhailo Lohachov, Zilu Liang. Paralanguage as a Tool for Shaping Stress Response in Listeners: Multimodal Physiological Sensing Study. [20 June 2025]

• Our following paper was accepted by SN Computer Science (Q2), indexed by Scopus.  Priyadarshana YHPP, Liang Z, Piumarta I. Who Says What (WSW) 2.0 : Utterance Semantic Modelling for Speaker Identification in Text-Based Multi-Party Conversations. [16 June 2025]

• Welcome 5 research interns from Ohio State University. They will be working on sleep game development and continuous glucose prediction with wearable devices. [16 May 2025]

• Dr. Liang was invited to serve as an external PhD thesis examiner for The University of Queensland, Australia. [15 May 2025]

• Dr. Liang was invited to serve as an grant reviewer for the Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ), the Netherlands. [8 April 2025]

• The following student team from our lab was selected as a Finalist Team of the 2025 IEEE CIS Student Grand Competition on Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare. [30 April 2025]

  • Karunarathna TS, Hoang NH, Khurshe S, Beten A, Lococo M. GlucoPatrol: AI-Powered, Non-Invasive Smartwatch System for Continous Glucose Monitoring.

• Our lab contributed 1 full paper and 4 workshop papers at the 2025 ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. [28 April 2025]

  • Main conference: Liang Z, Hwang D, Chen S, Hoang NH, Khotchasing K, Melcer EF. User Preferences for Interaction Timing in Smartwatch Sleep Hygiene Games. (Acceptance rate = 7.8%) 

  • HCI+Health Workshop

    • Liang Z. Statistical Lessons Learned in Personal Informatics Research.

    • Liang Z, Hoang NH, Karunarathna T. A Pilot Study on Sensemaking of Consumer Micronutrient Tests: Sufficiencies, Deficiencies, and Barriers to Improvement.

    • Ahmed H, Liang Z. (2025) Wandering as CLOUDS: Designing Soft Nudges for Mood Logging and Reflection on Smartwatches.

  • Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models Workshop (HEAL@CHI'25)

    • Yapa HPPP, Senanayake A, Liang Z. (2025) PIFU: A novel framework to evaluate the interpretability of synthetic free-text explanations in digital mental health. (The Most Trending Paper Mention)

• Our following poster received an Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award at the 18th International Conf on Health Informatics, a premier international conference of health informatics. Senanayake A, Liang Z. (2025) Anxiety Detection in Reddit Posts through Emotion Dynamics Analysis. [22 Feb 2025]

• Dr. Liang was honored to receive Special Recognition for Outstanding Review for her work at the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25), the premier international conference in Human-Computer Interaction. This marks the third time she has received this recognition, following CHI'22 and IMWUT'21. [18 Feb 2025]

• Our following paper was published in JMIR Mental Health (Q1), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Saskovets M, Saponkova I, Liang Z. Effects of Sound Interventions on the Mental Stress Response in Adults: A Scoping Review. (Acceptance rate = 25%) [5 Feb 2025]

• Our PhD student Ms. Nhung Huyen Hoang won the Best Doctoral Candidate Project Award at the Doctoral Consortium at the  17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2024) for the project "Serious Gamification App for Improving Sleep-Wake Cycle and Sleep Education". [9 Jan 2025]

• Our master student Mr. Cleber Franca Carvalho received a Best Presentation Award at the 4th International Conference on Big Data and Computational Intelligence (BDCI 2024) for the presentation entitled "Glucose Prediction with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Models". [14 Sep 2024]

• Dr. Liang received a Best Presentation Award at the 6th World Symposium on Software Engineering (WSSE 2024) for the presentation entitled "Middleware Solution for Real-Time Physiological Data Streaming from Consumer Smartwatches". [14 Sep 2024]

• Our PhD student Mr. Yapa Prasan won an Honorable Mention Award at the 2024 IEEE CIS Student Grand Competition in Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare, with the following project Vishadha: Early Smart Depression Detector .  [30 June 2024]