News
- Mar 2025, one paper on using LLMs for building energy retrofit challenges assessment has been accepted to Building and Environment (JCR Q1)!
- Mar 2025, invited as the Guest Editor of the special issue “Ubiquitous Computing and Applications in Digital Healthcare Systems” of Electronics. Welcome to submit papers!
- Feb 2025, one paper on using LLMs for automated IoT development has been accepted to SenSys 2025!
- Jan 2025, one paper accepted to CHI’25!
- Dec 2024, one paper accepted to PerCom’25!
- Dec 2024, one paper accepted to MobiCom’25!
- Dec 2024, joined Trinity College, University of Cambridge as an affiliated Postdoc.
- Nov 2024, invited as the TPC of HumanSys 2025. Welcome to submit papers!
- Sep 2024, invited as the TPC of ICDCS 2025. Welcome to submit papers!
- Aug 2024, invited as the TPC of MSN 2024. Welcome to submit papers!
- Aug 2024, one paper “Towards ISAC-Empowered mmWave Radars by Capturing Modulated Vibrations” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing!
- Jul 2024, one paper accepted to EarComp’24!
- Jul 2024, invited as the Guest Editor of the special issue “Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Computing” of Electronics. Welcome to submit papers!
- Jul 2024, our team won the Third Place Winner in TE Connectivity AI Cup 2024!
- Apr 2024, one paper accepted to MobiSys’24!
Bio
Qiang Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Mobile Systems Research Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, working with Prof. Cecilia Mascolo. He is also an affiliated Postdoc at Trinity College. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2023. Prior to that, He received the M.S. and the B.S. degrees from Shenzhen University and Henan University, respectively. Qiang’s research focus is mobile health and ubiquitous computing, particularly on the design of novel models and systems for supporting well-being and better lifestyle with IoT and AI technologies.
Publications
Conference
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- PerCom 25 WalkEar: Holistic Gait Monitoring using Earables
- Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Yang Liu, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Josh Carter, Qiang Yang, Mathias Ciliberto, Ezio Preatoni, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo
- IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
- March 17–21, 2025, Washington DC, USA
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- MobiCom 25 AutoIOT: LLM-Driven Automated Natural Language Programming for AIoT Applications
- Leming Shen, Qiang Yang, Yuanqing Zheng, Mo Li
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
- Nov 4-8, 2025, Hong Kong
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- EarComp 24 BrushBuds: Toothbrushing Tracking Using Earphone IMUs
- Qiang Yang, Yang Liu, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo
- The 5th international workshop on earable computing (EarComp)
- October 5, 2024, Melbourne, Australia
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- MobiSys 24 FedConv: A Learning-on-Model Paradigm for Heterogeneous Federated Clients
- Leming Shen, Qiang Yang, Kaiyan Cui, Yuanqing Zheng, Xiaoyong Wei, Jianwei Liu, Jinsong Han
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)
- June 3–7, 2024, Tokyo, Japan
- Pdf Slides Code Web
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- INFOCOM 24 Neural Enhanced Underwater SOS Detection
- Qiang Yang, Yuanqing Zheng
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
- May 20–23, 2024, Vancouver, Canada
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- INFOCOM 23 Voice Liveness Detection with Sound Field Dynamics
- Qiang Yang, Kaiyan Cui, Yuanqing Zheng
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
- May 17-20, 2023, New York, USA
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- INFOCOM 22 DeepEar: Sound Localization with Binaural Microphones
- Qiang Yang, Yuanqing Zheng
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
- May 2-5, 2022, Virtual Conference.
- Pdf Presentation Slides Code
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- UbiComp/IMWUT 21 Model-based Head Orientation Estimation for Smart Devices
- Qiang Yang, Yuanqing Zheng
- The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) Vol 5, Issue 3
- The ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UbiComp)
- September 21-26, 2021, Virtual, Global.
- Pdf Presentation
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- MobiQuitous 18 ArmIn: Explore the Feasibility of Designing a Text-entry Application Using EMG Signals
- Qiang Yang, Yongpan Zou, Meng Zhao, Jiawei Lin, Kaishun Wu
- EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous)
- November 5-7, 2018, New York City, United States. Pdf
Journal
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- BAE 25 Can Large Language Models Replace Experts? Effectiveness and Limitations in Building Energy Retrofit Challenges Assessment
- Linyan Chen, Amos Darko, Fan Zhang, Albert Chan, Qiang Yang* (*Corresponding author)
- Building and Environment (JCR Q1)
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- TMC 24 Towards ISAC-Empowered mmWave Radars by Capturing Modulated Vibrations
- Kaiyan Cui, Qiang Yang, Leming Shen, Yuanqing Zheng, Fu Xiao and Jinsong Han
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Early Access
Other
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- MobiSys 18 Demo: A Novel Finger-Assisted Touch-free Text Input System Without Training
- Qiang Yang, Hongrui Fu, Yongpan Zou, Kaishun Wu
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
- June 10-15, 2018, Munich, Germany Pdf Demo
Academic & Teaching Experience
- TPC member: ICDCS 2024/2025, MSN 2024, HumanSys 2025
- Guest Editor
- The special issue “Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Computing” of Electronics.
- The special issue “Ubiquitous Computing and Applications in Digital Healthcare Systems” of Electronics.
- Conference Reviewer: ICA3PP 2020, MASS 2021, MobiQuitous 2022
- Journal Reviewer
- The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ)
- ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
- Expert Systems With Applications
- Teaching Assistant
- COMP5311 Internet Infrastructure And Protocols, PolyU, 2019 Fall, 2020 Spring/Fall, 2021 Spring/Fall, 2022 Spring.
- R269, Mobile, Wearable Systems and Machine Learning, Teaching Assistant, University of Cambridge, Michaelmas term, 2024-2025
- L349, Mobile Health, Teaching Assistant, University of Cambridge, Lent term, 2024-2025