Digital Health Technologies Lab
Digital Health Technologies helps us bridge the capabilities of health monitoring and medical devices for understanding our health far beyond the clinic.
The DigiHealth Lab is founded by Professor Edward J. Wang as a joint research laboratory of UCSD Design Lab and the Electrical & Computer Engineering department of Jacobs School of Engineering. Our research focuses on developing new sensing techniques for monitoring a person's health more continuously, conveniently, and cheaply with the goal of ultimately bringing clinical sensing out of the clinic. I am actively creating new solutions in health monitoring with my expertise in mobile and embedded system prototyping, signal processing, machine learning, and a strong command of medical knowledge. We are transforming smartphones into medical devices without any hardware add-ons to screen for anemia, cognitive disfunctions, blood pressure, and even assisting in breastfeeding; developing novel wearable devices that continuously track health and user context; and exploring new ways to support health monitoring devices without batteries. The next generation of medical sensing needs to leave the confines of labs and clinics to be truly usable by everyone. This has to start at even the earliest prototypes, something we strive for in all of our work. Towards this goal, we have tested technologies in patient rooms, performed in-the-wild studies where users take our prototypes home, and even partnered with various NGOs to perform true user testing in places like the Peruvian jungle.
Medical Domains: Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Hematology, Cardiology, Neonatal Care, and more! Please reach out if you are a clinician looking to collaborate with technologists who are truly interested in developing usable health tech that pushes the boundary of healthcare.
Technical Domains: Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Edge Computation, Embedded Systems, Non-invasive Sensor Design
Featured
TEDx: What if we can live in a world where we can track our health like the way we do with the weather?
Research Talk: The Next Billion Medical Devices
News
Nov 2024 - Varun Viswanath successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congrats, Dr. Viswanath!
Oct 2024 - Colin Barry et al publishes latest findings on smartphone-based BP monitoring in Nature Scientific Reports. Technology licensed to Billion Labs Inc.
Sept 2024 - Dr. Wang awarded NIH Trailblazer!
June 2024 - Jessica de Souza is awarded the Merkin Fellowship and is going abroad to Sao Paulo in July to develop her work on AI for breastfeeding postpartum support.
June 2024 - Jessica de Souza publishes the latest findings on vision-based AI detection of breastfeeding complications at JMIR AI.
Sep 2023 - Yujia (Nancy) Liu and Ava Fascetti join the DigiHealth Lab. Welcome, Nancy and Ava!
May 2023 - Tom Xuan Publishes the latest findings on ultralow-cost blood pressure monitor at Scientific Reports. News Coverage: CBS News, San Diego Union Tribune, Ars Technica
Apr 2023 - Dr. Wang gives invited lecture at CU Boulder ATLAS Institute.
Mar 2023 - Jessica de Souza publishes latest findings on technological opportunities in improving lactation consulting in Brazil at Frontiers in Digital Health
Jan 2023 - Dr. Wang receives the Google Health Equity Research Initiative Award for the lab's work on remote lactation support technologies.
Jan 2023 - Awarded NIA a2 Collective Pilot Award for work on Ultralow-cost Blood Pressure Monitoring
Dec 2022 - Dr. Wang and Colin Barry starts first DigiHealth Lab spinout company Billion Labs Inc.
June 2022 - Colin Barry receives Norman Fund to attend 2022 HCIC Meeting on The Future of Health and Wellness Technologies
Apr 2022 - Colin Barry et al. awarded CHI Best paper Honorable Mention for work on Smartphone Pupillometry for cognitive impairment monitoring
Apr 2022 - Dr. Wang receives the Google Research Scholar Award for early career faculty
Oct 19 2021 - Awarded NIH R21 for work on Smartphone-based Alzheimer’s Screening
Jun 25 2021 - Colin Barry presents at MobiSys workshop on digital biomarkers (DigiBiom) on position paper on Tenets Towards Smartphone-based Medical Tricorder
Sept 2021 - Colin Barry and Yinan (Tom) Xuan join the DigiHealth Lab. Welcome, Colin and Tom!
Jul 29 2020 - Awarded ACTRI GEM prize for smartphone-based blood pressure monitoring
Jan 2020 - Jessica de Souza joins the DigiHealth Lab. Welcome, Jessica!
Sept 2020 - Varun Viswanath joins the DigiHealth Lab. Welcome Varun!