Yihang Jiang, PhD

Wearable sensing researcher seeking roles on teams like Oura and Apple Watch. PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University. Defended Sep 28, 2026. Advisor: Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D., Duke BIG IDEAs Lab.

Yihang studies when a wearable's number can be trusted, and he builds algorithms that need less contact to get it.

Download the Resume PDF or read the CV. 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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