Hiring PhD: I am actively looking for self-motivated PhD candidates with a strong background in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. If you have interests in the broad area of Mobile Computing, Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence, please feel free to contact me with your CV attached. Full scholarships will be provided to qualified candidates by the University or my funding. SMU is ranked 70 in the overall CS discipline and particularly No. 28 in the field of Mobile Computing and Human-computer Interaction worldwide, according to CSRankings.

Hiring Research Engineer (RE): I have 2 RE positions available on health sensing and embedded machine learning. If you hold an bachelor or master degree and would like gain some research experience, feel free to reach out to me with you CV. The standard monthly salary for RE is 4700 SGD.

Hiring Visiting Research Student (VRS): I have 2-4 VRS positions available on health sensing, embedded machine learning, or general mobile computing. If you are currently a master or PhD candidate in other universities and would like a pursue research experience in Mobile Computing in SMU, please send me you CV. The selected candidates will be offered with stipend to support his/her life at Singapore (standard monthly stipend of 2700 SGD).

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Before joining SMU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, advised by Prof. Cecilia Mascolo. Prior to that, I earned my PhD at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia in 2019, supervised by Prof. Mahbub Hassan, and Prof. Wen Hu. I also worked as a research assistant at the Networks Research Group at DATA61-CSIRO from 2016 to 2019. I obtained my bachelor and master in Communication Engineering from Central South University, China, in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

My research interests rotate around cyber-physical systems, including ubiquitous computing, pervasive sensing, vibration communication, energy harvesting, and mobile and wearable healthcare, covering the end-to-end system design, implementation, and evaluation. Recently, I am particularly centred on robust health monitoring with wearable technology and tiny machining learning on embedded devices.

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News

  • 03/2025 Our PerCom'25 paper RespEar won the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award! Congratulations to all co-authors!
  • 12/2024 One paper accepted at CHI'25!
  • 12/2024 Two papers accepted at PerCom'25!
  • 12/2024 One paper conditionally accepted at MobiCom'25!
  • 11/2024 I am honored to receive the Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Award. Thanks Google!!
  • 11/2024 I will be serving as the PhD Forum Chair at WOWMOM’25.
  • 11/2024 Our research on breathing mode monitoring with earbuds has been highlighted by SMU Corporate Communications, SMU City Perspectives, and The STRAITS TIMES.
  • 10/2024 I will be serving as an Associate Editor at IMWUT since the 2024 November cycle.
  • 09/2024 Invited to write a News & Views article for Nature Electronics.
  • 09/2024 Congrats to Changshuo for his second IMWUT paper accepted!
  • 09/2024 I will be serving as a Session Chair at UbiComp 2024, come and join the exciting presentations!
  • 08/2024 I will be serving as a TPC member of HumanSys workshop at SenSys 2024.
  • 07/2024 I will be serving as a TPC member at PerCom 2025.
  • 07/2024 I will be serving as a TPC member at MobiCom 2025.
  • 07/2024 One paper accepted at EarComp 2024.
  • 07/2024 Congrats to Xiao Ma who won the 2024-2025 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Computing. Well done!!.
  • 06/2024 I will be serving as Publication Co-chairs at PerCom 2025.
  • 05/2024 I am honored to be invited for a keynote presentation at the Mobile AI System Workshop, co-located with MobiSys'24. See you in Tokyo!
  • 04/2024 One paper accepted at ACM IMWUT 2024. Congrats to Changshuo!
  • 03/2024 Our PerCom'24 paper DiTMos won the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award! Congratulations to all co-authors!
  • 03/2024 We are organizing the 10th BodySys Workshop, co-located with MobiSys'24 at Tokyo. Please consider submitting!
  • 03/2024 Two patents about respiratory monitoring have been filed!
  • 03/2024 One paper accepted at Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMCJ).
  • 02/2024 I will be serving as a TPC member at IPSN@Poster 2024.
  • 01/2024 One paper accepted at IEEE IoTJ.
  • 01/2024 One paper accepted at MDPI Sensors Journal.
  • 12/2023 Two papers accepted at PerCom 2024.
  • 11/2023 One paper accepted at IMWUT 2023.
  • 11/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member at EWSN 2024.
  • 09/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member at MobiSys 2024.
  • 07/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member at MobiCom 2024.
  • 06/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member of EarComp workshop at UbiComp 2023.
  • 05/2023 Our earable research was introduced by ResearchPod .
  • 04/2023 Serving in the Artifact Evaluation Committee of ACM MobiSys 2023.
  • 03/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member of IASA workshop at CPS-IoT Week 2023.
  • 03/2023 One paper accepted at EuroVis 2023.
  • 01/2023 I will be serving as a TPC member at EWSN 2023.

