Our paper Data-driven RF Tomography via Cross-modal Sensing and Continual Learning, was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS 2025) in Taiwan in August 2025.

Lightweight Remote Sensing Scene Classification on Edge Devices via Knowledge Distillation and Early-exit, our paper was accepted by the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia to be held in Dublin, Ireland.

Underground Root Tuber Sensing via a Wi-Fi Mesh Network, MS student Said and PhD student Tao built a wireless potato sensing system, which will be demonstrated in ACM SenSys in May 2025.

Open-set Occluded Person Identification with mmWave Radar, our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing in January 2025. Our mmWave radar-based person identification dataset is made publicly available at IEEE Dataport here .

E4: Energy-Efficient DNN Inference for Edge Video Analytics Via Early Exiting and DVFS, our paper was accepted by The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

TapWristband: A Wearable Keypad System Based on Wrist Vibration Sensing, our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing in November 2024.

BCEdge: SLO-Aware DNN Inference Services with Adaptive Batch-Concurrent Scheduling on Edge Devices, our paper on the topic of edge intelligence was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management in June 2024.

Underground Potato Root Tuber Sensing via a Wireless Network , our wireless sensing demo won the Best Demo Runner-up at the IPSN Conference in May 2024.

DVFO: Learning-Based DVFS for Energy-Efficient Edge-Cloud Collaborative Inference, our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing in January 2024.

Octopus: SLO-Aware Progressive Inference Serving via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Tenant Edge Cluster, PhD student Ziyang's paper was presented at the 21st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) in Rome, Italy in November 2023 (acceptance rate 17%).

Person Identification Under Heavy Occlusions Using mmWave Radar, PhD student Tao's poster was presented at the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) in Istanbul, Turkey in November 2023.

CAS: Crop Aerial Sensing Simulation in Smart Farming, Undergrad students Jingyu and Xinrui's graduation project leads to a conference paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) in Madrid, Spain in September 2023.

Anatomy Registration via Patient Sensing for Chest X-ray Digital Tomosynthesis, our collaboration with California State University was presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 2023, San Diego, California, USA in February 2023.

Invited talk at University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, November 2019.

Presenation at GE Edge Symposium, Niskayuna, New York, September 2017.

Invited talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, December 2016.

Invited talk at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, November 2015.

Invited talk at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, April 2012.

Presentation at the 18th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Meeting, Norfolk, VA, March 2008.

Demo and Poster Co-Chair of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2023) .

TPC member of the 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON 2023).

TPC member of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2023).

Chair of The 4th International SenSys+BuildSys Workshop on Data: Acquisition to Analysis (DATA).

Chair of The 3rd International SenSys+BuildSys Workshop on Data: Acquisition to Analysis (DATA).

TPC member of The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022).

Journal reviewer for IEEE TMC, TSP, TCOM, TVT, TKDE, TSPIN, ACM TIoT, etc.

Conference reviewer for IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, SECON, RO-MAN, etc.

IEEE Senior member.

2025

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, MC Chang, C Lin, J Liu, E4: Energy-Efficient DNN Inference for Edge Video Analytics Via Early Exiting and DVFS. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39 (1), 1165-1173.

T Wang, Y Zhao, MC Chang, J Liu, Open-set occluded person identification with mmWave radar. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jun. 2025, pp. 5229-5244, vol. 24.

Y Zhao, S Li, X Feng, Lightweight Remote Sensing Scene Classification on Edge Devices via Knowledge Distillation and Early-exit. ACM Multimedia 2025.

Y Zhao, T Wang, S Elhadi, Data-driven RF Tomography via Cross-modal Sensing and Continual Learning. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS 2025).

S Elhadi, T Wang, Y Zhao, Demo Abstract: Underground Root Tuber Sensing via a Wi-Fi Mesh Network.Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

2024

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, H Li, J Liu, BCEdge: SLO-Aware DNN Inference Services With Adaptive Batch-Concurrent Scheduling on Edge Devices. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 21 (4), 4131-4145.

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, H Li, C Lin, J Liu, DVFO: Learning-based DVFS for energy-efficient edge-cloud collaborative inference.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 23 (10), 9042-9059.

J Yan, S Cheng, Y Zhao, J Liu, TapWristband: A Wearable Keypad System Based on Wrist Vibration Sensing.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 20 November 2024.

Y Zhuang, Y Zhao, J Liu, Data-driven Soil Moisture Sensing with mmWave Radar. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation.

T Wang, Y Zhao, J Liu, Y Zhuang, Demo Abstract: Underground Potato Root Tuber Sensing via a Wireless Network. 2024 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN).

