BIO

I completed my Ph.D. in 2026 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), co-advised by Prof. Wenyao Xu and Prof. Yaxiong Xie. Before that I earned my master's degree at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) under Prof. Bin Liu, and my bachelor's degree at Hefei University of Technology (HFUT).

I build multimodal sensing agents that perceive, reason, and act on the physical world, combining mmWave radar, photoacoustic imaging, ultrasound, speech, vision, and ear-EEG sensing. My work turns these signals into deployable systems for smart health and social good, from through-dressing wound imaging and breast-cancer subtyping to embodied RF perception and sensing for sustainable manufacturing. My WaveSight-RF clinical station runs under an IRB-approved patient validation study, and one patent is under commercialization.

E-Mail: zhang376 at buffalo dot edu

Education

• 2021.09-2026 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UB. (Ph.D., defended 2026)
  • Co-advisor: Prof. Wenyao Xu & Yaxiong Xie
  • Dissertation: Toward High-Resolution and High-Capacity mmWave Sensing Technology for Medical Applications
  • Committee: Prof. Wenyao Xu, Prof. Yaxiong Xie, Prof. Jun Xia
• 2017.09-2020.06 Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, USTC. (Master Degree)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Bin Liu
• 2013.09-2017.06 Department of Electronic Information Engineering, HFUT. (Bachelor Degree)

PUBLICATION

• [1] Xiaoyu Zhang, Ye Zhan, Chenhan Xu, Zhengxiong Li, Chuqin Huang, Yanda Cheng, Licheng Liang, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, Chi Zhou, Hongyue Sun, Wenyao Xu. Autonomous Robotic Inspection of Building Thermal Insulation via Subsurface mmWave Sensing. IROS'26.
• [2] Shuwei Hou, Wei Bo, L. Cao, Varun Shijo, Chuhui Liu, Xiaoyu Zhang, L. Guo, Wenyao Xu. Speech Annotation and Transcription Enhancer (SATE): An Automated System for Child Language Sample Analysis. IMWUT'26.
• [3] Xiaoyu Zhang, Wei Bo, Anarghya Das, Longxiang Pan, Wenyao Xu. Matching Speech Models to ADRD Subtypes: A Mechanistic Benchmark. ICIBM'26.
• [4] Yanda Cheng, Chuqin Huang, Shuliang Yu, Saptarshi Chakraborty, Yunqi Xi, Robert W. Bing, Huijuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Isabel Komornicki, Linda M. Harris, Wenyao Xu, Jun Xia. Predictive modeling of chronic foot ulcer outcomes using longitudinal photoacoustic imaging. npj Imaging'26.
• [5] Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Yanda Cheng, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Emma Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, Wenyao Xu. mmSkin: An Over-gauze Wound Assessment System using Radio Frequency Technologies. IoTJ'25.
• [6] Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Chenhan Xu, Luchuan Song, Huining Li, Hongfei Xue, Yingxiao Wu, Wenyao Xu. mmHand: Towards Pixel-Level-Accuracy Hand Localization Using a Single Commodity mmWave Device. IoTJ'25.
• [7] Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Yanda Cheng, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Emma Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, Wenyao Xu. Through-dressing Wound Monitoring Based on The mmWave Sensor. HumanSys'25 (ACM SenSys workshop).(Best Paper Award Candidate).
• [8] Xiaoyu Zhang, Chuhui Liu, Yanda Cheng, Zhengxiong Li, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, Wenyao Xu. A Comprehensive Survey of Research Trends in mmWave Technologies for Medical Applications. Sensors'25.
• [9] Chuqin Huang, Yanda Cheng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wenhan Zheng, Isabel Komornicki, Linda M. Harris, Wenyao Xu, Jun Xia. Radiomics-Driven Perfusion Prediction in Clinical Photoacoustic Foot Imaging. Photoacoustics'25.
• [10] Chuqin Huang, Emily Zheng, Wenhan Zheng, Huijuan Zhang, Yanda Cheng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Varun Shijo, Robert W Bing, Isabel Komornicki, Linda M Harris, Ermelinda Bonaccio, Kazuaki Takabe, Emma Zhang, Wenyao Xu, Jun Xia. Enhanced clinical photoacoustic vascular imaging through a skin localization network and adaptive weighting. Photoacoustics'25.
• [11] Wei Bo, Suzanne S. Sullivan, Xiaoyu Zhang, Mingchen Gao, Wenyao Xu. A Telemedicine Analytic Framework for Fully and Semi-automatic Alzheimer’s Disease Screening using Clock Drawing Test. JBHI'24
• [12] Tiantian Liu, Feng Lin, Chao Wang, Chenhan Xu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Kui Ren. WavoID: Robust and Secure Multi-modal User Identification via mmWave-voice Mechanism. UIST’23.
• [13] Xiaoyu Zhang, Bin Liu. A Channel Hopping Strategy Based on the Human Trajectory Similarity for WBANs. BSN'19.
• [14] Chengjie Guan, Bin Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Y Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang. JMMM: A Mobility Model for WBANs Based on Human Joint Movements. BodyNets'17.

Competition

• Xiaoyu Zhang, Chuhui Liu, Jun Xia, Linda M. Harris, Wenyao Xu. Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC) 2025, advanced to semifinals.

TEACHING

• Algorithm Analysis and Design, 2021 Fall, 2022 Spring, 2022 Fall, 2023 Fall, 2024 Fall, UB
• Special Topics, 2023 Fall, UB — invited guest lecture: Wireless Signal Processing: Making Sense of the Invisible
• Mathematical Logic and Graph Theory, 2018 Fall, USTC

TALKS & DEMOS

• Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Toward High-Resolution and High-Capacity mmWave Sensing Technology for Medical Applications, UB, 2026
• Live Demonstration: SUNY Research Expo — WaveSight-RF clinical wound-imaging station, 2025
• Device Presentation: UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Studio — clinician-feedback session, 2025
• Invited Talk: HumanSys 2025 (ACM SenSys workshop) — Through-dressing Wound Monitoring Based on the mmWave Sensor
• Pitch Talk: Panasci TEC 2025 — Advanced Through-Gauze Wound Assessment Technology
• Invited Talk: IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2019
• Invited Talk: 19th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), 2017

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Conference Organization

• Organizing Committee Member (Local Arrangements), International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) [2026]

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) [2025, 2026]
• ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare [2025]
• IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB) [2025]
• Scientific Reports [2025]
• Smart Health (SH) [2024, 2025]

Conference Reviewer

• ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) [2025]
• IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE BHI) [2024, 2026]
• Physics Education Research Conference (PERC), AAPT [2026]
• IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (IEEE BSN) [2023, 2024]

AWARDS

• Best Paper Candidate Award, HumanSys'25 (ACM SenSys workshop), 2025
• Semifinalist, Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC), UB, 2025
• Graduate Teaching Award, CSE, UB, 2024
• Chair's Fellowship, CSE, UB, 2021
• Graduate Scholarship (1st / 2nd Prize), USTC, 2017-2019