[ Jie Xiong @ UMASS

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05/2024 Papers accepted at MobiCom 2024, MobiSys 2024, NSDI 2024 and IMWUT/UbiComp 2024.
08/2023 Three papers accepted at MobiCom 2023 spring round: (i) Our quantum wireless sensing work involves quantum receivers into the ecosystem of wireless sensing for the first time, demonstrating unparalleled sensing performance; (ii) Our 192 kHz acoustic sensing work unleashes the capability of acoustic sensing on smartphones by enabling 192 kHz sampling rate at commodity smartphones; (iii) Our powerline sensing work leverages the truly ambient RF leakage for contactless sensing.
08/2023 Our LeakageScatter work was accepted at MobiHoc 2023. We use the LiFi-leaked RF signals to serve at the carrier for backscattering.
07/2023 One paper acceted at NSDI 2024.
05/2023 Two papers accepted at MobiSys 2023. (i) Our LoRa sensing work increases the state-of-the-art sensing range significantly and addresses the severe interference issue for long-range sensing. (ii) Our VLC work considers the full-screen trend of smartphones and enables VLC to work with under-screen camera.
04/2023 Four papers accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp 2023). (i) Our Wi-Fi size sensing work is the first one to enable Wi-Fi sensing to achieve millimeter-level size measurement. (ii) Our smartphone-based UWB sensing work explores the feasibility of RF sensing on smartphones (iPhone) for the first time. (iii) Our under-water QR code work proposes a new QR code design to deal with unique challenges in underwater environment for easier human-human/device communication. (iv) Our earphone sensing work enables sensing human vital signs when target is walking/running on treadmills.
04/2023 One paper accepted at MobiCom 2023 summer round.
11/2022 Our Paper Bracelet+ won SenSys 2022 Best Paper Award!
10/2022 Our sensing with mobility paper won MobiCom 2022 Best Paper Award Runner-up. We opened a new direction that is empowering sensing with mobility to boost the potential of wireless sensing. Our indoor localization paper won MobiCom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-up. This is an indoor localization system currently used in more than 1400+ shopping malls and 300+ office buildings across 35 cities. It is used by millions of end-users on a daily basis. We hope the practical problems identified can change the focus and methodology of indoor localization research.
10/2022 Four papers accepted at ACM SenSys 2022. (i) harvesting RF leakage energy with body antenna; (ii) LTE-based low-cost and low-power sensing; (iii) LoRa sensing in the presence of device motions and (iv) room-level asoutics sensing.
09/2022 Our low packet rate WiFi sensing work won SECON '22 Best Paper Award. This work moves one step forward towards coexistence of WiFi sensing and WiFi communication.
08/2022 My student Binbin Xie was awarded the prestigious Google Ph.D. Fellowship (2022 - 2024). Congratulations!
06/2022 Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective Sep 1, 2022.
06/2022 Four papers conditionally accepted at MobiCom '22.
04/2022 Our LoRa-based soil mositure sensing work was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '22).
03/2022 Our paper "HeadFi: Bringing Intelligence to All Headphones" won MobiCom '21 Best Paper Award Runner-up.
03/2022 NSF CAREER Award on wide area sensing awarded.
03/2022 Serves on SenSys '22 TPC.
02/2022 Our microphone-based orientation tracking paper was accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2022.
02/2022 Serves as SenSys '22 Poster/Demo Co-Chair.
02/2022 Two papers accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '22): 1) pushing the range of acoustic sensing from the state-of-the-art 1-2 meters to more than 5 meters; and 2) leveraging device placement to increase WiFi sensing range and mitigate interference.
10/2021 Our antenna-array based WiFi long-range sensing work was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '22).
10/2021 Our pervasive LTE sensing work was accepted at SenSys '21.
09/2021 Our LoRa sensing paper “Exploring LoRa for Long-range Through-wall Sensing” won IMWUT '20 (UbiComp '21) Distinguished Paper Award.
08/2021 One paper accepted at MobiCom '21 winter round: Utilizing the "free" leaked RF channel to transfer new data at an even higher data rate than the primary VLC channel.
08/2021 Two papers accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '21): 1) LoRa-based long range sensing: maximizing signal variation through delicate signal processing to significantly increase the sensing range of human walking from 50 m to 120 m; and 2) acoustic-based dangerous driving detection.
