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Yegang Du
Section
Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer
Job title
Assistant Professor
Degree
  • Ph.D. (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

e-Rad No.
40970124

Education 1

  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

    2015/10 - 2020/03

Committee Memberships 2

  • International Workshop on AI-empowered Digital Health and Well-being Promotion General Chairs

    2025/04 - Present

  • IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress Workshop & Special Session Chairs

    2025/04 - Present

Professional Memberships 1

  • IEEE

    2019/04 - Present

Research Areas 4

  • Informatics / Biological, health, and medical informatics /

  • Informatics / Intelligent robotics /

  • Informatics / Human interfaces and interactions /

  • Informatics / Intelligent informatics /

Awards 4

  1. Distinguished Workshop Paper Award

    2025/10 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress Behavioral Effects of AI-generated Synthetic Vocalizations in Free-Moving Marmosets

  2. 中国国籍海外ハイレベル人材

    2021

  3. 中国国家留学基金委員会(CSC)と北陸先端科学技術大学院大学(JAIST)の共同奨学金

    2016

  4. 外国人留学生学習奨励費

    2015 文部科学省

Papers 34

  1. Assessing ChatGPT-generated comments for video-based learning content to enhance knowledge and emotional support based on scaffolding theory

    Jiaqi Wang, Yegang Du, Qun Jin

    COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 11 2026/12

    DOI: 10.1016/j.caeai.2026.100676  

    ISSN: 2666-920X

  2. Effects of a digital visual art learning intervention in healthy older adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial

    Akari Uno, Ryan Browne, Takamitsu Shinada, Michio Takahashi, Keishi Soga, Yegang Du, Fumihira Abiko, Yasuyuki Taki

    FRONTIERS IN AGING 6 2025/09/04

    DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1635789  

    eISSN: 2673-6217

  3. Employment of DarumaTO-4W Buddhist Talisman Device as an Exhibit in Italy

    Franco Pariasca Trevejo, Rodrigo Lopez Condori, Yegang Du, Ujwal Kumar, Kristina Eiviler, Gabriele Trovato

    2025 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) 80-85 2025/07/17

    Publisher: IEEE

    DOI: 10.1109/arso64737.2025.11124952  

  4. Mitigating Elderly Isolation Through Newspaper Engagement: A Quantitative Exploration

    Jessica Takabayashi, Toshimi Ogawa, Yegang Du, Hikari Iki, Hiroki Kataoka, Yasuyuki Taki

    2025 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 794-799 2025

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech68397.2025.00121  

  5. Variational Autoencoder-Based Synthesis of Marmoset Vocalizations Using Linear Spectrograms

    Yegang Du, Emma Woolgar, Yukiko Kikuchi, Toshimi Ogawa

    2025 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 806-810 2025

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech68397.2025.00123  

  6. Behavioral Effects of AI-generated Synthetic Vocalizations in Free-Moving Marmosets

    Emma Woolgar, Yegang Du, Steven Errington, Benjamin Slater, Toshimi Ogawa, Yukiko Kikuchi

    2025 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 800-805 2025

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech68397.2025.00122  

  7. Perception and Comprehension of a Humanoid Robot by Older Adults with Dementia: Evidence from a Nursing Home Study in Japan

    Toshimi Ogawa, Kazue Matsuno, Ai Abe, Mika Ishikawa, Naoko Konosu, Yegang Du, Rainer Wieching, Yoshio Matsumoto, Yasuyuki Taki

    2025 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 811-814 2025

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech68397.2025.00124  

  8. Designing A Dietary Management App Aimed at Preventing Cognitive Decline

    Hikari Iki, Jessica Takabayash, Toshimi Ogawa, Yegang Du, Yasuyuki Taki

    2025 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 782-787 2025

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech68397.2025.00119  

  9. A dynamic topology analysis method for multi-ship encounters based on multi time-space network trees

    Zhichen Liu, Ying Li, Zhaoyi Zhang, Jiyou Wang, Yegang Du

    Ocean Engineering 307 2024/09/01

    DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118052  

    ISSN: 0029-8018

    eISSN: 1873-5258

  10. CelesTE, theomorphic device for cognitive support of older adults

    Gabriele Trovato, Yegang Du, Scean Mitchell, Franco Pariasca Trevejo, Rodrigo Lopez Condori, Masao Katagiri, Rio Obe, Manishk Gawande, Sarah Cosentino, Mehrbod Manavi, Felix Carros, Rainer Wieching

