Yang Zhang
Assistant Professor
Builds machine-learning-based sensing and interaction techniques that make ambient devices perceive users and environments.
Yang Zhang's lab at UCLA works on interfaces & interaction techniques. 20 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. 2 PhD students. 17 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 60%
- PhD students
- 2
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 17
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 6
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 7 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Interfaces & interaction techniques5 papers
- machine-learning-based0 papers
- interaction techniques0 papers
- make0 papers
- perceive0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
20257 papers
- UIST (T1)Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built Environments (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)EchoSight: Streamlining Bidirectional Virtual-physical Interaction with In-situ Optical Tethering (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTHapt-Aids: Self-Powered, On-Body Haptics for Activity Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Invisibility Cloak: Personalized Smartwatch-Guided Camera Obfuscation (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)LumosX: 3D Printed Anisotropic Light-Transfer (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)LuxAct: Enhance Everyday Objects with Interaction-Powered Illumination for Visual Communication (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)T2IRay: Design of Thumb-to-Index based Indirect Pointing for Continuous and Robust AR/VR Input (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- Science AdvancesHaptic Artificial Muscle Skin for Extended Reality (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTTextureSight: Texture Detection for Routine Activity Awareness with Wearable Laser Speckle Imaging (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)UI Mobility Control in XR: Switching UI Positionings between Static, Dynamic, and Self Entities (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Watch Your Mouth: Silent Speech Recognition with Depth Sensing Honorable Mention Award (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)WheelPose: Data Synthesis Techniques to Improve Pose Estimation Performance on Wheelchair Users (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- W4ABring Environments to People – A Case Study of Virtual Tours in Accessibility Assessment for People with Limited Mobility (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)CubeSense++: Smart Environment Sensing with Interaction-Powered Corner Reflector Mechanisms (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTE3D: Harvesting Energy from Everyday Kinetic Interactions Using 3D Printed Attachment Mechanisms (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSEmbodied Exploration: Facilitating Remote Accessibility Assessment for Wheelchair Users with Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTHeadar: Sensing Head Gestures for Confirmation Dialogs on Smartwatches with Wearable Millimeter-Wave Radar (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTInteraction Harvesting: A Design Probe of User-Powered Widgets (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)LaserShoes: Low-Cost Ground Surface Detection Using Laser Speckle Imaging (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went17 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 8
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- UIUC
Apply to UCLAFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
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- Single round (Dec 15)
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- optional
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