EMBS Phoenix Chapter Meet and Greet + Technical Talk
EMBS Phoenix Chapter 2026 Meet & Greet
The EMBS Phoenix Chapter officers are excited to host our first in-person meeting in 2026, where we can meet our local community of biomedical engineers and practitioners and hear from one of our officers, Vishnu Prateek Kakarapathi on wearables + AI development from his graduate research at ASU. We look forward to meeting our membership, prospective members, networking, and planning what we want to do together next!
Pizza and light refreshments will be served.
We look forward to expanding our local EMBS chapter, so please bring a friend, or two.
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- Escalante Multi-Generational Center
- 2150 E Orange St.
- Tempe, Arizona
- United States 85281
- Starts 25 March 2026 07:00 AM UTC
- Ends 09 April 2026 07:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Vishnu Prateek Kakarapathi
PERACTIV: Wrist-Centric AI for Personalized Medication Adherence and Human Activity Recognition in Digital Health
Medication non-adherence remains a critical challenge in healthcare, contributing to poor patient outcomes and increased system costs. This talk presents PERACTIV, a wrist-centric artificial intelligence framework that integrates wearable sensing, multimodal machine learning, and human-centered design to address this challenge. Developed through co-design with clinicians and older adults, PERACTIV captures fine-grained, real-world activity patterns associated with medication-taking behaviors.
The system leverages wrist-worn sensors combined with contextual AI models to provide transparent, interpretable, and personalized insights into patient routines. By incorporating multimodal data fusion, adaptive context modeling, and ethical AI principles, PERACTIV enables continuous monitoring while preserving usability and trust.
Beyond medication adherence, the framework demonstrates broader applicability in digital health, including chronic disease management, dementia care, and rehabilitation. Additionally, its methodological contributions extend to domains such as smart manufacturing and assistive robotics, where reliable activity recognition is essential. This talk highlights how next-generation wearable AI systems can bridge the gap between laboratory intelligence and real-world clinical impact.
Biography:
Vishnu Prateek Kakarapathi is a PhD researcher and AI engineer at Arizona State University, specializing in wearable human activity recognition, digital health, and multimodal AI systems. He is the co-creator of PERACTIV, an AI-driven platform that improves medication adherence through wrist-centric sensing and personalized activity modeling.
His research spans computer vision, large language models, and neuromorphic AI, with applications in healthcare, robotics, and intelligent environments. Vishnu has contributed to interdisciplinary projects, including work on assembly activity recognition and AI-enabled healthcare systems, and is a co-author of a forthcoming book chapter titled "Shaping Tomorrow: The Human Journey with AI." His work emphasizes ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI design for real-world impact.
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