
Junyi Zhu (朱均逸)
PHD CANDIDATE
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Stefanie Mueller at the HCIE Group, working at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, personal fabrication tools and novel sensing technologies. My most recent research focuses on rapid function prototyping, freeform electronics and health sensing. I am a 2017 Seneff-Zue Fellow, a 2021 Thomas G. Stockham, Jr (1955) and Bernard (Ben) Gold Fellow and a 2023 Seibel Scholar.
Prior to MIT, I completed my Bachelor's Degree at University of Washington in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, concentrated in Embedded Computing Systems.
I also worked as a Research Assistant at UW Ubicomp Lab, a part-time Software Engineer at Senosis Health, and a Teaching Assistant at UW Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
Research Publications

Donghyeon Ko, Yoonji Kim, Junyi Zhu, Michael Wessely and Stefanie Mueller.
FlexBoard: A Flexible Breadboard for Interaction Prototyping on Curved and Deformable Surfaces
In Proceedings of CHI 2023. (to appear)

Marwa AlAlawi, Noah Pacik-Nelson, Junyi Zhu, Ben Greenspan, Andrew Doan, Brandon M Wong, Benjamin Owen-Block, Shanti Mickens, Wilhelm Schoeman, Michael Wessely, Andreea Danielescu and Stefanie Mueller.
MechSense: A Design and Fabrication Pipeline for Integrating Rotary Encoders into 3D Printed Mechanisms
In Proceedings of CHI 2023. (to appear)

Junyi Zhu, Yuxuan Lei, Aashini Shah, Gila R. Schein, Hamid Ghaednia, Joseph H. Schwab, Casper Harteveld and Stefanie Mueller
MuscleRehab: Improving Unsupervised Physical Rehabilitation by Monitoring and Visualizing Muscle Engagement
In Proceedings of UIST 2022.

Yoonji Kim, Junyi Zhu, Mihir Trivedi, Dishita G. Turakhia, Ngai Hang Wu, Donghyeon Ko, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller.
SensorViz: Visualizing Sensor Data Across Different Stages of Prototyping Interactive Objects
In Proceedings of DIS 2022.

Junyi Zhu, Jackson C. Snowden, Joshua Verdejo, Emily Chen, Paul Zhang, Hamid Ghaednia, Joseph H. Schwab, Stefanie Mueller.
EIT-kit: An Electrical Impedance Tomography Toolkit for Health and Motion Sensing
In Proceedings of UIST 2021.

Junyi Zhu, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, Yunyi Zhu, Martin Nisser, Ethan Levi Carlson, Xin Wen, Kevin Shum, Jessica Ayeley Quaye, Stefanie Mueller.
CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects to Prototype Function in the Context of Form.
In Proceedings of CHI 2020.

Martin Nisser, Junyi Zhu, Tianye Chen, Katarina Bulovic, Parinya Punpongsanon, Stefanie Mueller.
Sequential Support: 3D Printing Dissolvable Support Material for Time-Dependent Mechanisms.
In Proceedings of TEI 2019.

Edward Wang, Junyi Zhu, Mohit Jain, Tien-Jui Lee, Elliot Saba, Lama Nachman, Shwetak N. Patel.
Seismo: Blood Pressure Monitoring using Built-in Smartphone Accelerometer and Camera.
In Proceedings of CHI 2018. [BEST PAPER NOMINEE]

Edward Wang, William Li, Junyi Zhu, Rajneil Rana, Shwetak N. Patel.
Noninvasive hemoglobin measurement using unmodified smartphone camera and white flash.
In Proceedings of 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2017).

Edward Wang, Junyi Zhu, William Li, Rajneil Rana, Shwetak N. Patel.
HemaApp IR: noninvasive hemoglobin measurement using unmodified smartphone cameras and built-in LEDs
In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp '17).
Extended Abstracts, Short Paper & Demo
Xinyi Yang, Katarina Bulovic,Susanna Chen, Junyi Zhu, Stefanie Mueller
Azimuth Calculation and Telecommunication between VR Headset and Smartphones for Nearby Interaction
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23 WIP). ACM.
Junyi Zhu
Design and Fabricate Personal Health Sensing Devices
In Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22). ACM.
Junyi Zhu, Yuxuan Lei, Aashini Shah, Gila Schein, Hamid Ghaednia, Joseph Schwab, Casper Harteveld, Stefanie Mueller.
Monitoring Muscle Engagement via Electrical Impedance Tomography for Unsupervised Physical Rehabilitation
In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22). ACM.
Junyi Zhu, Liang He, Jun Nishida, Hamid Ghaednia, Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao, Jon E. Froehlich, Edward Wang, Stefanie Mueller
SIG: Towards More Personal Health Sensing
In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts). ACM.
Cedric Honnet, Yunyi Zhu, Junyi Zhu, Michael Wessely and Stefanie Mueller.
WearaFab: Digital Fabrication for Wearables Toolkits
In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts). ACM.
Junyi Zhu, Jackson Snowden, Joshua Verdejo, Emily Chen, Paul Zhang, Hamid Ghaednia, Joseph Schwab, Stefanie Mueller.
EIT-kit Demo: An Electrical Impedance Tomography Toolkit for Health and Motion Sensing
In Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’21). ACM.
Junyi Zhu, Yunyi Zhu, Jiaming Cui, Leon Cheng, Jackson Snowden, Mark Chounlakone, Michael Wessely Stefanie Mueller.
Demonstration of MorphSensor: A 3D Electronic Design Tool for Reforming Sensor Modules
In Adjunct Publication of the 33rd An- nual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’20). ACM.
Junyi Zhu, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, Yunyi Zhu, Martin Nisser, Ethan Levi Carlson, Xin Wen, Kevin Shum, Jessica Ayeley Quaye, Stefanie Mueller.
CurveBoards Demo: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects to Prototype Function in the Context of Form
In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). ACM.