Yiwen Dong

For More Information

• UbiHealth Lab

Education

• B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2018
• M.S. in Structural Engineering, Stanford University, 2020
• Ph.D. in Structural Engineering (minor in Electrical Engineering), Stanford University, 2024

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 2025-now
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), 2024-2025

Research Interests

• AI for Health
• Human-Centered Sensing
• Sound and Vibration
• Gait and Mobility Monitoring
• Smart Built Environment

Research Topics

• Health Technology

Selected Articles in Journals

• Yiwen Dong, Sung Eun Kim, Jessica Rose, and Hae Young Noh. Physics-Informed Graphical Modeling of Human-Structure Interactions for Gait and Motion Analysis. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 119351. 2025.
• Yiwen Dong, Megan Iammarino, Jingxiao Liu, Jesse Codling, Jonathon Fagert, Mostafa Mirshekari, Linda Lowes, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. Sensing Ambient Floor Vibration Advances Accessibility of Functional Gait Assessment for Children with Muscular Dystrophies. Nature Scientific Reports 14, 10774 (2024). 
• Yiwen Dong, Sung Eun Kim, Kornel Schadl, Peide Huang, Wenhao Ding, Jessica Rose, and Hae Young Noh. In-home Gait Abnormality Detection through Footstep-Induced Floor Vibration Sensing and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 7054-7067, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2024.3413815.
• Yiwen Dong, Hae Young Noh. Ubiquitous Gait Analysis through Footstep-Induced Floor Vibrations. Sensors 2024, 24, 2496,  26 Pages.
• Yiwen Dong, Amelie Bonde, Jesse R. Codling, Adeola Bannis, Jinpu Cao, Asya Macon, Gary Rohrer, Jeremy Miles, Sudhendu Sharma, Tami Brown-Brandl, Akkarit Sangpetch, Orathai Sangpetch, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. 2023. PigSense: Structural Vibration-based Activity and Health Monitoring System for Pigs. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 20, 1, Article 1 (January 2024), 43 pages.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Yiwen Dong, Yuyan Wu, Jesse R Codling, Jatin Aggarwal, Peide Huang, Wenhao Ding, Hugo Latapie, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. 2023. GameVibes: Vibration-based Crowd Monitoring for Sports Games through Audience-Game-Facility Association Modeling. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 177–188.

Patents

• Human Gait Parameter and Health Information Extraction using Floor-Mounted Geophone Sensors. Yiwen Dong, Hae Young Noh. 2023.

Conferences Organized or Chaired

• TPC member, ACM SenSys 2026
• General Chair, ACM HumanSys 2025
• TPC member, ACM SenSys 2025
• TPC member, ACM BuildSys 2025
• Publicity Chair, ACM BuildSys 2024
• General Chair, ACM HumanSys 2024
• Publicity Chair, ACM SenSys 2023

Honors

• Best Poster Award (runner-up), BuildSys Conference 2022
• Best Paper Award (runner-up), IMAC Conference 2023
• Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University 2023
• CEE Rising Star, MIT CEE Rising Star Committee 2023
• Best Paper Award, IMAC conference 2024
• Stanford HAI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024
• Best Paper Award (runner-up), BuildSys conference 2024

Recent Courses Taught

• SE 498 YD - Health Intelligence Systems: F