​Human science used to study people in snapshots: a lab visit, a survey, a blood draw. Wearables now record physiology continuously, in daily life, for months. AI lets researchers explore that data without an engineering team. What a human study can be is changing fast.

​Academia and industry are both learning how to work with this, and mostly learning separately. Future of Human Science puts them in one room. Leading researchers and the companies building their tools share what they have found, what has not worked, and where they think the field goes next.

​Featured speakers

​Dr. Chung-Kang Peng, co-founder of PhysioNet, the NIH-supported open platform for physiological data. Founding director, Center for Dynamical Biomarkers, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Chief Professor, Southeast University. Physicist and pioneer of nonlinear analysis of biomedical signals.

​Dr. Albert Yang, Chair, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Deputy Director, Medical AI Development Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Psychiatrist and computational neuroscientist with over 220 publications, leading a national AI grant on digital medicine and smart healthcare.

​Dr. Laura Willinger, Business Development Manager, Research and Clinical Trials, Garmin Health. Health scientist (Dr. rer. nat., Technical University of Munich). On how a device company approaches research: validation, access, and what researchers ask for that does not exist yet.

​Chris Peng, Co-founder and CEO, Labfront. Spent years in research labs before founding companies, and has carried that frustration with how human studies get run into Labfront, the physiological data platform now used by researchers at 200 academic institutions. Serial founder with a software engineering background; has raised over US$3 million; also Co-founder and COO of The Connection Company. Hosting the afternoon and sharing Labfront's vision for where human science goes next.

​Also on the afternoon

• ​2026 Labfront x Garmin Health Research Grant Ceremony

• ​Garmin Health hands-on booth: try the research devices, ask the team

• ​Panel: speakers from academia and industry discuss how AI is changing the practice of research

• ​Pitch competition: pitch the study you would run if the devices were free, in two minutes. Winners take home Garmin devices.

• ​An hour of networking across institutions, disciplines, and the academia–industry line

​Who it's for

​Faculty, clinicians, postdocs and graduate students working with physiological data in sleep, breathing, heart rate, sports science, medicine, public health and related fields. Industry teams who build for researchers and want to hear from them directly. No wearable experience needed.

​*Tickets Priced in USD. The actual events / speakers might changed depending on the planning.

​活動詳情

​人類科學過去仰賴片段式的量測：一次實驗室訪視、一份問卷、一次抽血。穿戴式裝置讓生理數據能在日常生活中連續記錄數月，AI 則讓研究者不需工程團隊也能分析這些資料。

​Future of Human Science 邀請學界與業界齊聚一堂，分享各自的發現、不成功的嘗試，以及對此領域未來的看法。

​活動資訊：

• ​專題演講：Chung-Kang Peng（PhysioNet 共同創辦人、哈佛醫學院）、Albert Yang（國立陽明交通大學、臺北榮民總醫院）、Laura Willinger（Garmin Health）、Chris Peng（Labfront）

• ​座談：AI 如何改變研究方式

• ​Labfront x Garmin Health 研究獎助頒獎

• ​Garmin Health 裝置體驗區、研究提案競賽、交流時間

• ​適合對象：在睡眠、呼吸、心率、運動科學、醫學、公共衛生等領域使用生理數據的教授、臨床工作者、博士後與研究生。無穿戴式裝置使用經驗亦可參加。

​本活動全程以英文進行。票價以美金計算。

​實際活動 / 講者可能調動，依照當天行程為主。