Publications

Semantigories: A Large-Scale Investigation of Form-Meaning Interactions and Category-Level Differences in Semantic Memory Search Kumar AA, Hambric CE, Zhang L, Jones MN Under review · 2026 Preprint

Wow, Now I See It! — Leveraging the Physiology of Surprise to Help Designers Uncover Desirable Generative Designs Zhang L, Chong L, Hong M, Hakimi S, Filipowicz AS, Klenk M, Paredes P Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition · 2026 Details · DOI

Towards Cardiac Output Estimation Using Earbud Photoplethysmography Sensor Zhang L, Rahman MM, Morshed MB, Zhu L, Zhou H, O’Bryan J, Mendes WB, Kuang J 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) · 2025 Details · DOI

Know Your Heart Better: Multimodal Cardiac Output Monitoring using Earbuds Zhou H, Rahman MM, Morshed MB, Li Y, Islam MS, Zhang L, Bae J, Rosa C, Mendes WB, Kuang J IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) · 2025 Details · DOI

Morphological Photoplethysmography Features Enhance Stress Detection in Earbud Sensors Zhang L, Nathan V, Rosa C, Kuang J, Mendes WB, Gao JA 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) · 2024 Details · DOI

forager: A Python package and web interface for modeling mental search Kumar AA, Apsel M, Zhang L, Xing N, Jones MN Behavior Research Methods · 2024 Details · DOI · Code · Web app

Speech Behavioral Markers Align on Symptom Factors in Psychological Distress Zhang L, Kolacz J, Rizzo AA, Scherer S, Soleymani M 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) · 2022 Details · DOI

Using “Semantic Scent” to Predict Item-Specific Clustering and Switching Patterns in Memory Search Zhang L, Jones MN Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2022 Details · eScholarship

Neuropsychological Test Validation of Speech Markers of Cognitive Impairment in the Framingham Cognitive Aging Cohort Zhang L*, Ngo AD*, Burkhardt HA, Thomas JA, Parsey CM, Au R, Hosseini Ghomi R Exploration of Medicine · 2021 Details · DOI

Multimodal Automatic Coding of Client Behavior in Motivational Interviewing Tavabi L, Stefanov K, Zhang L, Borsari B, Woolley JD, Scherer S, Soleymani M 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) · 2020 Details · DOI

Automated Voice Biomarkers for Depression Symptoms Using an Online Cross-Sectional Data Collection Initiative Zhang L, Duvvuri R, Konda Lakshmi Chandra K, Nguyen T, Hosseini Ghomi R Depression and Anxiety · 2020 Details · DOI

Assessing the Utility of Language and Voice Biomarkers to Predict Cognitive Impairment in the Framingham Heart Study Cognitive Aging Cohort Data Thomas JA, Burkhardt HA, Chaudhry S, Ngo AD, Sharma S, Zhang L, Au R, Hosseini Ghomi R Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease · 2020 Details · DOI

Evaluating Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Detecting Depression Sub-Challenge Dataset Zhang L, Driscol J, Chen X, Hosseini Ghomi R AVEC 2019: 9th International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, ACM Multimedia · 2019 Details · DOI

Voice Biomarker Identification for Effects of Deep-Brain Stimulation on Parkinson’s Disease Phi H, Janarthanan S, Zhang L, Hosseini Ghomi R arXiv preprint · 2020 arXiv

DigiVoice: Voice Biomarker Featurization and Analysis Pipeline Zhang L, Chen X, Vakil A, Byott A, Hosseini Ghomi R arXiv preprint · 2019 arXiv

Cardiovascular Biomarker Estimation Using PPG and BCG from a Wearable Device Morshed MB, Rahman MM, Zhu L, Zhou H, Zhang L US20260069166A1 · Samsung Research America · 2026 Google Patent

Cardiac Signal Quality Check and Feature Extraction Pipeline Using Morphological Features for Stress Level Estimation Nathan V, Zhang L, Rahman MM, Kuang J, Bae J, Gao J US20250082277A1 · Samsung Research America · 2025 Google Patent

Extracting Biomarkers for Stress Monitoring Using Mobile Devices Rahman MM, Lin D, Zhu L, Nathan V, Zhang L, Sah R, Morshed MB, Bae J, Kuang J US20250087366A1 · Samsung Research America · 2025 Google Patent