    2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTS, ARSO 200-205 2024

    DOI: 10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557814  

    ISSN: 2162-7568

  11. An Intelligent Web Service Discovery Framework Based on Improved Biterm Topic Model

    Yuan Yuan, Yegang Du, Jun Pan

    IEEE ACCESS 12 144437-144455 2024

    DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3472692  

    ISSN: 2169-3536

  12. uSkin Pillow: Tactile-Sensor-Based Non-invasive Approach to Sleep Analysis

    Riya Mahajan, Yegang Du, Alexander Schmitz, Gabriele Trovato, Yasuyuki Taki, Shigeki Sugano

    2024 IEEE CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS, CYBERSCITECH 2024 349-354 2024

    DOI: 10.1109/CyberSciTech64112.2024.00061  

  13. Enhancing Dimensional Emotion Recognition from Speech through Modulation-Filtered Cochleagram and Parallel Attention Recurrent Network

    Zhichao Peng, Hua Zeng, Yongwei Li, Yegang Du, Jianwu Dang

    Electronics (Switzerland) 12 (22) 2023/11

    DOI: 10.3390/electronics12224620  

    eISSN: 2079-9292

  14. Spatial modeling and analysis based on spatial information of the ship encounters for intelligent navigation safety

    Zhichen Liu, Ying Li, Zhaoyi Zhang, Wenbo Yu, Yegang Du

    Reliability Engineering and System Safety 238 2023/10

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109489  

    ISSN: 0951-8320

    eISSN: 1879-0836

  15. Simultaneous fault detection and isolation based on multi-task long short-term memory neural networks

    Ken Sinkou Qin, Yegang Du

    Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 240 2023/09/15

    DOI: 10.1016/j.chemolab.2023.104881  

    ISSN: 0169-7439

    eISSN: 1873-3239

  16. Spatial modeling and analysis approach for ship-encounters dynamic spatial–temporal domain

    Zhichen Liu, Ying Li, Zhaoyi Zhang, Wenbo Yu, Bing Han, Ye Gang Du

    Ocean Engineering 278 2023/06/15

    DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114373  

    ISSN: 0029-8018

    eISSN: 1873-5258

  17. Multi-Level Attention-Based Categorical Emotion Recognition Using Modulation-Filtered Cochleagram

    Zhichao Peng, Wenhua He, Yongwei Li, Yegang Du, Jianwu Dang

    Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 13 (11) 2023/06

    DOI: 10.3390/app13116749  

    eISSN: 2076-3417

  18. Never complain, never explain": why robots may not have to be explicable after all Peer-reviewed

    Gabriele Trovato, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Yegang Du

    ICRA2023 Workshop on Explainable Robotics 2023

  19. Composite Emotion Recognition and Feedback of Social Assistive Robot for Elderly People

    Yegang Du, Kaiyuan Zhang, Gabriele Trovato

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 14051 LNAI 220-231 2023

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35894-4_16  

    ISSN: 0302-9743

    eISSN: 1611-3349

  20. Participatory Design and Early Deployment of DarumaTO-3 Social Robot

    Zhihao Shen, Nanaka Urano, Chih Pu Chen, Shi Feng, Scean Mitchell, Masao Katagiri, Yegang Du, Franco Pariasca Trevejo, Tito P. Tomo, Alexander Schmitz, Ryan Browne, Toshimi Ogawa, Yasuyuki Taki, Gabriele Trovato

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 13818 LNAI 550-559 2022

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_49  

    ISSN: 0302-9743

    eISSN: 1611-3349

  21. A Scheme for Sensor Data Reconstruction in Smart Home

    Yegang Du

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 13041 LNCS 304-313 2021

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92708-0_19  

    ISSN: 0302-9743

    eISSN: 1611-3349

  22. Rf-Arp: Rfid-based activity recognition and prediction in smart home

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS 2019-December 618-624 2019/12

    DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS47876.2019.00093  

    ISSN: 1521-9097

  23. A novel human activity recognition and prediction in smart home based on interaction

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    Sensors (Switzerland) 19 (20) 2019/10/02

    DOI: 10.3390/s19204474  

    ISSN: 1424-8220

    eISSN: 1424-8220

  24. Activity prediction using LSTM in smart home

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    2019 IEEE 8th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, GCCE 2019 918-919 2019/10

    DOI: 10.1109/GCCE46687.2019.9015492  

  25. Activity recognition using RFID phase profiling in smart library

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems E102D (4) 768-776 2019/04

    DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2018DAP0010  

    ISSN: 0916-8532

    eISSN: 1745-1361

  26. Reading Activity Recognition in Smart RF-Library

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    2018 IEEE 7th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, GCCE 2018 257-258 2018/12/12

    DOI: 10.1109/GCCE.2018.8574713  

    ISSN: 2378-8143

  27. RF-Switch: A Novel Wireless Controller in Smart Home

    Yegang Du, Yasuo Tan, Yuto Lim

    2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Taiwan, ICCE-TW 2018 2018/08/27

