Dr. Justin Chan

Biography

Justin Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on building intelligent mobile embedded systems for computational health and large-scale environmental sensing. He has worked on smartphone-based solutions for ear infections, contributing to FDA-listed healthcare systems. He led the international TUNE initiative for universal newborn hearing screening in Kenya, collaborating with NGOs and Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss to deploy technology in Nepal and Mongolia. Additionally, he has worked on contactless cardiac arrest detection, which was developed into a licensed startup acquired by Google. Justin was a lead contributor to the CovidSafe app (now WA Notify), part of official efforts by the Washington Department of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has published in interdisciplinary journals such as Nature Biomedical Engineering and venues like MobiSys, MobiCom, SIGCOMM, and SIGGRAPH Asia UIST.

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