A running timeline of recent milestones across research, awards, publications, and upcoming transitions.
News
Jan 2026
One paper on affective experience sampling with digital diaries was conditionally accepted by ACM CHI 2026. Paper
Oct 2025
Received the UVA Link Lab Distinguished Research Award. Award
Sept 2025
Honored to receive NSF-EMBS-Google NextGen Scholar Recognition from IEEE BHI 2025.
May 2025
One paper on stakeholder engagement in LLM health systems was accepted by npj Health Systems. Link
May 2025
Joined Meta Reality Labs Research as a Multimodal Behavioral Research Scientist Intern.
Apr 2025
Exciting news: I received the All-University Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Virginia. Award
Sep 2024
Excited to announce that I was awarded the UVA Sture G. Olsson Endowed Fellowship.
Jun 2024
One paper understanding social contexts using ambient audio was accepted by ACII 2024. Paper
Jun 2024
One paper on evaluating palliative care clinical communication using wearables and NLP was accepted by ACM CSCW. Arxiv
Apr 2024
I was selected for NSF Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Rising Stars 2024. Web
Dec 2024
One paper on palliative care communication assessment was accepted by ACM HEALTH. Link
Mar 2024
This summer, I would be working as a digital health research scientist intern at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.
Aug 2023
One paper on quantitative analysis of privacy risks in digital phenotyping was accepted by IEEE BSN. Online
Jul 2023
One paper on detecting socially anxious individuals’ social contexts was accepted by ACM IMWUT. Online
Apr 2023
One paper on state anxiety detection using linguistic biomarkers was accepted by IEEE EMBC. Arxiv
Feb 2023
Check out a smartwatch prototype we designed for better patient-provider communication, featured on UVA Engineering Engineering, UVA Today Today, and UVA Nursing Nursing.
Oct 2022
Honored to give a student presentation on personalized ML for digital mental health at the NSF-NIH SCH PI Meeting.
Jul 2022
Our paper on mobile sensing in COVID-19 was accepted by SPJ Health Data Science. Featured on AAAS, Medical Press, and News Medical.
Feb 2022
Our paper on mobile sensing for personalized medicine and population health was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Online