    DOI: 10.1109/ICCE-China.2018.8448605  

    ISSN: 2381-5779

  28. A novel detector for persistent spreads over data center based on bloom filter

    Lin Han, Weijiang Liu, Zhiyang Li, Wenyu Qu, Mingqian Bai, Yegang Du

    ICIC Express Letters 11 (3) 551-558 2017/03

    ISSN: 1881-803X

  29. Stacked product quantization for nearest neighbor search on large datasets

    Jun Wang, Zhiyang Li, Yegang Du, Wenyu Qu

    Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016 1621-1627 2016

    DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2016.0250  

    ISSN: 2324-9013

  30. A low overhead progressive transmission for visual descriptor based on image saliency

    Yegang Du, Zhiyang Li, Milos Stojmenovic, Wenyu Qu, Heng Qi

    Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing 25 (1) 125-145 2015

    ISSN: 1542-3980

    eISSN: 1542-3999

  31. A novel progressive transmission in mobile visual search

    Qi Zhang, Zhiyang Li, Yegang Du, Wenyu Qu, Xiaoxuan Zhang

    Proceedings - 2014 World Ubiquitous Science Congress: 2014 IEEE 12th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2014 259-264 2014/11/03

    DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2014.53  

  32. MVSS: Mobile visual search based on saliency

    Yegang Du, Zhiyang Li, Wenyu Qu, Siyang Miao, Songhe Wang, Heng Qi

    Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013 922-928 2014

    DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.and.EUC.2013.131  

  33. Progressive transmission based on wavelet used in mobile visual search

    Siyang Miao, Zhiyang Li, Wenyu Qu, Yegang Du, Songhe Wang, Heng Qi

    International Journal of Embedded Systems 6 (2-3) 114-123 2014

    DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2014.063808  

    ISSN: 1741-1068

    eISSN: 1741-1076

  34. Strand structures detection for 2D shapes based on visibility

    Songhe Wang, Zhiyang Li, Siyang Miao, Yegang Du, Wenyu Qu, Junjie Cao

    Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 9069 2014

    DOI: 10.1117/12.2050859  

    ISSN: 0277-786X

    eISSN: 1996-756X

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Misc. 2

  1. Activity Prediction Using LSTM in Smart Home

    Yegang Du, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan

    IEICE General Conference 2019

  2. A Solution of Activity Recognition in Smart Home Using Passive RFID Tags

    Yegang Du, Pham Van Cu, Yasuo Tan, Yuto Lim

    IEICE General Conference 2018

Research Projects 9

  1. 参加型開発に基づくPHR統合型AI仮想リンクワーカーによる高齢者の孤立低減と社会的処方の社会実装に関する研究

    Offer Organization: 国立研究開発法人日本医療研究開発機構

    System: 予防・健康づくりの社会実装に向けた研究開発基盤整備事業(ヘルスケアサービス実用化研究事業)

    2026/08 - 2027/03

  2. Co-Designing Tactile Interaction System to Support Cognitive Health in Older Adults

    2026/04 - 2027/03

  3. 連合学習を用いた多施設マルチモーダル認知症診断支援基盤の研究開発

    System: 東北大学-NICTマッチング研究支援事業

    2026/04 - 2027/03

  4. 手指運動制御の精緻性に基づくAI駆動型認知機能評価システムの構築

    Offer Organization: 東北大学

    System: fMRI研究挑戦・共同研究推進支援

    2026/07 - 2026/09

  5. 日英大学間連携プログラム

    Offer Organization: ブリティッシュ・カウンシル

    2025 - 2026

  6. DATA SENDAI Frontline

    Offer Organization: 仙台市

    2024 - 2025

  7. スマートエイジングを目指す仮想コーチングシステム(e-ViTA)

    Offer Organization: 総務省

    2022 - 2023

  8. 大学基盤研究費

    Offer Organization: 中華人民共和国教育部

    2021 - 2022

  9. 若手研究者スタートアップ基金

    Offer Organization: 大連海事大学

    2021 - 2022

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Teaching Experience 3

  1. モノのインターネット IoT 入門

  2. GIS専門英語

  3. 無線センサネットワーク

Works 1

  1. 仙台市イベント紹介システム

    Type: Web Service

Social Activities 1

  1. 第17回 千葉県福祉機器展

    2023/11/18 - 2023/11/18

Academic Activities 4

  1. 2024 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress

  2. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things

  3. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    Activity type: Scientific advice/Review

  4. IEEE Network; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; IEEE Transactions on Computers; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; Sensors; Electronics; Applied Sciences