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Yuntao WANG

Associate Professor (Research Track), Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Technical Advisor, Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) Institute, Tsinghua University

Biography

Yuntao Wang’s research focuses on the efficient sensing of behavioral and physiological data, alongside the design of intelligent interactive interfaces for mobile and wearable devices. His work primarily targets: 1) the development of robust and efficient sensing techniques that perform reliably on mainstream mobile and wearable devices, 2) the extraction of meaningful spatiotemporal patterns from multimodal sensory data, leveraging inherent correlations in natural human behaviors to accurately infer user interaction intentions, and 3) the design of novel interaction interfaces that achieve high recognition accuracy and inference efficiency, optimized for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. He has published over 80 academic papers and received 9 international conference awards. Additionally, he holds 31 granted invention patents. His innovative achievements have been recognized with several prestigious honors, including the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award (2024), the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST, 2022), Leading Talent of the High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program of Qinghai Province (2024), and the First Prize of the China Electronics Institute Science and Technology Award (2019).

Interests

  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Physiological Computing
  • Edge Computing

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science and Technology (with honor), 2016

    Tsinghua University

  • BSc in Computer Science and Technology (with honor), 2011

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Recent Posts

Six papers were accepted by CHI 2025

Six papers in natural interaction interfaces, AR/VR, and health were accepted by CHI 2025.

Two papers were accepted by IEEE VR 2025

Two papers were accpeted by IEEE VR 2025. I was the corresponding authors of these two papers.

Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award

I am honored with Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award.

Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2024

DreamCatcher and Voila-A were accepted by NeurIPS 2024.

Three papers were accepted by IMWUT

The earsavas dataset, G-voila and Ubiphysio were accepted by IMWUT.

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor (Research Track)

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

December 20, 2022 – Present Beijing, China
My jobs include: 1) Conduct research in HCI and Ubiquitous Computing areas; 2) Apply for national or industrial funding; 3) Mentor students; 4) Teach CS courses; 5) Administrative services on student affairs.
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor (Research Track)

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

January 28, 2019 – December 20, 2022 Beijing, China
My jobs include: 1) Conduct research in HCI and Ubiquitous Computing areas; 2) Apply for national or industrial funding; 3) Mentor students; 4) Teach CS courses; 5) Administrative services on student affairs.
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Faculty (Visiting Assistant Professor/Research Associate)

University of Washington

February 1, 2018 – March 15, 2021 Seattle/Bellvue, USA
My jobs include: 1) Conduct research in the ubicomp lab @ CSE; 2) Technical Advisor of the GIX MSTI program; 3) Teach “Managing Data and Signal Processing” and “Hardware/Software Lab 2” courses; 4) Organize the Access Computing Summer Program.
 
 
 
 
 

Chief Scientist, Co-founder

Fangxiang Tech.

March 15, 2017 – December 31, 2021 Beijing, China
I co-founded Fangxiang Tech with my friends to facilitate Artificial Internet of Things (AIoT) technologies in the mining industry. Trucker Tech is now a start-up that has 50+ employees.
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

July 1, 2016 – January 12, 2019 Beijing, China
My jobs include: 1) Conduct research in HCI and Ubicomp areas; 2) Apply for national or industrial funding; 3) Technical advisor of the GIX Dual Degree Master Program, 4) Organize and teach Tsinghua GIX High-School Innovation Camp.

Teaching

80240533: Human Computer Interaction Technology (3 credits, Instructor, 2023 - 2025 Spring)

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), focusing on designing user-friendly, efficient interactive systems. It covers human ability analysis, natural interaction techniques, and human-AI interaction, integrating interdisciplinary knowledge to solve real-world problems. The key goals of HCI—interaction efficiency and interface naturalness—are explored to enhance user experience.

86010053: Essentials Towards Signal Processing and Data Management for AIoT Applications (3 credits, Instructor, 2021 - 2024 Autumn)

This course prepares students for fundamental skills in machine learning and digital signal processing. Then students will learn how to apply the fundamentals to real-world problems and their research projects.

TECHIN 513: Managing Data And Signal Processing (3 credits, Instructor, Winter Quarter, 2021; Co-instructor, Winter Quarter, 2020)

This course prepares students fundamental skills in machine learning and digital signal processing. Then students will learn how to apply the fundamentals to real-world problems.

