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Last week, the Duke BIG IDEAs Lab had an incredible opportunity to engage with the next generation of innovators through two exciting outreach events! At the 2026 Peace Ambassador Leadership Summit (PALS) through National Voices for Equality Education and Enlightenment…

Our team had a fantastic time representing the Duke BIG IDEAs Lab at Association for Health Learning and Inference CHIL 2026 in Seattle, connecting with researchers and clinicians working at the intersection of machine learning, health, and biomedicine. It was…

We’re excited to share that our mentee, Shreya Chindepalli, is attending ISMB 2026 (34th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) in Washington, DC – one of the world’s leading conferences in computational biology and bioinformatics. On Sunday, July 12,…

We’re excited to share that our PhD student, Leeor Hershkovich, is attending ICML 2026 (Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning) in Seoul, South Korea! ICML brings together researchers from around the world to present the latest advances in AI and…

Meet our 2026 CHIL Team! Dr. Jessilyn Dunn, Leeor Hershkovich, and Hayoung Jeong will be representing the Duke BIG IDEAs Lab at CHIL 2026, an interdisciplinary conference at the intersection of machine learning, health, and biomedicine put on by the…

Please check out our lab’s latest publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering: “Unaddressed implications of the FDA’s 2026 guidance on wellness devices”! As consumer wearables increasingly measure health-related signals, the line between “wellness” products and medical devices is becoming harder to…

As part of the Duke Girls Exploring Math (GEM) Summer Series Workshop, Dr. Jessilyn Dunn and Kaileigh Moertl had the opportunity last week to welcome a group of middle school girls to our lab for a tour and Q&A, sharing…

What a year for the Duke BIG IDEAs Lab! From August 2025 through May 2026, our team advanced research at the intersection of biomedical engineering, data science, digital health, and wearable technology while celebrating major student milestones, national recognition, new…

Our 2026 lab retreat at Topsail Beach a few weeks ago was such a fun reminder that some of our best moments together happen outside the lab! We traded our computers for beach chairs and spent time cooking meals together,…