Biography
I am a Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science in University of Maryland College Park, advised by Prof. Nirupam Roy. My research interests are Edge Computing, Spatial Signal Processing, Sensory Intelligence, Embedded Learning, and Power-aware Computing, especially applicating these techniques on healthcare and IoT. Before becoming a Ph.D. student at UMD, I graduated from WINLAB, Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology with MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I got my BS in Dalian Maritime University.
- Edge Computing
- Spatial Signal Processing
- Sensory Intelligence
- Embedded Learning
- Power-aware Computing
PhD student in Computer Science, 2021 - Present
University of Maryland, College Park
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineeering, 2020
Rutgers University
MS in Electrical Engineering, 2018
Stevens Institute of Technology
BS in Electrical Engineering and Automation, 2016
Dalian Maritime University
Recent News
*[04/2023] SPiDR got ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight.
*[03/2023] I will join Apple Inc as a Software Dev Eng Intern during Summer 2023.
*[02/2023] I co-organized a panel “Diversity and Inclusion: What? Why? How?” at ACM HotMobile 2023.
*[07/2022] SPiDR got Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys 2022.
*[07/2021] Owlet got Best Demo Award at ACM MobiSys 2021.
Publications
Conference and journal papers
Structure Assisted Spectrum Sensing for Low-power Acoustic Event Detection
N. Garg, H. Takawale, Y. Bai, I. Shahid, N. Roy IASA workshop co-located with CPS IoT Week 2023SPiDR: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Spatial Sensing for Micro-robot Navigation
Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Garg (Co-primary author), N. Roy
ACM MobiSys 2022
⭐Best paper award ⭐SIGMOBILE Research HighlightVoiceFind: Noise-Resilient Speech Recovery in Commodity Headphones
I. Shahid, Y. Bai, N. Garg, N. Roy
IASA workshop co-located with ACM MobiSys 2022Owlet: Enabling Spatial Information in Ubiquitous Acoustic Devices
N. Garg (Co-primary author), Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Roy
ACM MobiSys 2021BatComm: Enabling Inaudible Acoustic Communication with High-throughpput for Mobile Devices
Y. Bai, J. Liu, L. Lu, Y. Yang, Y. Chen, J. Yu
ACM SenSys 2020Acoustic-based Sensing and Applications: A Survey
Y. Bai, Li Lu, J. Cheng, J. Liu, Y. Chen, J. Yu
Computer Networks
Posters and demos
Poster: Natural Voice Interface for the Next Generation of Smart Spaces
Y. Bai, N. Garg, H. Takawale, A. Das, N. Roy ACM HotMobile 2023Poster: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Imaging
Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Garg (Co-primary author), N. Roy
ACM MobiSys 2022Demo: Microstructure-guided Spatial Sensing for Low-power IoT
N. Garg, Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Roy
ACM MobiSys 2021
⭐Best demo awardPoster: Inaudible High-throughput Communication Through Acoustic Signals
Y. Bai, J. Liu, Y. Chen, L. Lu, J. Yu
ACM MobiCom 2019
⭐Best poster runner-up award, student research competition winnerDemo: Monitoring Movement Dynamics of Robot Cars and Drones Using Smartphone’s Built-in Sensors
Y. Bai, X. Yang, C. Liu, J. Wain, R. Wang, J. Cheng, C. Wang, J. Liu, Y. Chen
IEEE DySPAN 2019
Awards
Activities and Services
*Organized panel: Diversity and Inclusion: What? Why? How? at HotMobile 2023
*Reviewer of The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
*Shadow Technical Program Committee of ACM SenSys 2022
*Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
*Reviewer of AIChallenge IoT 2022
Talks and Presentations
*[07/2022] Presented SPiDR at ACM MobiSys 2022.
*[07/2021] Presented Owlet at ACM MobiSys 2021.
*[10/2020] Presented BatComm at ACM SenSys 2020.
Teaching
Undergraduate-level Courses
*(Rutgers) Fish Bowl Tutor, Fall 2020
*(UMD) Web Application Development with Javascript, TA, Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
*(UMD) Object-Oriented Programming I, TA, Fall 2021
*(Rutgers) Intro to Computer Systems, TA, Spring 2019 & Spring 2020
*(Rutgers) Computing Principles of Mobile Embedded Systems, TA, Fall 2019
*(Rutgers) Digital System Design, TA, Fall 2018
Graduate-level Courses
*(Stevens) Data Structures & Algorithms, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
*(Stevens) Engineering Programming: Java, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
*(Stevens) Engineering Programming: C++, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
Undergraduate Mentoring
*Mentored 6 undergraduate students in UMD CS Bitcamp 2021
*Worked as a Fish Bowl Tutor at Rutgers ECE department in Fall 2020