Yankai Zhao obtained the B.E. degree from Nankai University in 2024 honored with Outstanding Graduates. In recognition of his outstanding performance during his undergraduate studies, he won the Zhou Enlai Scholarship Nomination at Nankai University before graduation (Top 1%). He is currently pursuing his M.S. degree with the Department of Computer Science and Technology, SUSTech. His supervisor is Prof. Jin Zhang. His research interests include but are not limited to the Internet of Things (AIoT), ubiquitous computing, and HCI technology.

Role models

I am very grateful to my senior fellow apprentice Tao Sun, for guiding me and enhancing my research abilities. I also admire and learn from these researchers in the same research field: Wentao Xie, Ke Li, Yetong Cao, Xue Sun. They are all my role models in learning, the driving force and guiding light that inspire me to progress in my scientific research continually.

News

[ 25/01 ] Our paper Palatetouch has been conditionally accepted by CHI25! Palatetouch introduced a earphone interaction system. We enable the palate as a touchpad and the tip of the tongue as a clicker.

[ 24/07 ] EyeGesener was accepted to IMWUT/Ubicomp’24, which presents the first eye-gestures interaction system on a pair of eyeglasses based on acoustic sensing. I was fortunate enough to complete this paper as the co-first author when I was an ungraduated student.

Publications

[CHI 2025] Yankai Zhao, Jin Zhang†, Jiao Li, Tao Sun,
PalateTouch: PalateTouch: Enabling Palate as a Touchpad to Interact with Earphones Using Acoustic Sensing.

[IMWUT 2024] Tao Sun∗, Yankai Zhao∗, Wentao Xie, Jiao Li, Yongyu Ma, Jin Zhang†,
EyeGesener: Eye Gesture Listener for Smart Glasses Interaction Using Acoustic Sensing. PDF

[WWW 2024] Zhaoyang Yu∗, Shenglin Zhang∗, Mingze Sun, Yingke Li, Yankai Zhao, Xiaolei Hua, Lin Zhu, Xidao Wen, Dan Pei†,
Supervised Fine-Tuning for Unsupervised KPI Anomaly Detection for Mobile Web Systems. PDF

Services

External reviewer for CHI 2025.