TECHIN 540: Integrated Launch Studio 1 (2 credits, Technical Advisor; Summer Quarter, 2020)

Students will work in teams of students with guidance from Industry sponsors and mentors to plan and execute the front-end phases of a comprehensive MSTI Launch Project. Teams will conduct background investigation and analysis, frame an actionable understanding of the problem, identify stakeholder needs and business constraints, and explore potential technology platforms in order to begin to develop a solution proposal and early functional/technical prototype. This course is the first in a two-quarter course sequence that will culminate in the development of a technology-based solution proposal and demonstration that can be considered for potential commercialization through external funding or acquisition, or further development.

TECHIN 515: Hardware and Software Lab 2 (4 credits, Co-instructor, Spring Quarter, 2020)

I co-teach this course with John Raiti in GIX. Students will work in small groups on a single project throughout the course. The project will allow students to gain experience with the process and skills required to design, develop, and produce a product prototype, as is done in industry and in the startup community. The project will help students develop skills related to hardware, sensors, embedded systems, software, communications, prototyping, debugging, project management, and working in teams. This course reinforces the skills learned in other GIX courses by bringing many of the different aspects of product development together.

66010011: Practical Training on Scientific Research Proposal in Applied Innovation (1 credit, Instructor, 2020-2024 Autumn)

This course teaches students the knowledge and skills on how to prepare and write a scientific research proposal. Students need to identify a research topic, write and present the research proposal.

TECHIN 542: Integrated Launch Studio 2 (10 credits, Technical Advisor; Autumn Quarter, 2019)

This course guides students to complete the launch project according to the objectives and benchmarks.

66010021: Practical Training on Scientific Research in Applied Innovation (4 credits, Co-instructor, 2019 - 2024 Spring)

This course trains students on how to conduct scientific research. It is also to guide students to finish their research projects and finalize their thesis.

TECHIN 512: Introduction to Sensors and Circuits (3 credits, Co-instructor, 2019 Winter, 2018 Winter)

I co-teach this course with John Raiti in GIX. This course prepares students for fundamental knowledge and skills in sensors, sensing technologies and circuits.

Paper Publications

80+ conference or journal papers

(2025). BIT: Battery-free, IC-less and Wireless Smart Textile Interface and Sensing System. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

PDF DOI

(2025). Demonstrating BIT: Battery-free, IC-less and Wireless Smart Textile Interface and Sensing System. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Honour and Award

Leading Talent of the High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program

I was selected into the Leading Talent of the High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program of Qinghai Province.

Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award

I was honored with the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award, widely regarded as the highest distinction in computer science and technology in China.

Honorable Mentioned Award

Enabling Voice-Accompanying Hand-to-Face Gesture Recognition with Cross-Device Sensing was recognized as the Honorable Mentioned Award of the ACM CHI 2023.

Best Paper Nominee

ConeSpeech: Exploring Directional Speech Interaction for Multi-Person Remote Communication in Virtual Reality was recognized as the Best Paper Nominee of the IEEE VR 2023.

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program

I was granted by the 7th Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in 2022. Only 445 young scholars were awarded nationwide.

Excellent Science and Technology Award

As a major contributor, the key technology system of natural human-computer interaction - NUIX, won the Excellent Science and Technology Award by Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) in 2021.

First Prize of Science and Technology Award

Key technologies and applications of human-computer interaction that support the expression of users’ natural intentions won the first prize of science and technology award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) in 2019.

Saffron won X-prize Second Place Prize

Saffron, teamed by Nicholas Becker, Yuntao Wang, Zoe Zou, Archisa Guharoy and Noah Hollmann, won X-prize Second Place Prize in the Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE.

Discussion Paper

TouchPower: Interaction-based Power Transfer for Power-as-needed Devices was recognized as the Discussion Paper on the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

Best paper Runner-up

BitID: Easily Add Battery-Free Wireless Sensors to Everyday Objects. was awarded the Best paper Runner-up on the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP'17).

Best Paper Award

BodyRC: Exploring Interaction Modalities Using Human Body as Lossy Signal Transmission Medium was awarded the Best Paper Award on the 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2014).

