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Tech Lead
Senior Experimental Scientist
Google
Technology Directions Office (TDO)
Hearable Research
Ph.D. (2020): WINLAB, Rutgers University
Email: vanxf AT google.com
Passion
Curiosity
Grit and Determination
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Welcome to my old-school early 90s style website. I am currently a Senior Experimental Scientist and Tech Lead at Google, Technology Directions Office, Sensor Intelligence Team. I am interested in hearables, including audio architectures, signal processing algorithms, and software-hardware co-design for novel applications. I am an experimentalist and system builder. I am enthusiastic about real-world-experiment-driven research. Also, I value incentives of research as importantly as techniques. I like methods that are simple but effective. Most of my research works eventually run in real-time, turn into patents, and become startup companies.
SELECTED AWARDS
| Best Paper Award Runner-Up (Top 2 out of all submissions), ACM MobiCom 2021 |
| Best Paper Award (Bronze Medal), Samsung and IEEE IROS 2021 |
| Best Research Paper Award, Kinova and IEEE IROS 2020 |
| Best Presentation Award, ACM MobiSys 2019 |
| Best-in-Session Presentation Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2018 |
| SigMobile Research Highlights, SigMobile 2022 |
| GetMobile Research Highlights, GetMobile 2022 |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent Award (2022), Samsung |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent Award (The first one in 2021), Samsung |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent Award (The second one in 2021), Samsung |
| TA of the Year Award - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, 2018 |
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
| Exploring the Feasibility of Remote Cardiac Auscultation Using Earphones |
| Tao Chen, Yongjie Yang, Xiaoran Fan, Xiuzhen Guo, Jie Xiong, Longfei Shangguan. |
| ACM MobiCom 2024 - The 30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking |
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| Enabling Hands-Free Voice Assistant Activation on Earphones |
| Tao Chen, Yongjie Yang, Chonghao Qiu, Xiaoran Fan, Xiuzhen Guo, Longfei Shangguan. |
| ACM MobiSys 2024 - The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services |
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| APG: Audioplethysmography for Cardiac Monitoring in Hearables |
| Xiaoran Fan, David Pearl, Richard Howard, Longfei Shangguan, Trausti Thormundsson. |
| ACM MobiCom 2023 - The 29th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking |
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| AmbiSense: Acoustic Field Based Blindspot-Free Proximity Detection and Bearing Estimation |
| Siddharth Rupavatharam*, Xiaoran Fan*, Caleb Escobedo, Daewon Lee, Lawrence Jackel, Richard Howard, Colin Prepscius, Daniel Lee, Volkan Isler. |
| *Equal Contributions. |
| IEEE IROS 2023 - International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. |
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| PoseKernelLifter: Metric Lifting of 3D Human Pose using Sound |
| Zhijian Yang, Xiaoran Fan, Volkan Isler, Hyun Soo Park. |
| Project Website |
| IEEE/CVF CVPR 2022 - Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
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| Enabling Low-Cost Full Surface Tactile Skin for Human Robot Interaction |
| Xiaoran Fan, Daewon Lee, Larry Jackel, Richard Howard, Daniel Lee, Volkan Isler. |
| IEEE RA-L 2022 - Robotics and Automation Letters. |
| IEEE ICRA 2022 - International Conference on Robotics and Automation. |
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| AuraSense: Robot Collision Avoidance by Full Surface Proximity Detection |
| Xiaoran Fan, Riley Simmons-Edler, Daewon Lee, Larry Jackel, Richard Howard, Daniel Lee. |
| IEEE IROS 2021 - International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. |
| Bronze Medal of Samsung Best Paper Award |
| Finalist of Samsung Best Paper Award (11 out of 1000+ submissions) |
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| HeadFi: Bringing Intelligence to All Headphones |
| Xiaoran Fan, Longfei Shangguan, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Yanyong Zhang, Jie Xiong, Yunfei Ma, Richard Howard. |
| ACM MobiCom 2021 - The 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. |
| (Acceptance rate: 16.8%) |
| Best Paper Award Runner-Up (Top 2 out of all submissions) |
| SigMobile Research Highlights |
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| Acoustic Collision Detection and Localization for Robot Manipulators |
| Xiaoran Fan, Daewon Lee, Yuan Chen, Colin Prepscius, Volkan Isler, Larry Jackel, Sebastian Seung, Daniel Lee. |
| IEEE IROS 2020 - International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. |
| Best Research Paper by Kinova Research |
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| Distributed Beamforming Based Wireless Power Transfer: Analysis and Realization |
| Xiaoran Fan, Han Ding, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Zhu Han, Rich Howard. |
| IEEE TST 2020 - Tsinghua Science and Technology. |
| Invited Paper |
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| Towards Flexible Wireless Charging for Medical Implants Using Distributed Antenna System |
| Xiaoran Fan, Longfei Shangguan, Richard Howard, Yanyong Zhang, Yao Peng, Jie Xiong, Yunfei Ma, Xiang-Yang Li. |
