Before joining UW, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018, where my advisor was Sunghoon Ivan Lee. While at UMass Amherst, I received a 21st Century Leaders Award, Rising Researcher Award, and Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award.
My research interests lie in the intersection ofon-device machine learning, sensing and healthcare — bringing machine learning to edge and mobile devices to advance the state-of-the-art healthcare 🙂
[11] Chunjong Park, Morelle Arian, Xin Liu, Leon Sasson, Jeffrey Kahn, Shwetak Patel, Alex Mariakakis, Tim Althoff, Online Mobile App Usage as an Indicator of Sleep Behavior and Job Performance, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), April, 2021, PDF
[10] Xin Liu, Yuang Li, Josh Fromm, Yuntao Wang, Ziheng Jiang, Alex Mariakakis, Shwetak Patel , “SplitSR: An End-to-End Approach to Super-Resolution on Mobile Devices”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/Ubicomp 2021), PDF
[9] Xuhai Xu, Jiahao Li, Tianyi Yuan, Liang He, Xin Liu, Yukang Yan, Yuntao Wang, Yuanchun Shi, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K Dey, “HulaMove: Using Commodity IMU for Waist Interaction”, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), PDF
[8] Kathrin Zürcher et al., “Novel approach to estimate tuberculosis transmission in primary care clinics in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol of a prospective study”, BMJ Open, 2020.
[7] Daniel McDuff, Javier Hernandez, Xin Liu, Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, “Advancing Non-Contact Vital Sign Measurement using Synthetic Avatars”, Preprint, PDF
[6] Xin Liu, Ziheng Jiang, Josh Fromm, Xuhai Xu, Shwetak Patel, Daniel McDuff, “MetaPhys: Few-Shot Adaptation for Non-Contact Physiological Measurement”, ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (ACM-CHIL), 2021, PDF
[5] Xin Liu, Josh Fromm, Shwetak Patel, Daniel McDuff, “Multi-Task Temporal Shift Attention Networks for On-Device Contactless Vitals Measurement”, To Appear in Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), PDF , CODE(Oral, Top 1%, 105 out of 9454 Submissions)
[4] Young Lee, Xin Liu, Jeremy Gummeson, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, “A Wearable RFID System to Monitor Hand Use for Individuals with Upper Limb Paresis,” IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE BHI’19). PDF
[3] Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Xin Liu, Smita Rajan, Nathan Ramasarma, Eun Kyoung Choe, Paolo Bonato, “A Novel Upper-Limb Function Measure Derived from Finger-Worn Sensor Data Collected in a Free-Living Setting”, PLoS One Journal. PDF. SCI, IF: 2.740
[2] Xin Liu, Smita Rajan, Nathan Ramasarma, Paolo Bonato, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, ”Finger-Worn Sensors for Accurate Functional Assessment of the Upper Limbs in Real-World Settings,” in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2018). PDF.
[1] Xin Liu, Smita Rajan, Nathan Ramasarma, Paolo Bonato, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, “The Use of A Finger-Worn Accelerometer for Monitoring of Hand Use in Ambulatory Settings,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) – VOL. 23, NO. 2, 2019. PDF. SCI, IF: 5.223, (Cover Article Nominee)
Industry Experience
Fall 2021 – Research Intern @ Google Research Health
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Summer 2021 – Research Intern @ Microsoft Research
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Nov 2020 – June 2021 – Part-time MLSys Research Intern@OctoML (TVM)
Accelerating Pre/Post processing for On-Device ML
Summer 2019 – Research Intern@Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
Developing On-Device Deep Neural Networks to Detect Blood Vessels in Portable Ultrasound Devices
Awards & Honors
■ Glerum Family Endowed Fellowship, University of Washington Seattle
(First-year fellowship for selective CS PhD Students)
■ 21st Century Leaders Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Awarded to 10 most exceptional graduating seniors (out of 5500))
■ Rising Researcher Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(The highest honor for an undergraduate researcher across the university)
■ Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Awarded to 5 most outstanding seniors in computer science each year)
■ NSF Student Travel Award, National Science Foundation
■ Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship Award, UMass Amherst
■ Computer Science Departmental Honors
■ University Merit Director’s Scholarship ($24000), UMass Amherst
Misc.
During my undergraduate studies, I spent a huge amount of effort to push the international community to engage various leadership experiences at the university. I was the first international peer mentor in the residential life office and the first international student consultant in the department of information and technology. I worked in six different departments during my undergrd years :p
I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington – Seattle. I am advised by Shwetak Patel at UW, and also work closely with Daniel McDuff at Microsoft Research. 
