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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,…

Celebrating our Spring 2026 graduates! We are incredibly proud of all the students from our lab who graduated this spring: Karnika Singh, PhD, Biomedical Engineering Annika Kumar, Masters, Biomedical Engineering Luxman M. Maheswaran, Masters, Statistical Science Perisa Ashar, Masters, Biomedical…

We’re proud to celebrate one of our outstanding mentees, Harrison Kane, on receiving the prestigious Howard G. Clark Award for excellence in research among Duke BME graduating seniors. Harrison has consistently approached his work with focus, thoughtfulness, and a drive…

We’re proud to celebrate one of our mentees, Shreya Chindepalli, on her selection for the 2026–2028 FDA ORISE Fellowship! Shreya will be joining the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, where she’ll be working…