Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series


2023-01-31 16:00: Can Earables Revolutionise Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring? (Fahim Kawsar,  University of Glasgow and Nokia Bell Labs)

2023-02-07 16:00: The Potential of smartphones voice recordings to monitor depression severity (Nick Cummins, Kings College London)

2023-02-14 16:00: Using breathing acoustics and breathing pattern for automated predictions of asthma status (Anna Barney, University of Southampton)

2023-02-21 16:00: Sport biomechanics and wearables: can we move from lab to field testing? (Ezio Preatoni, University of Bath)

2023-02-28 16:00: CANCELLED/POSTPONED Digital phenotyping and smartphone apps for mental health (John Torous, Harvard Medical School)

2023-03-07 16:00: Overview of Digital Phenotyping: Concepts, Data, Methods, and Applications (JP Onnela, Harvard University)

2023-03-09 14:00: Computer vision and healthcare (Professor Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-14 14:00: ML for wearables and healthcare interventions (David Clifton, University of Oxford)

2023-05-02 16:00: Using consumer wearables for clinical decision making (Peter Charlton (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-09 16:00: Towards regulatory acceptance of digital outcome measures for Parkinson’s Disease (George Roussos (Birkbeck College London))

2023-05-16 16:00: (CANCELLED/POSTPONED) The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Early Disease Detection (Jessilyn Dunn (Duke University))

2023-10-17 16:00: Using wearable-derived cardiac signals to predict cardiovascular events (Michele Orini, Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL)

2023-10-24 16:00: Measuring mobility outside the laboratory with digital health technology: are we there yet? (Silvia Del Din, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle Univerisity)

2023-10-31 16:00: AIoT for Safer, Healthier, and Smarter Environments (Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang, Columbia University)

2023-11-07 16:00: Towards Smart Health Using Mobile Technologies (Yingying Chen, Rutgers University)

2023-11-21 16:00: Towards Ambient Physiological Sensing for Digital Healthcare (Jeonggil Ko, Yonsei University)

2023-11-28 16:00: Time-series Machine Learning Models for Healthcare: Advancements and Applications (Tingting Zhu, University of Oxford)

2024-01-23 16:00: Dealing with uncertainty in physiological sensing in the wild (Christian Holz, ETHZ)

2024-01-30 16:00: Physiological sensing in personal informatics systems: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Silvia Santini, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana)

2024-02-06 16:00: Where next with wearables: An overview, with examples analysing UK Biobank accelerometery data and real-time machine learning on brain data (Alex Casson, University of Manchester)

2024-02-13 16:00: AI for Health with Wearables (Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St Louis)

2024-02-20 16:00: Challenges to the accurate monitoring cognitive health: recent findings from Sheffield (Heidi Christensen, University of Sheffield)

2024-02-27 16:00: Vocal biomarkers for minimally disruptive clinical research: how to get there? (Guy Fagherazzi, Luxembourg Institute of Health)

2024-03-05 14:00: Beyond Listening: The Evolution of Earables in Health and Wellbeing Monitoring (Alessandro Montanari, Nokia Bell Labs)

2024-04-23 16:00: Embracing Ubiquitous Technology to Complement, Scale, and Extend Traditional Healthcare (Alex Mariakakis, University of Toronto)

2024-04-30 16:00: Towards Digital Endpoints of Quality of Life (Katarzyna Wac, University of Geneva)

2024-05-07 16:00: Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine (George Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2024-05-21 16:00: Inspiration of Taiji: Can Audio Benefit Healthcare for Diagnosis and Treatment? (Kun Qian, School of Medical Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China)

2024-05-28 16:00: Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare in the Age of AioT (Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

2024-10-15 16:00: The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring (Jessilyn Dunn, Duke University)

2024-10-29 16:00: Self-Supervised Learning, Unified Sensing & Beyond (Aaqib Saeed,  Eindhoven University of Technology)

2024-11-19 16:00: Language models as temporary training wheels to improve mental health (Tim Althoff, Univeristy of Washington)

2024-11-26 16:00: Enabling efficient and intelligent embedded systems for the next generation of human healthcare and well-being (Nhat (Nick) Pham, University of Cardiff)

2025-01-28 16:00: Towards responsible deployment of robust and private AI models in healthcare (Olivia Wiles, DeepMind)

2025-02-11 16:00: Towards Scalable Foundation Models for Wearable Sensing (Shyam Tailor, Google)

2025-03-11 14:00: Wearable electrocardiography: from Holter to handheld devices (Peter Charlton (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-18 16:00: Health & Wellbeing: A Multisensory Perspective (Marianna Obrist, UCL)

2025-05-13 16:00: No One Left Behind: Building Low-Cost Wearables for Health Equity (Longfei Shangguan, University of Pittsburgh)

2025-06-03 16:00:  Computational wireless sensing for health (Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Cornell University)

2025-09-19 14:00: Human-AI Ecosystems for Daily Health and Well-being (Xuhai “Orson” Xu, Columbia University)

2025-10-21 16:00: Intelligent Mobile Systems for an Aging World (Justin Chan, Carnegie Mellon University)

2025-11-04 16:00: Robust Ear-worn System for Ambulatory Epileptic Seizure Monitoring: Design, Development, and Deployment (VP Nguyen, UMass Amherst)

2025-11-25 16:00: Building Open Wearables with AI Capabilities (Tobias Roeddiger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).)

2026-01-27 16:00: Foundation Models for Structured Data (Xiyuan Zhang, Amazon Web Services)

2026-02-24 16:00: AI for Future Healthcare (Bjoern Eskofier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich)

2026-03-05 14:00: Foundation models for personal health signals (Dimitris Spathis, Google)

2026-03-10 14:00: From Wearable Sensing to Contextual AI: An Egocentric Perspective (Chi Ian Tang, Meta)

2026-04-14 16:00: Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Human Physiology (Yuzhe Yang, UCLA and Google)

2026-05-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente)