About

I am a second-year Ph.D. student working with Shwetak Patel in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington – Seattle.

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 Achievements Award. 

I am interested in the intersection between machine learning and sensing as well as on-device ML inference, and I am particularlly passionate about applying machine learning to healthcare and its aspects in HCI.

Contact: xliu0 at cs dot washington dot edu

Publications

[4] Young Lee, Xin Liu, Jeremy Gummeson, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, “Towards the Ambulatory Assessment of Movement Quality in Stroke Survivors using a Wrist-worn Inertial Sensor,” IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE BHI’19).

[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

[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. (Nominated for the Cover Article of the Issue)

Experiences

Summer 2019 – Research Intern @ Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

  • Using 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 CSE 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)

■ Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award, UMass Amherst

■ 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 in 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 the four years :p

I am also a big fan of NBA 🙂