Yihang Jiang, PhD

Biomedical engineer and machine learning researcher. PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University. Defended Sep 28, 2026. Advisor: Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D., Duke BIG IDEAs Lab.

Yihang works on signals from the human body. He builds algorithms for noisy sensor data, and he studies when those readings can be trusted.

Resume. Email: yihang.jiang@duke.edu.

Selected work

Performance of Wearable Pulse Oximetry During Controlled Hypoxia Induction: Instrument Validation Study. JMIR Formative Research, 2026. First author. Nine healthy adults (n=9). The sample limits generalization.
Investigating the accuracy of blood oxygen saturation measurements in common consumer smartwatches. PLOS Digital Health, 2023. First author.
EventDTW: An Improved Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm for Aligning Biomedical Signals of Nonuniform Sampling Frequencies. Sensors, 2020. Co-first author.
Contactless heart rate from video around the eyes. Under review.

428 citations, h-index 7, i10-index 7 (Google Scholar, as of Oct 31, 2026).

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