Honorable Mention Award

Understanding performance of eyes-free, absolute position control on touchable mobile phones. was awarded the Honorable Mention Award on the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI ‘13).

Patents

49 patents (38 Chinese patents, 5 U.S patents, and 6 PCT WIPO patents)

Chinese Patent

38 Chinese patents,24 patents were granted:

  1. 王运涛,史元春,手背皮肤形变还原手指运动方法,ZL201811159627.6,(授权)
  2. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,杜琳,识别对象的方法和装置,ZL201511000942.0,(授权)
  3. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,杜琳,确定动作和/或动作部位的方法和设备,ZL201510069988.1,(授权)
  4. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,杜琳,确定动作和/或动作部位的方法和设备,ZL201510069921.8,(授权)
  5. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,杜琳,确定输入信息的方法和设备,ZL201510070064.3,(授权)
  6. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,杜琳,确定输入信息的方法和设备,ZL201510069927.5,(授权)
  7. 史元春,王运涛,杜琳,基于人体的交互方法及交互装置,ZL201410243743.1,(授权)
  8. 史元春,王运涛,苏洲跃,喻纯,赵宇航,一种Eye-Free的触屏手机控制电视的方法,ZL201210056881.X,(授权)
  9. 何芃,王运涛,史元春,一种提高区块链吞吐效率的方法:中国,ZL201810725016.7,(授权)
  10. 岳阳,何芃,王运涛,史元春,基于区块链技术的完全去中心社区化网络游戏:中国,ZL201810725018.6,(授权)
  11. 王运涛,刘敏怡,李宇静,史元春,一种非接触式口呼吸检测装置、方法及存储介质,ZL202010368141.4,(授权)
  12. 张腾翔,史元春,易鑫,王运涛,喻纯,利用无线信号进行配对的配对方法和无线设备,ZL201810723952.4,(授权)
  13. 王运涛,李心成,张蓉,许稼轩,史元春,点对点层级式货物即时配送系统、方法及应用,201810478470.7,(公开)
  14. 王运涛,张蓉,李心成,许稼轩,彭鼎,史元春,一种儿童坐姿检测智能交互装置系统及方法,201810181547.4,(公开)
  15. 王运涛,张蓉,李心成,许稼轩,彭鼎,史元春,一种儿童坐姿模拟交互装置及方法,ZL201810181554.4 (授权)
  16. 王运涛,冀晓斌,王宇飞,李佳娱,夏丽艳,刘学君,一种智能磅室自动化作业系统、方法及智能磅室互联方法,201710728247.9.(公开)
  17. 王运涛,史元春,一种车辆超载监管方法、装置、系统及存储介质,20191079300.3.(公开)
  18. 王运涛,赵瑞冰,许斌,史元春,一种视频播放的跳转导航方法,202010043570.4 (公开)
  19. 易鑫,史元春,鲁逸沁,王运涛,眼动交互方法、头戴式设备和计算机可读介质,ZL202010557932.1.(授权)
  20. 王运涛,潘泽文,易鑫,史元春,一种可大规模部署的室内定位方法及系统,ZL2020103402488.(授权)
  21. 史元春,喻纯,潘星宇,王运涛,中文带标记错误语料生成方法、计算装置和存储介质, ZL202010299661.4,(授权)
  22. 王运涛,史元春,分析手部震颤误触的输入纠错方法、计算装置和介质,ZL202110220942.0,(授权)
  23. 王运涛,瑞图,史元春,一种基于换脸技术及虚拟现实技术模拟演讲的方法和装置,ZL202010368937.X,(授权)
  24. 王运涛,夏盛溪,史元春,一种基于物联网的货车陆运监控管理系统,201910393093.1,(公开)
  25. 徐嘉鑫,王宇飞,朱建佳,王运涛,徐乃煊,张钰晨,一种过磅管理方法、设备及计算机可读存储介质,202011325201.0 (公开)
  26. 汪家南,邱凯龙,王宇飞,朱建佳,王运涛,徐乃煊,张钰晨,货物运输管理方法、服务端和货主端,202011319890.4,(公开)
  27. 孟宪岳,王宇飞,朱建佳,王运涛,徐乃煊,张钰晨,一种货运支付方法、设备及系统,202011324873.X,(公开)
  28. 吴亦凡,王宇飞,朱建佳,王运涛,徐乃煊,张钰晨,一种货车进出站的方法、设备和计算机可读存储介质,202011324874.4,(公开)
  29. 王运涛,史元春,唐健凯,一种甲襞微循环图像处理系统、方法及电子设备,202311864010.5,(公开)
  30. 岳阳,何芃,王运涛,史元春,基于区块链技术的完全去中心社区化网络游戏运算方法,ZL201810725018.6(授权)
  31. 史元春,李志鹏,王运涛,阎裕康,江禹,一种虚拟现实身体所有权的量化方法、系统及电子设备,ZL202111394318.9(授权)
  32. 王运涛,庄煜洲,史元春,一种基于反射面扩展的声源定位方法、装置及电子设备,202111161363.X(公开)
  33. 王重阳,冯渊钟,凌逍,喻纯,张驰,郑思齐,梁宸,王运涛,朱思忆,何成奇,史元春,用于运动康复的交互方法、装置、计算机设备和存储介质,202410101004.2(公开)
  34. 史元春,王运涛,王泽宇,张奚宇星,用户主体识别的睡眠事件检测方法、系统、设备及介质,202410735952.1(公开)
  35. 王运涛,张奚宇星,史元春,一种基于入耳式降噪耳机的心音还原方法、装置和电子设备,202410749233.5(公开)
  36. 唐健凯,王运涛,史元春,张奚宇星,一种跨设备的身份认证方法及装置,202410095274.7(公开)
  37. 王运涛,史元春,兴军亮,高梓淇,陶品,喻纯,一种用户日常活动检测方法、装置和电子设备,202410719185.5(公开)
  38. 史元春,王运涛,喻纯,兴军亮,唐健凯,李哲,朱凯,一种基于生理信号的身份认证方法及系统,202410703230.8(公开)

