I am a final-year Ph.D. student of Manning College of Information and
Computer Sciences at
University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Prof. Jie Xiong. I
also work with Prof. Sunghoon Ivan Lee and
Prof. Jeremy Gummeson. I am broadly interested in
building novel wireless sensing systems using a variety of sensing modalities, including acoustics, Wi-Fi, mmWave, UWB, and RFID.
My research mainly includes localization and tracking, human-computer interaction, and health sensing.
I am on the academic job market this year.
Email: dli at cs.umass.edu || ld.ubicomp at gmail.com
Research Interests: Wireless Sensing; Cyber-Physical Systems; Mobile Computing; Smart Internet of Things
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Recent Highlights
- 09/2023 I am invited to serve as a reviewer for TOSN '23.
- 09/2023 I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IMWUT '23.
- 08/2023 I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE BSN '23.
- 08/2023 I am invited to serve on Artifact Evaluation Committee for MobiCom '23.
- 08/2023 Our paper was accepted at MobiCom '23.
- 06/2023 I am joining Apple as a Software Engineering Intern.
- 10/2022 Our paper was accepted at SenSys '22.
- 10/2022 I was very honored to receive Student Travel Grant for HotNets '22.
- 09/2022 Our paper was conditionally accepted at HotNets '22.
- 08/2022 I was very honored to receive Student Travel Grant for MobiCom '22.
- 07/2022 Our paper was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '22).
- 06/2022 Our paper was accepted at MobiCom '22.
- 06/2022 I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IMWUT '22.
- 05/2022 I am invited to serve on the Shadow PC on SenSys '22.
- 05/2022 I am joining Samsung Research America (SRA) as a research intern working on Wi-Fi sensing.
- 02/2022 I am invited to serve as the web chair on SenSys '22.
- 02/2022 Our paper MOM was accepted at IPSN '22.
- 01/2022 Our paper LASense was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '22).
Publications
PowerPhone: Unleashing the Acoustic Sensing Capability of Smartphones
Shirui Cao*, Dong Li*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM MobiCom 2023
Room-scale Hand Gesture Recognition Using Smart Speakers
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
ACM SenSys 2022
Experience: Practical Problems for Acoustic Sensing
Dong Li*, Shirui Cao*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM MobiCom 2022
Boosting the Sensing Granularity of Acoustic Signals by Exploiting Hardware Non-linearity
Xiangru Chen*, Dong Li*, Yiran Chen, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM HotNets 2022
Enabling Contact-free Acoustic Sensing under Device Motion
Jialin Liu*, Dong Li*, Lei Wang, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2022
MOM: Microphone based 3D Orientation Measurement
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Bing Li, Yiran Chen
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2022
LASense: Pushing the Limits of Fine-grained Activity Sensing
Using Acoustic Signals
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
IMWUT/UbiComp 2022
BlinkListener: “Listen” to Your Eye Blink Using Your Smartphone

Jialin Liu, Dong Li, Lei Wang, Jie Xiong
IMWUT/UbiComp 2021
FM-Track: Pushing the Limits of Contactless Multi-target Tracking
using Acoustic Signals 
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
SenSys 2020
Unobtrusive and robust
human identification using COTS RFID
Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Dong Li, Dong Wang
Computer Networks 2020
RFree-ID: An Unobtrusive Human Identification System
Irrespective of Walking Cofactors Using COTS RFID
Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Run Zhao, Dong Wang, Yufeng Deng, Bo Chen
PerCom 2018
SGRS: A Sequential Gesture Recognition System using
COTS RFID
Bo Chen, Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Dong Li, Dong Wang
WCNC 2018
TagController: A Universal Wireless and
Battery-free Remote Controller using Passive RFID Tags
Dong Li, Feng Ding, Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Jinshi Zhang, Dong Wang
MobiQuitous 2017 (Best Paper Award Runner-up)
RFlow-ID: Unobtrusive Workflow Recognition with
COTS RFID
Jinshi Zhang, Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Run Zhao, and Dong Wang
MobiQuitous 2017
A Novel Accurate Synthetic Aperture RFID Localization
Method with High Radial Accuracy
Run Zhao, Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Haonan Chen, and Dong Wang
WoWMoM 2017
Professional Services
Artifact Evaluation Committee, MobiCom 2023
Reviewer, TOSN 2023
Reviewer, IEEE BSN 2023
Web Chair, SenSys 2022
Shadow Program Committee, SenSys 2022
Reviewer, IMWUT 2022, 2023
Industry Experience
Wireless sensing, Apple Inc., Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems, Software Engineering Intern, 06/2023 - Present
Wi-Fi and mmWave sensing, Samsung Research America, SMI lab, Research Intern, 05/2022 - 12/2022
Teaching Assistant
COMPSCI 240 Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Spring 2019, Fall 2021)
Awards and Honors
Student Travel Grant: HotNets 2022
Student Travel Grant: MobiCom 2022
Dr. Phil Bernstein Graduate Scholarship, 2022
Bosch Scholarship, 2017
Google Excellence Scholarship, 2014
The CCF (China Computer Federation) Outstanding Undergraduate Award, 2014
National Scholarship in China, 2012-2013
Last update: September 5, 2023