Shwetak Patel
Professor
Builds sensing systems for mobile health and energy monitoring, using machine learning on smartphone and embedded sensor data.
Shwetak Patel's lab at UW works on medical imaging & healthcare AI and physics, climate & scientific computing. 44 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly WACV and ICLR. 13 PhD students and 1 master's student. 108 alumni, most often to Google and Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 14%
- PhD students
- 13
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 108
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 13 papers2025 · T1 1
- 12 papers2024 · T1 2
- 14 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: WACV, ICLR, MobiCom, Nature Machine Intelligence, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI2 papers
- smartphone1 paper
- Physics, climate & scientific computing0 papers
- sensor data0 papers
- mobile health0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- Nature ElectronicsArtificial intelligence agents automate life-cycle assessment (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)Circuit2Yarn: From Planar Circuits to Electronic Yarns for Textile-based Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Embedded Arena: Iterative Optimization via Hardware Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- Nature ElectronicsSustainability assessment using multimodal AI agents (opens in a new tab)
202513 papers
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)"A Tool for Freedom": Co-Designing Mobility Aid Improvements Using Personal Fabrication and Physical Interface Modules with Primarily Young Adults (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)DopFone: Doppler-Based Fetal Heart Rate Estimation Using Commodity Smartphones (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)ECG Necklace: Low-power Wireless Necklace for Continuous ECG monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- ACS Applied Materials & InterfacesFlexible and Stretchable Vitrimers for Sustainable Electronics (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)Living Sustainability: In-Context Interactive Environmental Impact Communication (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)NightLight: Passively Mapping Nighttime Sidewalk Light Data for Improved Pedestrian Routing (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)PPG Earring: Wireless Smart Earring for Heart Health Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)ProxiCycle: Passively Mapping Cyclist Safety Using Smart Handlebars for Near-Miss Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ) Datasets and Benchmarks TrackRADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Scaling Wearable Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW1)"I will just have to keep driving": A Mixed-methods Investigation of Lack of Agency within the Thai Motorcycle Rideshare Driver Community (opens in a new tab)
- WACVBigSmall: Efficient Multi-Task Learning for Disparate Spatial and Temporal Physiological Measurements (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Computational Design of Dense Servers for Immersion Cooling (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)DeltaLCA: Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment for Electronics Design (opens in a new tab)
- EMBCEarSteth: Cardiac Auscultation Audio Reconstruction Using Earbuds (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)From Classification to Clinical Insights: Towards Analyzing and Reasoning About Mobile and Behavioral Health Data With Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)LabelAId: Just-in-time AI Interventions for Improving Human Labeling Quality and Domain Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Systems (opens in a new tab)
- WACVMotion Matters: Neural Motion Transfer for Better Camera Physiological Measurement (opens in a new tab)
- Nature SustainabilityRecyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics (opens in a new tab)
- Science AdvancesTBscreen: A passive cough classifier for tuberculosisscreening with a controlled dataset (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)Thermal Earring: Low-power Wireless Earring for Longitudinal Earlobe Temperature Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)WatchLink: Enhancing Smartwatches with Sensor Add-Ons via ECG Interface (opens in a new tab)
202314 papers
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)AdHocProx: Sensing Mobile, Ad-Hoc Collaborative Device Formations using Dual Ultra-Wideband Radios (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)BusStopCV: A Real-time AI Assistant for Labeling Bus Stop Accessibility Features in Streetscape Imagery (opens in a new tab)
- WACVEfficientphys: Enabling simple, fast and accurate camera-based vitals measurement (opens in a new tab)
- The American Journal of GASTROENTEROLOGYEvaluating a Novel, Portable, Self-Administrable Device (“Beacon”) That Measures Critical Flicker Frequency as a Test for Hepatic Encephalopathy (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUT/UbicompFeverPhone: Accessible Core-Body Temperature Sensing for Fever Monitoring Using Commodity Smartphones (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUT/UbicompGLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUT/UbicompGlucoScreen: A Smartphone-based Readerless Glucose Test Strip for Prediabetes Screening (opens in a new tab)
- MobiCom (T1)MilliMobile: An Autonomous Battery-free Wireless Microrobot (opens in a new tab)
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)MMPD: Multi-Domain Mobile Video Physiology Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous TechnologiesMMTSA: Multi-Modal Temporal Segment Attention Network for Efficient Human Activity Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- SUI '23: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User InteractionOptiRing: Low-Resolution Optical Sensing for Subtle Thumb-to-Index Micro-Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ) Datasets and Benchmarks TrackrPPG-Toolbox: Deep Remote PPG Toolbox (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went108 listed, 70% to industry
Industry 19Academia 8
Most often to
- Meta
- Apple
Also to
- Arizona State University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Northwestern University
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