Jessilyn Dunn | Scholars@Duke

Jessilyn Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Developing new tools and infrastructure for multi-modal biomedical data integration to drive precision/personalized methods for early detection, intervention, and prevention of disease.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2019
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Basic Science Departments 2019
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2020
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Institutes and Centers 2018

Contact Information

Suite 1102 Hock Plaza, Box 2721, Durham, NC 27708
Suite 1102 Hock Plaza, Box 2721, Durham, NC 27710
Dunn Lab

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
Duke Appointment History
- Visiting AssistantProfessor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Recognition
In the News
- FEB 10, 2021
  
  Duke Celebrates Women and Girls in Science Day
- AUG 25, 2020 Duke Magnify
  
  Early Detection of COVID-19: How Your Smartwatch Could Help
- JUL 22, 2020 School of Medicine
  
  School of Medicine Forum Addresses the Role of Data Science During Times of Crisis
- JUN 15, 2020 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  A COVID-19 Study for Early Detection Expands to Reach New Communities
- MAY 15, 2020
  
  Here'e How to Make Smartwatch Health Data Useful for Research
- APR 8, 2020 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Using Smartphones in the Effort for Early Detection of COVID-19
- APR 6, 2020
  
  NC Survey Tracks How Residents Are Changing Behavior In Pandemic
- FEB 11, 2020 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Your Skin Tone Won't Affect Your Heart-Tracking Device. Your Activity Might
- JUN 5, 2018 Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Jessilyn Dunn: Gaining Insights from Biomedical Big Data
Research
Selected Grants
- Duke RDS2 (Respondent-Driven Sampling, Respiratory Disease Surveillance) the SNOWBALL Sampling Study awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020 - 2022
- AMETHYST Trial Collaboration awarded by AstraZeneca LP 2020 - 2022
- CovIdentify: Using Mobile Health Technologies to Detect and Monitor COVID-19 in Essential Workers in North Carolina awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center 2020 - 2021
- Expanding the Open mHealth Platform to include a Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP) awarded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2020 - 2021
External Relationships
- AstraZeneca
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative / Silicon Valley Community Fund
- Clinetic (formerly MedBlue Data)
- Peloton
- The Digital Medicine Society
- npj Digital Medicine
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Bent, Brinnae, Oana M. Enache, Benjamin Goldstein, Warren Kibbe, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Reply: Matters Arising 'Investigating sources of inaccuracy in wearable optical heart rate sensors'.” Npj Digit Med 4, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 39. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00409-4.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, Ida Sim, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Digital Medicine Community Perspectives and Challenges: Survey Study.” Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth 9, no. 2 (February 3, 2021): e24570. https://doi.org/10.2196/24570.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, Ke Wang, Emilia Grzesiak, Chentian Jiang, Yuankai Qi, Yihang Jiang, Peter Cho, et al. “The digital biomarker discovery pipeline: An open-source software platform for the development of digital biomarkers using mHealth and wearables data.” Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 5, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.511.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Optimizing sampling rate of wrist-worn optical sensors for physiologic monitoring.” Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 5, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.526.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Wearables in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: What Are They Good for?” Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth 8, no. 12 (December 22, 2020): e25137. https://doi.org/10.2196/25137.
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  - Jiang, Yihang, Yuankai Qi, Will Ke Wang, Brinnae Bent, Robert Avram, Jeffrey Olgin, and Jessilyn Dunn. “EventDTW: An Improved Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm for Aligning Biomedical Signals of Nonuniform Sampling Frequencies.” Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 20, no. 9 (May 9, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092700.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, Benjamin A. Goldstein, Warren A. Kibbe, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Investigating sources of inaccuracy in wearable optical heart rate sensors.” Npj Digit Med 3, no. 1 (February 10, 2020): 18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0226-6.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, Benjamin A. Goldstein, Warren A. Kibbe, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Investigating sources of inaccuracy in wearable optical heart rate sensors.” Npj Digit Med 3 (2020): 18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0226-6.
