🧑 Short Bio

Xiaoyu Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, United States, co-advised by Prof. Wenyao Xu and Prof. Yaxiong Xie. He received his M.Eng. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, China, and his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Information Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei Anhui, China. His research interest lies in multimodal sensing agents for smart health and social good, spanning mmWave sensing and imaging, multimodal medical AI, and robotic perception and autonomous inspection.

🔥 News

• PublicationOne paper is accepted in IEEE HealthCom 2026. (2026/08)
• ActivityI defended my Ph.D. dissertation, Toward High-Resolution and High-Capacity mmWave Sensing Technology for Medical Applications. (2026/07)
• PublicationOne paper is accepted in UbiComp/IMWUT 2026. (2026/07)
• PublicationOne first-author paper is accepted in ICIBM 2026. (2026/07)
• PublicationOne first-author paper is accepted in IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026. (2026/06)
• ActivityDemonstrated the WaveSight-RF clinical wound-imaging station at the SUNY Research Expo. (2026/03)
• ActivityRan a Community Engagement Studio at the UB CTSI, gathering design feedback from a 12-member community expert panel. (2026/02)
• ServiceServing on the Organizing Committee (Local Arrangements) of ICIBM 2026. (2026)
• AwardOur work on RF-based through-dressing wound sensing is selected as a Best Paper Candidate at the International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Modeling, and Intelligent Systems (HumanSys'25). (2025/05)
• AwardAdvanced to the semifinals of the Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition as technical lead and presenter. (2025/03)

📝 Publications

• IROS 2026
  Autonomous Robotic Inspection of Building Thermal Insulation via Subsurface mmWave Sensing

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Ye Zhan, Chenhan Xu, Zhengxiong Li, Chuqin Huang, Yanda Cheng, Licheng Liang, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, Chi Zhou, Hongyue Sun, and Wenyao Xu

  In Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2026
• IMWUT 2026
  Speech Annotation and Transcription Enhancer (SATE): An Automated System for Child Language Sample Analysis

  Shuwei Hou, Wei Bo, L. Cao, Varun Shijo, Chuhui Liu, Xiaoyu Zhang, L. Guo, and Wenyao Xu

  In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2026
• ICIBM 2026
  Matching Speech Models to ADRD Subtypes: A Mechanistic Benchmark

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Wei Bo, Anarghya Das, Longxiang Pan, and Wenyao Xu

  In Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine 2026
• npj Imaging 2026
  Predictive modeling of chronic foot ulcer outcomes using longitudinal photoacoustic imaging

  Yanda Cheng, Chuqin Huang, Shuliang Yu, Saptarshi Chakraborty, Yunqi Xi, Robert W. Bing, Huijuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Isabel Komornicki, Linda M. Harris, Wenyao Xu, and Jun Xia

  In npj Imaging 2026
• HealthCom 2026
  Pool or Specialize? Anatomic-Site Domain Shift in Melanoma Classification

  Nicholas Wei, Austin Xu, and Xiaoyu Zhang

  In Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services 2026
• IEEE IoTJ 2025
  mmSkin: An Over-gauze Wound Assessment System using Radio Frequency Technologies

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Yanda Cheng, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Emma Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, and Wenyao Xu

  In IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2025
• IEEE IoTJ 2025
  mmHand: Towards Pixel-Level-Accuracy Hand Localization Using a Single Commodity mmWave Device

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Chenhan Xu, Luchuan Song, Huining Li, Hongfei Xue, Yingxiao Wu, and Wenyao Xu

  In IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2025
• HumanSys 2025 Best Paper
  Candidate
  Through-dressing Wound Monitoring Based on the mmWave Sensor

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Yanda Cheng, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Emma Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, and Wenyao Xu

  In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Modeling, and Intelligent Systems (ACM SenSys workshop) 2025
• Sensors 2025
  A Comprehensive Survey of Research Trends in mmWave Technologies for Medical Applications

  Xiaoyu Zhang, Chuhui Liu, Yanda Cheng, Zhengxiong Li, Chenhan Xu, Chuqin Huang, Ye Zhan, Wei Bo, Jun Xia, and Wenyao Xu

  In Sensors 2025
• Photoacoustics 2025
  Radiomics-Driven Perfusion Prediction in Clinical Photoacoustic Foot Imaging