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Awards and Honors

  • Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Award, Google, 2024.
  • Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, IEEE PerCom, 2024 (1/158)
  • EPFL Engineering Ph.D. Summit, Switzerland, 2019. (1 out of 11 Worldwide)
  • Google Ph.D. Fellowship Nominee, Australia, 2019. (1 out of 2 from UNSW)
  • Student Travel Grant, ACM MobiCom 2018.
  • Best Demo Runner-up Award at ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018.
  • DATA61 & CSIRO Top-up Scholarship, 2016 - 2020.
  • University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA), University of New South Wales, 2016-2020.
  • Outstanding graduate in Central South University, 2014.
  • National Scholarship of China, 2013.

Students

  • Xiao Ma, Ph.D student, SMU, 2022.08 - present
  • PHAM Hung Manh, Ph.D student, SMU, 2023.08 - present
  • Changshuo Hu, Ph.D student, SMU, 2024.01 - present
  • Wenzhe Hu, Ph.D student, SMU, 2024.01 - present, co-supervise with Thivya Kandappu
  • Guangrong Zhao, visiting Ph.D student from Shandong University, 2024.01 - 2025.01
  • Xiaochen Liu, visiting Ph.D student from Beijing Institute of Technology, 2024.05 - 2025.4
  • Matthew HO Yiwen, Undergraduate, SMU, 2023.06 - present
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Presentations and Talks

  • Talk In-ear Microphone - Beyond Active Noise Cancellation, at NTU, Zhejiang Univerisity, Shenzhen University, 2023.
  • Keynote OESense: Employing Occlusion Effect for In-ear Human Sensing. Research Students Symposium at University of Cambridge. May 2021, Online.
  • Talk Activity Recognition Through In-ear Microphone Sensing. Mini Workshop at Nokia Bell Lab. May 2021, Online.
  • Conference Presentation Skin-MIMO: Vibration-based MIMO Communication over Human Skin. INFOCOM 2020. July 2020, Online.
  • Conference Presentation Enhancing Cellular Communications for UAVs via Intelligent Reflective Surface. WCNC 2020. May 2020, Online.
  • Conference Presentation SolarGest: Ubiquitous and Battery-free Gesture Recognition using Solar Cells. MobiCom 2019. Octorber 2019, Los Cabos, Mexicoe.
  • Talk Transformative Context Sensing for Energy Harvesting IoTs. EPFL Engineering PhD Summit. Octorber 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Conference Presentation Gesture Recognition with Transparent Solar Cells: A Feasibility Study. WiNTECH, MobiCom Workshop 2018. November 2018, New Delhi, India.
  • Conference Presentation SEHS: Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Sensing using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester. IoTDI 2018. April 2018, Orlando, USA.
  • Conference Presentation CapSense: Capacitor-based Activity Sensing for Kinetic Energy Harvesting Powered Wearable Devices. MobiQuitous 2017. November 2017, Melbourne, Australia.

Professional Service

Editorial Service

Review Service

  • 2024: CHI, MobiCom, MobiSys
  • 2023: TMC, TON, EWSN, TII, IMWUT, WWW
  • 2022: TMC, TOSN, MASS, ISWC, IMWUT, WWW
  • 2021: TMC, TPDS, TII, MASS, IMWUT
  • 2020: JSAC, IMWUT, ICC, Comnets
  • 2019: SenSys, IPSN, PerCom, IoTJ, WCNC, SigGraph
  • 2018: SenSys, ICDCS, PerCom, ICCCN, Mobiquitous

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