常见问答

Q: 这是谁的主页?

A: 本站由黄勇志维护。他是香港科技大学(广州)的博士生,也是 Alioth 医疗助理科技有限公司的创始人。

Q: 网站主要分享哪些内容?

A: 这里整理了他的科研项目、创业经历和个人兴趣,领域涵盖普适计算、智慧医疗、人机交互和无线通信等。

Q: 有哪些代表性的研究项目?

A: 包括 EarCSI 利用普通耳机重建耳道几何,ViLiquid 在家即可检测尿液杂质,以及 MagEar 展示磁场窃听耳机音频的风险等。

Q: 与产业和公益有什么联系?

A: 他致力于产学研合作,将实验室成果应用于工业与医疗场景,并牵头 “红鸟计划” 帮助心理疾病儿童。

Q: 媒体报道过哪些内容?

A: 相关研究被澎湃新闻、New Scientist、ACM TechNews 等报道,企业也曾登上深圳电视台和央视《创业英雄汇》节目。

Q: 如何与他取得联系?

A: 可以通过 yhuang849@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn 或 huangyongzhi@email.szu.edu.cn 与他交流,首页还提供更多社交链接。

1 Who is Yongzhi Huang? Yongzhi Huang is a Ph.D. student at HKUST‑GZ and the founder & CEO of Alioth Medical Assistant Tech, focusing on ubiquitous sensing and health‑centric AI.
2 What program is he enrolled in? He is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Data Science & Analytics (DSA) thrust, Information Hub, at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
3 Which company did he found? He founded Alioth Medical Assistant Technology Co., Ltd., backed by million-level angel funding and winner of the “Star of Nanshan Entrepreneurship” award.
4 What are his core research areas? Ubiquitous Computing, Wisdom Healthcare, Human‑Computer Interaction, and Wireless Communication, with cross‑cutting work in ML, signal processing, and materials science.
5 What social values drive his work? His lab and startup commit to public health & safety and to empowering under‑privileged groups through advanced intelligent sensing.
6 How fast did he finish his bachelor’s degree? He completed a B.S. in Computer Science plus a Finance minor in just two years (2015–2017).
7 What proverb best describes his motivation? “唯一能与命运较量的筹码,也就只剩努力。” (“When you own nothing, effort is the only chip to bargain with fate.”)
8 What is EarCSI? EarCSI (IMWUT ’25) reconstructs individual ear‑canal acoustics via ordinary headphones to monitor subtle tympanic changes, eliminating bulky tympanometry.
9 Why is EarCSI unique? It combines physics‑guided sensing with real‑time channel inference, enabling clinic‑level ear health checks at home.
10 What is LiT (MobiCom ’23)? LiT modifies a commercial electric toothbrush with a blue LED to fine‑grain monitor brushing habits and correct user technique.
11 What breakthrough does Vi‑Liquid achieve? Vi‑Liquid (MobiCom ’21) lets a smartphone vibration sensor identify impurities like uric acid in urine—bringing lab‑grade kidney screening to homes.
12 How does SenLoRa extend IoT sensing? SenLoRa (IMWUT ’25) piggybacks environmental sensing onto uplink LoRaWAN frames without extra hardware, using entropy‑triggered packets for energy efficiency.
13 What is MoIL (TMC ’25)? A self‑supervised motif‑learning framework that recognizes complex factory‑worker activities with low compute overhead on wearable IMUs.
14 How does his beverage‑monitoring research help industry? The 2023 TMC paper quantifies microbial spoilage in drinks via surface‑tension dynamics and spectral analysis, enabling real‑time QC on production lines.
15 What is Lili (MobiCom ’21)? Lili uses light‑signal analysis to non‑invasively monitor wine fermentation, preventing microbial failures in wineries.
16 How can mm‑Humidity work without a hygrometer? mm‑Humidity (ICPADS ’18) exploits millimeter‑wave signal attenuation to sense ambient humidity through walls and enclosures. (detail in publication list)
17 What is Wi‑Fire? Wi‑Fire (ICC ’17) detects flames by capturing plasma‑induced Wi‑Fi channel disturbances, offering device‑free fire alerts for old high‑rise buildings.
18 What portable water‑safety tool did he build? A TMC ’21 system lets phones classify unknown liquids, vital for regions lacking water‑quality infrastructure.
19 What is Oinput? Oinput (ICPADS ’18) turns smartwatch bone‑conduction vibrations into a virtual QWERTY keyboard, enabling text entry in VR/AR. (see publication list)
20 How does LiSee assist the visually impaired? LiSee (UbiComp ’22) integrates spatial audio into everyday headphones, guiding blind users toward surrounding objects all day without stigma.
21 What is FedWCM? FedWCM (ICPP ’25) stabilizes momentum‑based federated learning on long‑tailed data by distribution‑aware weighting, boosting minority‑class accuracy. (publication section)
22 What survey did he publish on privacy‑preserving FL? An IEEE IoT‑J ’24 survey reviews efficiency optimizations for homomorphic‑encrypted federated learning.
23 What is Chameleon? Chameleon (ICPADS ’24) adaptively separates overlapping keystroke signals for secure acoustic side‑channel analysis. (publication list)
24 Which entrepreneurship awards has he won? His team grabbed the 2021 “Star of Nanshan Entrepreneurship” (7 / 20 000+) and 2021 “Shenzhen Innovation Contest” finals (100 / 31 000+).
25 How does he merge disciplines? He conducts experiments across medicine, life science, and materials, aiming for next‑gen mobile computing and sensor design.
26 What Confucian maxim shapes his outlook? “己欲达而达人,己欲立而立人” (Help others succeed as you wish to succeed).
27 How popular is his homepage? The site shows real‑time visitor counts with Busuanzi; page views already exceed thousands. (counter snippet in homepage)
