Best Paper Award
ICHI 2026 Awards
Celebrating ICHI 2026 award recipients
ICHI 2026 awards include track paper awards, poster awards, service and volunteer awards, student awards, doctoral student travel awards, and young scholar awards.
Track Paper Awards
Best Paper Awards
Sponsored by Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University
Recipients were selected by the corresponding track award selection co-chairs.
Analytics Track
Outstanding Paper Award
“Three Data Bipartitioning Methods to Improve Prediction of Time to Death”
Honorable Mention Paper Award
“Harnessing Language Models for Preoperative Frailty Detection in Clinical Notes”
Systems Track
Best Paper Award
“Hardware-Aware Edge Deep Learning for Multimodal Biomedical Monitoring on Resource-Constrained SoCs”
Outstanding Paper Award
“Real-Time Environment-Specific Deep Denoising for Edge-Assisted Hearing Aids”
Honorable Mention Paper Award
“Toward Accessible Psychotherapy Training Using AI-Driven Interactive Patient Avatars”
Human Factors Track
Best Paper Award
“Promise and Caution: Mapping Opportunities for AI Decision Support in Emergency Medical Services”
Outstanding Paper Award
“Patient-Centered Design Recommendations for AI-Generated Discharge Summaries”
Honorable Mention Paper Award
“Multimodal VAE Nowcasting with LOCF-Residual Correction for Annual Checkups Under Deviation Regimes and Fragmented Modalities”
Poster Awards
Best Poster Awards
Poster awards sponsored by Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University
Poster award recipients are selected by the poster award selection co-chairs.
Best Poster Award
“Ontology-Driven Identification of SNOMED CT Relations for Clinical Terms”
Outstanding Poster Award
“DREAM KG: A KG-Augmented Conversational System for People Experiencing Homelessness”
Honorable Mention Poster Award
“Navigating the Gap: A Work Domain Analysis of Critical Care Nurses’ Medication Administration”
Service & Volunteer Awards
Service & Volunteer Awards
Recipients were selected by the service and volunteer award selection co-chairs.
Best Service Award
Meagan Teals
University of Minnesota
Sponsored by: Division of Computational Health Sciences
Best Volunteer Award
Yu Hou
University of Minnesota
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics
Student Awards
ICHI 2026 Student Awards
Sponsored by IHI and IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics
Student travel awardees and student award recipients were selected by the ICHI 2026 Student Award Selection Committee, co-chaired by Dr. Christopher C. Yang and Dr. Zhe He.
Student Travel Awards Institute for Healthcare Informatics
The ICHI 2026 Student Travel Awards are sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Informatics to support student participation in the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics. These awards recognize promising student researchers whose accepted work contributes to the advancement of healthcare informatics.
Mostafa Habibi
The University of Texas at Dallas
“A Scalable Dual-Camera Platform for Behavioral Assessment in Healthcare”
Reem Al-Saidi
University of Windsor
“Vulnerabilities in the Tower: Assessing Embedding Nucleotide Inference Risks in Hybrid CNN-Transformer Genomic Large Language Models (HgLLMs)”
Shun-Ting Chang
National Tsing Hua University
“Pathology Shortcuts: Detecting and Mitigating Reliance on Non-Target Pathologies in Chest X-ray AI”
Xiaoyang Wang
Drexel University
“MediHive: A Decentralized Agent Collective for Medical Reasoning”
Baris Karacan
University of Illinois Chicago
“Implicit Framing in Obstetric Counseling Notes: A Grounded LLM Pipeline on a VBAC-Eligible Cohort”
Yuanying Pang
Florida State University
“Voices from Reddit: Users’ Experiences and Opinions with Generative AI for Health Problems”
Student Awards IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics
Brayan Gutierrez
Rice University
Md Rakibuz Sultan
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Shufan Ming
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chenyu Zhu
University of California, Davis
Bofan He
New York Institute of Technology
Doctoral Student Travel Awards
NSF-Sponsored Doctoral Student Travel Awards
NSF Sponsored
Awardees were selected by the Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs: Dezhi Wu, PhD and Gondy Leroy, PhD.
Doctoral Student Travel Award
Doctoral Consortium Awardees
The NSF-sponsored Doctoral Student Travel Awards support all ICHI 2026 Doctoral Consortium students.
Ha Na Cho
University of California, Irvine
Sai Vuruma
University of South Carolina
Rachel Stephens
University at Buffalo
Sukrut Shishupal
University of Utah
Timoteo Kelly
University of Missouri-Columbia
Bharat Sowrya Yaddanapalli
University of South Carolina
Md Jobair Hossain Faruk
New York Institute of Technology
Kinjal Bhatt
Judson University
Iyinoluwa Tugbobo
Johns Hopkins University
Almonzer Salah Nooraldaim Mohamed
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Young Scholar Awards
Young Scholar Awards
Recipients were selected by the Young Scholar award selection co-chairs.
Young Scholar Outstanding Paper Awards
Heather Zhang
Creekside High School
Ellen Bu
Richard Montgomery High School
Sophia Wang
Horace Greeley High School
Chenyu Zhu
University of California, Davis
Joyce Wu
Academy for Allied Health Sciences
Young Scholar Rising Star Awards
Rishik Kondadadi
Eastview High School
Nathan Zhuang
Western Canada High School
S L Richris
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Long Nguyen
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Newton Niu
Kent School
Yashasvi Kompella
Edison High School
Eren Yigidim
Atlanta International School
Claire Chen
Creekside Middle School
Raymond Cui
White Station High School
Harsha Poonepalle
Lambert High School
Eden Wu
North Allegheny Intermediate High School
Isabel Yang
Ponte Vedra High
Alethea Liu
Millburn High School
Anthony Fu
Dutch Fork High School
Aarit Atreja
Stanford Online High School
Logan Wu
Eastside High School