Hong Jia

Research Associate
University of Cambridge
hj359cam.ac.uk


News!

2024/01, One paper "LiDARSpectra: Indoor Spectral Mapping with Low-cost LiDARs" has been conditionally accepted by IPSN 2024 ( Acceptance Rate: 21.5%).
2023/12, One paper "UR2M: Uncertainty and Resource-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers" has been accepted by PerCom 2024 ( Acceptance Rate: 14.5%).
2023/09, One paper "LifeLearner: Hardware-Aware Meta Continual Learning System for Embedded Computing Platforms" has been accepted by SenSys 2023 ( Acceptance rate: 18.9%).
2023/08, Reviewer/TPC for NeurIPS, TMC, TheWebConf, EWSN, UbiComp, IPSN etc.
2023/07, One paper "Iris: Passive Visible Light Positioning using Light Spectral Information" has been accepted by IMWUT/UbiComp 2023.
2023/07, One paper UDAMA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Through Multi Discriminator Adversarial Training With Noisy Labels Improves Cardio Fitness Prediction has been accepted by MLHC 2023 .
2023/06, Talk at MobiSys'23 with the topic "Ubiquitous, Secure, and Efficient Mobile Sensing Systems".
2023/05, I was selected as the ACM MobiSys Rising Star (2023) .
2023/02, One paper Subject-Adaptive Loss-Fitting Smart Garment Platform for Human Activity Recognition has been accepted by TOSN 2023 .
2023/01, One paper on indoor localization Spectral-Loc: Indoor Localization using Light Spectral Information has been accepted by IMWUT/Ubicomp 2023.
2022/12, One paper Pistis: Replay Attack and Liveness Detection for Gait-based User Authentication System on Wearable Devices Using Vibration has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
2022/11, One paper Turning Silver into Gold: Domain Adaptation with Noisy Labels for Wearable Cardio-Respiratory Fitness Prediction on domain adaptation has been accepted in ML4H 2022 (co-located with NeurIPS 2022).
2022/10, Our poster paper Passive Light Spectral Indoor Localization has been awarded as the Best Poster Runner-up Award by MobiCom 2022.
2022/09, One paper PROS: An Efficient Pattern-Driven Compressive Sensing Framework For Low Power Biopotential-Based Wearables With On-Chip Intelligence has been accepted by MobiCom 2022! ( Acceptance rate: 17.8%).
2022/08, Our poster papers Indoor localization using light spectral information and Passive Light Spectral Indoor Localization has been accepted by MobiCom 2022.

Selected Publications (last 3 years)


UR2M: Uncertainty and Resource-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers

Hong Jia, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma, Nhat Pham, Lorena Qendro, Tam Vu, Cecilia Mascolo
The 22th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication
PerCom 2024 (Core Ranking A*)

LiDARSpectra: Indoor Spectral Mapping with Low-cost LiDARs

Jiawei Hu, Yanxiang Wang, Hong Jia, Cheng Jiang, Mahbub Hassan, Brano Kusy, Wen Hu,
The 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
IPSN 2024 (Core Ranking A*)

LifeLearner: Hardware-Aware Meta Continual Learning System for Embedded Computing Platforms

Young D. Kwon, Jagmohan Chauhan, Hong Jia, Stylianos I. Venieris, Cecilia Mascolo
The 21th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
SenSys 2023 (Core Ranking A*)

Iris: Passive Visible Light Positioning using Light Spectral Information

Jiawei Hu, Yanxiang Wang, Hong Jia, Ashraf Uddin, Kusy, Brano, Moustafa Youssef, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2023 (Core Ranking A*)

UDAMA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Through Multi Discriminator Adversarial Training With Noisy Labels Improves Cardio Fitness Prediction

Yu Wu, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Jia, Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Tomas I. Gonzales, Soren Brage, Nicholas Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo
Machine Learning for Healthcare
MLHC 2023

Subject-Adaptive Loss-Fitting Smart Garment Platform for Human Activity Recognition

Qi Lin, Shuhua Peng, Yuezhong Wu, Jun Liu, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne, Chun H Wang
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
TOSN 2023 (Core Ranking A*)

Spectral-Loc: Indoor Localization using Light Spectral Information

Yanxiang Wang, Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia, Ashraf Uddin, Kusy, Brano, Moustafa Youssef, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2023 (Core Ranking A*)

PROS: An Efficient Pattern-Driven Compressive Sensing Framework For Low Power Biopotential-Based Wearables With On-Chip Intelligence

Nhat Pham, Hong Jia, Minh Tran1, Tuan Dinh, Nam Bui, Young Kwon, Dong Ma, Phuc Nguyen6, Cecilia Mascolo, and Tam Vu
The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
Mobicom 2022 (Core Ranking A*)

