Publications

2026

Journal articleZiteng Wang, Sinan Onal, Prashanna Pandit, Allison Gladfelter, Milijana Buac. 2026. Accessible autism screening in children: A pilot study of markerless gait analysis from ordinary walking videos. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, published online 29 September 2026. DOI · PDF
PosterStep by Step: An AI-Enabled, Video-Based Gait Screening Tool for Early Identification of Autism. ASHA 2026 Convention. Meritorious poster (6% rate). Student leads: Angelica Sanyal and Shaivil Patel.
PosterWhat Actually Works: Real-World Lessons in Research Recruitment. ASHA 2026 Convention. Student leads: Hope Larson and Natalie Quinlan.
PresentationZiteng Wang. Transform Early Autism Detection by AI-powered Video-based Gait Analysis. 2026 INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Raleigh, NC, July 2026.
Conference paperGuangyu Sun, Wenhan Wu, Zhishuai Guo, Ziteng Wang, Pegah Khosravi, Chen Chen. 2026. Unlocking multi-site clinical data: A federated approach to privacy-first child autism behavior analysis. CVPR 2026 Workshop on Computer Vision for Child Health (CV4CHL).
PresentationZiteng Wang. Early Autism Detection Using Ordinary Walking Videos: A 2D Gait-Analysis and Machine-Learning Method. 2026 INSAR Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2026.
PosterValidating a Video-Based AI-Powered Early Autism Screening Web Application. NIU Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) 2026. Second place, Engineering category. Student lead: Angelica Sanyal.
PosterValidating a Video-Based AI-Powered Early Autism Screening Web Application. National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2026, Richmond, VA, April 13–15, 2026. Student lead: Angelica Sanyal.
PosterDevelopment of an Iterative Gait Cycle Detection Method Using Video Based Pose Data for Gait-based Early Autism Screening. National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2026, Richmond, VA, April 13–15, 2026. Student lead: Shaivil Patel.

2025

Journal articleLindsey Anderson, Allison Gladfelter, Milijana Buac, Waifong Catherine Cheung, Ziteng Wang, Sinan Onal. 2025. Relationships between cultural factors and motor abilities in autistic and non-autistic children. Behavioral Sciences, 15(12): 1742. DOI
PresentationZiteng Wang. Transform Early Autism Detection by AI-powered Video-based Gait Analysis. 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2025.
PosteriGAIT: A Smartphone-accessible Early Screening Tool of Autism Spectrum Disorder for Children Using Video-based Gait Analysis. 2025 INSAR Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2025.
PosterIdentifying Gait Differences in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children Using 2D Video Analysis of Kinematic Parameters. 2025 INSAR Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2025.
PosterA Context-Intelligent and Verifiable Smart Assistant for An Autism Screening Web Tool. NIU Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) 2025. Student lead: John White.
PosterDeep Learning Based Gait Video Data Validation. NIU Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) 2025. Poster presentation award, Physical Sciences, Math and Computational Sciences category. Student lead: Michael Sensenbrenner.
PosteriGAIT: A Smartphone-accessible Early Screening Tool of Autism Spectrum Disorder for Children Using Video-based Gait Analysis. National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, April 7–9, 2025. Student lead: Michael Sensenbrenner.

2024

PosteriGAIT: An Engineering Solution to Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder for Children. NIU Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) 2024, DeKalb, IL, April 30, 2024. Student co-presenters: John White and Michael Sensenbrenner.

2023

Journal articleMilijana Buac, Gabriela Ibarra, Ricardo Torres, Sinan Onal, Allison Gladfelter, Ziteng Wang. 2023. The urgent need for neuroscience research to consider culture when assessing the development of gait in autistic children: A scoping review. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 22(2): 51. DOI

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