Summary
Nan Gao is an Associate Professor at Nankai University specializing in ubiquitous computing, mobile sensing, and HCI, with eight years of experience bridging computer science, psychology, and education to improve mental wellbeing. Her work uses unobtrusive sensing to infer behaviors and psychological states—producing the En-Gage dataset, the most comprehensive student psychological sensing resource to date—and has been published in top venues like PACM IMWUT/UbiComp and Scientific Data. She has earned multiple honors including an IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award and leads funded research projects while serving as an Associate Editor for PACM IMWUT and advisor in national professional societies. A former PhD candidate at RMIT and postdoc at Tsinghua with visiting appointments at UNSW, she combines rigorous field studies with open-data practices and an eye for interdisciplinary impact.
8 years of coding experience