Pistis: Replay Attack and Liveness Detection for Gait-based User Authentication System on Wearable Devices Using Vibration

Wei Song, Hong Jia, Min Wang, Yuezhong Wu, Wanli Xue, Chun Tung Chou, Jiankun Hu, Wen Hu
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IoTJ 2022 (IF=11.61)

Turning Silver into Gold: Domain Adaptation with Noisy Labels for Wearable Cardio-Respiratory Fitness Prediction

Yu Wu, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Jia, Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Tomas I. Gonzales, Soren Brage, Nicholas Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo
Machine Learning for Health
ML4H 2022

SwingNet: Ubiquitous Fine-Grained Swing Tracking Framework via Stochastic Neural Architecture Search and Adversarial Learning

Hong Jia, Jiawei Hu, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 (Core Ranking A*)

RFaceID: Towards RFID-based Facial Recognition

Chengwen Luo, Zhongru Yang, Xingyu Feng, Jin Zhang, Hong Jia, Jianqiang Li, Jiawei Wu, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 (Core Ranking A*)

Auto-Key: Using Autoencoder to Speed Up Gait-based Key Generation in Body Area Networks

Yuezhong Wu, Qi Lin, Hong Jia, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 (Core Ranking A*)

Condor: Mobile Golf Swing Tracking via Sensor Fusion using Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

Hong Jia, Jun Liu, Yuezhong Wu, Tomasz Bednarz, Lina Yao, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
EWSN 2021 (Core Ranking A)

KEHKey: Kinetic Energy Harvester-based Authentication and Key Generation for Body Area Network

Qi Lin, Weitao Xu, Guohao Lan, Yesheng Cui, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT/UbiComp 2020 (Core Ranking A*)

Posters, Abstracts and Demos


Passive Light Spectral Indoor Localization

Jiawei Hu, Yanxiang Wang, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Ashraf Uddin, Brano Kusy, Moustafa Youssef
The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
Mobicom 2022 (Core Ranking A*)

Best Poster Runner-up Award

Indoor Localization using Light Spectral Information

Yanxiang Wang, Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Ashraf Uddin, Brano Kusy, Moustafa Youssef
The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
Mobicom 2022 (Core Ranking A*)

Poster: Mobile Golf Swing Tracking Using Deep Learning with Data Fusion

Hong Jia, Yuezhong Wu, Jun Liu, Lina Yao, Wen Hu
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Sensys 2019 (Core Ranking A*)

Patents


A Training Device for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery with Force Feedback.

Jianda Han, Guoli Song, Hong Jia, Yiwen Zhao, Yunxiang Jiang.

National Invention Patent, CN201520076954

A Training Method and Device for the Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery with Force Feedback.

Jianda Han, Guoli Song, Hong Jia, Yiwen Zhao, Yunxiang Jiang.

National Invention Patent, CN201520076954

Academic Service


TPC member: TheWebConf 2023

Session orgnizer: Earcomp, in conjunction with Ubicomp 2021

Reviewer: NeurIPS 2023, WWW 2023, IMWUT/UbiComp 2023, IoTJ 2023, TMC 2023, 2022, EWSN 2020, 2021, IPSN 2020, 2021, and more.

Talks


Ubiquitous, Secure and Efficient Mobile Sensing Systems Resource and Uncertainty Aware Event Detection for Microcontrollers Ubiquitous Fine-Grained Swing Tracking Framework via Stochastic Neural Architecture Search and Adversarial Learning
  • 📍 IMWUT'21, Virtual — September 22, 2021
Mobile Golf Swing Tracking via Sensor Fusion using Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
  • 📍 EWSN'21, Delft, Netherland — Febrary 18, 2021
Mobile Golf Swing Tracking Using Deep Learning with Data Fusion
  • 📍 Sensys'19, New York, USA — January 13, 2019

Advising


Recent research projects I supervised:

  • Yu (Yvonne) Wu (University of Cambridge) — Weakly-supervised learning for activity timeseries (paper at ML4H'22 & MLHC'23; Travel Award by DeepMind)
  • Cynthia Dong (University of Cambridge) — Efficient and Robust Test-time adaptation (ongoing)
  • Yanxiang Wang (UNSW) — Spectral information sensing (papers at Mobicom'22 & IMWUT'23)
  • Jiawei Hu (UNSW) — Indoor light localization (paper at Mobicom'22, IMWUT'23 & IPSN'24)
  • Song Wei (UNSW) — Mobile authentication via hand biometrics (paper at IoTJ'22)
  • Mark Cardamis (UNSW) — Smart farming via mmWave sensing (ongoing)
  • Zhongru Yang (SZU) — Facial authentication via RFID sensing (paper at IMWUT'21)

I have also been a teaching assistant for the following BSc/MSc courses: