Xiyuxing Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the Pervasive Interaction Lab at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yuanchun Shi and A/Prof. Yuntao Wang. He is also honored to collaborate with Prof. Justin Chan in the Semantic Signal Group at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on ubiquitous computing and HCI with healthcare using wearables.

His research interest includes:

• Wearable Computing
• Health Sensing and Intervention Techniques
• On-device Machine Learning / Tiny-ML

👂🏻 Earable Sensing Demo

🔥 News

• 2025.01: Honored to become a Visiting Scholar at CMU (honored to be hosted by Prof. Justin Chan)!!!
• 2024.11: Awarded the First Prize in Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Technology Innovation Application Competition (Top 5).
• 2024.10:  🎉🎉 Attend Ubicomp’24 and present our work The EarSAVAS Dataset: Enabling Subject-Aware Vocal Activity Sensing on Earables !!!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 Our dataset paper DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments is accepted by Neurips 2024 as a spotlight!!!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 I am awarded Deng Feng Scholarship from Tsinghua University!!!
• 2024.04:  🎉🎉 Our dataset paper The EarSAVAS Dataset: Enabling Subject-Aware Vocal Activity Sensing on Earables is accepted by IMWUT 2024!!!
• 2023.04: Attend CHI 2023 and present our work EarCough: Enabling Continuous Subject Cough Event Detection on Hearables!!!
• 2023.02:  🎉🎉 Our paper EarCough, about efficient cough detection with the interference of bystanders is accepted by CHI ‘23!!!
• 2022.09: My journey at Tsinghua as a Ph.D. student is started!!!
• 2022.06:  🎉🎉 Awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Honor by Tsinghua University!!!
• 2022.05:  🎉🎉 My first research paper about cough detection on earables has been accepted by Methods!!!

📝 Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

IMWUT

The EarSAVAS Dataset: Enabling Subject-Aware Vocal Activity Sensing on Earables

Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Yuxuan Han, Chen Liang, Ishan Chatterjee, Jiankai Tang, Xin Yi, Shwetak Patel, and Yuanchun Shi

IMWUT

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Methods

HearCough: Enabling continuous cough event detection on edge computing hearables.

Yuntao Wang*, Xiyuxing Zhang*(*Co-first Author), Jay M Chakalasiya*, Xuhai Xu, Yu Jiang, Yuang Li, Shwetak Patel, Yuanchun Shi

Methods

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IMWUT

Computing with Smart Rings: A Systematic Literature Review

Zeyu Wang, Ruotong Yu, Xiangyang Wang, Jiexin Ding, Jiankai Tang, Jun Fang, Zhe He, Zhuojun Li, Tobias Röddiger, Weiye Xu, Xiyuxing Zhang, Nan Gao, Chun Yu, Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang

IMWUT

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CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Neurips 2024 Spotlight

DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments

Zeyu Wang*, Xiyuxing Zhang*(*Co-first Author), Ruotong Yu*, Yuntao Wang, Kenneth Christofferson, Jingru Zhang, Alex Mariakakis, Yuanchun Shi

NIPS ‘24 Spotlight

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CHI 2023

EarCough: Enabling Continuous Subject Cough Event Detection on Hearables

Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Jingru Zhang, Yaqing Yang, Shwetak Patel, Yuanchun Shi

CHI EA ‘23

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PhysioCHI 2024

Camera-Based Remote Physiology Sensing for Hundreds of Subjects Across Skin Tones

Jiankai Tang*, Xinyi Li*(*Co-first Author), Jiacheng Liu, Xiyuxing Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Yuntao Wang

CHI Workshop PhysioCHI 2024

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AI Health Summit 2023

ALPHA: AnomaLous Physiological Health Assessment Using Large Language Models

Jiankai Tang, Kegang Wang, Hongming Hu, Xiyuxing Zhang, Peiyu Wang, Xin Liu, Yuntao Wang

AI Health Summit 2023

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🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024 First Prize in Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Technology Innovation Application Competition (Top 5).
• 2024 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews, 1 recognition for CHI 2025 Papers.
• 2024 Deng Feng Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
• 2023 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews, 2 recognitions for CHI 2024 Papers.
• 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Honor, Tsinghua University.
• 2022 The Honorable Medal in the Collegiate Computer System & Programing contest, China Computer Federation (CCF)
• 2021 Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University

📖 Educations

• 2022.09 - 2027.06 (expected), Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, B.S. in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.

💬 Invited Talks

• 2025.1, “Continuous Health Sensing and Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions on Commodity Earables”, YIZHE AI
• 2022.10, “Can smart earphones hear your cough?”, Colloquium of Xinya College, Tsinghua University

💻 Internships

• 2023.05 - 2023.08, MainTrend Capital, China.

👨🏻‍🎓 Teaching Experience

• 2022.09 - 2023.01, Teaching Assistant of “Embedded System” (40240552), Tsinghua University.
• 2023.09 - 2024.01, Teaching Assistant of “Embedded System” (40240552), Tsinghua University.
• 2024.09 - 2025.01, Teaching Assistant of “Embedded System” (40240552), Tsinghua University.
• 2024.09 - 2025.01, Teaching Assistant of “Essentials to Signal Processing and Data Management for AIoT Applications” (86010053), Tsinghua University.

💗 Professional Services

• Conference Reviewers: IMWUT 2023 November, IMWUT 2023 August, IMWUT 2024 May, CHI 2024, CHI 2025
• Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews, 2 recognitions for CHI 2024 Papers & 1 for CHI 2025 paper.