EECS Seminar: Multi-Modal Wearable Sensor Platforms for Comprehensive Health Monitoring

Abstract: Continuous tracking of vital and biochemical signatures can provide comprehensive monitoring of an individual's health and wellness status. Such parameters are commonly monitored periodically by centralized laboratory instruments and trained medical professionals that cannot provide critical real-time dynamic information about temporal profiles of multiple key health parameters. This talk will cover our recent progress toward the development of multimodal wearable sensor systems, capable of monitoring simultaneously multiple key chemical and physical parameters toward capturing in real time dynamic and rich health information. The importance of such simultaneous monitoring of biochemical and biophysical temporal profiles using advanced integrated wearable bioelectronic systems will be discussed along with representative examples of such recently developed hybrid sensing platforms from our UCSD laboratories. The potential of multimodal wearable sensors, coupled with cloud-based data mining, for providing comprehensive health monitoring, predicting health trends and disorders, and supporting timely medical interventions, will be discussed. 

Bio: Joseph Wang is a Distinguished Professor of nanoegineering, a SAIC Endowed Professor and the director of the Center of Wearable Sensors (CWS) at UC San Diego. His research interests include bioelectronics and biosensors, wearable sensor systems, nanomotors and microrobots. Wang is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, European Academies of Engineering and of Science and Arts, and a fellow of the RSC, ECS and AIMBE. He has authored over 1,300 research papers, 12 books and 60 patents. He has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (H Index 217). Wang holds Honorary Professorships from eight different universities (including Complutense and Alcala Universities in Spain) and is the recipient of three National American Chemical Society Awards for Analytical Chemistry (2024), Electrochemistry (2006) and Instrumentation (1999), the Ralph Adams Pittcon Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, Breyer Medal (Australia), Heyrovsky Medal (Czech Republic), Speirs Medal (RSC) and the IEEE Sensor Achievement Award, 2021.