News

June 2026: I’m really excited to be co-organizing the first UbiComp and Health Symposium on Friday, June 12th.

May 2026: We are once again co-organizing a workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Mental Health at UbiComp/ISWC 2026 in Shanghai, China. If you’re conducting innovative reserach in this space, consider submitting a workshop paper!

May 2026: It was great to give a talk at the Resilient Minds Seminar, focused on my recent work in passive sensing, AI, and mental health. Thanks for hosting me!

April 2026: Excited to have received an Eisenberg Family Depression Center Collaborative Minds mini grant! The grant will support our work to develop novel approaches to sense behaviors related to sleep.

April 2026: Excited to attend CHI 2026 and co-organize a workshop on Social and Emotional Uses of AI. Also check out our coauthored paper - led by Ruishi Zou and Shiyu Xu - on AI-powered dashboards for clinicians to reflect upon multimodal mental health data.

March 2026: I’m really excited that Shiyu Xu and Jessica Li will be joining me as PhD students to build the REsponsive Advances for Computing in Healthcare (REACH) lab at the University of Michigan!

February 2026: We received an Agentic AI Research and Innovation (AARI) Grant from Microsoft Research to support building safer AI-driven interventions for mental and neurological health. You can read more about our work here.

January 2026: I’m excited to serve as a Tutorial Chair for UbiComp/ISWC 2026 in Shanghai, China. Please submit your great tutorial proposals!