  Chuqin Huang, Yanda Cheng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ye Zhan, Wenhan Zheng, Isabel Komornicki, Linda M. Harris, Wenyao Xu, and Jun Xia

  In Photoacoustics 2025
• Photoacoustics 2025
  Enhanced clinical photoacoustic vascular imaging through a skin localization network and adaptive weighting

  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, and Jun Xia

  In Photoacoustics 2025
• IEEE JBHI 2024
  A Telemedicine Analytic Framework for Fully and Semi-automatic Alzheimer's Disease Screening using Clock Drawing Test

  Wei Bo, Suzanne S. Sullivan, Xiaoyu Zhang, Mingchen Gao, and Wenyao Xu

  In IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2024
• ACM UIST 2023
  WavoID: Robust and Secure Multi-modal User Identification via mmWave-voice Mechanism

  Tiantian Liu, Feng Lin, Chao Wang, Chenhan Xu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhengxiong Li, Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, and Kui Ren

  In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2023
• IEEE BSN 2019
  A Channel Hopping Strategy Based on the Human Trajectory Similarity for WBANs

  Xiaoyu Zhang, and Bin Liu

  In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks 2019
• BodyNets 2017
  JMMM: A Mobility Model for WBANs Based on Human Joint Movements

  Chengjie Guan, Bin Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Y. Zhang, and Xiaoyu Zhang

  In Proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks 2017

🎖 Awards

• 2025 Best Paper Candidate Award, HumanSys 2025 (ACM SenSys workshop).
• 2025 Semifinalist, Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition, University at Buffalo.
• 2024 Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo.
• 2021 Chair’s Fellowship, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo.
• 2015 - 2019 Merit scholarships (graduate and undergraduate), USTC and Hefei University of Technology.

📖 Educations

• 2021.09 - 2026.07, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States. Dissertation: Toward High-Resolution and High-Capacity mmWave Sensing Technology for Medical Applications, co-advised by Prof. Wenyao Xu and Prof. Yaxiong Xie.
• 2017.09 - 2020.06, M.Eng. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
• 2013.09 - 2017.06, B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China.

💬 Talks

• 2026.07, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, University at Buffalo — Toward High-Resolution and High-Capacity mmWave Sensing Technology for Medical Applications.
• 2026.03, Live demonstration, SUNY Research Expo — WaveSight-RF clinical wound-imaging station.
• 2026.02, Community Engagement Studio, UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) — wound-measurement device design review with a 12-member community expert panel.
• 2025.05, Invited talk, HumanSys 2025 (ACM SenSys workshop) — Through-dressing Wound Monitoring Based on the mmWave Sensor.
• 2025.03, Pitch talk, Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition — Advanced Through-Gauze Wound Assessment Technology.
• 2019.05, Invited talk, IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN).
• 2017.09, Invited talk, 19th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets).

💻 Experiences

• 2022.09 - Now, Clinical research collaborations, University at Buffalo and partner sites, Buffalo, NY, United States. Deployed the WaveSight-RF clinical wound-imaging station at UBMD Vascular Surgery under an IRB-approved protocol, with repeat longitudinal scanning up to 3 months per patient. Curated a 53-patient tri-modal photoacoustic / ultrasound / mammography subset from a 284-patient breast-imaging cohort, and a 27-subject wearable ear-EEG cohort.
• 2020.07 - 2020.09, Software engineer intern, China Merchants Bank Software Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

🧑‍🏫 Teaching

• 21 Fall, 22 Spring, 22 Fall, 23 Fall, 24 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Algorithm Analysis and Design, University at Buffalo.
• 23 Fall, Guest Lecturer, Special Topics (Wireless Signal Processing: Making Sense of the Invisible), University at Buffalo.
• 18 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Logic and Graph Theory, University of Science and Technology of China.

🛠 Service

• Conference Organization: Organizing Committee Member (Local Arrangements), ICIBM 2026.
• Conference Reviews: ACM CHASE’25, IEEE BHI’24’26, IEEE BSN’23’24, PERC’26.
• Journal Reviews: IEEE TMC, ACM HEALTH, IEEE OJEMB, Scientific Reports, Smart Health.