Edison Thomaz

Associate Prof. at Texas ECE. Enjoying the good life in Austin since 2016.

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

@_yudaitanaka @jasonwuishere @UTCompSci Fantastic, welcome to UT! Would love to connect when you arrive/get settled.

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

@yang_yuzhe @Nature Fantastic work, congrats!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Using smartphone facial video clips with AI to passively and accurately get heart rate, across all skin pigmentation groups @nature
"This is the first demonstration that smartphones
can be used to monitor both HR and daily RHR passively during normal personal phone use in the real world."
https://t.co/cYz94D2ZGU

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

Excellent news!

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

Great news for the augmented humans conference: (1) it's now a @sigchi conference (welcome to the family!) and (2) it's in Sri Lanka next! #AHs2027 #AugmentedHumans #AugmentedHumans2027

[Asif Salekin @SalekinAsif]

Join us! The Ubiquitous & Intelligent Sensing (UIS) Lab at Arizona State University is seeking outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to advance the next generation of human-centered AI, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent health technologies. 🙏 Reposts appreciated. Thank you!

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

Visiting @utexasece today, @YuhengBu is presenting his work on LLM watermarking. Challenging problem but an effective solution would be very useful.

[ACM SIGCHI @sigchi]

Announcing the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit, a cross-SIG collaboration that SIGCHI is a part of! It will be in Atlanta, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 2. Register and read more about the DC and call for papers at https://t.co/JtG7vCW1A5. Meanwhile, stay tuned for the SIGs Day program!

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

@yang_yuzhe @UCLAComSci @CompMedUCLA @UCLA @UCLAengineering Fantastic, congrats!

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

Looks like #CHI2026 has been fantastic this year, sorry to miss it but I appreciate all the posts about activities, sessions and posters.

[ACM CHI Conference @acm_chi]

Day 3 at #CHI2026
Another great day!
So many thoughtful conversations and fun encounters along the way!

[MIT Media Lab @medialab]

Media Lab Prof. @rosalindpicard reflects on the origins of her work in wearable sensing and Affective Computing — technology designed to measure and respond to human emotions.

In January, Professor Picard was named as a recipient of the 2026 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, one of @IEEEorg’s highest honors. She was recognized “for pioneering contributions to wearable affective computing for health and wellbeing.”

https://t.co/AxokR3dQhz

[Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan @UMichECE]

25 years in the making. 〽️

U-M Prof. Yogesh Gianchandani (ECE & ME) and his team have realized the "Holy Grail" of gas analysis: the first fully monolithic micro-gas chromatography system.

No valves. No moving parts. Just precision. 🚀

Full story👇: https://t.co/n4mS2dxyVX

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

This is cool

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

These kinds of accounts is what inspires our work on https://t.co/tyIEdVSpVH. Early and ubiquitous diagnosis is key, and we think digital health with wearables can help.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A success story for a physician with Alzheimer's which, in spite of the obstacles outlined, is a precursor for our enhanced ability to prevent the disease in the future
gift link
https://t.co/8cqUCGiQVi

[Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis]

That’s how it’s done

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

Colonoscopies are not fun but this is why it’s so important

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in Americans under age 50, and 75% are diagnosed at late stages, by @betswrites
gift link https://t.co/uRBxPBjf6C

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

@ehsan_hoque @UofR Excellent and important work, congrats for the recognition and for sticking to the vision

[Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis]

And this is how you present a poster. Masterful.

[Yuzhe Yang @yang_yuzhe]

📢 My lab at UCLA is hiring PhD students and postdocs!

Please apply to @CS_UCLA or @CompMedUCLA if you are interested in foundation models and (Gen)AI for health / medicine / science.

More info: https://t.co/JHUOE7wnOC. Please retweet!

[Jason Wu @jasonwuishere]

I’ll be starting a new lab and am looking to work with highly motivated students to join Fall 2026. If you’re excited about topics like computational interaction, user interface modeling, human-AI interaction, technical HCI, and accessibility, please reach out!

[Edison Thomaz @ethomaz]

@AnhongGuo @UMichCSE @UMengineering Congrats!