I am a final-year Ph.D. student of Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Prof. Jie Xiong. I also work with Prof. Sunghoon Ivan Lee and Prof. Jeremy Gummeson. I am broadly interested in building novel wireless sensing systems using a variety of sensing modalities, including acoustics, Wi-Fi, mmWave, UWB, and RFID. My research mainly includes localization and tracking, human-computer interaction, and health sensing.

I am on the academic job market this year.


Email: dli at cs.umass.edu || ld.ubicomp at gmail.com

Research Interests: Wireless Sensing; Cyber-Physical Systems; Mobile Computing; Smart Internet of Things

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Recent Highlights


Publications

PowerPhone: Unleashing the Acoustic Sensing Capability of Smartphones
Shirui Cao*, Dong Li*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM MobiCom 2023

Room-scale Hand Gesture Recognition Using Smart Speakers
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
ACM SenSys 2022

Experience: Practical Problems for Acoustic Sensing
Dong Li*, Shirui Cao*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM MobiCom 2022

Boosting the Sensing Granularity of Acoustic Signals by Exploiting Hardware Non-linearity
Xiangru Chen*, Dong Li*, Yiran Chen, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM HotNets 2022

Enabling Contact-free Acoustic Sensing under Device Motion
Jialin Liu*, Dong Li*, Lei Wang, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution)
ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2022

MOM: Microphone based 3D Orientation Measurement
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Bing Li, Yiran Chen
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2022

LASense: Pushing the Limits of Fine-grained Activity Sensing Using Acoustic Signals
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
IMWUT/UbiComp 2022

BlinkListener: “Listen” to Your Eye Blink Using Your Smartphone
Jialin Liu, Dong Li, Lei Wang, Jie Xiong
IMWUT/UbiComp 2021

FM-Track: Pushing the Limits of Contactless Multi-target Tracking using Acoustic Signals
Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong
SenSys 2020

Unobtrusive and robust human identification using COTS RFID
Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Dong Li, Dong Wang
Computer Networks 2020

RFree-ID: An Unobtrusive Human Identification System Irrespective of Walking Cofactors Using COTS RFID
Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Run Zhao, Dong Wang, Yufeng Deng, Bo Chen
PerCom 2018

SGRS: A Sequential Gesture Recognition System using COTS RFID
Bo Chen, Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Dong Li, Dong Wang
WCNC 2018

TagController: A Universal Wireless and Battery-free Remote Controller using Passive RFID Tags
Dong Li, Feng Ding, Qian Zhang, Run Zhao, Jinshi Zhang, Dong Wang
MobiQuitous 2017 (Best Paper Award Runner-up)

RFlow-ID: Unobtrusive Workflow Recognition with COTS RFID
Jinshi Zhang, Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Run Zhao, and Dong Wang
MobiQuitous 2017

A Novel Accurate Synthetic Aperture RFID Localization Method with High Radial Accuracy
Run Zhao, Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Haonan Chen, and Dong Wang
WoWMoM 2017


Professional Services

  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, MobiCom 2023
  • Reviewer, TOSN 2023
  • Reviewer, IEEE BSN 2023
  • Web Chair, SenSys 2022
  • Shadow Program Committee, SenSys 2022
  • Reviewer, IMWUT 2022, 2023

  • Industry Experience

  • Wireless sensing, Apple Inc., Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems, Software Engineering Intern, 06/2023 - 09/2023
  • Wi-Fi and mmWave sensing, Samsung Research America, SMI lab, Research Intern, 05/2022 - 12/2022

  • Teaching Assistant

  • COMPSCI 565 Advanced Digital Forensics (Spring 2024)
  • COMPSCI 240 Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Spring 2019, Fall 2021)

  • Awards and Honors

  • Student Travel Grant: HotNets 2022
  • Student Travel Grant: MobiCom 2022
  • Dr. Phil Bernstein Graduate Scholarship, 2022
  • Bosch Scholarship, 2017
  • Google Excellence Scholarship, 2014
  • The CCF (China Computer Federation) Outstanding Undergraduate Award, 2014
  • National Scholarship in China, 2012-2013

  • Last update: January 31, 2024