I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the eMedia Research Lab, ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, working with my PhD supervisor Prof. Bart Vanrumste. 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), Automated Food Intake Activity Monitoring, Sensor Fusion, Time Series Data Processing, and FMCW Radar.

🔥News

• 2025.12: We will organzize a special session titled “Advanced Time-Series Modeling for Wearable-Based ADL Monitoring in Healthcare” on the 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2026), to be held in Bruges, Belgium.
• 2025.11: We will organzize a symposium on AI approaches to eating behaviors for eating disorders at the 9th Annual Technology in Psychiatry Summit (TIPS 2025) on Dec 11–12, hosted by McLean’s Institute for Technology in Psychiatry from McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
• 2024.10: Our paper, titled “Machine learning for classification of advanced rheumatic heart disease using electrocardiogram in cardiology ward”, was accepted for publication in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders.
• 2025.08: Invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Bonn, Germany, for the summer school “Digital Innovation in Nutritional Epidemiology” link, hosted by Prof. Ina Danquah.
• 2025.07: Give an oral presentation at IEEE EMBC 2025 to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the topic “Skeleton-Based Intake Gesture Detection With Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks”.
• 2025.05: Invited to give a talk at SPARC Radar Group Seminar (hosted by Prof. Bhavani Shankar), from University of Luxembourg, with the topic “Sensing Bites: Contactless Food Intake Activity Monitoring with Radar and AI”.
• 2025.04: Successfully co-organized the workshop “Novel Subjective and Objective Methods to Monitor Food Intake” at the International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM 2025) in Toronto, Canada.
• 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: 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

• 2024.09 - Current: Postdoctoral Researcher Associate, 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

• 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.
• FWO Long-Term Visit Grant: Awarded a 3-month grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to support an extended research stay abroad.
• Global Minds Mobility Grant: Received a grant from Interfaculty Council for Global Development for the research visiting to Global South.
• FWO Conference Travel Grant: Received a grant from the FWO for attending conference IEEE EMBC 2025.
• ICDAM 2025 Travel Bursary Awardee: Awarded by International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM) Committee in 2025.
• 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 FWO 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 (Graduated with honors)
• 2017.09 - 2019.07: BSc, KU Leuven, Belgium (Graduated with honors)
• 2014.09 - 2019.07: BSc, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China

📚Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer
  IEEE BHI 2022,2025; IEEE EMBC 2024,2025
• Journal Reviewer
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal;
  IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics;
  JMIR mHealth and uHealth;
  Journal of Medical Internet Research;
  IEEE Sensors Journal;
  IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine;
  Scientific Reports;
  JMIR Medical Informatics;
  JMIR Formative Research;
  JMIR Research Protocols;
  Journal of Supercomputing;
  International Journal of Data Science and Analytics;
  International journal of human-computer interaction
• 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, 2023,2024); Machine Learning (2023,2024)