Yu Wang

Professor, FIEEE, DMACM
Wireless Networking and Sensing Lab (Wang Lab)
and Center for Networked Computing
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Temple University

Science Education and Research Center (SERC) 382
1925 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
+1-215-204-4187 (office)
wangyu at temple dot edu
Office Hour: Thursday 3-4pm, or by email appointment

Brief CV / Short Bio / Academic Ancestors

"There is nothing more practical than a good theory" - Kurt Lewin (1952)

News

2022-12-2	Congratulations to Yetong, Zhiyuan and other co-authors for two InfoCom 2023 papers!
2022-11-7	Congratulations to Xinliang for winning the 2022 Award for Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student of the College of Science and Technology!
2022-7-15	Congratulations to Bivor for successfully passing his dissertation defense!
2021-12-3	Congratulations to Yadong and other co-authors for InfoCom 2022 paper!
2021-8-6	Congratulations to Yetong and other co-authors for Mobicom 2021 paper!
2021-5-6	Congratulations to Xinliang for accepting a summer internship offer from the AT&T Labs Internship Program!
2021-3-28	Congratulations to Wei and other co-authors! Our paper on stream-based online deep learning was accepted by IEEE TPDS.
2020-12-16	Recognized by ACM as 2020 ACM Distinguished Member.

Research

My research is broadly related to networking, sensing and computing.

Research Interests: Wireless Networks, Smart Sensing, Mobile Computing, Security and Privacy
Publications: Google Scholar Profile, DBLP, Selected Publication
Recent publications:
- Tongue-Jaw Movement Recognition Through Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear
- Leveraging Wearables for Assisting the Elderly with Dementia in Handwashing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear
- Online Control of Service Function Chainings Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear
- Towards Nonintrusive and Secure Mobile Two-Factor Authentication on Wearables, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear
- HearFit+: Personalized Fitness Monitoring via Audio Signals on Smart Speakers, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, to appear
- Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning with Attention Mechanism for Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 2023
- Joint Optimization across Timescales: Resource Placement and Task Dispatching in Edge Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Jan-March 2023
- Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Iterative Workloads on Apache Spark, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Jan-March 2023
- Popularity-based Data Placement with Load Balancing in Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Jan-March 2023
- Towards Reliable Driver Drowsiness Detection Leveraging Wearables, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Feb 2023
- SymListener: Detecting Respiratory Symptoms via Acoustic Sensing in Driving Environments, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Jan 2023
- Model Protection: Real-time Privacy-preserving Inference Service for Model Privacy at the Edge, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Nov-Dec 2022
- Guard Your Heart Silently: Continuous Electrocardiogram Monitoring with Wrist-worn Motion Sensor, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2022
- HDSpeed: Hybrid Detection of Vehicle Speed via Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Aug. 2022
- HearSmoking: Smoking Detection in Driving Environment via Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Aug. 2022
- Joint Optimization of MapReduce Scheduling and Network Policy in Hierarchical Data Centers, IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing, Jan-March 2022
- Data Life Aware Model Updating Strategy for Stream-based Online Deep Learning, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Oct 2021
- A Blockchain-based Decentralized Framework for Fair Data Processing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, July-September 2021
- Real-Time Detection for Drowsy Driving via Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Aug 2021
- Three-stage Stackelberg Long-term Incentive Mechanism and Monetization for Mobile Crowdsensing: An Online Learning Approach, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, April-June 2021
- Delay-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing in Edge Clouds, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Feb 2021
- Listen to Your Fingers: User Authentication based on Geometry Biometrics of Touch Gesture, Proceedings of ACM IMWUT, Sept 2020
- Scalable Privacy-Preserving Participant Selection for Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Participant Grouping and Secure Group Bidding, IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, April-June 2020
- I Can Hear You Without a Microphone: Live Speech Eavesdropping from Earphone Motion Sensors, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
- WakeUp: Fine-Grained Fatigue Detection Based on Multi-Information Fusion on Smart Speakers, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
- TeethPass: Dental Occlusion-based User Authentication via In-ear Acoustic Sensing, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
- Crisp-BP: Continuous Wrist PPG-based Blood Pressure, Proc. of ACM MobiCom, 2021
- CanalScan: Tongue-Jaw Movement Recognition via Ear Canal Deformation Sensing, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2021
- HearFit: Fitness Monitoring on Smart Speakers via Active Acoustic Sensing, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2021
- AWash: Handwashing Assistance for the Elderly with Dementia via Wearables, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2021
- PPGPass: Nonintrusive and Secure Mobile Two-Factor Authentication via Wearables, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2020
- SignSpeaker: A Real-time, High-Precision SmartWatch-based Sign Language Translator, Proc. of ACM MobiCom, 2019
Current Students:
- Jackie Gan, Undergraduate Student
- Jiyao Liu, Ph.D. Student
- Xuanzhang Liu, Ph.D. Student
- Xinliang (Bruce) Wei, Ph.D. Student
Graduated PhD Students:
- Cheng Bo, now at Google.
- Siyuan Chen, now at California DOJ.
- Minsu Huang, now at Uber.
- Fan Li, now Full Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology.
- Hanshang Li, now at Meta.
- Ting Li, now Assistant Professor at Emory University.
- A B M Mohaimenur (Bivor) Rahman, now Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte
- Ying Zhu, now at Google.
We are grateful for funding from:
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Transportation
- Microsoft
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Teaching

