One paper is conditionally accepted by MobiCom'26!
One paper is accepted by Ubicomp'26!
Received the 13th HLF Travel Grant Award
Honored to be recognized as a MobiSys'26 Rising Star
Chosen as a Young Researcher for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF)
If you’d like to share my work and need slide decks, feel free to contact me with zhangxie289 at gmail dot com.
🎖️ The 13th HLF Travel Grant Award
🎖️ The 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) Young Researcher
🎖️ MobiSys’26 Rising Star
🎖️ Alibaba Cloud Most Scalable AI Solution Award (single-team award, 5000 USD) at the Global AI Challenge 2025
🎖️ Golden Award (top 5, 5000 USD) at the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities 2025
🎖️ MobiSys’24 Travel Grant Award
🎖️ HKU Postgraduate Scholarship
🏛️ TPC Member, ICPADS’25; HotSense @ ACM MobiCom 2025;
🏛️ Publicity Chair, HotSense @ ACM MobiCom 2025;
🏛️ Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM MobiCom 2023; ACM MobiSys 2023; USENIX ATC 2022;
🏛️ Invited Reviewer, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing; IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ); Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT); International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’24); IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC);
🏛️ ACM Transactions on Internet of Things Distinguished Reviewer, TIOT Journal;
🎙️ Spatial Sensing Intelligence with Thermal Arrays | invited talk
🚩Invited Talk @ BUPT , 📅 2026-8-7, 📍 Beijing, China
🔍 How to leverage thermal arrays to obtain the human spatial/geometric information at scale?
🎙️ Hands-on Tutorial on Thermal Sensing | invited talk
🚩HotSense @ MobiCom 2025 , 📅 2025-11-8, 📍 Hong Kong
🔍 Thermal array sensing for resolving the paradox of ubiquitous thermal signals yet scarce perception systems.
🎙️ TAPOR | conference presentation
🚩UbiComp 2025 , 📅 2025-10-15, 📍 Espoo, Finland
🔍 3D Hand Pose Reconstruction with Fully Passive Thermal Sensing for around-Device Interactions.
🎙️ TADAR | conference presentation
🚩MobiHoc 2024 , 📅 2024-10-16, 📍 Athens, Greece
🔍 Thermal Array-based Detection and Ranging for Privacy-Preserving Human Sensing.