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
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2026
Gemma 4 Technical Report
Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal, Robin Algayres, et al., Daniel McDuff. Technical report.
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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.
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2026
Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers
Ahmed A. Metwally, A. Ali Heydari, Daniel McDuff, Alexandru Solot, et al. Nature.
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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.
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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.
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2025
Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models
Daniel McDuff, Mike Schaekermann, Tao Tu, Anil Palepu, et al. Nature.
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2025
Scaling Wearable Foundation Models
Girish Narayanswamy, Xin Liu, Kumar Ayush, Yuzhe Yang, et al., Daniel McDuff. ICLR.
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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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2025
Smartphone use in a large US adult population: Temporal associations between objective measures of usage and mental well-being
Ari Winbush, Daniel McDuff, John Hernandez, Andrew Barakat, et al. PNAS.
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2025
Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
Google Gemini Team. Technical report.
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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.
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2020
Multi-Task Temporal Shift Attention Networks for On-Device Contactless Vitals Measurement
Xin Liu, Josh Fromm, Shwetak N. Patel, Daniel McDuff. NeurIPS.
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2018
DeepPhys: Video-Based Physiological Measurement Using Convolutional Attention Networks
Weixuan Chen, Daniel McDuff. ECCV.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2011
Advancements in Noncontact, Multiparameter Physiological Measurements Using a Webcam
Ming-Zher Poh, Daniel J. McDuff, Rosalind W. Picard. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.