RECENT NEWS

2025

• Our following paper was accepted by Sensors (Q1), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Thilini Savindya Karunarathna , Zilu Liang. Development of Non-invasive Continuous Glucose Prediction Models Using Multi-Modal Wearable Sensors in Free-living Conditions. [18 May 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]

• Our following paper was accepted by Brain Sciences (Q2), indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Marina Saskovets, Mykhailo Lohachov, Zilu Liang. Validation of a New Stress Induction Protocol using Speech Improvisation. [Indexed by WOS/Scopus]. [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 paper was published 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]

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