Boyuan Gu 顾博元
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University
guboyuan79@gmail.com · GitHub · Google Scholar · ORCID
Research interests
Statistical machine learning; multimodal physiological signal processing; uncertainty modeling; cross-subject adaptation; physical feasibility evaluation of medical AI.
Education
Tsinghua University, Shenzhen International Graduate School
M.Phil. in Data Science and Information Technology
September 2026–June 2028 (expected)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering, September 2022–June 2026
Joint education program with the University of Glasgow · First-Class Honours
GPA: 3.91/4.00
Industry & research experience
HKUST (Guangzhou)
2026.03–2026.09 · Academic collaboration
Shenzhen X-Institute
2025.09–2026.09 · SURF (Senior Undergraduate Research Fellow)
Chengdu Duopu Cetan Technology Co., Ltd.
2024.03–2025.03 · Industry experience
Research experience
Physical Feasibility Evaluation of Medical LLMs and Physiological Feedback Alignment
Project Leader · January 2026–present
Supervisor: Xuming Hu, HKUST (Guangzhou)
- Developed PhysDox to evaluate physical feasibility auditing of physiological sensing protocols across six modalities. Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026; co-first and corresponding author.
- Investigating uncertainty-aware physiological-state representations from webcam-based iPPG, including signal quality, cross-subject variability, and confidence-calibrated feedback.
A Dual-modality Approach for Non-contact Blood Pressure Measurement
Core Member (2024) / Project Leader (2025) · September 2023–June 2025
Supervisor: Xiaorong Ding, UESTC
- Developed a contactless blood pressure monitoring framework integrating camera-based iPPG and mmWave radar, spanning synchronized acquisition, waveform extraction, multimodal fusion, and evaluation.
- Work resulted in publications in IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE EMBC.
An Improved VMD Algorithm for mmWave Based Heartbeat Measurement
Project Leader · September 2024–June 2025
Supervisor: Shisheng Guo, UESTC
- Developed an NRBO-optimized variational mode decomposition framework for heartbeat extraction from mmWave radar signals.
- First-author oral paper at IEEE SMC 2025.
Publications
- The Neural-Wave Quick Escape Manual 2036: A Field Guide to Adversarial Living in the Era of "Empathic" AIoT. ACM Interactions, 2026.
- TamedFlow: Trajectory-Aware Distillation for Teacher-Assisted Diffusion Sampling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.26025, 2026.
- DT4ECG: A dual-task learning framework for ECG-based human identity recognition and human activity detection. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express (accepted), 2026.
- CALM-BP: Observation-Matched Physiological Semantic Grounding for Non-Contact Blood Pressure Estimation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.21744, 2026.
- Rectify Then Diffuse: Disentangling Concepts Before Denoising Trajectory Unfolds. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.03135, 2026.
- BioDisclose: An Actionability-Aware Benchmark for Biomedical Safety under Adversarial Elicitation. IEEE BIBE, 2026.
- Synergistic Blood Pressure Estimation via Contactless mmWave Radar and Imaging Photoplethysmography: A Feasibility Study. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2026.
- PhysDox: Benchmarking LLMs on Physical Feasibility Auditing of Physiological Sensing Protocols. Findings of EMNLP, 2026.
- Robust Human Activity Recognition via Multimodal Fusion of mmWave Radar and LiDAR. IEEE ICMMT, 2026.
- From Elastic to Viscoelastic: An EEMD-Enhanced Pulse Transit Time Model for Robust Blood Pressure Estimation. IEEE EMBC, 2026.
- Non-Cooperative UWB Base Station Position Estimation Method in Indoor Environments. IEEE CloudCom, 2025.
- A U-net and Transformer Paralleled Network for Robust Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Based on CWT-transformed PPG Images. IEEE SMC, 2025.
- Improved VMD Based Remote Heartbeat Estimation Utilizing 60GHz mmWave Radar. IEEE SMC, 2025.
- Cuff-less Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation via Multimodal Integration of Millimeter-Wave Radar and PPG Signals. IEEE EMBC, 2025.
- SCCA-YOLO: Spatial Channel Fusion and Context-Aware YOLO for Lunar Crater Detection. Remote Sensing 17 (14), 2380, 2025.
- An Optimal Stopping Model for Elevator Group Control Network Based on Fuzzy Mathematics Algorithm. International Conference on Computer Information Science and Application Technology, 2024.
Design & creative work
The Neural-Wave Quick Escape Manual 2036: A Field Guide to Adversarial Living in the Era of "Empathic" AIoT
Boyuan Gu, Shuaiqi Cheng.
Design fiction · ACM Interactions, November 2026 (published).
A speculative field guide exploring privacy and autonomy in radar-based care systems.
Selected honors
- Honorary Degree of UESTC (top 2%).
- The Most Outstanding Student of UESTC — nomination (top 0.8%).
- James Watt Outstanding Innovation Scholarship, twice (top 1%).
- Top 10 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Figures of Glasgow College.
- Meritorious Winner, MCM/ICM.
Academic service
- Session Chair, IEEE SMC 2025, BSB Session.
- Reviewer: IEEE SMC; IEEE EMBC; Biomedical Signal Processing and Control; Remote Sensing.
Open source
- mmWave Heartbeat Dataset & Preprocessing Toolbox
- Awesome mmWave Sensing
- PhysioAugment
- Robust Blood Pressure Benchmark
Languages & interests
IELTS: 7.5 · CET-6: 601 · CET-4: 622.
Published short fiction; invited to the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention.
Updated October 2026.