About Me

I received my PhD degree in 2022 from Northwest University, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojiang Chen. I am currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Northwest University.

πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯ Recruiting: I am looking for self-motivated PhD, Master, and Undergraduate students to work on research projects in wireless networking and ubiquitous computing. I like interdisciplinary students, i.e., electronics, physics, computer science, communication engineering, and chemistry majors. If interested, don’t hesitate to get in touch with chaofeng@nwu.edu.cn.

πŸ”Ž Research Interests

  • Battery-free Wireless Sensing: Wi-Fi Sensing; RFID Sensing; Acoustic Sensing, any kinds of sensing, etc.

  • Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communication and Sensing: Smart Metasurface and smart antenna to enhance communication and sensing.

  • AI for Mobile Health Sensing: new digital biomarker discovery, contactless health monitoring, etc., to advance personalized medicine.

  • Material Science for Wireless Sensing: Integrating material science to augment wireless sensing capabilities.

πŸ”₯ News

  • 2024.12: New! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Our work mmFinger is accepted by IEEE TMC 2024.

πŸ“ Publications

TMC 2024
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mmFinger: Talk to Smart Devices with Finger Tapping Gesture

Xuan Wang, Xuerong Zhao, Chao Feng (Corresponding author), Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen

IEEE TMC 2024 (CCF A)

  • mmWave Sensing.
Mobicom 2024
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Gastag: A Gas Sensing Paradigm using Graphene-based Tags

Xue Sun, Jie Xiong, Chao Feng, Xiaohui Li, Jiayi Zhang, Binghao Li, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Mobicom 2024 (CCF A)

  • RFID Sensing.
  • Gas Sensing
Mobisys 2024
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CW-AcousLen: A Configurable Wideband Acoustic Metasurface

Juan He, Jie Xiong, Weihang Hu, Chao Feng, Enjie Yao, Xiaojing Wang, Chen Liu, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Mobisys 2024 (CCF B)

  • Acoustic Metasurface.
TMC 2024
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EarSSR: Silent Speech Recognition via Earphones

Xue Sun, Jie Xiong, Chao Feng, Haoyu Li, Yuli Wu, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen

IEEE TMC 2024 (CCF A)

  • Earphone Sensing.
  • Silent Speech Recognition.
Ubicomp 2023
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Rf-CM: Cross-modal Framework for Rf-enabled Few-shot Human Activity Recognition

Xuan Wang, Tong Liu, Chao Feng, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Ubicomp 2023 (CCF A)

  • mmWave Sensing.
JOCCH 2023
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Toward Multi-area Contactless Museum Visitor Counting with Commodity WiFi

Yicheng Jiang, Xia Zheng, Chao Feng

ACM JOCCH 2023

  • Wi-Fi Sensing.
NSDI 2023
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RF-Bouncer: A Programmable Dual-band Metasurface for Sub-6 Wireless Networks

Xinyi Li(Equal Contribution), Chao Feng (Equal Contribution), Xiaojing Wang, Yangfan Zhang, Yaxiong Xie, Xiaojiang Chen

USENIX NSDI 2023 (CCF A)

  • RF Metasurface.
Ubicomp 2022
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Earmonitor: In-ear motion-resilient acoustic sensing using commodity earphones

Xue Sun, Jie Xiong, Chao Feng (Corresponding Author), Wenwen Deng, Xudong Wei, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Ubicomp 2022 (CCF A)

  • Earphone Sensing.
Mobicom 2022
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Protego: Securing Wireless Communication via Programmable Metasurface

Xinyi Li(Equal Contribution), Chao Feng (Equal Contribution), Fengyi Song, Chenghan Jiang, Yangfan Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Mobicom 2022 (CCF A)

  • RF Metasurface.
Ubicomp 2022
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Wi-Learner: Towards One-shot Learning for Cross-Domain Wi-Fi based Gesture Recognition

Chao Feng, Nan Wang, Yicheng Jiang, Xia Zheng, Zheng Wang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Ubicomp 2022 (CCF A)

  • Wi-Fi Sensing.
Mobicom 2021
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RFlens: Metasurface-Enabled Beamforming for IoT Communication and Sensing

Chao Feng (Equal Contribution), Xinyi Li(Equal Contribution), Yangfan Zhang, Xiaojing Wang, Liqiong Chang, Fuwei Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaojiang Chen

ACM Mobicom 2021 (CCF A)

  • RF Metasurface.
Ubicomp 2021
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RF-Identity: Non-Intrusive Person Identification Based On Commodity RFID Devices

Chao Feng, Jie Xiong, Liqiong Chang, Fuwei Wang, Ju Wang, Dingyi Fang

ACM Ubicomp 2021 (CCF A)

  • RFID Sensing.
ICDCS 2019
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WiMi: Target Material Identification with Commodity Wi-Fi Devices

Chao Feng, Jie Xiong, Liqiong Chang, Ju Wang, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang, Zhanyong Tang

IEEE ICDCS 2019 (CCF B)

  • Wi-Fi Sensing.
Sensys 2018
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Poster: Material Identification with Commodity Wi-Fi Devices

Chao Feng, Xinyi Li, Liqiong Chang, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang, Baoying Liu, Feng Chen, Tao Zhang

ACM Sensys Poster 2018 (CCF B), πŸ† Best poster award

  • Wi-Fi Sensing.

πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2018.11: Best Poster Award, Sensys 2018.

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2017.09 - 2022.06, PhD in Software Engineering (Supervisor: Xiaojiang Chen), Northwest University.
  • 2016.09 - 2017.06, Master in Communication Engineering (Supervisor: Xiaojiang Chen), Northwest University.

πŸ’° Grants

  • 2024.01-2026.12, Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 62302392.

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