Chen-Hsiang "Jones" Yu

About

Dr. Chen-Hsiang (Jones) Yu is a Teaching Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering’s Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering unit. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Center for Dynamical Biomarkers, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. He received his B.Eng. and M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) from Tamkang University (1998) and National Taiwan University (2000), respectively, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT (2012) under the supervision of Prof. Rob Miller. He received the Blittersdorf Faculty Award, the Sagan Faculty Fund Grants Award, two Faculty Grants Awards, six Presidential EPIC Mini Grants Awards, the IEEE CCWC Best Paper Award, the ACM UIST Best Poster Award, the ACM CHI Student Research Competition, and numerous programming and entrepreneurship competitions. Furthermore, he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.

During his career in industry, he has contributed to the development of over 12 commercialized mobile phones as well as various mobile applications. His Human-Computer Interaction research focuses on mobile health, artificial intelligence on mobiles, web customization and automation, and readability enhancement.

His 20+ years of industry and academic experience combined with the skills, knowledge, and experience, bring invaluable knowledge to the unit’s courses he teaches.

Selected Publications

• Hsiau-Wen Lin, Yihjia Tsai, Hwei Jen Lin, Chen-Hsiang Yu, Meng-Hsing Liu. “Unsupervised domain adaptation with deep network based on discriminative class-wise MMD.” AIMS Mathematics, 2024, 9(3): 6628-6647. doi: 10.3934/math.2024323
• Mengting Wang, Yen Le and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “MedCare4Home: A Mobile Medical System for Families.” 2023 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Applications & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2023), December 2023.
• Alex Grant, James Ferrarelli, Maximilian Rozano, QingQing Liu, Jiaming Su and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “TCM Tongue Segmentation and Analysis with a Mobile Device.” 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and System Engineering (ICEESE2023), August 2023.
• Paul Lussier and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “Applying IoT and Deep Learning for ECG Data Analysis.” 2022 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (IEEE GCAIoT), December 2022.
• Huike Wang, Chen-Hsiang Yu and Xiao Yang. “Web Accessibility Enhancement for Medical Consultation Platforms.” The 17th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), August 2022.
• Nicholas Foley and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “MusCare+: Muscle Monitoring for Anomalies.” IEEE World AI IoT Congress (IEEE AIIOT), June 2022.
• Abhi Pote Shrestha and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “ECG Data Analysis with IoT and Machine Learning.” IEEE 12th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (IEEE CCWC), January 2022.
• Chen-Hsiang Yu, Zachary Shelton, Omar Abou Nassif Mourad and Mohamed A. Oulal. “Readability Enhancement for PDF Documents.” Frontiers in Computer Science – Human-Media Interaction, July 2021.
• Noelle R. Benavides, Hayley E. Rutkey, Courteney M. DiDomenico, Tin Wong, Joe Martel-Foley, Chen-Hsiang Yu and Ali Kiapour. “A Wearable Mobile-App Controlled Device for Continuous Monitoring of UV Exposure and Hydration Levels.” IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (IEEE CCWC), January 2021.
• Halmon Lui and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “System Design for Data Analysis with Multiscale Entropy.” IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom), Dec. 2020.
• Zachary Shelton and Chen-Hsiang Yu. “A Framework for PDF Readability Enhancement.” The 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A), Apr. 2020.