Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University)
Shahriar Nirjon (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Yang Liu (Nokia Bell Labs)
Stephen Xia (Northwestern University)
Jingping Nie (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
VP Nguyen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Local Time: Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)
| 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM | Opening |
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| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |
Keynote 1 Speaker: Prof. Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Keynote 2 Speaker: Prof. Nirupam Roy, University of Maryland |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion |
| 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
SESSION 1: Acoustic Intelligence and Industrial Applications • BReAD: Boosting Relational Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Model for Acoustic Industrial Anomaly Detection • Assembly Stethoscope: Detecting Assembly Errors through Frequency Sweeping – A Feasibility Study • RRAR: Robust Real-World Activity Recognition with Vibration by Scavenging Near-Surface Audio Online • Biometric Authentication Using Smartphone-Generated Acoustic Signals Modulated by Vascular Dynamics • Breathing and Semantic Pause Detection and Exertion-Level Classification in Post-Exercise Speech |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM |
SESSION 2: Acoustic and Multimodal Sensing for Human Health • IMUSteth: On-Body Stethoscope Localization with Inertial Sensing for Home Self-Screening • EarFusion: Quality-Aware Fusion of In-Ear Audio and Photoplethysmography for Heart Rate Monitoring |
| 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM |
Closing, Business Meeting and Awards For each technical paper: 15 min talk + 5 min Q&A |
Columbia University
Prof. Xiaofan Jiang (Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University) has 18+ years of experience at the intersection of systems and data, with a focus on intelligent embedded systems and their applications in mobile and wearable computing, intelligent built environments, Internet of Things, and connected health. His recent work on intelligent drones (which received a Best Demo Award at ACM SenSys), modular sensing platforms, and health are highly acclaimed in the SIGMOBILE community. Prof. Jiang’s research webpage is http://icsl.ee.columbia.edu/.
Email: jiang@ee.columbia.edu
University of North Carolina
Prof. Shahriar Nirjon (Associate Professor of Computer Science at UNC) has 15+ years of experience in multi-modal, sensor-enabled intelligent embedded systems. He has published over 50 research papers involving audio, RF, depth cameras, environmental and wearable sensors, and health trackers. Several of his recent works involve multi-modal data fusion and learning. Prof. Nirjon’s research webpage is https://www.cs.unc.edu/~nirjon/research.html.
Email: nirjon@cs.unc.edu
Nokia Bell Labs
Dr. Yang Liu (Research Scientist in the Device Forms team at Nokia Bell Labs) is in the Pervasive Systems Research Department in Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in Communication and Information Systems from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Wireless Communications at The University of Sheffield, UK. He currently focuses on the research of wearable devices, human-centric embedded systems, backscatter communications, and wireless sensing.
Email: yang.16.liu@nokia.com