About Me
I am a 2nd year CS PhD student in the School of Interactive Computing at
Georgia Tech. I am advised by Professor Munmun De Choudhury and am a member of the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing (SocWeb) Lab. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (with High Honors) from
Dartmouth College, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professors Nicholas Jacobson and Andrew Campbell.
I develop human-centered AI models that learn from and reason over longitudinal health data. My recent work spans large pre-trained foundation models for wearable time series and LLM-based systems for reconstructing temporal patient journeys from unstructured clinical records. I deploy methods in representation learning, temporal modeling, and generative AI to integrate fragmented health information and build longitudinal models that can inform personalized and clinical decision-making.
✨ I am actively seeking Summer 2027 research internship opportunities in industry. If you think my interests in human-centered NLP, human-AI interaction, machine learing for health and LLMs could be a good fit for your team, I would love to connect — please feel free to reach out at azhang677@gatech.edu.
Updates
[May 2026]: Our work A Foundation Model for Wearable Movement Data in Mental Health Research has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)! 🥳 🎉
[August 2025]: Started school as a CS PhD student at the SocWeb Lab at Georgia Tech! Go Jackets! 🐝 🥳
[July 2025]: Our work SeePerSea, which I collaborated in my earlier undergraduate years at Dartmouth, has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics 2025 🥳 Website Link
[June 2025]: Graduated from Dartmouth with a Major in Computer Science and a minor in Environmental Studies! 🌲 🎓 "vox clamantis in deserto" 💚
[June 2025]: Successfully defended my undergraduate thesis in CS at Dartmouth! MotionTeller: Multi-modal Integration of Wearable Time-Series with LLMs for Health and Behavioral Understanding, has been awarded High Honors! Yay! 🥳 Now in review at the Dartmouth Digital Commons
[April 2025]: I'll be joining Georgia Tech as a CS PhD student in Fall 2025! 🎉 💛
[November 2024]: Our work, A Foundation Model for Wearable Movement Data in Mental Health Research, is now available as a preprint on ArXiv! Our model is the first foundation model designed specifically for actigraphy, which is publicly available - pretrained weights, standardized preprocessing scripts, and full model code are released to GitHub
Selected Publications
Research Experiences
[August 2025 - Present] Graduate Research Assistant at the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab @ Georgia Tech Advised by Professor Munmun De Choudhury.
[March 2025 - August 2025] Research Assistant at the HealthX Lab @ Dartmouth College Advised by Professor Andrew T. Campbell and mentored by PhD student Arvind Pillai.
[April 2024 - August 2025] Research Assistant at the Jacobson Lab @ Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine Advised by Professor Nicholas C. Jacobson.
[January 2023 - June 2024] Research Assistant at the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab Advised by Professor Alberto Quattrini Li.
Industry
[May 2022 - August 2022] Consultant Intern, TMT & FIG groups at Boston Consulting Group (Hong Kong)Education
[August 2025 - Present] Computer Science PhD Student at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology [September 2021 - June 2025] Undergraduate student, Computer Science major at Dartmouth College