Yiwen Dong

For More Information

• Ubiquitous Health Intelligence (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

Continuing Education

• SE498 Health Intelligence Systems: From Sensing to AI-Driven Discovery

Research Interests

• Gait & Mobility Analysis
• Human-Centered Cyber-Physical Systems
• Smart Built Environment
• AI for Health
• Multimodal Sensing (Sound, Vibration, Computer Vision, etc.)

Research Topics

• Data science and analytics
• Healthcare and medical technologies
• Wearable and mobile computing

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

• Method and System for Automated Gait Motion Analysis and Clinical Report Generation. Mingrui Ma, Yiwen Dong. 2026
• 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 BuildSys 2026
• General Chair, ACM HumanSys 2026
• TPC member, ACM SenSys 2026

Honors

• Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University 2023
• Best Paper Award, IMAC conference 2024
• Stanford Human-centered AI (HAI) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024
• Best Poster Award, ACM BuildSys conference 2025
• Best Paper Award, ACM BuildSys conference 2025