Lab News

Apr 2026

Dr. Du is giving the highlight speech at the Annual Vanderbilt ECE Day on April 10th.

Congratulations to our undergraduate students Kaylyn Sethakosee and Mankun Yang for winning the Summer 2026 VUSE award and Summer 2026 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) award, respectively! Let’s rock the research!
Dr. Du gave an invited spotlight talk at Willcoxon Innovation in Health Sciences Summit

Dr. Du gave an invited talk at Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center titled Translational Multimodal Bioelectronics: From Biosymbiotic Devices to Clinically Integrated Digital Health, Feb 10, 2026

Dr. Du gave an invited talk at Neuroscience 2025, to be 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, to be held November 3 – 5, 2025, at University of California, Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Du gave an online invited talk at IEEE SFBA MEMS and Sensors Chapter talks, Nov 19, 2025

Dr. Du is going to be a track chair for IEEE International Conference on Flexible Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS) 2026, July 12-15 2026, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, join us there!
Dr. Du is hosting a workshop titled From Bioelectronics to Digital Biomarkers: AI-Driven Continuous Health Monitoring at IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2025, to be held October 26–29, 2025, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.

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)!

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!

Dr. Du gave a VISE seminar on wearable and implantable electronics!
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VISE SEMINARS
Dr. Du’s Spring Seminar

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.

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