VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Ian Shapiro
dblp:363/4080
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Deep learning architectures and training · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Wearable and physiological sensing · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
foundation model |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Large-scale Training of Foundation Models for Wearable Biosignals · ICLR 2024 |
Medical and health informatics › digital health
digital biomarkers |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Large-scale Training of Foundation Models for Wearable Biosignals · ICLR 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
stochastic augmentation · 2.3self-supervised learning · 2.3momentum training · 2.3contrastive learning · 2.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Large-scale Training of Foundation Models for Wearable BiosignalsabstractTracking biosignals is crucial for monitoring wellness and preempting the development of severe medical conditions. Today, wearable devices can conveniently record various biosignals, creating the opportunity to monitor health status without disruption to one's daily routine. Despite widespread use of wearable devices and existing digital biomarkers, the absence of curated data with annotated medical labels hinders the development of new biomarkers to measure common health conditions. In fact, medical datasets are usually small in comparison to other domains, which is an obstacle for developing neural network models for biosignals. To address this challenge, we have employed self-supervised learning using the unlabeled sensor data collected under informed consent from the large longitudinal Apple Heart and Movement Study (AHMS) to train foundation models for two common biosignals: photoplethysmography (PPG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded on Apple Watch. We curated PPG and ECG datasets from AHMS that include data from ${\sim} 141$K participants spanning ${\sim} 3$ years. Our self-supervised learning framework includes participant level positive pair selection, stochastic augmentation module and a regularized contrastive loss optimized with momentum training, and generalizes well to both PPG and ECG modalities. We show that the pre-trained foundation models readily encode information regarding participants' demographics and health conditions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that builds foundation models using large-scale PPG and ECG data collected via wearable consumer devices $\textendash$ prior works have commonly used smaller-size datasets collected in clinical and experimental settings. We believe PPG and ECG foundation models can enhance future wearable devices by reducing the reliance on labeled data and hold the potential to help the users improve their health. Salar Abbaspourazad, Oussama Elachqar, Andrew C. Miller, Saba Emrani, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Ian Shapiro |
ICLR | 6 |