Duo Zhang 张舵

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Project-Based Learning at ETH Zürich, working with Prof. Dr. Michele Magno. I received my Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Peking University in June 2026, advised by Prof. Daqing Zhang, and my B.S. degree from the School of Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2021.

My research lies at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, and multimodal foundation models. My long-term goal is to bring foundation-model agents beyond the virtual world and into the physical environments where they can understand and assist people in everyday life. To do so, agents must perceive continuous human context: what people are doing, how their physical and physiological states evolve, and when support may be needed. I see sensing as the essential bridge connecting people, the physical world, and intelligent agents.

Toward this goal, I have pursued a systematic research agenda across the full mmWave sensing stack: foundational sensing infrastructure, including automatic radar extrinsic calibration, multipath mitigation, and sensing-coverage extension; mid-level human representations, including multi-person vital-sign monitoring, pose estimation, and behavior recognition; and high-level semantic understanding and reasoning with foundation models. Together, these layers provide the real-world perceptual foundation that intelligent agents need to assist people reliably, continuously, and with privacy.