Changzan Gu of Department of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

Microwave biomedical radar has achieved significant advancements, enabling transformative healthcare applications specifically for home-based care. Unlike conventional contact-based instruments that can cause discomfort, this non-invasive technology is ideal for continuous monitoring. This presentation will first detail key hardware innovations—including radar miniaturization, and enhanced accuracy and sensitivity—that are critical for deploying portable devices in residential settings. It will then explore specialized RF processing and AI techniques for extracting medical-grade physiological data from radar signals. Finally, the talk will highlight the technology’s breakthrough healthcare applications, from specific clinical applications like post-operative monitoring to broader home-based management. This includes revolutionizing remote patient monitoring, elderly fall detection, and chronic disease tracking for proactive, comprehensive home care.

Biography:

Changzhan Gu is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Before SJTU, he was an RF/Hardware Engineer with Google (Mountain View, CA), where he was involved with research and development of the radar gesture sensing technology (Project Soli) and translating it into consumer products such as Pixel phone. While at Google, he also worked on wireless last-mile technologies delivering high-speed internet to homes. Before Google, he worked briefly in semiconductor industry at Marvell (Santa Clara, CA) and MaxLinear (Irvine, CA) on wireless connectivity silicon solutions.

Dr. Gu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Info & Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He was a graduate student at the University of Florida (UF) under the support of the Alumni Graduate Fellowship and got an M.S. degree from UF in 2010. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University (TTU) in 2013.

Dr. Gu is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM), IET Microwave, Antenna & Propagation (MAP) and Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL). He was an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS) 2019-2021 and International Journal of Electronics and Communications 2014-2016. He is a member of the Technical Committee of IEEE MTT-S TC28. He received 7 times' best/excellent paper awards from IEEE conferences as an author/co-author. He received the IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Technical Achievement Award in 2019, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2019, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship in 2013, Texas Tech Horn Professors Graduate Achievement Award in 2013, and the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. He is an active reviewer for more than 20 journals and conferences including IEEE T-MTT, T-AP, T-BME, T-CAS I/II, T-IM, MWCL, AWPL, etc. Since 2018, he has been serving as a TPRC member for IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS).

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