AI Researcher

Daniel McDuff

I build machine learning systems that sense, model, and synthesize human behavior, with an emphasis on health, physiology, affective computing, and responsible deployment.

My research spans camera-based physiological measurement, multimodal affect recognition, wearable foundation models, and health agents that transform longitudinal sensor data into useful personal and clinical insight.

Selected Publications

Publications

  1. 2026
    Gemma 4 Technical Report

    Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal, Robin Algayres, et al., Daniel McDuff. Technical report.

  2. 2026
    Passive heart-rate monitoring during smartphone use in everyday life

    Shun Liao, Paolo Di Achille, Jiang Wu, Silviu Borac, et al., Daniel McDuff. Nature.

  3. 2026
    Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers

    Ahmed A. Metwally, A. Ali Heydari, Daniel McDuff, Alexandru Solot, et al. Nature.

  4. 2026
    Transforming wearable data into personal health insights using large language model agents

    Mike A. Merrill, Akshay Paruchuri, Naghmeh Rezaei, et al., Daniel McDuff, Xin Liu. Nature Communications.

  5. 2026
    A scalable framework for evaluating health language models

    Neil Mallinar, A. Ali Heydari, Xin Liu, et al., Daniel McDuff, Ahmed A. Metwally. npj Digital Medicine.

  6. 2025
    Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models

    Daniel McDuff, Mike Schaekermann, Tao Tu, Anil Palepu, et al. Nature.

  7. 2025
    Scaling Wearable Foundation Models

    Girish Narayanswamy, Xin Liu, Kumar Ayush, Yuzhe Yang, et al., Daniel McDuff. ICLR.

  8. 2025
    SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors

    Yuwei Zhang, Kumar Ayush, Siyuan Qiao, A. Ali Heydari, et al., Daniel McDuff, Yuzhe Yang. NeurIPS.

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  11. 2025
    Non-Contact Health Monitoring During Daily Personal Care Routines

    Xulin Ma, Jiankai Tang, Zhang Jiang, et al., Daniel McDuff. Computer vision for remote physiological sensing.

  12. 2020
    Multi-Task Temporal Shift Attention Networks for On-Device Contactless Vitals Measurement

    Xin Liu, Josh Fromm, Shwetak N. Patel, Daniel McDuff. NeurIPS.

  13. 2018
  14. 2016
    COGCAM: Contact-free Measurement of Cognitive Stress During Computer Tasks with a Digital Camera

    Daniel J. McDuff, Javier Hernandez, Sarah Gontarek, Rosalind W. Picard. CHI.

  15. 2015
    Predicting Ad Liking and Purchase Intent: Large-Scale Analysis of Facial Responses to Ads

    Daniel McDuff, Rana el Kaliouby, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Rosalind W. Picard. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

  16. 2013
    Affectiva-MIT Facial Expression Dataset (AM-FED): Naturalistic and Spontaneous Facial Expressions Collected In-the-Wild

    Daniel McDuff, Rana el Kaliouby, Thibaud Senechal, May Amr, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Rosalind Picard. CVPR Workshops.

  17. 2011
    Advancements in Noncontact, Multiparameter Physiological Measurements Using a Webcam

    Ming-Zher Poh, Daniel J. McDuff, Rosalind W. Picard. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.