I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the eMedia Research Lab, ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven. I received my PhD in September 2024 from ESAT, KU Leuven, in collaboration with the Life Science Department at IMEC. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

My research interests include AI for Health (AI4Health), Sensor Fusion, Time Series Data Processing, and FMCW Radar.

🔥News

• 2025.02: Our paper, “Eating Speed Measurement Using Wrist-Worn IMU Sensors Towards Free-Living Environments”, has been awarded Best Paper Award in 2023-2024 by IEEE-EMBS (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) Benelux Chapter.
• 2025.01: Invited to serve as a referee for the IEEE EMBC 2025, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 2024.12: Invited to attend the International Young Scholar Forum at BUPT in Beijing, China.
• 2024.11: Delivered an invited long talk at the 26th Nutrition and Health Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
• 2024.10: Our paper, titled “Eating Speed Measurement Using Wrist-Worn IMU Sensors Towards Free-Living Environments”, was selected as the cover article for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Volume: 28, Issue: 10, October 2024).
• 2024.09: Our paper, titled “Unobtrusive Nighttime Movement Monitoring to Support Nursing Home Continence Care: Machine Learning Study”, was accepted for publication in JMIR Nursing.
• 2024.08: Co-organized a workshop for the International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM 2025), which will be held in Toronto, Canada.
• 2024.08: Our paper, titled “Detection of Eating Gestures in Older Persons Using IMU Sensors with Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network”, was accepted for publication in the IEEE Sensors Journal.
• 2024.07: Our paper, titled “Eating Speed Measurement Using Wrist-Worn IMU Sensors Towards Free-Living Environments”, was accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
• 2024.06: Presented our work titled “Evaluation Metrics for Food Intake Activity Recognition Using Segment-Wise IoU” at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) with an oral presentation, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

💼Experience

• 2024.11 - Current: Postdoctoral Researcher Associate, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2024.09 - 2024.11: Postdoctoral Researcher Assistant, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2023.03 - 2023.05: Visiting Researcher, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• 2020.09 - 2024.09: PhD Researcher, IMEC, Belgium
• 2019.10 - 2020.09: Master Thesis Intern, Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), Belgium
• 2018.09 - 2019.02: Exchange Student, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

🎖️Awards & Grants

• ICDAM 2025 Travel Bursary Awardee: Awarded by International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM) Committee in 2025.
• IEEE-EMBS Best Paper Award: Awarded 1st Place Best Paper Award 2023-2024 by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS) Benelux Chapter.
• IEEE IMBioC PhD Student Initiative Awardee: Awarded by IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IEEE IMBioC) Committee in 2023.
• FWO Short-Term Visiting Fund: Received a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders for a short study visit, 2023.
• KU Leuven Full Scholarship: Received a full scholarship from KU Leuven from 2017-2020 for Bachelor (2 years) and Master Study (1 year).

🎓Education

• 2020.09 - 2024.09: PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2019.09 - 2020.09: MSc, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2017.09 - 2019.07: BSc, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2014.09 - 2019.07: BSc, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China

📚Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer
  IEEE BHI 2022; IEEE EMBC 2024,2025
• Journal Reviewer
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal; IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics; IEEE Sensors Journal; Journal of Supercomputing; International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
• PhD Supervision & Assessment KU Leuven: Currently co-supervising one PhD student and serving as an assessor for another.
• Master Thesis Co-supervisor
  KU Leuven: Supervised 13 master students majoring in Electronic Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence, with 7 graduating with Cum Laude distinction
• Teaching Assistance
  KU Leuven: Computational Thinking (2020); Statistics and Data Management (2021, 2022, 2023); Machine Learning (2023)