ABOUT
xx2489 (at) columbia (dot) edu
Hi! I am an incoming Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Dept of Biomedical Informatics (starting in Jan, 2025). I focus on applying human-computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence (AI) methods for health applications.
I lead the SEA (Sense, Empower, and Augment) Lab. We aim to leverage everyday data and build better human-centered methods, devices, and systems to sense, empower, and augment human health and well-being.
Research Overview
I have multiple openings for PhDs/Postdocs starting Spring/Fall 2025 (DBMI & CS). I always love to work with self-motivated undergraduates, graduate students on various research projects on human-AI interaction / AI for health & medical applications. Shoot me an email if you are interested!
Drawing from human-computer interaction, applied AI/ML, and health, I develop deployable behavior modeling algorithms to monitor various health and well-being conditions using everyday sensor data and health records. Leveraging these models, I further design and deploy intelligent intervention & interaction techniques that help users achieve personal health and well-being goals and support health experts in making decisions.
○ 2024/07: Super excited to announce that I will be joining Columbia University DBMI as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Jan 2025!
○ 2024/01: Two senior-author papers about intelligent intervention techniques, "Time2Stop" and "MindShift", have been conditionally accepted by CHI2024. Very proud of Adiba & Ruolan!
○ 2023/10: Our paper "GLOBEM" won the Distinguished Paper Award @UbiComp2023!
○ 2023/10: I am honored to receive the 2023 Distinguished Dissertation Award from UW!
○ 2023/9: I am honored to be selected as Cornell Future Faculty Symposium Scholar!
○ 2023/09: Apple Watch Series 9 supports double-tap! A glimpse of the details from our award-winning paper.
