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About Me

I'm currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, where I lead the AIoT Lab. I served as the Chief Scientist and am now a consultant of Origin AI, a startup commercializing wireless sensing technologies and winning prestigious awards including the CES Best of Innovation Award. I was an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park and the Chief Scientist at Origin Wireless, working with Prof. K. J. Ray Liu, after working as a research associate in the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University and the School of Software, Tsinghua University. I received my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, under supervision of Prof. Yunhao Liu. During my Ph.D., I was lucky to work with Prof. Mingyan Liu in the Department of EECS, University of Michigan and Prof. Jiannong Cao in the Department of Computing, HKPU. I received my B.E. degree from the School of Software, Tsinghua University.

Research Interests

Can machines sense without sensors? Can they "see" without cameras, in the dark, and through the walls? My research is driven by the vision of shaping "Wireless AI Perception" to advance machine intelligence beyond traditional vision. We focus on pioneering sensing AI technologies that transform "Homecare" to "Home Cares" and bring healthcare from "Benchside" to "Bedside". The field of wireless sensing has experienced tremendous growth in the past 15 years, and I'm fortunate to have my research in this area translated into award-winning products that are deployed in millions of devices worldwide. Currently, my lab is dedicated to designing cutting-edge sensing solutions as well as building commercialized applications for a smarter, more connected life. Our current research interests include:

  • Sensing AI for Homecare, Healthcare, Eldercare
  • Localization for Mobiles, Robots, Drones
  • AI for Healthcare
  • Automotive In-Cabin Sensing

Research Projects

 Highlights on Industrial Impacts: Checkout more research projects HERE, and RIM, EasiTrack, Widar, ChromaCode.
RF-based Inertial Measurement
Wireless, Contactless, Sensorless Sensing
Hidden Screen-Camera Communication Systems
Wireless Indoor Localization via Mobile Crowdsourcing

Selected Publications

 For a complete list, see HERE or my Google Scholar Profile. According to Google Scholar, my papers have more than 5,400 citations, with an h-index of 32.

Books

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    Smart Wireless Sensing: From IoT to AIoT
    Zheng Yang, Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Yi Zhang
    Springer, 2021. ISBN: 978-981-16-5658-3.

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    Wireless Indoor Localization: A Crowdsourcing Approach
    Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu
    Springer, 2018. ISBN: 978-981-13-0355-5.

    [Book Flyer] [Read Online]
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    Location-based Computing: Localization and Localizability of Wireless Networks (位置计算：无线网络定位与可定位性)
    Zheng Yang, Chenshu Wu, Yunhao Liu
    Tsinghua University Press, Jan. 2014. ISBN: 978-7-302-35113-9

    Excellent Academic Monograph (Second Class) of Chinese University Press Book Award (获第四届中国大学出版社图书奖优秀学术著作二等奖)

Selected Conferences

Selected Journals

Honors and Awards

Professional Services

Grants
  1. PI: "Development of a Practical Elderly Fall Detection Solution via Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Sensing", RGC Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong), 2024-2025.
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  2. PI: "Statistical Acoustic Sensing: Theories, Techniques, and Applications", RGC General Research Fund (GRF), 2024-2026.
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  3. Co-PI: "Sensing in 6G Cellular Networks", RGC CRF Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG), 2024-2026.
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  4. PI: "Smart Wireless Sensing and Tracking", Excellent Young Scientists Fund (HK & Macau), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023 - 2025.
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  5. PI: "A Signal Processing-Deep Learning Co-Design for Practical Deep Wireless Sensing", RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS), 2022 - 2025.
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  6. PI: "Empowering Acoustic Sensing and Learning on Accessible Speakers to Monitor and Detect Older Adult Falls'', RGC Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong), 2022-2023.
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  7. PI: "Cross-Modality Contactless Sensing for Multi-Target Interaction and Healthcare", General Funding Scheme, TCL Research, 2022 - 2024
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  8. Co-PI: "Edge Learning: the Enabling Technology for Distributed Big Data Analytics in Cloud-Edge Environment'', RGC Research Impact Fund (RIF), 2020-2025.
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  9. PI: Wireless Contactless Sensing for Industrial Internet, NSF China General Program (国家自然科学基金面上项目).
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  10. Co-PI: Research on the Architecture and Key Technologies for Industrial Internet, NSF China Key Program（国家自然科学基金重点项目).
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  11. PI: Research on Sensorless Sensing with Wireless Signals, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (中国博士后科学基金面上资助).
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  12. PI: Decimeter-Level Tracking using WiFi Signals, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Program (中国博士后科学基金特别资助).
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Invited Talks
  1. "Wireless AI for the Internet of Things'', HKU-ISCAS 2021 Launching Seminar and Workshop, 2021/09 (virtual)
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  2. "Wireless AI: WiFi Sensing from Principles to Products'', Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2021/08 (virtual)
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  3. "Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) From 0 To 1'', Keynote Speech at Shenzhen XInstitute summer school, 2021/07 (virtual)
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  4. "Wireless AI: WiFi Sensing from Principles to Products'', IEEE Washington Tech Talk Series, 2021/04 (virtual)
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  5. "Wireless AI: WiFi Sensing from Principles to Products'', Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2021/04 (virtual)
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  6. "Wireless AI: WiFi Sensing from Principles to Products'', Tsinghua University, 2021/04 (virtual)
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  7. "Wireless AI for the Internet of Things'', IEEE Signal Processing Washington Chapter Seminar, 2020/12 (virtual)
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  8. "Large-Scale Decimeter-Level Indoor Tracking with a Single AP'', West Anhui University, Lu'an, China, 2020/12 (virtual)
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  9. "Precise Passive Tracking with COTS WiFi", The George Washington University, DC, USA, May 23, 2018
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  10. "WiFi Radar: Wireless Sensing with Commodity WiFi", University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, October 31, 2017
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  11. "Sensorless Sensing with WiFi", Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, December 28, 2016
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  12. “Sensorless Sensing Plus”, Wuxi IoT Center, China, December 2016
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  13. “Wireless, Contactless, Sensorless Sensing”, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, December 2015
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  14. “Wireless, Contactless, Sensorless Sensing”, Wuxi IoT Center, China, December 2015
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  15. “Wireless Indoor Localization via Crowdsourcing”, West Anhui University, Lu’an, China, October 2015
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  16. “Re-imaging Mobile Sensing: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities”, Wuxi IoT Center, China, December 2014
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  17. “Wireless Indoor Localization for Smartphones”, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, August 2013
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