Lingyu Du
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Health Technology at Technical University of Denmark (DTU ), working with Prof. Jens Hjortkjær .
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft ), the Netherlands, in 2026, supervised by
Prof. Guohao Lan and
Prof. Koen Langendoen .
In prior, I obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees (Honors Program ) in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin, China, in 2021 and 2019, respectively.
Research interests: My research lies at the intersection of machine learning, pervasive computing, and healthcare. Building on my work in efficient and trustworthy machine learning, I focus on real-time multimodal perception and wearable systems for healthcare and assistive applications.
Email: lingyudu97 [AT] outlook.com
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Talk to Me, Not the Slides: A Real-Time Wearable Assistant for Improving Eye Contact in Presentations
Lingyu Du , Xucong Zhang, Guohao Lan
arXiv preprint, 2025
A real-time wearable system that actively assists speakers in maintaining effective eye contact with the audience during live presentations.
EfficientGaze: Resource-efficient Gaze Estimation via Frequency-domain Multi-task Contrastive Learning
Lingyu Du , Xucong Zhang, Guohao Lan
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks , ACM TOSN , 2025,
[Project page / Code]
A resource-efficient gaze estimation framework that significantly reduces the reliance on labeled data and improve the computational efficiency for inference and calibration.
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SecureGaze: Defending Gaze Estimation Against Backdoor Attacks
Lingyu Du , Yupei Liu, Jinyuan Jia, Guohao Lan
The 23rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
ACM SenSys , 2025,
[Project page / Demo / Code]
The first work that investigates the backdoor vulnerability of gaze estimation models and proposes a framework to identify backdoored gaze estimation models.
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PrivateGaze: Preserving User Privacy in Black-box Mobile Gaze Tracking Services
Lingyu Du , Jinyuan Jia, Xucong Zhang, Guohao Lan
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp , 2024,
[Project page / Demo / Code]
An approach to transform raw images to obfuscated images that do not contain private attributes of users but can be used for effective gaze estimation by black-box models.
FreeGaze: Resource-efficient Gaze Estimation via Frequency-domain Contrastive Learning
Lingyu Du , Guohao Lan
The 20th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks EWSN , 2023,
[Project page / Code]
An approach that achieve comparable performance with the supervised baseline, while enabling up to 6.81 and 1.67 times speedup in calibration and inference, respectively.
Unsupervised Gaze-aware Contrastive Learning with Subject-specific Condition
Lingyu Du , Xucong Zhang, Guohao Lan
Technical Report, arXiv preprint, 2023
A contrastive learning-based approach that learns gaze-aware representations from unlabeled full-face images.
Multi-Level Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Resource-efficient Visual Inference on Edge Devices
Ting Liang,
Lingyu Du , Guohao Lan
Ad Hoc Networks , 2026
An unsupervised framework that transfers multi-level knowledge from a unsupervised pretrained teacher model to a lightweight student using only unlabeled data.
Through the Eyes of Emotion: A Multi-faceted Eye Tracking Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Virtual Reality
Tongyun Yang, Bishwas Regmi,
Lingyu Du , Andreas Bulling, Xucong Zhang, Guohao Lan
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp , 2025,
[Project page / Code]
A eye-tracking dataset in VR, combining high-frame-rate periocular videos and high-frequency gaze data to enable accurate, multimodal emotion recognition.
Coordination Strategy of Large-Scale DFIG-Based Wind Farm for Voltage Support With High Converter Capacity Utilization
Zhen Dong, Zhongguo Li,
Lingyu Du ,
Yixing Liu, Zhengtao Ding
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy , 2020
A distributed active power and reactive power coordination scheme for access point voltage support.
Professional Services
DATE 2026 (Track A6: Applications of AI Systems) , Technical Programme Committee, 2026, 2027
UbiComp/ISWC (Posters & Demos) , Program Committee, 2025, 2026
Workshop on Smart Wearable Systems and Applications (conjunction with MobiCom) , Publicity Chair, 2022, 2025
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) , Reviewer, 2026
UbiComp / ISWC (Briefs & Notes) , Reviewer, 2025
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) , Reviewer, 2024
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems , Reviewer, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) , Reviewer, 2022, 2023, 2024
Student Supervision
[CSE 3000]
Exploring the Vulnerability of Deep Regression Models to Backdoor Attacks
, 2025, Supervisor, TU Delft
[CSE 3000]
Imperceptible Backdoor Attacks on Deep Regression Models
, 2024, Supervisor, TU Delft
[CSE 3000]
Deep Learning-based Gaze Estimation
, 2023, Supervisor, TU Delft
[CSE 3000]
Eye Tracking-based Sedentary Activity Recognition
, 2022, Supervisor, TU Delft