NEWS

• 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 paper was accepted by Frontiers in Digital Health (Q1), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Priyadarshana YHPP, Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2025) ExDoRA: Enhancing transferability of large language models for depression detection using free-text explanations. [28 April 2025]

• We will make the following presentation at The 48th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society. Saskovets M, Lohachov M,  Liang Z. Towards Personalized Stress Monitoring: Multilevel and Machine Learning Models for Cortisol Prediction. [7 Apr 2025]

• Our following paper was published in Frontiers in Digital Health (Q1), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Hoang NH, Liang Z. AI-Driven Sleep Apnea Screening With Overnight Blood Oxygen Saturation: Current Practices and Future Directions. [24 March 2025]

• Our following paper was published in Sensors (Q1), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. ​Hoang NH, Liang Z. Detection and Severity Classification of Sleep Apnea Using Continuous Wearable SpO2 Signals: A Multi-Scale Feature Approach. [7 March 2025]

• 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]