Fangxu Yuan

Fangxu Yuan

Ph.D. Student in Systems Engineering

University of Virginia

Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student of Systems Engineering at University of Virginia, under the supervision of Prof. Laura E Barnes. Before that I got my Master degree in Information Technology from School of Engineering, HKUST, where I did my independent project about indoor localization under Prof. Shueng-Han Gary Chan ’s supervision. Previously I obtained my Bachelor degree from School of Infomatics, Xiamen University, where I have spent wonderful times as a research assistant with Prof. Longbiao Chen.

Interests
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Mobile computing
  • Digital health
Education

  • PhD in Systems Engineering, 2024 - now

    Univeristy of Virginia

  • MSc in Information Technology, 2021 - 2022

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • BSc in Engineering, 2017 - 2021

    Xiamen University

Recent News

  • Dec 2025 – Multimodal Sensing and Modeling of Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Breast Cancer Survivors accepted to IMWUT for the December issue.
  • Nov 2025 – Presented the Breast Cancer medicine adherence project at The Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference (CVCRC).
  • Oct 2025 – Showcased our medicine adherence poster at the UVA 2025 AI/ML Resource Fair.
  • Sep 2025 – Presented a poster on Breast Cancer medicine adherence at Frontiers in Clinical AI: Advancing Medical Innovation Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
  • Jun 2024 – Started the Systems Engineering Ph.D. program at UVA and joined Link Lab as a graduate research assistant.
  • Oct 2023 – Wrapped up my time as a Software Development Engineer at AWS
  • Nov 2022 – Received my Master degree from HKUST and started working as a Software Development Engineer at AWS
  • Mar 2022 – Began a Software Development Engineer internship with AWS in Beijing.
  • Apr 2021 – Joined Alibaba Cloud as a Testing Development Intern working on large-scale distributed systems.

Recent Publications

Zhiyuan Wang, Fangxu Yuan, Virginia LeBaron, Tabor Flickinger, Laura E. Barnes (2024). PALLM: Evaluating and Enhancing PALLiative Care Conversations with Large Language Models. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.

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Longbiao Chen, Chenhui Lu, Fangxu Yuan, Zhihan Jiang, Leye Wang, Daqing Zhang, Ruixiang Luo, Xiaoliang Fan, Cheng Wang* (2021). UVLens: Urban Village Boundary Identification and Population Estimation Leveraging Open Government Data. In IMWUT.

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Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Link Lab, University of Virginia
Graduate Reasearch Assistant
Link Lab, University of Virginia
June 2024 – Present Charlottesville, VA
Smart city, Medicine adherence, Digital mental health
 
 
 
 
 
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Independent Project
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
September 2021 – June 2022 Hong Kong
Indoor localization and Pervasive Positioning Standard for Fingerprint-based and Proximity-based Systems
 
 
 
 
 
Xiamen University
Research Assistant
Xiamen University
September 2018 – February 2021 Xiamen
Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart City

Work Experience

Amazon Web Service
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Service Nov 2022 – Oct 2023
Amazon Web Service
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon Web Service Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
Alibaba Cloud
Testing Development Intern
Alibaba Cloud Apr 2021 – Aug 2021