top of page
herman park.jpg

Hello, I am

Han Yu

Machine Learning, Wearable Computing, Mental Health ...

ed5bf471e65fd4398d9aaf83fb938bb_edited.jpg

Han Yu

Ph.D. Student @ Rice University, Houston, TX

​

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • White LinkedIn Icon
  • github_PNG63
About

About

MY BACKGROUND

As a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, I am working with Dr. Akane Sano and researching the application of machine learning in the field of human health. Before that, I was a professional master student in electrical engineering at Rice University. 

Education & Experience

Education

WHAT I’VE LEARNED

2019 – Present

Rice University – Houston, TX; Advisor: Akane Sano

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

2017 – 2018

Rice University – Houston, TX; Major: Data Science

M.Eng., Electrical and Computer Engineering

2013 – 2017

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

B.Eng., Electrical Engineering

Experience

WHERE I’VE WORKED

May. 2018–Present

CompWell Research Group @ Rice University,

Research Assistant

May 2021 – Aug 2021

Apple Inc.

PhD Intern, AI/ML in Health Technology

Dec 2016 – May 2017

AV2C Lab @ UESTC,

Research Intern

Publications

WHAT I'VE FINISHED

Yu, H., Yang, H., & Sano, A. (2022). LEAVES: Learning Views for Time-Series Data in Contrastive Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07340.

Yang, H., Yu, H., & Sano, A. (2022). Empirical Evaluation of Data Augmentations for Biobehavioral Time Series Data with Deep Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06701.

Zanna, K., Sridhar, K., Yu, H., & Sano, A. (2022). Bias Reducing Multitask Learning on Mental Health Prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03621.

Yu, H. & Sano, A. (2022). Semi-Supervised Learning and Data Augmentation in Wearable-based Momentary Stress Detection in the Wild. preprint,

Yang, H., Yu, H., Sridhar, K., Vaessen, T., Myin-Germeys, I., & Sano, A. (2022). More to Less (M2L): Enhanced Health Recognition in the Wild with Reduced Modality of Wearable Sensors. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08267.

Yu, H., Vaessen, T., Myin-Germeys, I., & Sano, A. (2021, September). Modality Fusion Network and Personalized Attention in Momentary Stress Detection in the Wild. In 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Yu, H., Itoh, A., Sakamoto, R., Shimaoka, M., & Sano, A. (2020, December). Forecasting health and wellbeing for shift workers using job-role based deep neural network. In International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (pp. 89-103). Springer, Cham.

Yu, H., & Sano, A. (2020, July). Passive Sensor Data Based Future Mood, Health, and Stress Prediction: User Adaptation Using Deep Learning. In 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 5884-5887). IEEE.

Li, B., Yu, H., & Sano, A. (2019, September). Toward End-to-end Prediction of Future Wellbeing using Deep Sensor Representation Learning. In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (pp. 253-257). IEEE.

Yu, H., Klerman, E. B., Picard, R. W., & Sano, A. (2019, May). Personalized Wellbeing Prediction using Behavioral, Physiological and Weather Data. In 2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Skills & Languages
Awards & Interests

Awards

WHAT I'VE ACHIEVED

Rice University IBB Travel Award -- Rice University, Houston, USA

Outstanding Student Award -- UESTC, Chengdu, China

People’s Scholarship of China -- UESTC, Chengdu, China

Interests

OUT OF OFFICE

Cooking

Hiking

Travel

Gaming

Basketball

Reading

bottom of page