2023

Z Zhang, H Li, Y Zhao, C Lin, J Liu, POS: An operator scheduling framework for multi-model inference on edge intelligent computing. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, J Liu, Octopus: SLO-aware progressive inference serving via deep reinforcement learning in multi-tenant edge cluster. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, 242-258.

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, J Liu, DVFO: Dynamic voltage, frequency and offloading for efficient AI on edge devices. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

J Liu, Y Zhao, X Xiao, R Meng, J Liu, CAS: Crop Aerial Sensing Simulation in Smart Farming. 2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON).

Y Zhao, A Chen, E Tkaczyk, J Liu, Anatomy registration via patient sensing for chest x-ray digital tomosynthesis. Medical Imaging 2023: Physics of Medical Imaging 12463, 670-675.

T Wang, Y Zhao, J Liu, Person Identification Under Heavy Occlusions Using mmWave Radar. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Z Zhang, Y Zhao, J Liu, E4: Energy-Efficient Early-Exit DNN Inference Framework for Edge Video Analytics. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

2022

J Liu, X Xiao, Y Zhao, J Liu, Containerized mobile sensing simulation framework for smart agriculture. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

H Yu, Y Pang, B Chen, X Feng, B Wang, Y Zhao, Simulation of orbital decay of LEO satellites due to atmospheric drag during magnetic storms. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS), 1179-1184.

2021

Y Zhao, JE Tkaczyk, A Chen, B Claus, K Nye, G Rao, Mobile x-ray tomography system with intelligent sensing for 3D chest imaging. Medical Imaging 2021: Physics of Medical Imaging 11595, 814-819.

Y Zhao, G Zhao, P Janakaraj, L Derose, A Schnore, S Hasan, Non-cooperative personnel tracking with cross modality learning in 5g-enabled warehouse application. 2021 IEEE 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF), 194-199.

G Zhao, G Ben-Yosef, J Qiu, Y Zhao, P Janakaraj, S Boppana, Austars R Schnore, Person re-id testbed with multi-modal sensors. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

2020

Z Yang, Y Zhao, W Yan, Adversarial Vulnerability in Doppler-based Human Activity Recognition. 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

Y Zhao, E Tkaczyk, F Pan, Visual and inertial sensor fusion for mobile X-ray detector tracking. SenSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

2019

Y Zhao, P Tu, MC Chang, Occupancy sensing and activity recognition with cameras and wireless sensors. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Data Acquisition to Analysis, 1-6.

Y Zhao, MC Chang, P Tu, Deep intelligent network for device-free people tracking: WIP abstract. Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.

2017

MC Chang, T Yu, J Luo, K Duan, P Tu, Y Zhao, N Nagraj, V Rajiv, Multimodal sensor system for pressure ulcer wound assessment and care. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14 (3), 1186-1196.

2016

Y Zhao, N Patwari, An experimental comparison of radio transceiver and transceiver-free localization methods. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 5 (3), 13.

Y Zhao, J Ashe, Y Ting, Respiration Monitoring Using a Wireless Network with Space and Frequency Diversities. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics.

Y Zhao, J Ashe, D Toledano, B Good, L Zhang, A McCann, Occupancy and activity monitoring with doppler sensing and edge analytics: Demo abstract. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems.

H Tan, Y Zhao, B Kannan, Applying Adaptive Control in Modeling Human Motion Behaviors in Reinforcement Robotic Learning from Demonstrations. 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.

Y Zhao, Robust respiration monitoring using low-cost doppler sensor and wireless network: poster. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing.

2015

Y Zhao, T Yu, J Ashe, Poster: Non-invasive human activity monitoring using a low-cost doppler sensor and an RF link. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

2014

Y Zhao, N Patwari, Robust Estimators for Variance-Based Device-Free Localization and Tracking. IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 2116-2129.

Y Zhao, JB Laflen, Gesture recognition with low quality signal over Low Energy Bluetooth 4.0. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 294-295.

2013

Y Zhao, N Patwari, JM Phillips, S Venkatasubramanian, Radio Tomographic Imaging and Tracking of Stationary and Moving People via Kernel Distance. Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

2012

Y Zhao, N Patwari, Histogram distance-based radio tomographic localization. Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

2011

Y Zhao, N Patwari, P Agrawal, M Rabbat, Directed by Directionality: Benefiting from the Gain Pattern of Active RFID Badges. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 1-1.

Y Zhao, N Patwari, Noise Reduction for Variance-Based Device-Free Localization and Tracking. Proc. of the 8th IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks.

Y Zhao, N Patwari, Demo: Noise reduction for variance-based radio tomographic localization. 2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks.

2010

Y Zhao, GG Mace, JM Comstock, The Occurrence of Particle Size Distribution Bimodality in Middle Latitude Cirrus as Inferred from Ground-Based Remote Sensing Data. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

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