| ACM MobiCom 2020 - The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. |
| (Acceptance rate: 16%) |
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| Energy-Ball: Wireless Power Transfer for Batteryless Internet of Things through Distributed Beamforming |
| Xiaoran Fan, Han Ding, Sugang Li, Michael Sanzari, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Zhu Han, Richard Howard. |
| ACM UbiComp 2018 - ACM International joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. |
| (Acceptance rate: 21%) |
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| Secret-Focus: A Practical Physical Layer Secret Communication System by Perturbing Focused Phases in Distributed Beamforming |
| Xiaoran Fan, Zhijie Zhang, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard, Zhu Han. |
| IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - The 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. |
| (Acceptance rate: 19%) |
| Best-in-session Presentation Award |
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| Auto++: Detecting Cars Using Embedded Microphones in Real-Time |
| Sugang Li, Xiaoran Fan, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Janne Lindqvist, Richard Howard. |
| ACM UbiComp 2017 - ACM International joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. |
| (Acceptance rate: 23%) |
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THESIS, SHORT PAPERS, DEMOS, AND POSTERS
| Design Earable Sensing Systems: Perspectives and Lessons Learned from Industry |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson. |
| ACM EarComp 2023 The 4th Internaltional Workshop on Earable Computing in Conjunction with UBICOMP 2023. |
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| A New Design Paradigm for Enabling Smart Headphones |
| Xiaoran Fan, Longfei Shangguan, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Yanyong Zhang, Jie Xiong, Yunfei Ma, Richard Howard. |
| ACM GetMobile 2022: Mobile Computing and Communications |
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| Energy Focusing through Distributed Beamforming in Internet of Things : Mechanisms and Applications |
| Xiaoran Fan. |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2020 - PhD Thesis. |
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| Multi-modal Dataset for Human Grasping |
| Alexis Burns, Xiaoran Fan, Jade Pinkenburg, Daewon Lee, Volkan Isler, Daniel Lee. |
| IEEE RO - MAN 2020 - The 29th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Workshop |
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| New Methods for Non-Destructive Underground Fiber Localization using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Technology |
| Hansi Liu, Ming-Fang Huang, Yuheng Chen, Xiaoran Fan, Ting Wang, Marco Gruteser. |
| OECC 2020 - The 25th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference . |
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| Facilitating the Deployment of Next Billion IoT Devices with Distributed Antenna Systems |
| Xiaoran Fan. |
| ACM MobiSyis 2019 - RisingStars Forum - The 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. |
| Best Presentation Award |
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| Enabling Concurrent IoT Transmissions in Distributed C-RAN |
| Xiaoran Fan, Zhenzhou Qi, Zhenhua Jia, Yanyong Zhang. |
| ACM SenSys 2018 - The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. |
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| A Practical Secret Communication System by Perturbing Focused Phases Among Distributed Transmitters |
| Xiaoran Fan, Zhijie Zhang, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard, Zhu Han. |
| IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - The 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. |
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| Demo: A Practical Secret Communication System by Perturbing Focused Phases Among Distributed Transmitters |
| Xiaoran Fan, Zhijie Zhang, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard, Zhu Han. |
| IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - The 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. |
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| Bo-ear: unsupervised car sound sensing and tracking using microphones on smartphones |
| Sugang Li, Xiaoran Fan, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Janne Lindqvist, Richard Howard. |
| S3@MobiCom 2016: S3 Proceedings of the Eighth Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop. |
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PATENTS
| I have been credited with the primary invention of 19 of my 22 patents |
| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Steve Rui, Govind Kannan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| Feb 2024. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Patrick Amihood, Xiaoran Fan, Cody Wortham |
| Feb 2024. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Govind Kannan, Cody Wortham, Patrick Amihood, Trausti Thormundsson |
| Dec 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Cody Wortham, Xiaoran Fan, Patrick Amihood |
| Nov 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| Aug 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Patrick Amihood |
| Aug 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| May 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Patrick Amihood |
| Feb 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Jason Guss |
