高杨 ☕️
高杨

Associate Professor

About Me

Yang Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Future Technology at South China University of Technology (SCUT). Prior to my current role, I gained valuable experience as Research Professor at East China Normal University from September 2022 to August 2025 and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University (Evanston) from 2021 to 2022. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Wearable Computing, and AI. He leads the Human-Computer Interaction group at SCUT.

Contact: gaoyang2025 [AT] scut.edu.cn

Interests
  • Human-Computer-Interaction
  • Pervasive Computing
  • Multi-modal LLM
  • Human-Robot-Interaction
Education
  • PhD

    University at Buffalo, United States

  • PhD

    Binghamton University, United States

  • MS

    Steven Institute of Technology, United States

  • BS

    UESTC, China

📚 My Research

My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing. I explore how multimodal signals from wearable devices—including motion, physiological, and semantic data—can be leveraged to recognize complex human activities and infer user intent. My work also contributes to the development of intelligent affective technologies that can sense, interpret, and respond to human emotional states in real time.

I am currently looking for self-motivated Ph.D. and Master’s students with backgrounds in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Circuit Design.

Contact: gaoyang2025 [AT] scut.edu.cn

Recent News

🎉 Our Paper Accepted to CHI 2026!

Our paper, “RageSense” has been conditional accepted to CHI 2026! Stay tuned for the full paper and presentation details.

Family Moments

A collection of heartwarming snapshots with my beloved family.

🎉 Two Papers Newly Accepted for UbiComp 2025 Presentation!

Two of our papers in IMWUT ‘Feb Cycle’ (Motion2Press and KineticsSense) have been conditional accepted and will be presented at UbiComp 2025! We are excited to share our latest research and look forward to the discussions. More details will be available soon.

🎉 Our Paper Accepted to UIST 2025!

Our paper, “Wrist2Finger” has been conditional accepted to UIST 2025! Stay tuned for the full paper and presentation details.

CHI 2025 & Exploring Yokohama, Japan

A memorable journey to Yokohama for CHI 2025, blending cutting-edge HCI research with the vibrant culture of Japan.

Recent Publications
(2025). Wrist2Finger: Sensing Fingertip Force for Force-Aware Hand Interaction with a Ring-Watch Wearable. Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
(2025). KineticsSense: A Multimodal Wearable Sensor Framework for Modeling Lower-Limb Motion Kinetics. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
(2025). Motion2Press: Cross Model Learning from IMU to Plantar Pressure for Gait Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
(2025). KineticsSense: A Multimodal Wearable Sensor Framework for Modeling Lower-Limb Motion Kinetics. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol..
(2025). Motion2Press: Cross Model Learning from IMU to Plantar Pressure for Gait Analysis. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol..