Xinyu Zhang Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Director, Center for Wireless Communications University of California San Diego

Research Interest:

• Wireless systems and networking: next-generation wireless network architectures and physical-layer informed mobile applications.
• Mobile and ubiquitous computing: ubiquitous and wireless sensing systems for healthcare, mobile interaction, etc.

Research Methodology:

• System implementation: on software radios (WARP/USRP), Android, Linux network drivers, and customized hardware platforms.
• Theoretical modeling: Signal processing, computational imaging, machine learning, convex optimization, probability models.

News:

• Looking for postdoc, research engineer and visiting scholars with experiences in communication hardware and machine learning models. See details here.
• I am looking for self-motivated students to work on research projects in wireless networking and mobile computing. Read my "Notes to Prospective Students" if you are interested in joining our research group.
• 06/2024. Congratulations to our 2024 graduates: Ke Sun (Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan), John Nolan (Senior Principal Engineer in Cubic), Lisa Takai, Yunxiang Chi (PhD program in Princeton).
• 11/2023. NeuroRadar won the Best Paper Award in SenSys'23.
• 10/2023. PhD student Ke Sun was awarded the Google PhD Fellowship (sole recipient in mobile computing in North America and Europe).
• 06/2023. Congratulations to our 2023 graduates: Kun Qian (Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia), Renjie Zhao (Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University), Timothy Woodford (Research Scientist at MIT Lincoln Lab), Dongwoo Kim (Samsung Research), Xuyang Cao (Apple), Song Wang (ByteDance), Cheng Huang (Juniper Networks), Dongyin Hu (PhD program at UPenn), Wenyuan Zhao (PhD program at TAMU)!
• 04/2023. Received ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award.
• 03/2023. SlimWiFi paper published in NSDI'23. SlimWiFi introduces a novel asymmetric communication paradigm to enable ultra-low-power IoT.
• 02/2022. MilliMirror paper accepted to MobiCom'22. MilliMirror is a 3D printable passive reflecting surface that can expand mmWave network coverage.
• 01/2022. Since Jan. 2021, M-Cube replicas have been delivered to 10+ institutions to support research in mmWave communication and sensing. Check our project website for more details.
• 06/2021. RoS paper accepted to SIGCOMM'21. RoS is a passive chipless tag that acts as an intelligent reflecting surface to communicate with automotive radars. Hardware schematics of RoS are available upon request.
• 09/2020. M-Cube received the Best Paper Award in ACM MobiCom 2020. Check our project website for more details about M-Cube.
• 05/2020. SIGCOMM'20 papers: NFC+ long range magnetic RFID that defeats blockage, and a first measurement study of commercial 5G networks.
• 02/2020. Received Google Faculty Research Award and Sony Research Award.
• 01/2020. M-Cube paper accepted to MobiCom'20. M-Cube is the first massive MIMO millimeter-wave software radio, with a large phased array but low cost. M-Cube is open-source. We are releasing sample hardware to academic partners.
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Services:

• TPC: MobiCom'15 to '23, SIGMETRICS'23, CoNEXT'23, NSDI'19, MobiSys'18, SenSys'18, '24, INFOCOM'14 to '21, ICNP'15 to '17, MobiHoc'14, SECON'13 to '17, IWQoS'13 to '18, MobiSys MCS'14, HotWireless'14 to '16
• Other: INFOCOM'24 Area TPC Chair, MobiCom'19 TPC co-chair, SECON'17 TPC co-chair, NSF mmWave RCN co-chair, HotWireless'16 chair, SECON'15 workshop co-chair, MobiCom'14 poster co-chair

CV:

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