About Me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Prof. Jie Xiong. I also work with Prof. Deepak Ganesan. My research is supported by Google Ph.D. Fellowship.

I'm currently pursuing new promissing innovative work in wireless sensing with an emphasis on new theories and applications.

Recent Publications

  • Embracing LoRa Sensing with Device Mobility.
    Binbin Xie, Deepak Ganesan, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2022.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 52/208=25%)
  • Experience: Pushing Indoor Localization from Laboratory to the Wild.
    Jiazhi Ni, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong, Qiang Huang, Zhaoxin Chang, Junqi Ma, Binbin Xie, Pengsen Wang, Guangyu Bian, Xin Li, Chang Liu.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2022.
    (Experience paper, acceptance rate: 56/314=17.8%) Best Community Paper Award Runner-up
  • Pushing the Limits of Long Range Wireless Sensing with LoRa.
    Binbin Xie, Yuqing Yin, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2021.
    (Full paper)
  • Combating Interference for Long Range LoRa Sensing.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 43/213=20.2%)
  • Exploring Commodity RFID for Contactless Sub-millimeter Vibration Sensing.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 43/213=20.2%)
  • Tagtag: Material Sensing with Commodity RFID.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Eugene Chai, Liyao Li, Zhanyong Tang, Dingyi Fang.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2019.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 28/144=19.4%)
  • LiFS: Low Human-effort, Device-free Localization with Fine-grained Subcarrier Information.
    Ju Wang, Hongbo Jiang, Jie Xiong, Kyle Jamieson, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang, Binbin Xie.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2016.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 31/226=13.7%)

Other Publications

  • Poster: A Device-free Evaluation System for Gymnastics using Passive RFID Tags.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Anwen Wang, Zhanyong Tang.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2016. (Poster)
  • FISCP: Fine-grained Device-free Positioning System for Multiple Targets Working in Sparse Deployments.
    Binbin Xie, Dingyi Fang, Tianzhang Xing, Lichao Zhang, Xiaojiang Chen, Zhanyong Tang, Anwen Wang.
    IEEE Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, 2016. (Full Paper)
  • DE2: Localization Based on the Rotating RSS using A Single Beacon.
    Liqing Ren, Xiaojiang Chen, Binbin Xie, Zhanyong Tang, Tianzhang Xing, Chen Liu, Weike Nie, Dingyi Fang.
    IEEE Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, 2016. (Full Paper)
  • Accurate Device-free Localization with Little Human Cost.
    Ju Wang, Binbin Xie, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Chen Liu, Tianzhang Xing, Weike Nie.
    ACM Workshop on Experiences with Design and Implementation of Smart Objects co-located with ACM MobiCom, 2015. (Workshop Paper)
  • Who Move the Treasures: A RFID-based Approach for the Treasures.
    Tianzhang Xing, Binbin Xie, Zhanyong Tang, Xia Zheng, Liqing Ren, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang and Na An.
    IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2014. (Full Paper)

Awards

  • Google Ph.D. Fellowship, 2022 - 2024.
  • MobiCom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-up.
  • Mohan Graduate Scholarship, UMass Amherst, 2022.
  • Common Good Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2021.
  • Ph.D. Candidacy with Distinction, UMass Amherst, 2020.
  • Student Travel Grant: MobiSys 2016, SenSys 2019.
  • National Scholarship, China, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
  • Second Prize, Intel Embedded System Design Contest, 2012.
    (placed 27th among 160 teams from 12 countries/regions)

Reviewer

  • ACM CSCW 2022 Poster
  • ACM MobileHCI 2022 Poster
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Teaching Assistant

  • COMPSCI 654/690W - Advanced Wireless Netwkng and Sensing in IoT, Spring 2020/2021/2022.
  • COMPSCI 240 - Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Fall 2019/2020.
Binbin Xie

Ph.D. Student at CICS, UMass Amherst
Google Ph.D. Fellow

News

Feb. 2023

One paper was conditionally accepted at MobiSys '23.

Oct. 2022

Our indoor localization paper won MobiCom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-up.

Oct. 2022

One paper was accepted at SenSys '22.

Aug. 2022

I have been awarded the prestigious Google Ph.D. Fellowship, and I'm the only awardee in the field of mobile computing.
List of recipients       UMass CICS News

Aug. 2022

Our paper (co-author) was accepted at MobiCom '22.

July. 2022

I was invited to attend 2022 Global PhD Fellowship Summit.

June. 2022

I'm happy to receive Mohan Graduate Scholarship.