Lab News

May 2026

• Our lab received a VINSE Pilot Award to support the development of wearable sensing technologies. The project will leverage the VINSE cleanroom for micro/nanofabrication and support collaborative efforts toward next-generation wearable bioelectronic systems.

Apr 2026

• Our paper, “Single-Beat Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Ear-PPG and ECG with a Lightweight Hybrid Learning Framework,” was accepted to IEEE EMBC 2026, to be held July 26–30, 2026, in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations to Kindeep, our first graduated MS student and first author of the paper, and Tengyue Wu, our second graduated MS student and incoming Ph.D. student, who served as co-first author. See you in Toronto!

• Dr. Du gave the highlight speech at the Annual Vanderbilt ECE Day on April 10th.

Mar 2026

• Congratulations to our undergraduate students Kaylyn Sethakosee and Mankun Yang for receiving the Summer 2026 VUSE Summer Research Award and the Summer 2026 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) Award, respectively. We are excited to support their summer research in the lab!

• Our collaborative paper, Wireless and Soft Pulse Wave Measurement Device with Printed Ferroelectric E-tattoo Sensor, was published in Advanced Sensor Research. This work presents a wireless, soft pulse-wave monitoring platform that integrates a fully printed ferroelectric e-tattoo sensor with a stretchable data transmission unit, enabling noninvasive extraction of clinically relevant radial artery pulse indices.

• Our collaborative clinical study, Wearable SENsor to Diagnose and Assess SEverity of Aortic Stenosis (SENSE-AS): A Proof-of-Concept Study, was published in JACC: Advances, with Dr. Du serving as a co-corresponding/co-senior author. The study demonstrates a chest-worn multimodal wearable sensor for noninvasive assessment of aortic stenosis severity, including sensor-derived aortic valve acceleration time and machine-learning-based prediction of transvalvular velocity. This work represents an important step toward accessible, lower-cost tools for valve disease screening, triage, and longitudinal monitoring.

• Dr. Du gave an invited spotlight talk at the Willcoxon Innovation in Health Sciences Summit, presenting “From Bench-top to Bedside: Translating Wearable Technologies into Real-World Healthcare Impact.”

Feb 2026

• Dr. Du gave an invited talk at the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center titled “Translational Multimodal Bioelectronics: From Biosymbiotic Devices to Clinically Integrated Digital Health” on February 10, 2026.

Jan 2026

• Welcome Tianxiang, the 1st Ph.D. student to join our lab. We are thrilled to have him on the team and look forward to growing the lab together through exciting research in multimodal bioelectronics and seamless human robot interaction.

• Welcome Kaixuan, the 1st postdoctoral researcher to join our lab. We are thrilled to have him on board and look forward to working together on wearable electrochemical sensing technologies.

Dec 2025

• Congratulations to Kindeep on graduating as the first master’s student from the lab and beginning the next stage of her career in industry. We are grateful for her contributions to the lab and excited to see her continued success.

Nov 2025

• Dr. Du gave an invited talk at Neuroscience 2025, held November 15–19, 2025, in San Diego, California.

• Dr. Du gave an invited talk at IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (IEEE-EMBS BSN) 2025, held November 3–5, 2025, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Dr. Du gave an online invited talk for the IEEE SFBA MEMS and Sensors Chapter on November 19, 2025.

Oct 2025

• Dr. Du will serve as a Track Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Flexible Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS) 2026, to be held July 12–15, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. Join us there!

• Dr. Du hosted a workshop titled “From Bioelectronics to Digital Biomarkers: AI-Driven Continuous Health Monitoring” at the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2025, held October 26–29, 2025, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

July 2025

• Dr. Du gave an invited talk at IEEE NANO 2025, where she shared recent advances from the lab in wearable and implantable sensor systems for diverse health monitoring applications.

June 2025

• Our paper titled A skin-interfaced wireless wearable device and data analytics approach for sleep stage and disorder detection is published at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)!

April 2025

• Congratulations to our undergraduate students William Qian and Matthew Hu for winning the Best Undergraduate Poster Runner-Up award at the Annual Vanderbilt ECE Day, selected from over 50 posters! Great job to William, Matthew, and our master’s student Tengyue Wu for showcasing our lab’s research on wearable and implantable sensors with such clarity and enthusiasm!

• Welcome Kindeep and Devon, the 2nd and 3rd MS students to join our lab. We were delighted to have them on board and excited for their contributions to EEG signal processing, multimodal sensing, and wearable sensing technologies.

Mar 2025

• Dr. Du gave a VISE seminar on wearable and implantable electronics!
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Feb 2025

• Dr. Du gave an invited talk at Cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), where she shared recent advances from the lab in wearable and implantable sensor systems for cardiovascular monitoring.

• Dr. Du has received secondary appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. These interdisciplinary affiliations reflect the lab’s commitment to advancing research at the intersection of electronics, robotics, and computing.

Jan 2025

• Dr. Du is officially affiliated with the Vanderbilt Insitute for Surgery and Engineering.

• Welcome Tengyue Wu, the 1st MS student to join our lab. We were thrilled to have him on board and grateful for his contributions to the lab’s early development.

• Dr. Du is officially an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, US. We are actively recruiting PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers. Please see Opportunity for more details.