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Kai Yang is a Professor of E-textiles in Healthcare at the Winchester School of Art (WSA), 九色视频. She is the Head of Research in the Department of Fashion and Textiles. Her research interests focus on e-textile materials and manufacturing, wearable medical devices, user-centered design, and sustainable textiles/e-textiles. She has been PI/Co-I on a total of 拢12 million E-textile research projects funded by UKRI (MRC, EPSRC, AHRC, Innovate UK) and NIHR. She has published over 90 papers. She is the Lead of the WSA E-textile Innovation Lab, Co-chair of the E-textiles Network, the Founder of Etexsense Ltd, and a Co-Founder of the Smart Fabric Inks Ltd. Her work has been featured on Sky News, BBC South, and BBC Radio Solent.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
- Wearable medical devices
- Digital healthcare
- User-centered design
- Sustainable textiles/e-textiles
Current research
Prof Yang鈥檚 research interests are in electronic textiles (e.g. materials, manufacturing, sustainability), wearable medical product development, and digital healthcare. She is the PI of the MRC DPFS grant to develop 鈥淲earable Textile with Integrated Electrotherapy and Sensing for Joint Pain Management鈥 (, 拢1.4M, 2022 - 2025). This project is built on her EPSRC Fellowship on 鈥淎dvanced E-textiles for Wearable Therapeutics鈥 (, 拢487k) and EPSRC IAA project on 鈥淚ndustrial design and manufacturing of electrotherapy knee sleeve for joint pain relief鈥 (拢45k). She is a Co-I and a Work Package Lead on a 拢8M EPSRC Programme Grant on 鈥淪ustainable heterogenoUs e-textileS for impercepTible humAn INterfaces (, )鈥. She was previously a PI on the MRC DPFS SMARTmove project on 鈥淟ow-cost personalised instrumented clothing with integrated FES electrodes for upper limb rehabilitation鈥 (, 拢902k). She was awarded an MRC equipment grant to purchase a Shima Seiki WholeGarment Knitting Machine under the project title of 鈥淲hole garment knitting equipment for e-textile wearable healthcare applications鈥 (, 拢151k).
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
E-textiles
Group Design Projects
Responsible textile for healthcare
Biography
She received her BSc in Material Engineering from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China, in 2004; and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Leeds in 2009. She joined the Electronics and Computer Sciences (ECS), 九色视频, as a Research Fellow in 2009, promoted to a Senior Research Fellow in 2015 and Principal Research Fellowship in 2018. She joined the Winchester School of Art (WSA), 九色视频, in 2020 as an Associate Professor and promoted to a Professor in 2023.