04/2021 Two papers accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '21): 1) acoustic-based fine-grained eye blink detection; and 2) beamforming-based LoRa sensing.
03/2021 Our hand vibration-based continuous authentication work was accepted at ICDCS 2021.
01/2021 Our RFID-based human authentication work was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '21).
12/2020 Two papers accepted at MobiCom '21 summer round: 1) Bringing Intelligence to All Headphones: we present a headphone-based sensing platform which brings intelligence to headphones and involve headphones into the ecosystem of smart sensing; 2) we present an underwater VLC system to address unique challenges in underwater environment.
12/2020 Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist, UMass Amherst, 2020/21.
10/2020 5 papers accepted at SenSys '20: 1) VLC side channel communication; 2) Involving earphones into the ecosystem of acoustic sensing; 3) Fine-grained multi-target acoustic sensing; 4) RFID-based vibration sensing; and 5) Interference mitigation in LoRa sensing.
10/2020 Our smart speaker-based heartbeat sensing work was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '21).
09/2020 Our paper "Sniffing Visible Light Communication Through Walls" won Best Paper Honorable Mention at MobiCom '20.
04/2020 Selected as a distinguished TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM '20.
08/2020 Our paper "Sniffing Visible Light Communication Through Walls" is accepted at MobiCom '20.
08/2020 Our WiFi-based multi-target respiration sensing work is accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '20).
08/2020 Our teeth-based user authentication work is accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '20).
04/2020 Our long range LoRa sensing work is accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '20).
04/2020 Our WiFi-based handwriting recognition paper is accepted at ICDCS '20.
01/2020 Our implant charging paper is accepted at MobiCom '20.
12/2019 Our RFID-based vibration sensing work is accepted at INFOCOM '20.
12/2019 Our RFID-based object tracking work is accepted at INFOCOM '20.
09/2019 Our SenSys paper WIDESEE is selected as best paper candidate.
09/2019 Awarded an R01 grant from NIH (NSF-NIH Smart and Connected Health).
09/2019 Our single AP localization work (M^3) was accepted at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
09/2019 Serves on HotMobile '20 TPC
09/2019 WIDESEE was accepted at SenSys '19. We employs LoRa signals to acheive long range through-wall human tracking.
09/2019 TagTag was accepted at SenSys '19. We achieve fine-grained multi-target material sensing with cheap commodity RFID tags.
07/2019 Serves on MobiCom '20 TPC.
07/2019 LungTrack was accepted IMWUT (UbiComp '19).
07/2019 FarSense was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '19). We are now able to increase the Wi-Fi respiration sensing range to 8m.
07/2019 TagSleep was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '19). We propose the concept of "two-layer sensing". We employ the sensed respiration data as the first-layer information to obtain rich second-layer sleep information such as snore and cough.
04/2019 SmartVLC accepted at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (extended verstion of our CoNEXT paper).
04/2019 Serves on INFOCOM '20 TPC.
03/2019 Our CDMA-based backscatter work was accepted at ICDCS '19.
01/2019 Our Wi-Fi based material sensing work was accepted at ICDCS '19.
01/2019 Our diffraction-based human activity sensing work was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '19).
01/2019 Our acoustic-based finger input/gesture sensing work (Sonicnect) was accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '19).
01/2019 Our Wi-Fi charging work was accepted at PerCom '19.
11/2018 Our material sensing work won SenSys '18 Best Poster Award.
10/2018 Our mD-Track paper was accepted at MobiCom '19. mD-Track employs information from as many dimensions as possible to improve the performance of passive tracking and sensing.
10/2018 The source code and collected data for our CoNEXT '18 paper will be made public. Our CoNEXT paper has been granted the “Artifacts Evaluated – Functional” badge.
09/2018 Our "boosting sensing capablity" work is accepted at CoNEXT '18.
09/2018 Serves on NSDI '19 TPC.
07/2018 WiLive accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '18).
02/2018 Serves on MobiCom '18 TPC.
02/2018 IDial accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '18).
02/2018 ResTrack accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp '18).

Jie Xiong

Associate Professor

College of Information and Computer Sciences

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Email: jxiong@cs.umass.edu

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