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by Amanda Watson

Latest News

Haoran presented “OpenSpectro An Open-Source Spectroscopic Profiling Platform” at EMBC 2025!

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Tarek presented “A multi-Wavelength Optical Sensing Framework for Calibration-Free Wearable Blood Pressure Monitoing” at ICASSP 2025!

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Tarek presented “Raproto An Open-Source Platform for Rapid Prototyping with Wearable Devices” at BSN 2024 and was 2nd Runner Up for Best Paper Award!

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Latest Publications

OpenSpectro: An Open-Source Spectroscopic Profiling Platform

Haoran Zhang, Elizabeth C. Courtney, Kyle Quinn, Amanda Watson

August 2025 EMBC

Characterization and Feasibility of Wearable Spectroscopic Tracking of Nutrition Biomarkers

Tarek Hamid, Elizabeth C. Courtney, Patricia D. Flores, Jane Byun, Afsaneh Doryab, Sibylle Kranz, Amanda Watson

August 2025 IEEE Pervasive Computing

DermaGlow: Objective Quantification of Melanin, Erythema and Skin-tone Using Wearable Optical Spectroscopy

Tarek Hamid, Patricia D. Flores, Jane Byun, Elizabeth C. Courtney, Kyle C. Quinn, Amanda Watson

June 2025 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

VIBRANT: Early Prediction of Life-Threatening Uterine Atony Using Maternal Heart Rate

Kimberly K Trout, Stefanie Modri, Amanda Watson, Insup Lee, Harish Sehdev, James Weimer

April 2025 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies

Precision Rehabilitation after Youth Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Individualized Reinjury Risk Stratification and Modifiable Risk Factor Identification to Guide Late-Phase Rehabilitation

Elliot Greenberg, Amanda Watson, Kevin Landrum, Kimberly Helm, J Todd R Lawrence, Theodore J Ganley

April 2025 OJSM25: Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

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