2026

Jun 2026
  • New Lab Members: Welcome to SANDLab Gayathri!
  • Publication: Our newest preprint benchmarking time series foundation models on forecasting heartbeat dynamics is out! This is Adrian's awesome rotation project, now on bioRxiv. See Sandya's Linkedin post for details.
May 2026
  • New Lab Members: We are thrilled to have Vi, Josh, and Shruthi join the SANDLab team for their PhDs!
  • Award: SANDLab wins a UCSF Weill Catalyst Award for our bladder monitoring project! Thank you Weill Institute for Neurosciences for supporting our work!
  • Lab Farewell: Congrats to the first class of SANDLab graduates - Wei, Jeshu, Andy, Nick, Sriram, Belinda, Hannah, and Bhuvana! We'll miss you all and wish you the best!
Apr 2026
  • Conference: Sandya moderates a panel titled 'From the Frontlines: The Clinical Reality' at the Frontiers in Computational Precision Health Conference at UCSF!
Mar 2026
  • New Lab Members: Welcome Josh, Vi, and Adrian, BioE PhD students rotating in the lab this quarter!
  • Lab Farewell: Bye Bhuvana! We'll miss you!
Feb 2026
  • New Lab Members: Welcome Eric, Erin, Eva, Saleh, and Sean!
Jan 2026
  • Award: SANDLab won a Schmidt Sciences Catalyst Award to research new batteries for at-home monitoring in collaboration with Prof. Susmita Sarkar's lab at NC State University! Thank you Schmidt Science Fellows for supporting our work!

2025

Dec 2025
  • Publication: Our network view of the autonomic nervous system published in Annual Reviews in Biomedical Engineering! Sandya's invited review, written with Sage Chen at NYU, Riccardo Barbieri at Politecnico di Milano, and Sriram in SANDLab (Go Sriram!), is now out in Annual Reviews in BME.
Nov 2025
  • Conference: Jeshu presents early results on migraine data at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting!
  • Invited Talk: Sandya gave the Neyman Seminar in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley!
  • Award: SANDLab won the UCSF Catalyst Consultation Award for our work on bladder monitoring! Thank you to the UCSF Catalyst program for providing support and mentorship for our work!
Oct 2025
  • Conference: Jeshu presents his work on Windowed Variance Correlation at BayLearn! Here is our preprint.
Sep 2025
  • New Lab Members: Welcome Andy, Nick, and Savanna!
Jul 2025
  • Conference: SANDLab's first international conference! We presented three papers and an abstract at the IEEE Annual Conference on Engineering Medicine and Biology (EMBC) in Copenhagen!
Jun 2025
  • New Lab Members: Welcoming our new CITRIS summer intern, Bhuvana!
May 2025
  • Invited Talk: Sandya gave a guest lecture at the 2025 IEEE-EMBS International Summer School on Advanced Data Analytics in Physiology in Pisa!
  • Invited Talk: Sandya was invited to present at the Women in Data Science Worldwide event organized by Stanford @ Lane Medical Library!
  • Award: Sandya won the Rose Hills Innovators Award to develop the at-home autonomic clinic of tomorrow!
  • Lab Farewell: Bye Reuben! We'll miss you!
Apr 2025
  • Invited Talk: Sandya was invited to give a talk at the UC Berkeley Comp Bio Graduate Seminar!
  • Conference: SANDLab had a strong showing at the Frontiers of CPH Conference at UC Berkeley, with three posters from lab members and Sandya on a panel!
  • Lab event: Lab hot pot dinner!
Jan 2025
  • New Lab Members: Welcome to SANDLab Reuben!

2024

Nov 2024
  • New Lab Members: Welcome to SANDLab Jeshu!
  • Conference: Sandya presented her work on unconscious pain during surgery at AMIA in SF!
Oct 2024
  • New Lab Members: Welcome to SANDLab Belinda and Ruhi!
  • Invited Talk: Sandya was invited to share her work on unconscious pain during surgery at a meeting of the MGH/MIT BASCIC Center!
Sep 2024
  • New Lab Members: Welcome Sriram, Sajiv, Abhi, Hannah, and Wei as the first students in SANDLab!
  • Publication: Tracking unconscious pain during surgery published in PNAS! Sandya’s final PhD work, involving over 500 hours in the OR, is now out in PNAS.
  • Invited Talk: Sandya was invited to give a talk at the UC Berkeley Biostat Graduate Seminar!
Jul 2024
  • SANDLab is officially here! We are excited to launch our interdisciplinary research environment at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Coverage here.
Feb 2024
  • Inside the data-driven search for migraine relief: Sandya sat down with Times Higher Education to talk about interdisciplinary science. Link to article.

2023

Dec 2023
  • IEEE TBME Featured Article: Our paper on 24-hour monitoring of patients with gastroparesis was selected as a Featured Article!
Oct 2023
  • Graduate Diversity Fair: Sandya presents for CPH at the 2023 UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Fair (starting at 39:15).

2022

Nov 2022
  • L'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship: Sandya wins the prestigious L'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship!
Jun 2022
  • Schmidt Science Fellow: Sandya is named a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow!