Nov 2026: Two Invited Talks
6 November 2026, 15.15h, The in-person and online talks are given by Prof. Jakob E. Bardram, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) and Prof. Dr. Nuno M. Garcia, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) as below.
The speakers are members of the PhD jury for the thesis of PhD candidate Igor Matias. The PhD defence is scheduled for the same day at 9:00. The two talks will take place on Friday, 6 November 2026 15.15-17.00 (max) at the University of Geneva campus building Battelle D, Auditorium, and will be also streamed on zoom.
SPEAKER Prof. Dr. Jakob Eyvind Bardram Technical, University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
TITLE From Smartphones to Science: Digital Phenotyping for Health Research
ABSTRACT Smartphones and wearable devices provide a unique opportunity to study human behavior, physiology, and health continuously in everyday life. But how do we turn streams of sensor data into robust scientific studies—and ultimately into clinically meaningful insights? In this talk, I will introduce digital phenotyping and discuss its opportunities and challenges through a series of real-world studies spanning mental health, cognition, diabetes, neuropathy, and population-scale sensing. These studies are enabled by the Copenhagen Research Platform (CARP), our open-source platform for conducting digital phenotyping and mobile health research. I will present the key technical ideas behind CARP, from protocol-based study design and deployment to smartphone and wearable sensing and data management. Drawing on our experiences from developing and using CARP over several years, I will discuss both what works and what remains difficult when taking digital phenotyping out of the lab and into real-world health research.
BIO Jakob E. Bardram is a professor of Digital Health at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and an internationally recognized researcher in digital health, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. His research focuses on digital phenotyping, mobile and wearable sensing, and the design of technologies that bridge computer science and clinical research. He is the founder and lead architect of the Copenhagen Research Platform (CARP), an open-source platform supporting digital health research across a wide range of clinical domains. Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of computing and healthcare, developing technologies and methods to study and support health in everyday life. Read more about him at www.bardram.net.
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SPEAKER Prof. Dr. Nuno M. Garcia, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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