Justin Chan
PhD Student, University of Washington
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
jucha@cs.washington.edu

I am a PhD student working with Shyam Gollakota in the Mobile Intelligence lab.

My research focuses on building intelligent mobile and embedded systems for computational health and large-scale environmental sensing.

I am a co-founder of Wavely Diagnostics, a company that is leveraging my research in mobile health to make pediatric healthcare more accessible.

I was the PI for a successfully completed NIH SBIR grant and now am a co-investigator for an NIH R21/R33 grant proposal on bringing universal newborn hearing screening to Kenya.

I earned my Bachelors degree with high honors in computer science and digital arts from Dartmouth (2015).

Research impact

  • My work on detecting ear infections using smartphones has been commercialized by Wavely Diagnostics where I am a co-founder. This technology is now FDA-listed and is available to select early access healthcare systems.

  • My earable device for low-cost newborn hearing screening has been presented to Kenya’s Ministry of Health. It has led to a larger effort called TUNE to bring universal newborn hearing screening across Kenya.

  • My work on contactless cardiac arrest detection using smart speakers has been licensed to Sound Life Sciences, which has recently been acquired by Google.

  • I led CovidSafe/CommonCircle (now WA Notify), a COVID-19 contact tracing and symptom tracking app, which became part of official efforts by the WA Department of Health to manage the pandemic.

News


Publications

* = equal contribution.



An off-the-shelf otoacoustic-emission probe for hearing screening via a smartphone (TUNE project for universal newborn hearing screening in Kenya)


Justin Chan, Nada Ali, Ali Najafi, Anna Meehan, Lisa R. Mancl, Emily Gallagher, Randall Bly, and Shyam Gollakota
Natural Biomedical Engineering, 2022.
Press: Wired

Underwater messaging using mobile devices


Tuochao Chen*,Justin Chan*, and Shyam Gollakota
SIGCOMM, 2022.
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
















3D Printing Your Wireless Coverage


Hot Paper Award
Gold Medal - ACM Student Research Competition
Justin Chan, Changxi Zheng, and Xia Zhou
HotWireless (+ poster at MobiCom), 2015.