Resume
Yifan Li is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tokyo. He is currently seeking a research internship.
Basics
| Name | Yifan Li |
| Label | PhD Student |
| Yifan217@akg.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp | |
| Phone | 090-8138-1481 |
| Url | https://faner217.github.io/ |
| Summary | I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo. I am currently seeking a research internship. My research focuses on human-computer interaction, particularly wearable computing, wireless devices, and ubiquitous and mobile computing. |
Education
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2025.10 - Present Tokyo, Japan
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2023.10 - 2025.09 Tokyo, Japan
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2019.09 - 2025.08 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Awards
- 2023.10.01
The University of Tokyo Fellowship
The University of Tokyo
This research grant-in-aid(4800000JPY in two years), established in 2004, aims to support outstanding, self-funded international students pursuing degrees at the University and to promote the enrollment of exceptional international students.'
- 2025.09.19
Best Master’s Thesis
The University of Tokyo
- 2023.08.01
Best Bachelor’s Thesis
University of Glasgow
Publications
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2025.9.29 Ultra-low-power ring-based wireless tinymouse
Yifan Li, Masaaki Fukumoto, Mohamed Kari, Ryo Takahashi, et al.
UIST' 25, Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
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2025.04.28 Demo of picoRing mouse: ultra-low-powered wireless mouse ring with ring-to-wristband coil-based impedance sensing
Yifan Li, Masaaki Fukumoto, Mohamed Kari, Ryo Takahashi, et al.
CHI EA '25, Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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2025.03.04 Plug-n-play e-knit: prototyping large-area e-textiles using machine-knitted magnetically-repositionable sensor networks
Yifan Li, Ryo Takahashi, Wakako Yukita, Kanata Matsutani, et al.
TEI '25, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction.
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2023.01.30 Privacy Preserved Federated Learning for Skin Cancer Diagnosis
Yifan Li, Yuechen He, Yufei Fu, Sizhe Shan.
2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Power, Electronics and Computer Applications (ICPECA).
Skills
| Hardware | |
| Electrical circuit design: Ultra-low-power circuits, RF circuits for wireless power transfer and inductive sensing, sensing circuits, etc., designed for mass production | |
| RF measurements: Vector network analyzer, impedance analyzer, impedance matching, frequency response analyzer, etc. | |
| Embedded Programming: Programming embedded systems (ARM, HAL). |
| Software | |
| CAD tools: Autodesk EAGLE, Altium Designer, Kicad, Autodesk Fusion, etc | |
| Programming languages: C, Python, MATLAB, etc. | |
| Simulation: Experience in MATLAB, LTSpice, Ansys HFSS, etc. | |
| Others: Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere), MS Office, LaTeX |
| Human-Computer Interaction research | |
| Wearable computing: Design and prototyping of wearable devices, user studies, etc. | |
| Academic writing: Writing and publishing academic papers, posters, and presentations. | |
| Hardware prototyping: Experience in: 3D printing, sewing, knitting, circuit implementing and testing, etc. | |
| Others: video editing, graphic design, etc. |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Japanese | |
| Intermediate |
Projects
- 2025.01 - 2018.05
picoRing
An ultra-low-power wireless mouse ring with ring-to-wristband coil-based impedance sensing
- Ultra-low-power ring
- wearable wireless mouse
- coil-based impedance sensing
- 2024.06 - 2025.06
e-knit
A prototyping toolkit for large-area e-textiles using machine-knitted magnetically-repositionable sensor networks
- e-textiles
- magnetically-repositionable sensor networks
- rapid prototyping
Interests
| Indie Rock Music | |
| Radiohead | |
| Car seat headrest | |
| Kinoko Teikoku | |
| Ichiko Aoba |