| Jan 2023. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Richard Howard, Trausti Thormundsson |
| Novemember 2022. |
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| Google Classfied Patent (releasing soon) |
| Xiaoran Fan, Richard Howard, David Pearl, Trausti Thormundsson |
| August 2022. |
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| Audioplethysmography Calibration |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| June 2022. WO2023240240A1. |
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| Respiration Rate Sensing |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| June 2022. WO2023240233A1. |
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| Active Acoustic Sensing |
| Xiaoran Fan, Trausti Thormundsson |
| June 2022. US WO2023240224A1. |
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| Metric 3D Human Pose Lifting by Listening Sounds |
| Zhijian Yang, Xiaoran Fan, Volkan Isler, Hyun Soo Park |
| April 2022. US 63/279,952. |
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| Method and apparatus for proximity detection and proximity direction estimation |
| Xiaoran Fan, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Larry Jackel, Richard Howard, Daewon Lee, Volkan Isler, Daniel Lee |
| April 2022. US 63/330,989 |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent |
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| Method and Apparatus For Estimating Touch Locations and Touch Pressures |
| Xiaoran Fan, Daewon Lee, Lawrence Jackel, Richard Howard, Daniel Lee, Volkan Isler |
| Oct 2021. 17/553,321 |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent |
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| Method and Apparatus for Robot Collision Avoidance by Full Surface Proximity Detection |
| Xiaoran Fan, Riley Simmons-Edler, Daewon Lee, Lawrence Jackel, Richard Howard, Daniel Lee |
| Apr 2021. 63/155,126. |
| Samsung A1 Grade Patent |
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| Smart Headphone System and Method |
| Xiaoran Fan, Rich Howard |
| May 2020. 63/029,016. |
| Licensed to fund a start up company - Ohmic |
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| System and Method for Acoustic Collision Detection and Localization for Robot Manipulators |
| Xiaoran Fan, Dae Won Lee, Ibrahim Volkan Isler, Yuan Chen, Colin Prepscius, Lawrence Jackel, Sebastian Seung, Daniel Lee |
| Apr 2020. 17/084,257. |
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| In-body Wireless Charging System |
| Xiaoran Fan, Rich Howard, Longfei Shangguan, Jie Xiong |
| Nov 2019. 62/938,051. |
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| Safe Wireless Power Transfer and Secure Communication Through Distributed Phase Alignment |
| Xiaoran Fan, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Rich Howard |
| Apr 2018. 17/045,368. |
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INVITED TALKS, LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
| Acoustic Sensing |
| - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, March 2024 (In Person, Guest Lecturer). |
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| Acoustic Sensing |
| - Peking University, Beijing, China, December 2022 (Virtual, Guest Lecturer). |
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| Acoustic Sensing |
| - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2022 (Virtual, Guest Lecturer). |
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| HeadFi: Bringing Intelligence to All Headphones |
| - ACM MobiCom 21, New Oreleans, LA, March 2022. |
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| Acoustic Sensing |
| - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, March 2022 (Virtual, Guest Lecturer for the Robotics Course 4733-2022, Spring). |
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| Playing with Signals for Fun (and Profit) |
| - Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, November 2021 (Virtual). |
| - Google Technology Directions Office (TDO), Mountain View, CA, USA, December 2021 (Virtual). |
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| AuraSense: Robot Collision Avoidance by Full-Surface Proximity Detection |
| - IEEE IROS 21, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (Virtual). |
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| Full Surface Proximity and Tactile Skin for Robot Safety |
| - Samsung Best Paper Award Finalist, Seoul, South Korea, September 2021 (Virtual). |
| - Samsung Research America Power Plants, Mountain View, CA, USA, June 2021 (Virtual). |
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| Toward Implementations of CoMP |
| - Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, October 2020 (Virtual). |
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| Towards Flexible Wireless Charging for Medical Implants Using Distributed Antenna System |
| - ACM MobiCom 20, London, UK, September 2020 (Virtual). |
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| Acoustic Collision Detection and Localization for Robot Manipulators |
| - IEEE IROS 20, Las Vegas, USA, October 2020 (Virtual). |
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| Facilitating the Deployment of Next Billion IoT Devices with Distributed Antenna Systems |
| - ACM MobiSyis 19, Seoul, South Korea, June 2019. |
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| Large-scale Distributed Beamforming – Implementations, Applications and Future Directions |
