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Yao Zhang

Doctoral Researcher, Mobile Cloud Computing Group , Aalto University

I am a doctoral researcher at Aalto University, supervised by Prof. Yu Xiao. My research focuses on human motion understanding and representation, including motion-language models, fine-grained motion retrieval, and sensor-based human activity recognition. I also collaborate on vision-language retrieval and e-textile sensing. Previously, I obtained my M.Sc. in Communication Engineering from Aalto University and my B.Sc. from Tongji University. My doctoral research is funded by the Finnish Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence (AI-DOC). I am always open to collaboration — feel free to reach out!

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Motion Understanding, HAR & E-Textile

Which knitting pattern makes the best wearable strain sensor? Plated knitting wins — with gauge factors above 13.

Comparative Analysis of Knitting Patterns for Wearable Resistive Strain Sensors in Joint Motion Measurements

Alina Schepers, Yao Zhang, Yu Xiao

ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) 2025

Vision-Language Retrieval