About
Kai Yang is a Professor of E-textiles in Healthcare at the Winchester School of Art (WSA), University of Southampton. She is the Head of Research in the Department of Fashion and Textiles.
Her research interests are in e-textile materials and manufacturing, wearable healthcare/medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management, health monitoring), and sustainable textiles/e-textiles. She has been PI on £3.6 million e-textile healthcare projects funded by UKRI (MRC, EPSRC, AHRC, Innovate UK) and NIHR. She has published over 80 publications. She is the Lead of the WSA E-textile Innovation Lab, Co-chair of the E-textiles Network, and the Founder/Co-founder of Etexsense Ltd and Smart Fabric Inks Ltd.
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Research interests
- Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
- Wearable medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management)
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- Sustainable textiles
Current research
Prof Yang’s 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 “Wearable Textile with Integrated Electrotherapy and Sensing for Joint Pain Management” (MR/W029421/1, £1.4M, 2022 - 2025). This project is built on her EPSRC Fellowship on “Advanced E-textiles for Wearable Therapeutics” (EP/S001654/1, £487k) and EPSRC IAA project on “Industrial design and manufacturing of electrotherapy knee sleeve for joint pain relief” (£45k). She was previously a PI on the MRC DPFS SMARTmove project on “Low-cost personalised instrumented clothing with integrated FES electrodes for upper limb rehabilitation” (MR/N027841/1, £902k). She was awarded an MRC equipment grant to purchase a Shima Seiki WholeGarment Knitting Machine under the project title of “Whole garment knitting equipment for e-textile wearable healthcare applications” (MR/X013022/1, £151k).
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E-textiles
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Responsible textile for healthcare
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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), University of Southampton, 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), University of Southampton, in 2020 as an Associate Professor and promoted to a Professor in 2023.
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