About
My research develops digital biomarkers of movement-related health from wearable sensor data, using interpretable artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on healthy ageing. I work with free-living data recorded continuously as people go about daily life, rather than short laboratory tests, and use interpretable machine learning for early detection of frailty, mobility decline and fall risk in older adults. A central concern is that model output should be examinable and clinically usable, so that it supports decision-making instead of asking clinicians to trust a black box.
Before CUHK I completed a PhD in Human Movement Sciences at University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudine Lamoth, Prof. Dr. Michiel Reneman, Prof. Dr. Bert Otten.
Research
Healthy ageing & mobility
Digital biomarkers of movement-related health in older adults — detecting frailty, mobility decline and fall risk from gait and free-living physical activity, and testing what actually changes them.
Explainable AI for human movement
Model output should be examinable and clinically usable, not a black box. SHAP and related methods applied to gait, physical activity and technical-tactical performance.
Chronic low back pain
How central sensitization shows up in gait and daily physical activity — the PhD line at Groningen / University Medical Center Groningen, carried out alongside rehabilitation and pain clinicians.
Indoor positioning & sensor-based tracking · 2016-2020
Smartphone inertial sensing, Wi-Fi fingerprinting and map matching for indoor localization — the MSc and BSc work where the signal-processing toolkit was built.
Publications 11 published
Talks & recognition
Invited talks
- Association between central sensitization, gait patterns, physical activity intensity patterns in chronic low back pain: Insights from machine learningPain Rehabilitation meeting, Utrecht
- Explainable AI for Deep Learning Models of Gait: Methods and LessonsMachine Learning Lab Community at DASH
Recognition
- BioSci Student Travel StipendGerontological Society of America (GSA) · 2025
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2024-25 AwardResearch Committee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2025-2029
- Research Fellowship Scheme 2024-25 AwardFaculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2025-2026
- Gold MedalInternational Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva · 2025
- Gold MedalAsia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions · 2025
- Ph.D. ScholarshipChina Scholarship Council -- University of Groningen Scholarship · 2019-2023
- First Prize, Indoor Localization CompetitionNational Remote Sensing Centre of China and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission · 2018