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  - Goldsack, Jennifer C., Andrea Coravos, Jessie P. Bakker, Brinnae Bent, Ariel V. Dowling, Cheryl Fitzer-Attas, Alan Godfrey, et al. “Verification, analytical validation, and clinical validation (V3): the foundation of determining fit-for-purpose for Biometric Monitoring Technologies (BioMeTs).” Npj Digital Medicine 3 (January 2020): 55. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0260-4.
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  - Witt, Daniel R., Ryan A. Kellogg, Michael P. Snyder, and Jessilyn Dunn. “Windows into human health through wearables data analytics.” Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 9 (March 2019): 28–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobme.2019.01.001.
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  - Rego, Shannon, Orit Dagan-Rosenfeld, Wenyu Zhou, M Reza Sailani, Patricia Limcaoco, Elizabeth Colbert, Monika Avina, et al. “High-frequency actionable pathogenic exome variants in an average-risk cohort.” Molecular Case Studies 4, no. 6 (December 2018): a003178–a003178. https://doi.org/10.1101/mcs.a003178.
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  - Dunn, Jessilyn, Ryan Runge, and Michael Snyder. “Wearables and the medical revolution.” Personalized Medicine 15, no. 5 (September 2018): 429–48. https://doi.org/10.2217/pme-2018-0044.
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  - Kellogg, Ryan A., Jessilyn Dunn, and Michael P. Snyder. “Personal Omics for Precision Health.” Circulation Research 122, no. 9 (April 27, 2018): 1169–71. https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.117.310909.
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  - Dunn, Jessilyn, Rachel Simmons, Salim Thabet, and Hanjoong Jo. “The role of epigenetics in the endothelial cell shear stress response and atherosclerosis.” The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 67 (October 2015): 167–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocel.2015.05.001.
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  - Dunn, Jessilyn, Haiwei Qiu, Soyeon Kim, Daudi Jjingo, Ryan Hoffman, Chan Woo Kim, Inhwan Jang, et al. “Flow-dependent epigenetic DNA methylation regulates endothelial gene expression and atherosclerosis.” Journal of Clinical Investigation 124, no. 7 (July 1, 2014): 3187–99. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci74792.
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  - Annaluru, Narayana, Héloïse Muller, Leslie A. Mitchell, Sivaprakash Ramalingam, Giovanni Stracquadanio, Sarah M. Richardson, Jessica S. Dymond, et al. “Total Synthesis of a Functional Designer Eukaryotic Chromosome.” Science 344, no. 6179 (April 4, 2014): 55–58. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1249252.
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  - Tarbell, John M., Zhong-Dong Shi, Jessilyn Dunn, and Hanjoong Jo. “Fluid Mechanics, Arterial Disease, and Gene Expression.” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 46, no. 1 (January 3, 2014): 591–614. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010313-141309.
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  - Dunn, Jessilyn, Sarah Gutbrod, Alanah Webb, Alina Pak, Simran K. Jandu, Anil Bhunia, Dan E. Berkowitz, and Lakshmi Santhanam. “S-Nitrosation of arginase 1 requires direct interaction with inducible nitric oxide synthase.” Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 355, no. 1–2 (September 2011): 83–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11010-011-0841-2.
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  - Santhanam, Lakshmi, Eric C. Tuday, Alanah K. Webb, Phillip Dowzicky, Jae Hyung Kim, Young Jun Oh, Gautam Sikka, et al. “Decreased S -Nitrosylation of Tissue Transglutaminase Contributes to Age-Related Increases in Vascular Stiffness.” Circulation Research 107, no. 1 (July 9, 2010): 117–25. https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.109.215228.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, Ida Sim, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Digital Medicine Community Perspectives and Challenges: Survey Study (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.24570.
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  - Bent, Brinnae, and Jessilyn P. Dunn. “Wearables in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: What Are They Good for? (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.25137.
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  - Dunn, Jessilyn P., Marios Hadjimichael, Yuriy Isparyan, Diyalo Manral, and Ryan Runge. “MoveIt! Smartphone Application for Promoting Healthy Living,” n.d., 1–1.
  - Dunn, Jessilyn, Salim Thabet, and Hanjoong Jo. “Flow-Dependent Epigenetic DNA Methylation in Endothelial Gene Expression and Atherosclerosis,” n.d., 9–9.
  - Li, Xiao, Jessilyn Dunn, Denis Salins, Gao Zhou, Wenyu Zhou, Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Dalia Perelman, et al. “Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information.” Plos Biology 15, no. 1 (n.d.): e2001402–e2001402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001402.
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  - Yeh, Hugh, Jessilyn Dunn, Thomas Prieto, Franklin Luc, Srikanth Muppidi, Scott Delp, and Michael P. Snyder. “Consumer-grade wrist-worn PPG sensors can be used to detect differences in heart rate variability among a heterogeneous prediabetic population,” n.d., 1–1.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Equity and Efficiency of Using Wearables Data for COVID-19 Monitoring. 2020 - 2021 2020 - 2021
- Data+ Project Leader. Data+. 2020 2020

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Recent Courses

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship