Updates from the Computational Thinking Lab.

Lab invited to present EMBC paper at IEEE EMBC 2026 in Toronto

Sky Angeles, Madhurima Vardhan

IEEE EMBC 2026, Toronto, Canada

The Computational Thinking Lab was invited to present "Importance of Small Language Models in Synthetic Electronic Health Record Generation" at IEEE EMBC 2026, held 26 to 30 July at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre under the conference theme "Engineer Sustainable and Equitable Healthcare."

Lab invited to present at IEEE CIBCB 2026 in Athens

Madhurima Vardhan, Sky Angeles

IEEE CIBCB 2026, Athens, Greece

The Computational Thinking Lab will present its work on personalized health coaching at the 2026 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, held 31 August to 2 September at the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece.

Personalized health coaching study accepted to IEEE CIBCB 2026

Madhurima Vardhan, Sky Angeles

IEEE CIBCB 2026

"Towards Automated Health Coaching Experience: Can Large Language Models Function as a Personalized Health Coach?" has been accepted to the 2026 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The study asks whether a language model can deliver coaching grounded in behavior science well enough for clinicians to call it usable.

Lab's paper accepted to IEEE EMBC 2026

Sky Angeles, Suhita Anubha, Benson Lin, Deepak Nathani, Venkatram Vishwanath, Filippo Simini, Madhurima Vardhan

IEEE EMBC 2026

"Importance of Small Language Models in Synthetic Electronic Health Record Generation" has been accepted to the 48th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The paper introduces FAIR-EHR, a framework for judging synthetic electronic health record generators on both statistical fidelity and privacy risk.

Vardhan joins the Change Leader Program at Indiana University

Madhurima Vardhan

Dr. Madhurima Vardhan has been accepted to Indiana University's Change Leader Program, a cohort that prepares faculty and staff to lead institutional change initiatives.

Four new student researchers join the Computational Thinking Lab

Krishi Thiruppathi, Logan James Rivera, Prajwal Kaushal, Sandra Kettidathil Chandy

Krishi Thiruppathi, Logan James Rivera, Prajwal Kaushal, and Sandra Kettidathil Chandy join the lab, broadening the team working across smart medicine, human-centered AI, and efficient healthcare models.

Vardhan named a Generative AI Faculty Fellow at Indiana University

Madhurima Vardhan

Dr. Madhurima Vardhan has been selected for Indiana University's Generative AI Faculty Fellows program, which supports faculty bringing generative AI into their teaching and their research practice.

Lab welcomes Dheeraj Karanam as its first graduate researcher

Dheeraj Karanam

Dheeraj Karanam joins the Computational Thinking Lab as its first graduate researcher, extending a team that had until now been made up of undergraduate students.

Lab students present their posters at the Luddy Research Symposium

Lucas Carreira, Joong Hyuk Kim, Sky Angeles, Suhita Anubha, Benson Lin, Monish Malla

Student researchers from the Computational Thinking Lab presented posters at Indiana University's Luddy research symposium, the group's first public showing of its work on synthetic electronic health records and personalized health AI.

Computational Thinking Lab welcomes its first cohort of student researchers

Lucas Carreira, Joong Hyuk Kim, Sky Angeles, Suhita Anubha, Benson Lin, Monish Malla

Lucas Carreira, Joong Hyuk Kim, Sky Angeles, Suhita Anubha, Benson Lin, and Monish Malla join the lab as its founding group of student researchers, taking up work on synthetic health data, personalized health AI, and model evaluation.