Yinan Zhu

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Second-Year PhD Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
E-mail: yzhudf@cse.ust.hk, yn-zhu19@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn, zhuyn1997@gmail.com
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News

[Jun 2024] Congratulations! Our Paper "MeatSpec" is conditionally accepted by MobiCom 2024 with shepherding.

[Dec 2023] Congratulations! Our Paper "LoPrint" on RFID authentication got accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2024.

[Jul 2022] Congratulations! Our Paper "ReaderPrint: A Universal Method for RFID Readers Authentication Based on Impedance Mismatch" got accepted by IEEE SECON 2022.

[Jul 2022] Congratulations! Our Paper "RoSense: Refining LOS Signal Phase for Robust RFID Sensing via Spinning Antenna" got accepted by IEEE IoTJ and the poster version got accepted by ACM SIGMETRICS. The poster can be found here.

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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

  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing: Low-cost Spectroscopy/HSI based Food Quality Detection, etc

  • AIoT: Multimodal Large Model for Real-world Industrial Systems, etc

  • RF-based Sensing for Smart Applications: RFID Authentication, Robust RFID sensing, etc

  • Energy Harvesting for WSNs & IoT systems: Wireless Charging, Rechargeable Sensor Networks, etc

Main Projects

  1. (Participant) 国家重点研发计划:基于异构标识的安全物联网互联互通机制与协议(2018YFB0803403)

  2. (Participant) 国家自然科学基金重点项目:无源感知网络基础理论与关键技术(No.61432015)

  3. (Participant) 国家自然科学基金面上项目:单跳射频能量捕获无线传感网供能和数据收集技术及其理论(No.61872322)

  4. (Participant) 国家自然科学基金面上项目:射频能量捕获网络信息与能量集成传输理论与方法(No.61672465)

  5. (PI) 国家级大学生创新创业训练计划:基于无线射频供电的移动感知医疗系统(No.201710337018, RMB20K)

  6. (PI) 浙江省新苗人才计划:基于移动医用机器人供电的智能医疗系统(No.2018R403014, RMB20K)

Research Services

  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Access and ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT)

  • Volunteer for ICPADS 2021

  • IEEE Student Member, ACM Member

Teaching

  1. TA for COMP4621 Computer Communication Networks, HKUST, Spring 2023

  2. TA for COMP1021 Introduction to Computer Science, HKUST, Fall 2023

Honors and Awards

  1. HKUST Postgraduate Studentship, 2022-Now

  2. Second-Class Scholarship at Tsinghua University, 2021

  3. Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, 2019

  4. National Scholarship, 2017

  5. Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship, 2016,2018

  6. First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students (My Rank: 1/202), 2016,2017,2018

  7. More than 10 Awards on Mathematics, Physics, Internet of Things and Information Technology Competitions...