| - Samsung AI Center New York, New York, NY, USA, May 2019. |
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| Distributed Beamforming for Safer Wireless Power Transferring |
| - ACM UbiComp 18, Sinapore, October 2018. |
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| Distributed Beamforming for PHY Layer Secret Communication |
| - IEEE INFOCOM 18, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2018. |
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COMMUNITY SERVICES & PAPER REVIEWER
| ACM EarComp 2024 - Fifth International Workshop on Earable Computing (ACM EarComp, Co-Chair 2024) |
| ACM HotMobile 2024 - The Twenty-fifth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile, Session Chair) |
| ACM EarComp 2023 - Forth International Workshop on Earable Computing (ACM EarComp, TPC 2023) |
| ACM EarComp 2022 - Third International Workshop on Earable Computing (ACM EarComp, Co-Chair 2022) |
| EAI MobiQuitous 2022 - 19th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (EAI MobiQuitous, TPC 2022) |
| IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS, Track Co-Chair for Wireless Sensing & Mobile Computing Track 2022) |
| ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom, TPC 2022) |
| IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) |
| IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |
| IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) |
| IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT) |
| IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) |
| IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN) |
| ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ToSN) |
| IEEE Transactions on Services Computing |
| The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp) |
| IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health:Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) |
| ACM International Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys) |
| IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G) |
| IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) |
| ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN) |
| (External) ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys) |
| (External) USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) |
| (External) ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) |
| ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) |
| IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) |
| IEEE Signal Processing Magazine |
| Elsevier Smart Health |
TEACHING
| ECE 233 - Digital Logic Design Lab TA - Fall 2016 |
| ECE 233 - Digital Logic Design Recitation TA - Fall 2017 |
| Recipient of the TA of the Year Award - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, 2018 |
| I enjoy teaching students, you can find feedbacks for my teaching from my students here. |
HOBBIES
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I love classical music, listening as well as performing on the piano. I like Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Besides collecting great recordings in history, I also enjoy live classical music concerts at NJSO and NYPhil. As an engineer, I am interested in understanding and building the systems for reproducing music--e.g. speakers, amplifiers, turntables. It is this interest that led me to research in signal processing. Of particular interest is the exploration of older technologies, such as vacuum tube amplifiers or vinyl records, to better understand the appeal they have for some enthusiasts.
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| News!
April 2024
I am invited to serve as the Co-Chair for ACM EarComp 2024. EarComp is a rising community for hearable technologies. Please considering submitting.
Mar 2024
I gave a guest lecture on Acoustic Sensing at Stanford EECS227 (Robot Perception).
Mar 2024
Our paper "Enabling Hands-Free Voice Assistant Activation on Earphones" is accepted by MobiSys 2024.
Mar 2024
Our paper "mmPlace: Robust Place Recognition with Intermediate Frequency Signal of Low-cost Single-chip Millimeter Wave Radar" is accepted by RA-L 2024.
Mar 2024
I chaired the Health session for ACM HotMobile 2024.
Feb 2024
2 hearable related patents are filed on Feb, 2024.
Jan 2024
Our paper "Exploring the Feasibility of Remote Cardiac Auscultation Using Earphones" is accepted by MobiCom 2024.
Dec 2023
1 hearable related patent is filed on Dec, 2023.
Nov 2023
1 hearable related patent is filed on Nov, 2023.
Oct 2023
APG is posted on Google Research Blog. More than 100+ international news outlets in multiple languages covered our APG work!.
Aug 2023
Our paper "APG: Audioplethysmography for Cardiac Monitoring in Hearables" is accepted by MobiCom 2023.
Aug 2023
I am invited to serve as TPC for ACM HotMobile 2024. HotMobile 2024 will be held at San Diego. Please considering submitting.
Aug 2023
2 hearable related patents are filed on Aug, 2023.
Aug 2023
Our paper "Design Earable Sensing Systems: Perspectives and Lessons Learned from Industry" has been accepted by ACM EarComp 2023!
July 2023
2 hearable related patents are filed on July, 2023.
June 2023
Our paper "AmbiSense: Acoustic Field Based Blindspot-Free Proximity Detection and Bearing Estimation" is accepted by IROS 2023.
June 2023
I am invited to serve as TPC for ACM EarComp 2023. EarComp is a rising community for hearable technologies. Please considering submitting.
May 2023
1 hearable related patent is filed on May, 2023.
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