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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🎉 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!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎉 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

Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Apr 8

👏 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 👏

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Apr 4

‼️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!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Mar 27

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!

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IEEE BSN 2025 @ieeebsn.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Mar 12

Understanding these factors can assist researchers in developing targeted methods to enhance study adherence and retention, ultimately leading to better population representation within #digitalhealthresearch 👏

Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Mar 12

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...

Identification of key factors related to digital health observational study adherence and retention by data-driven approaches: an exploratory secondary analysis of two prospective longitudinal studies

Longitudinal digital health studies combine passively collected information from digital devices, such as commercial wearable devices, and actively co…

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 28

The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) is an amazing center for scientific discovery and collaboration! www.birs.ca/events/2025/...

25w5474: Emerging Statistical Methods for Digital Health Data | Banff International Research Station

Workshop at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta between Feb 23 and Feb 28, 2025: Emerging Statistical Methods for Digital Health Data.

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 28

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!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 12

It is always exciting to see our students share their research both inside and outside of Duke. This lab continues to be successful because of the dedication and passion our students have for innovative research and, therefore, bettering the lives of others!

Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 12

This is an important area of research in which scientists explore if and how the gut microbiome plays a role in cardiometabolic health, especially risk factors for #cardiometabolicdisease

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 6

This means that our methods for analysis are accessible and reproducible, and we encourage other researchers to extend this work to uncover new insights about the #activityinequality in the U.S.

To access this workspace and learn more, click here: support.researchallofus.org/hc/en-us/art...

Featured Workspaces

Featured workspaces provide examples of data querying, wrangling, and analysis to support you when using the All of Us Researcher Workbench. There are four types of featured workspaces: tutorial wo...

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 6

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)!

All of Us Researcher Workbench

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 5

Learn more about PMWC - Precision Medicine World Conference at pmwcintl.com

PMWC - Original & Leading Precision Medicine World Conference

Est. 2009 Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) | Co-hosts: UCSF, Stanford, U Michigan, Duke U | 2-4 Days | Hundreds of Leaders Speaking

pmwcintl.com

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 5

#PMWC2025 features over 400 speakers and 12 tracks spread across 3 days - it gathers recognized leaders, researchers, & medical professionals to close the knowledge gap across different sectors and promote collaboration to accelerate #PrecisionMedicine

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Feb 5

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 ‼️

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jan 28

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!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jan 24

The #BIGIDEAsLab continues to be committed to fostering community engagement and making the world of #science, specifically #biomedicalengineering and #wearables research, exciting and accessible to younger generations!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jan 24

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!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab @duke-big-ideas-lab.bsky.social · Jan 24

Other key presentations included: advancements in #deeplearning for channel estimation, AI-based path loss estimation, and explainable #machinelearning for RF meta-surface #synthesis

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Home - IEEE Radio & Wireless Week

About Radio & Wireless Week The 2025 IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW2024) will be held during the week of 19 January 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. RWW consists of five related conferences focusi...

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