PCT WIPO Patent

6 granted PCT WIPO patents:

  1. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Action and/or Action Part, WO2016127745A1.
  2. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Action and/or Action Part, WO2016127741A1.
  3. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Input Information, WO2016127743A1.
  4. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Input Information, WO2016127744A1.
  5. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Lin Du. Human Body-Based Interaction Method and Interaction Apparatus, WO2015184778A1.
  6. Tengxiang Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Xin Yi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Pairing method using wireless signal and wireless device, WO2020006702A1.

U.S. Patent

5 granted U.S. patents:

  1. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Action and/or Action Part, US10591985B2
  2. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Input Information, US10261577B2
  3. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Action and/or Action Part, US10292609B2
  4. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Lin Du. Method and Device for Determining Input Information, US10512404B2
  5. Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang, Lin Du. Human Body-Based Interaction Method and Interaction Apparatus, US10521018B2

Services

  • Academic Services

    • Secretary General of CCF technical committee of human computer interaction (CCF TCHCI)
    • Assocaite Editor: IMWUT (since 2024)
    • Assocaite Chair: ACM CHI 2021, ACM CHI 2023, ACM CHI 2024, ACM CHI 2025, ACM UIST 2024, ACM UIST 2025
    • Program Chair: CCF HHME 2025, CCF AIC 2025, CCF HHME 2024, HCI+ 2025, CCF ACSP 2022、ACSP 2021、ACSP 2020
    • Technical Program Chair: CCF CHCI 2023
    • Reviewer: IMWUT 2019 - 2024,ACM CHI 2020 - 2021,ACM UIST 2015/2021/2022, IEEE VR 2020 - 2022, ISMAR 2022/2024/2025, SIGGRPAH 2022/2025, IDC 2020, IJHCS, TOCHI, IJHCI
  • Organizer

    • GIX Competition 2016, 2017, 2018
    • GIX High School Innovation Camp: 2017 summer, 2018 winter, 2018 summer, 2019 winter, 2019 summer
  • Administrative Service

    • Post-graduate student affairs administrator, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University..
    • Assistant to the dean of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), Tsinghua University.
  • Volunteer

    • ACM CHI 2015, Ubicomp 2011

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