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Yue Wen

Assistant Professor

BIOGRAPHY

Yue Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida and a member of the Disability, Aging, and Technology faculty cluster. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the joint program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in 2019, following a Master’s in Control Theory and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2014 and a B.S. in Automation from Wuhan University of Technology in 2011. Before joining UCF, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University in Chicago, where he focused on rehabilitation robotics and neuromechanics. His research integrates machine learning, human–robot interaction, neural engineering, and control systems, with particular emphasis on reinforcement learning for wearable robotics and personalized gait rehabilitation.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
  • M.S. in Control Theory and Engineering – Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • B.S. in Automation – Wuhan University of Technology

RESEARCH

  • Rehabilitation robotics 
  • Machine learning 
  • Neuromechanics 
  • Human-robot interaction 
  • Neural engineering 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Yue Wen, Sangjoon J Kim, Simon Avrillon, Jackson T. Levine, François Hug, and José L Pons. “Toward a generalizable deep cnn for neural drive estimation across muscles and participants.” Journal of Neural Engineering, 20(1):016006, 2022. 
  • Sangjoon J. Kim, Yue Wen, Daniel Ludvig, Emek Bars Kucuktabak, Matthew Short, Kevin Lynch, Eric J. Perreault, Levi Hargrove, and Jose L. Pons. “Effect of dyadic haptic collaboration on ankle motor learning.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 31 (2022): 416-425. 
  • Yue Wen, Sangjoon J. Kim, Simon Avrillon, Jackson T. Levine, François Hug, and José L. Pons. “A deep CNN framework for neural drive estimation from HD-EMG across contraction intensities and joint angles.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 30 (2022): 2950-2959. 
  • Yue Wen, Simon Avrillon, Julio C Hernandez-Pavon, Sangjoon J Kim, François Hug, and José L Pons. “A convolutional neural network to identify motor units from high-density surface electromyography signals in real time.” Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(5):056003, 2021. 
  • Minhan Li, Yue Wen, Xiang Gao, Jennie Si, and He Huang.”Towards Expedited Impedance Tuning of a Robotic Prosthesis for Personalized Gait Assistance by Reinforcement Learning Control.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics 38, no. 1 (2021): 407-420. 
  • Yue Wen, Minhan Li, Jennie Si, and He Huang. “Wearer-prosthesis interaction for symmetrical gait: a study enabled by reinforcement learning prosthesis control.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 28, no. 4 (2020): 904-913. 
  • Yue Wen, Jennie Si, Andrea Brandt, Xiang Gao, and He (Helen) Huang. “Online reinforcement learning control for the personalization of a robotic knee prosthesis.” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 50, no. 6 (2019): 2346-2356.  (Featured in IEEE Spectrum Journal Watch: AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee) 
  • UNC and NC State Research Assistant Scholarship, 2014-2019 
  • Finalist in EMBC student paper competition, 2015 
  • Graduate School Scholarship, 2011-2013 

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