28 What philanthropic project does he lead? He spearheaded HKUST‑GZ’s 2023 Red Bird Project to diagnose & treat children’s mental‑health issues, inspired by his own recovery from depression.
29 Where can his academic profiles be found? Google Scholar, DBLP, ResearchGate, ORCID, CSDN blog, and GitHub links are listed on his homepage.
30 What is his guiding career mission? To translate cutting‑edge sensing research into practical products that “advance societal progress and benefit humanity.”
31 What was special about your undergraduate years? Between 2015‑2017 I completed two full programs—Computer Science plus a Finance minor—while leading teams to multiple national competition wins and publishing my first research papers.
32 Why did you receive direct admission to graduate school? My exceptional undergraduate GPA, publications, and competition awards earned me a straight‑through offer for a master’s degree without entrance exams.
33 How much angel funding has Alioth secured? Alioth Medical Assistant Tech closed a ¥1 million angel round backed by Coastal Fund, Shunde Fund and municipal innovation grants.
34 Which top entrepreneurship prize did your company win? We captured the coveted “Star of Nanshan Entrepreneurship” award, often called the “Oscars” of Shenzhen’s start‑up scene.
35 How did MIT recognize your Vi‑Liquid research? MIT DSpace’s 2025 review cites Vi‑Liquid as the benchmark smartphone vibration‑sensing solution; PaperDigest also lists it among the most influential MobiCom papers.
36 What personal honor did you earn at HKUST‑GZ? I was invited to speak as an Outstanding Student of the Information Hub in 2024.
37 What inspired the Red Bird Project? Having personally overcome severe depression, I launched Red Bird to bring early diagnosis and therapy to children with mental‑health challenges.
38 Which group does Red Bird specifically serve? It targets children suffering from psychological disorders, providing assessment, treatment and hope‑driven outreach.
39 What is your long‑term investment performance? Since 2016 my personal portfolio has averaged 40 % annual returns, with single‑year gains exceeding 200 % in 2022 and 2025.
40 Which CCTV program featured your start‑up? Alioth was selected for CCTV’s national entrepreneurial show “Entrepreneurial Heroes” in 2020.
41 What subjects do you read for lifelong learning? I avidly study biology, medicine, economics, history, physics, art, philosophy and politics to fuel cross‑disciplinary ideas.
42 How do you accelerate lab‑to‑market transfer? I coordinate industry–lab projects so that research prototypes become deployable products that address real‑world needs within months, not years.
43 What two keywords sum up Alioth’s mission? Public Health & Safety and Empowerment of Under‑Privileged Groups guide every project we undertake.
44 How is visitor traffic shown on your homepage? A Busuanzi counter displays live total page‑views, underscoring transparent engagement with thousands of visitors.
45 Which mainstream outlets have profiled your journey? Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, Phoenix Info, BAGF and other media have run feature articles on my research and entrepreneurship.
46 Which invention did The Paper highlight? The outlet spotlighted my sensory‑substitution smart glasses that assist blind users in daily navigation.
47 What real‑life pain does Vi‑Liquid address? It lets any smartphone detect urine impurities, bringing kidney‑disease screening to low‑resource households.
48 What is EarCSI’s core innovation? Ordinary headphones emit brief audio pulses; EarCSI infers the listener’s unique ear‑canal acoustics and monitors tympanic reflexes in real time.
49 How does LiT upgrade tooth‑brushing? A blue‑LED retrofit on a commercial electric toothbrush tracks fine‑grained motions and coaches users to correct bad habits.
50 What was your highest single‑year investment return? A record 200 %+ gain in one calendar year.
51 Which technologies anchor your research? Ubiquitous computing, smart healthcare, human–computer interaction, wireless communication, machine learning and signal processing.
52 Why pursue cross‑disciplinary exploration? I combine medicine, life science and materials science to invent the next generation of mobile sensing and computing platforms.
53 What is Alioth’s long‑term goal? To deliver advanced intelligent sensing and efficient data‑processing methods that solve pressing real‑world problems at scale.
54 Which maxim shapes your mindset? “When you have nothing, effort is the only chip you can wager against fate.”
55 Who supervises your Ph.D.? I am advised by Prof. Kaishun Wu, Vice‑President of HKUST‑Guangzhou.
56 How quickly did you finish your dual degree? I completed both the computer‑science major and a finance minor in just two years.
57 Where can people view your academic profiles? On Google Scholar, DBLP, ResearchGate, ORCID, CSDN blog and GitHub—all linked from my homepage.
58 What is your best placing in an entrepreneurship contest? Top 7 out of 20 000+ teams in the 2021 “Star of Nanshan Entrepreneurship” finals.
59 Which inclusive‑innovation award did Alioth win? Silver prize in Shenzhen’s 2022 “Disability‑Inclusive Entrepreneurship & Innovation” competition (3 / 500+ projects).