Name:Yuntao WANG

Title: Associate Professor

Email: yuntaowang@tsinghua.edu.cn

EDUCATION

2007.09-2011.07 Bachelor，School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

2011.09-2016.07 Ph.D.，Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2016.09-2019.01 Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. Postdoctoral Researcher

2018.01-2021.03 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Visiting Assistant Professor, Research Associate

2019.01-2022.12 Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. Assistant Professor (Research Track)

2022.12-Present Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. Associate Professor (Research Track)

RESEARCH AREA

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Ubiquitous Computing

BIOGRAPH

Yuntao Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing, with a particular emphasis on efficient behavioral and physiological sensing, as well as the design of intelligent interactive interfaces for mobile and wearable devices. Dr. Wang’s work centers on: 1) developing robust and efficient behavioral and physiological sensing techniques that operate reliably on commodity mobile and wearable devices, 2) extracting meaningful spatiotemporal patterns from multimodal sensory data, leveraging the intrinsic correlations in natural human behaviors to accurately infer user interaction intentions, and 3) designing novel interaction interfaces that deliver high recognition accuracy and inference efficiency, optimized for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. He has published over 80 academic papers, including more than 50 in top-tier venues such as ACM CHI, UIST, IMWUT, NeurIPS, and IEEE VR. His work has received eight international conference awards, including an CHI 2023 Honorable Mention Award, IEEE TVCG 2023 Best Paper Nomination, SmartComp 2017 Best Paper Runner-Up, and IEEE UIC 2014 Best Paper Award. He has been granted more than 30 authorized invention patents. Dr. Wang’s innovative achievement has been distinguished with Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award (2024), Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST, 2022), the First Prize of China Electronics Institute Science and Technology Award (2019), and China Artificial Intelligence Society Excellent Research Achievement Award (2021).

HONORS AND AWARDS

Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (WWJ Award) - Outstanding Youth Award (2024)

China Computer Federation (CCF) technical committee of Human-Computer Interaction Youth Science and Technology Incentive Plan (2024)

First Prize of 11th Tsinghua University Young Faculty Teaching Competition (2024)

Beijing Outstanding Advisor for Undergraduate Graduation Thesis (2024)

ACM CHI Honorable Mentioned Award (2023)

IEEE VR Best Paper Nominee (2023)

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) (2022)

Gold Prize of "Internet+" Competition (2024, mentor)

Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society (2021)

First Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (2019)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

[1] Jiexin Ding, Bowen Zhao, Yuntao Wang#, Xinyun Liu, Rui Hao, Ishan Chatterjee, and Yuanchun Shi. Unknown Word Detection for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners using Gaze and Pre-trained Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-16. 2025.

[2] Mingxuan Liu, Jiankai Tang, Yongli Chen, Haoxiang Li, Jiahao Qi, Siwei Li, Kegang Wang, Jie Gan, Yuntao Wang#, and Hong Chen#. "Spiking-PhysFormer: Camera-based remote photoplethysmography with parallel spike-driven transformer." Neural Networks 185 (2025): 107128.

[3] Zeyu Wang, Yuanchun Shi#, Yuntao Wang#, Yuchen Yao, Kun Yan, Yuhan Wang, Lei Ji, Xuhai Xu, and Chun Yu. "G-VOILA: gaze-facilitated information querying in daily scenarios." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 8, no. 2 (2024): 1-33.

[4] Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang#, Yuxuan Han, Chen Liang, Ishan Chatterjee, Jiankai Tang, Xin Yi, Shwetak Patel, and Yuanchun Shi. "The earsavas dataset: Enabling subject-aware vocal activity sensing on earables." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 8, no. 2 (2024): 1-26.

[5] Zeyu Wang*, Xiyuxing Zhang*, Ruotong Yu*, Yuntao Wang#, Kenneth Christofferson, Jingru Zhang, Alex Mariakakis, and Yuanchun Shi. "DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (2024): 85155-85178.

[6] Ziqi Gao*, Yuntao Wang*#, Jianguo Chen, Junliang Xing, Shwetak Patel, Xin Liu, and Yuanchun Shi. "MMTSA: Multi-modal temporal segment attention network for efficient human activity recognition." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 7, no. 3 (2023): 1-26.

[7] Zisu Li*, Chen Liang*, Yuntao Wang#, Yue Qin, Chun Yu, Yukang Yan, Mingming Fan, and Yuanchun Shi. "Enabling voice-accompanying hand-to-face gesture recognition with cross-device sensing." In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-17. 2023.

[8] Yuntao Wang*, Zirui Cheng*, Xin Yi#, Yan Kong, Xueyang Wang, Xuhai Xu, Yukang Yan, Chun Yu, Shwetak Patel, and Yuanchun Shi. "Modeling the trade-off of privacy preservation and activity recognition on low-resolution images." In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-15. 2023.

[9] Yuntao Wang*, Jiexin Ding*, Ishan Chatterjee, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Yuzhou Zhuang, Yukang Yan#, Shwetak Patel, and Yuanchun Shi. "Faceori: Tracking head position and orientation using ultrasonic ranging on earphones." In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-12. 2022.

[10] Yuntao Wang, Ao Yu, Xin Yi#, Yuanwei Zhang, Ishan Chatterjee, Shwetak Patel, and Yuanchun Shi. "Facilitating text entry on smartphones with QWERTY keyboard for users with Parkinson’s disease." In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-12. 2021.