Xinyu Zhang

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California San Diego

Research Interest:

Wireless systems and networking: next-generation network architectures based on millimeter-wave, distributed MIMO, and visible-light
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 or antenna design. 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.
04/2018. Ph.D. student Shilin Zhu received Google Ph.D. Fellowship (one of 39 recipients, and the only one in the mobile computing area.).
02/2018. Received Google Faculty Research Award and Sony Research Award.
12/2017. New work accepted to NSDI'18: sensing human-object interaction through chipless, printable RF tags.
06/2017. New work to appear in MobiCom'17: seamless mmWave connectivity; ubiquitous visible light localization; privacy protection for physical environment in the IoT era.
02/2017. Two papers accepted to MobiSys'17: low-latency mobile Web loading, and a new generation of LiTell.
02/2017. Named as Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar at UW-Madison.
02/2017. Received Google Faculty Research Award.
12/2016. NSDI'17 and INFOCOM'17 work: making 60 GHz networks robust.
10/2016. LiTell nominated for UW WARF annual innovation award (6 out of 400+ patented technologies).
10/2016. Open source 60 GHz software radios available, see WiMi and OpenMili (WiMi 2.0) hardware schematics and source code.
06/2016. New papers accepted to ACM MobiCom 2016: indoor localization using incumbent light fixtures, 60 GHz software radio, passive orientation sensing, and practical MU-MIMO.
04/2016. Code release: ZigBee (802.15.4) and WiFi (802.11b) library for the WARP software radio. This is the basis of our Halma project (IPSN'15).
12/2015. NSDI'16 work: combating blockage in 60 GHz networks.
11/2015. Code release: a prototype 802.11ac multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) OFDM library for the WARP software-radio (portable to GNURadio). This is the basis of our MIMO related projects.
11/2015. Code release: Android code for our UbiK project (MobiSys'14).
06/2015. Our team have 5 papers accepted to ACM MobiCom 2015, topics covering massive MIMO, 60 GHz sensing, visible light sensing, mobile security, and video streaming over LTE. These projects reflect our team's strength in integrating analytical models with system design.
03/2015. 3 papers accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2015.
02/2015. Our work on energy efficient WiFi Miracast is accepted to ACM MobiSys'15.
02/2015. Our work on cross-layer measurement of 60 GHz networks is accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS'15.
01/2015. Our work on energy-efficient single RF-chain MIMO is accepted by ACM/IEEE IPSN'15.
11/2014. INFOCOM'15 papers: whitespace networking, visible light networking, and stochastic geometry for full-duplex networks.
08/2014. Our group successfully developed WiMi, the first 60 GHz software radio platform to facilitate millimeter-wave networking and sensing research.
04/2014. Received NSF CAREER Award. The CAREER project aims to bridge the gap between wireless link capacity and network capacity through distributed MIMO.
04/2014. UbiComp'14 paper accepted.
03/2014. Our group have two papers accepted to ACM MobiSys, the top venue for mobile systems research. The works are led by an undergraduate student (J.J. Wang) and two Ph.D. students (Sanjib Sur and Teng Wei), respectively.
11/2013. Our group's papers on full-duplex capacity gain and MU-MIMO user-selection are accepted to IEEE INFOCOM'14.
06/2013. Our group's work on MIMO feedback compression is accepted to ACM MobiCom'13. MobiCom is the top venue for wireless networking research.
06/2013. Our work on scalable network MIMO is accepted to ACM MobiCom'13.
06/2013. Awarded Rockwell Collins equipment grant.
04/2013. Awarded Hilldale Fellowship together with undergraduate research student J.J. Wang.
11/2012. E-MiLi technology is licensed to a major wireless device manufacturer and to be equipped on next-generation WiFi chips.
11/2012. GSense paper accepted by INFOCOM'13.

Services:

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

CV:

[CV.pdf]

Contact:

Email: xyzhang@ucsd.edu