Xiyuxing Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the Pervasive Interaction Lab at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yuanchun Shi, A/Prof. Yuntao Wang. 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

• 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.

Paper

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

Paper (To appear)

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

Paper

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 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.