Xiyuxing Zhang is a Ph.D. Candidate 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 Signals Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on ubiquitous computing and HCI with healthcare using wearables.
His research interest includes:
- Wearable Computing
- Sensing supported HealthCare Delivery
- On-device Machine Learning / Tiny-ML
🔥 News
- 2026.10: 🎉 Honored to be selected from graduate students across the world as a finalist (top 4) for the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2026! Award citation: “For pioneering commodity earables as everyday health companions through robust acoustic sensing, and for closing the loop from continuous health sensing to adaptive, personalized interventions.”
- 2026.10: 🎉 Our paper WeeCare received the Best Video Teaser Award at UbiComp/ISWC 2026!
- 2026.7: 🎉🎉 EarInter, VergeIO, and AuthGlass have been accepted to UbiComp 2026 (IMWUT)!
- 2026.7: 🎉🎉 WeeCare has been accepted to ISWC 2026!
- 2026.6: 🎉🎉 Earmony has been accepted to UIST 2026!
- 2026.6: 🎉🎉 HealthRing has been published in Scientific Data!
- 2026.6: Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Notes and Briefs track of UbiComp/ISWC 2026.
- 2026.5: Invited to serve as a member of Artifact Evaluation Committee for MobiCom 2026.
- 2026.4: Co-organizing the 1st
Workshop on Hot Topics in Mobile and Wireless Systems for Health at MobiCom 2026, Austin, TX. Please consider submitting your work!!! - 2026.2: 🎉🎉 Two of our papers have been accepted by ACM CHI EA ‘26!!!
- 2026.1: 🎉🎉 Our paper SonicSieve and LubdubDecoder have been accepted by ACM CHI’26.
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Honored to receive Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of Tsinghua University!!!
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Honored to be supported by China Association for Science and Technology’s Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program (Doctoral Student Special Project)!!!
- 2025.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded the Third Prize in the 4th Tsinghua Medicine x Engineering Competition (Translation Track) as the Project Leader for our work on Earable Sleep Management (one of only 7 winning teams out of 52)!!!
- 2025.10: 🎉🎉 Honored to receive the Tsinghua Friends — Qidong Talent First-class Scholarship!!!
- 2025.09: I will serve as a Student Volunteer (SV) at Ubicomp’25. Feel free to reach out in Espoo, Finland 🇫🇮!!!
- 2025.07: 🎉🎉 Two paper have been accetped by IMWUT 2025!!!
- 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: 🎉🎉 Present our work on Ubicomp’24: The EarSAVAS Dataset: Enabling Subject-Aware Vocal Activity Sensing on Earables!!!
- 2024.09: 🎉🎉 DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments have been accepted by Neurips 2024 as a spotlight!!!
- 2024.09: 🎉🎉 I am awarded Deng Feng Scholarship from Tsinghua University!!!
- 2024.04: 🎉🎉 The EarSAVAS Dataset: Enabling Subject-Aware Vocal Activity Sensing on Earables have been 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 have been 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
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
UIST 2026
ISWC 2026
CHI 2026
CHI 2026
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
CHI 2023
EarCough: Enabling Continuous Subject Cough Event Detection on Hearables
Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Jingru Zhang, Yaqing Yang, Shwetak Patel, Yuanchun Shi
Ubicomp 2025
Context-Adaptive Hearing Aid Fitting Advisor through Multi-turn Multimodal LLM Conversation
Yingke Ding, Zeyu Wang, Xiyuxing Zhang, Hongbin Chen, Zhenan Xu
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
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
CHI EA 2026
Control at Your Fingertips: How Close Are We to Effective Ring-Based Interaction?
Lily Sheng, Xingjian Tian, Ruotong Yu, Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Yuanchun Shi
CHI EA 2026
3D-MAGIC: Expanding MAGIC Pointing to Stereoscopic Displays
Xingjian Tian, Lily Sheng, Xiyuxing Zhang, Xingru Chen, Fangfei Gou, Zhenzhou Zhang, Wanjun Lv, Liuxin Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Yuanchun Shi
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
IMWUT 2026
VergeIO: Depth-Aware Eye Interaction on Glasses
Xiyuxing Zhang*, Duc Vu*, Chengyi Shen, Zhikai Qin, Ruiqi Hong, Yuntao Wang, Yuanchun Shi, Justin Chan
*Equal contribution.
IMWUT 2026 / UbiComp 2026
IMWUT 2026
EarInter: A Closed-Loop System for Eating Pace Regulation with Just-in-Time Intervention Using Commodity Earbuds
Jun Fang*, Ka I Chan*, Xiyuxing Zhang*(*Co-first Author), Yuntao Wang, Mingze Gao, Leyi Peng, Jiajin Li, Zihang Zhan, Zhixin Zhao, Yuanchun Shi
IMWUT 2026 / UbiComp 2026
IMWUT 2026
AuthGlass: Benchmarking Voice Liveness Detection and Authentication on Smart Glasses via Comprehensive Acoustic Features
Weiye Xu, Zhang Jiang, Siqi Zheng, Xiyuxing Zhang, Changhao Zhang, Jian Liu, Weiqiang Wang, Yuntao Wang
IMWUT 2026 / UbiComp 2026
Scientific Data 2026
IMWUT 2024
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 2024 / UbiComp 2024
Methods
IMWUT 2025
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 2025 / UbiComp 2025
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2026 Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award Finalist (Top 4), UbiComp.
Award citation: “For pioneering commodity earables as everyday health companions through robust acoustic sensing, and for closing the loop from continuous health sensing to adaptive, personalized interventions.” - 2026 Best Video Teaser Award for WeeCare, UbiComp/ISWC.
- 2025 China Association for Science and Technology’s Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program (Doctoral Student Special Project, National-level Talent Program), China.
- 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Tsinghua University.
- 2025 Third Prize in the 4th Tsinghua Medicine x Engineering Competition (Translation Track, Project Leader, Ranked 4 out of 52).
- 2025 Tsinghua Friends - Qidong Talent First-class Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
- 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. (Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University Level)
- 2025.09 - 2026.01, Teaching Assistant of “Essentials to Signal Processing and Data Management for AIoT Applications” (86010053), Tsinghua University.
- 2026.09 - 2027.01, Teaching Assistant of “Essentials to Signal Processing and Data Management for AIoT Applications” (86010053), Tsinghua University.
💗 Professional Services
- Artifact Evaluation Committee of ACM MobiCom 2026
- Technical Program Committee for the Notes and Briefs track of UbiComp/ISWC 2026
- Student Volunteer of Ubicomp 2025
- Reviewers of IMWUT 2023, IMWUT 2024, IMWUT 2025, ISWC 2025, CHI 2024, CHI 2025, CHI 2026, UIST 2026
- Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews, 2 recognitions for CHI 2024 & 1 for CHI 2025 paper & 1 for CHI 2026 & 3 for IMWUT 2025 & 1 for ISWC Briefs and Notes 2025