DrYuxin Zhang
Research Fellow, Digital Health
Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Research Fellow, Digital HealthFaculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
- +61 3 924 68269 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Dr Yuxin Zhang has supervised and co-supervised research students across health, computer science and engineering. During the assessment period, he supervised or co-supervised 10 research students, including four completions and six current research students. His supervision focuses on developing students’ capability in digital health research, wearable sensing, AI methods, software development, evaluation design, scientific writing and interdisciplinary communication.
Dr Zhang has also mentored PhD candidates, research assistants and recent graduates to develop health-research capability from computer science and engineering backgrounds. Student outcomes from his supervision and mentoring include peer-reviewed publications, international conference presentations, collaborative grant applications and successful scholarship outcomes.
Teaching Interests
- Digital health
- Wearable sensing and smart sensor technologies
- Artificial intelligence in healthcare
- Software engineering for health research
- Health data analytics
- Human-centred digital intervention design
- Chronic disease management technologies
- Physical activity and lifestyle behaviour change
- Interdisciplinary communication in health and technology research
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- EXTERNAL SUPERVISIONEffectiveness of a knowledge graph grounded LLM-based agent for exercise prescription on depressive symptoms, physical activity, and cognitive function among adolescents: A mixed methods study2 Sep 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
- EXTERNAL SUPERVISIONDevelopment and evaluation of a theoretical framework for designing generative AI-based interventions to promote physical activity behavior in adolescents1 Sep 2023 - 30 Jun 2027
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONUnderstanding Eating Patterns and Different Food Consumption at Eating Occasions
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDigital Twin Enabled Lifestyle Intervention for People with Chronic Disease
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMultimodal Language Models for Understanding Human Behaviours from Motion and Video
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPrevention of Diabetes Related Kidney Disease (DRKD): Using Artificial Intelligence Empowered Retinal Image Analysis to Transform Clinical Outcomes