Yunzhi Li 李云志
Yunzhi Li in round glasses and a hooded jacket, looking over his shoulder at the camera on a city street corner at night, in black and white.

Yunzhi Li

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Yunzhi Li is a final-year PhD student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Patrick Carrington in the AXLE Lab.

Yunzhi's research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, applied machine learning, sensing and accessibility, with a focus on designing and building sensing and interactive technologies that improve usability, support independence and raise quality of life. Recent work spans inclusive human activity recognition, practical body pose estimation with sparse IMUs, wearable health sensing, and inclusive interaction techniques.

His work has been published in leading HCI and sensing venues, including CHI, ASSETS, IMWUT, CSCW, MobileHCI and ICASSP, and has received Best Student Paper and Distinguished Paper awards, among other honors. His research has been supported by the Center for Machine Learning and Health Fellowship and the Asian Students Association Endowed Presidential Fellowship.

Previously, he held research internships at Accenture Labs, Meta Reality Labs and Samsung Research America. He received his M.S. from Georgia Tech and his B.Eng. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

News

  1. Submitted two papers to CHI 2027.

  2. Off to Swansea for MobileHCI 2026.

  3. Our paper on measuring pulse transit time with mmWave radar is out in Nature Communications.

  4. Not Just Pockets was accepted to MobileHCI 2026.

  5. Received the Asian Students Association Endowed Presidential Fellowship.

earlier

  1. Began my internship at Meta Reality Labs.

  2. All three papers from my internship have been accepted to ICASSP 2025 and CHI 2025.

  3. Back in Pittsburgh from ASSETS 2024, where WheelPoser won the Best Student Paper Award.

  4. Submitted three papers from my internship work to CHI 2025 and ICASSP 2025.

  5. Wrapped up my internship at Samsung Research America and returned to Pittsburgh.

  6. WheelPoser was accepted to ASSETS 2024. See you in Canada.

  7. Began my internship at Samsung Research America, contributing to the Digital Health team.

  8. Off to Hamburg for CHI 2023.

  9. Awarded a 2022 CMLH Fellowship.

  10. Our art installation TechMyMoves is exhibiting at the Georgia Tech Library.

Publications