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I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at SciFi Lab in College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Cheng Zhang. My current research interests cover a wide range of ubiquitous computing, sensing systems, wearable devices, and AI. My work have been published in a series of top-tier conferences, including UbiComp, MobiCom, CHI, ISWC, and IPSN.
I am a winner of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024. Check out my Student Spotlight at Cornell Graduate School!
I graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), P.R. China, where I was awarded the National Scholarship twice. I am one of the Outstanding Graduates in Shanghai.

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Recent News

Dec. 2024: I am awarded the Master of Science degree in Information Science from Cornell University.
Oct. 2024: EchoGuide wins the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ISWC 2024.
Sept. 2024: I passed my A exam and became a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell!
Sept. 2024: SonicID, ActSonic, and Ring-a-Pose have been accepted to IMWUT/UbiComp 2024. SonicID and ActSonic present smart glasses that perform user identification and recognize everyday activities while Ring-a-Pose introduces a single untethered ring that tracks continuous 3D hand poses.
Jun. 2024: EchoGuide is accepted for publication at ISWC 2024, which leverages acoustic sensing to guide head-mounted cameras to efficiently analyze detailed eating behaviors.
May 2024: Our abstract on using AI-powered eyewear for routine facial expression analysis in Parkinson’s Disease has been accepted for poster presentation at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders.
Apr. 2024: Ruidong and I won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship which is covered by Cornell Chronicle and the Graduate School at Cornell.
Mar. 2024: EyeEcho and EchoWrist have been accepted to CHI 2024. EyeEcho proposes a facial expression tracking system on a pair of eyeglasses which works in real-time while EchoWrist introduces hand pose tracking and hand-object interaction recognition techniques on a wristband.
Feb. 2024: GazeTrak has been accepted to MobiCom 2024, which presents the first continuous gaze tracking system on a pair of eyeglasses based on acoustic sensing.
Oct. 2023: HPSpeech is awarded the Best Paper Honorable Mention at ISWC 2023!
Sept. 2023: PoseSonic is published in IMWUT/UbiComp (September 2023), which introduces an acoustic-sensing-based solution to tracking upper body poses continuously.
Jul. 2023: HPSpeech and EchoNose are both accpeted by ISWC 2023.
Mar. 2023: EchoSpeech is accepted for publication by CHI 2023, which proposes a solution to continuous silent speech recognition on eyewear based on acoustic sensing.
Jul. 2022: EarIO is published in IMWUT/UbiComp (July 2022), which presents a low-power and minimally-obtrusive earable that can track facial expressions continuously based on acoustic sensing.
May 2022: I am honored to be nominated for a 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Award in Information Science at Cornell.
Jul. 2021: I start to work with Prof. Cheng Zhang as a first year Ph.D. student in his Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) lab at Cornell University.
May 2021: NFC Textiles wins Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award at IPSN 2021!
Jan. 2021: Check out Near-field Communication (NFC) Textiles that allows ordinary surfaces to locate surrounding objects at high accuracy in the near-field, at IPSN 2021.
Jul. 2020: I receive a Bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering from SJTU, honored with Outstanding Graduates in Shanghai (Top 5%).
Sept. 2019: I am honored to join the Intelligent Internet of Things (IIOT) Research Center and work on the backscatter project for my undergraduate thesis, advised by Prof. Xiaohua Tian.
Jul. 2019: Thank Prof. Swarun Kumar for accepting me as a summer intern at his Laboratory for Emerging Wireless Technologies (WiTech) lab of CMU, where I work on an NFC project.
Jun. 2019: Check out our distributed approximation algorithm to select cluster heads for a homogeneous network in three-dimensional situation, which is accepted by IEEE TWC.
May 2019: Check out QLEC, a machine-learning-based energy-efficient clustering algorithm in high-dimensional space, which is published in ICPP 2019.
Feb. 2017: I am honored to join the Advanced Network Laboratory as a research assistant, advised by Prof. Xiaofeng Gao.
Sept. 2016: I start my undergraduate study majoring in Information Engineering at SJTU, which is the Top 5 university in China (Mainland).