Annual BME Retreat Highlights

Image of four BIG IDEAs Lab members who were awarded a certificate for second place in the Rapid Fire Talk competition at the 2025 Annual BME Retreat - image includes Jerry Yang, Jessilyn Dunn, Hayoung Jeong, and Leeor Hershkovich smiling

Each year, Duke’s Department of Biomedical Engineering hosts a retreat for faculty and PhD students to share research, collaborate, and enjoy time together. Here are some highlights for our lab from this year’s retreat:

Hayoung Jeong, Jiamu Yang, and Bill Chen won 2nd place in the Rapid Fire Talk competition, where they created a funny, yet informative video about our lab’s research with continuous glucose monitors and other wearable tech to develop digital biomarkers for illness detection.

Leeor Hershkovich presented a research poster titled “Missingness as a Biosignal: the value of missing data in real-world wearables usage.”

Yihang Jiang presented a research poster titled “Augmented Reality and Biosignal Monitoring for Misophonia” and hosted a breakout session to bring the thrill of flying on a simulator. He awarded 2 flight tickets to the winners of a raffle sponsored by the Duke Aviators.

Hayoung Jeong was awarded the Duke BME Outstanding Teaching Assistant Spring Semester 2025 position and recognized for her upcoming role as a Research Roundtable Co-Chair for the Association for Health Learning and Inference Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) at the end of this month!

Lauren Lederer was recognized for her newly appointed Duke University Traineeship in the Advancement of Surgical Technology (TAST) Fellowship!

Proud of all the daily work these students do to contribute to scientific innovation!

a student talks with another individual in front of a research poster