Yinan Zhu
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Final-Year PhD Student |
News
I'm on the job market and open to opportunities - whether from top internet companies, universities, or research institutions- with a particular emphasis on internet companies (top talent programs). Please feel free to reach out.
[Jan 2026] One paper on Multi-agent System and One paper on VLM are submitted to AI-field conferences. I‘m currently working on Multimodal LLMs and Embodied AI, pivoting from AIoT.
[Oct 2025] Congratulations! Our Paper "MeatSpec-G" got accepeted by IEEE TMC 2025, extended from MobiCom.
[Sep 2025] Congratulations! Our Paper "FlourSpec" got aceepted by SenSys 2026.
[Jul 2025] Congratulations! Our Two Papers "DD-LIVM" on Multimodal FM Post-training and "Blinic" on LLM Cross-Modal Distillation got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2025.
[Jul 2025] Congratulations! Our Paper "FruitPhone" on Smartphone-based Spectral Sensing got accepted by ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2025.
[Jun 2025] Congratulations! Our Paper "FreshSpec" on Multispectral Imaging-based Sashimi Freshness Monitoring got accepted by IEEE TMC 2025. Our Dataset is released.
[Jan 2025] Congratulations! Our paper "MobHAR" on Source-free Domain Generalization got accepeted by ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2025. The Codes and Datasets are released.
[Dec 2024] Our Two papers "RF-Express" and "TagRecon" got accepeted by IEEE INFOCOM 2025 and ACM TOSN, respectively. Congratulations to Prof. Duan and her students.
[Jun 2024] Congratulations! Our Paper "MeatSpec" on Multispectral Imaging-based Meat Fraud Inspection got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2024. Our Dataset is released.
[Dec 2023] Congratulations! Our Paper "LoPrint" on RFID-Tagged Item Authentication got accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
[Jul 2022] Congratulations! Our Paper "ReaderPrint" got accepted by IEEE SECON 2022.
[Jul 2022] Congratulations! Our Paper "RoSense" got accepted by IEEE IoTJ and the poster version got accepted by ACM SIGMETRICS. The poster can be found here.
About me
I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), under supervision of Prof. Qian Zhang, starting from September, 2022. I received my MEng degree in 2022 from the School of Software and BNRist, Tsinghua University, under supervision of Prof. Xuan Ding and Prof. Zheng Yang. I was also very fortunate to work with Prof. Chunhui Duan (Postdoc@Tsinghua, now Associate Professor@BIT). Before that, I received my BEng degree in 2019 from Zhejiang University of Technology, under supervision of Prof. Kaikai Chi.
Research
I am pursuing the combination of theoretical modeling and system implementation to push forward the development of IoT applications. My research interests include
Multimodal LLMs: LLM-based Education, MLLMs/VLMs for Real-world Industrial Systems, Embodied AI with RLHF, etc.
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing: Multi-modal Sensing, Low-cost Spectral Imaging, Domain Generalization for Mobile Applications, etc.
RFID and Wireless Sensing: RFID Authentication, Robust RF-based Sensing, etc.
Energy Harvesting for WSNs & IoT systems: Wireless Charging, Rechargeable Sensor Networks, etc.
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