Catherine Tianhong Yu 于天泓

HCI Researcher - Computer Scientist by training - Engineer by failing

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I am a 4th Year Ph.D. student at the SciFi Lab at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Cheng Zhang. Currently, I am visiting the WI Lab at University of Washington, working with Prof. Yiyue Luo. My research interest lies in creating wearables that are disruptive (novel technology) yet familiar (existing everyday objects/behaviours). I am particularly excited about textile-based interfaces.

Previously, I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy. During my Masters, I worked on machine-knitted sensors, advised by Prof. Mayank Goel and Prof. James McCann.

Feel free to reach out to me! CV is available upon request.

Selected Publications

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    SeamFit: Towards Practical Smart Clothing for Automatic Exercise Logging
    Tianhong Catherine Yu, Manru Mary Zhang*, Luis Miguel Malenab*, Chi-Jung Lee, Jacky Hao Jiang, Ruidong Zhang, Francois Guimbretiere, and Cheng Zhang
    In IMWUT, 2025
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    Ring-a-Pose: A Ring for Continuous Hand Pose Tracking
    Tianhong Catherine Yu, Guilin Hu, Ruidong Zhang, Hyunchul Lim, Saif Mahmud, Chi-Jung Lee, Ke Li, Devansh Agarwal, Shuyang Nie, Jinseok Oh, Francois Guimbretiere, and Cheng Zhang
    In IMWUT, 2024
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    SeamPose: Repurposing Seams as Capacitive Sensors in a Shirt for Upper-Body Pose Tracking
    Tianhong Catherine Yu, Manru Mary Zhang*, Peter He*, Chi-Jung Lee, Cassidy Cheesman, Saif Mahmud, Ruidong Zhang, Francois Guimbretiere, and Cheng Zhang
    In UIST, 2024
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    Skinergy: Machine-Embroidered Silicone-Textile Composites as On-Skin Self-Powered Input Sensors
    Tianhong Catherine Yu, Nancy Wang*, Sarah Ellenbogen*, and Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
    In UIST, 2023
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    RobotSweater: Scalable, Generalizable, and Customizable Machine-Knitted Tactile Skins for Robots
    Zilin Si*, Tianhong Catherine Yu*, Katrene Morozov, James McCann, and Wenzhen Yuan
    In ICRA, 2023
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    uKnit: A Position-Aware Reconfigurable Machine-Knitted Wearable for Gestural Interaction and Passive Sensing using Electrical Impedance Tomography
    Tianhong Catherine Yu, Riku Arakawa, James McCann, and Mayank Goel
    In CHI, 2023