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Jessilyn Dunn

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Medical Insights, Now Available on Your Wrist

Jessilyn Dunn gathers biometric data from smartwatches to study and predict health changes

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Lauren Lederer Awarded Duke TAST Fellowship!

Lauren Lederer was awarded the 2025 Duke Traineeship in the Advancement of Surgical Technology Fellowship!

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Duke BIG IDEAs Lab Partnering with DiMe to Build a Relapse Prevention Tool for Opioid Use Disorder

We are partnering with Digital Medicine Society alongside scientific and industry leaders to conduct research and develop a relapse prevention tool for opioid use disorder!

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Developing a Digitally Derived Tool to Prevent Relapse in Opioid Use Disorder

We’re harnessing the power of digital innovation to fight the opioid epidemic.

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Sarah Jiang Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Sarah Jiang was awarded the National Science Foundation's 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship!

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Peter Cho Successfully Defends Dissertation!

Peter Cho successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Friday, March 28th, 2025!

Brinnae Bent (foreground), during her time as a PhD student, preparing to download information from a wearable health monitoring device, with Duke BME faculty member Jessilyn Dunn.

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Brinnae Bent Develops the New Coursera Specialization on Emerging Artificial Intelligence Trends

Congratulations to BIG IDEAs Lab graduate, Brinnae Bent, on her success in developing the new Coursera specialization on emerging artificial intelligence trends!

Will Wang standing next to his Dissertation Title slide: "Sleep Health and Wearable Technology: Algorithmic Development towards Field-based Sleep Monitoring"

Will Wang Successfully Defends Dissertation!

Will Wang successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Thursday, November 14th, 2024!

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BIG IDEAs Lab heads to BMES!

Jessilyn Dunn, Perisa Ashar, Yihang Jiang, Lauren Lederer, Ali Roghanizad, Sarah Jiang, Bill Chen and Anita Silver head to BMES 2024 in Baltimore, MD.

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Jessilyn Dunn and Karnika Singh Attend IEEE HI-POCT

Dr. Dunn helped to organize the IEEE #HIPOCT24 Conference in Tuscon, AZ and chaired the session on "Global Health & Health Informatics." Karnika Singh presented on At-home glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) Testing for Scaling Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes during the "In Home…

Congratulations to BIG IDEAs Lab Undergrads, Perisa Ashar and Sarah Jiang!

Perisa accepted to the BME Masters program and Sarah awarded two grants.

BIG IDEAs Lab has two new publications out!

We have two new publications out this month; one in Lancet Digital Health and one in JAMIA Open.

CHIL 2024 Best Paper Award

| CHIL Conference

Will Wang Receives Best Paper Award at the 2024 CHIL Conference

Congratulations to BIG IDEAs Lab Ph.D. student WIll Wang for receiving the bast paper award at the CHIL Conference June 27-28 in New York. Check out work by Will Wang, "Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A new dataset and novel methods for a population with sleep disorders."

| Duke Engineering

BIG IDEAs Lab Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Biosignal Algorithms

Dr. Dunn recently won a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. See how the five-year grant will support her efforts to improve the accuracy of wearable devices so that they can become better diagnostic tools.

BIG IDEAs Lab has recently published two papers in Nature Digital Medicine.

Our team published two papers in Nature Digital Medicine.