CIS 3223 Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2021
CIS 3319 Wireless Network and Security, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
CIS 5639 Wireless Network and Communication, Spring 2020, Spring 2022

Service

Editor: IEEE TCC (2021-), IEEE TPDS (2013-2016), IJAHUC (2006-2017), IJDSN (2013-2016), KSII TIIS (2012-2016), TST (2012-), BDMA (2017-), etc.
Conference Organizer:
- General Co-Chair, BigCom 2021, IEEE IPCCC 2019, CASPer 2019, BigCom 2016;
- Program Co-Chair, IEEE MASS 2023, IEEE CPSCom 2016, BigCom 2015, IEEE IPCCC 2011;
- Track Co-Chair, ICCCN 2018;
- EDAS Chair, ACM MobiHoc 2014;
- Finance Chair, ACM Mobihoc 2023/2012, etc.
Conference TPC: IEEE InfoCom 2008-23, ACM MobiHoc 2014, WWW 2018, IEEE ICDCS 2015, IEEE IPDPS 2016/2020, IEEE ICC 2019-23, etc.
Reviewer/Panelist: US NSF, US NASA, US DOE, NSERC (Canada), RGC (Hong Kong), SNSF (Switzerland), CONICYT (Chile), AAAS, etc.
Society:
- Chair, IEEE ComSoc Charlotte Chapter (2012-14,18-19),
- Member, IEEE CS Fellows Evaluation Committee (2019, 2020), etc.
CIS PhD Program:
- FAQ for Admission
- Program Requirements and Milestones

Award

ACM Distinguished Member (2020)
Fellow of IEEE (2018)
Best Paper Award: Tsinghua Science of Technology (2015), IEEE IPCCC (2013), IEEE MASS (2013), IEEE HICSS-35 (2002)
Best Paper RunnerUp Award / Best Paper Candidate: IEEE DSC (2019), IEEE MASS (2011)
Best Poster Award: ACM Mobicom (2016)
Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2008) & Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (2012), College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (2006)

Misc.

Research: CISE/Fastline, NETS, CRA, IEEEXplore, ACMDL, SCI, EDAS, CCF Ranking, CORE Ranking, CS Ranking, Research.com, LaTexSyb, Dict, You & Your Research (Richard Hamming), PhD Research: Elements of Excellence (Ness Shroff), Mathematical Writing (Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts), The Science of Scientific Writing (George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan), The Elements of Style (Strunk and White)
Temple: Schedule, Zoom, TUportal, Canvas
Fun: Comics, TOCBlog, SciNet Blog