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Xinyu Zhang is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The research topics explored by Zhang cover key areas such as Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks, Antenna Design and Analysis, Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling, and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems.

Zhang has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • IEEE Access
  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Some of their recent papers include:

  • HiveMind: Towards Cellular Native Machine Learning Model Splitting, 2021, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • RF Vital Sign Sensing under Free Body Movement, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Non-line-of-sight methodology for high-speed wireless optical communication in highly turbid water, 2020, Optics Communications
  • Structural pseudocapacitors with reinforced interfaces to increase multifunctional efficiency, 2023, Science Advances
  • MilliMirror, 2022, Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking

Zhang frequently collaborates with several scholars in their field. Notable co-authors include Kun Qian, Zhigang Hu, Meiguang Zheng, Beini Liu, and Kai Zheng.

Best Publications

  • E-MiLi: Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening in Wireless Networks

    Xinyu Zhang;Kang G. Shin

  • mTrack: High-Precision Passive Tracking Using Millimeter Wave Radios

    Teng Wei;Xinyu Zhang

  • Understanding Operational 5G: A First Measurement Study on Its Coverage, Performance and Energy Consumption

    Dongzhu Xu;Anfu Zhou;Xinyu Zhang;Guixian Wang

  • Optimized multipath network coding in lossy wireless networks

    Xinyu Zhang;Baochun Li

  • 60 GHz Indoor Networking through Flexible Beams: A Link-Level Profiling

    Sanjib Sur;Vignesh Venkateswaran;Xinyu Zhang;Parmesh Ramanathan

  • Enabling coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems: case for ZigBee and WiFi

    Xinyu Zhang;Kang G. Shin

  • piStream: Physical Layer Informed Adaptive Video Streaming over LTE

    Xiufeng Xie;Xinyu Zhang;Swarun Kumar;Li Erran Li

  • Does Full-Duplex Double the Capacity of Wireless Networks?

    Xiufeng Xie;Xinyu Zhang

  • LiTell: robust indoor localization using unmodified light fixtures

    Chi Zhang;Xinyu Zhang

  • The case for antenna cancellation for scalable full-duplex wireless communications

    Mohammad A. Khojastepour;Karthik Sundaresan;Sampath Rangarajan;Xinyu Zhang

  • BeamSpy: enabling robust 60 GHz links under blockage

    Sanjib Sur;Xinyu Zhang;Parmesh Ramanathan;Ranveer Chandra

  • DFT-based hybrid antenna selection schemes for spatially correlated MIMO channels

    A.F. Molisch;X. Zhang;S.Y. Kung;J. Zhang

  • Gyro in the air: tracking 3D orientation of batteryless internet-of-things

    Teng Wei;Xinyu Zhang

  • Robust Multimodal Vehicle Detection in Foggy Weather Using Complementary Lidar and Radar Signals

    Kun Qian;Shilin Zhu;Xinyu Zhang;Li Erran Li

  • WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks

    Sanjib Sur;Ioannis Pefkianakis;Xinyu Zhang;Kyu-Han Kim

  • Leveraging directional antenna capabilities for fine-grained gesture recognition

    Pedro Melgarejo;Xinyu Zhang;Parameswaran Ramanathan;David Chu

  • Gap Sense: Lightweight coordination of heterogeneous wireless devices

    Xinyu Zhang;Kang G. Shin

  • Ubiquitous keyboard for small mobile devices: harnessing multipath fading for fine-grained keystroke localization

    Junjue Wang;Kaichen Zhao;Xinyu Zhang;Chunyi Peng

  • Cooperative carrier signaling: harmonizing coexisting WPAN and WLAN devices

    Xinyu Zhang;Kang G. Shin

  • Acoustic Eavesdropping through Wireless Vibrometry

    Teng Wei;Shu Wang;Anfu Zhou;Xinyu Zhang

  • Extending Mobile Interaction Through Near-Field Visible Light Sensing

    Chi Zhang;Josh Tabor;Jialiang Zhang;Xinyu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kang G. Shin
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Huadong Ma
Huadong Ma Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Baochun Li
Baochun Li University of Toronto
Karthikeyan Sundaresan
Karthikeyan Sundaresan NEC (United States)
Sampath Rangarajan
Sampath Rangarajan NEC (United States)
Kyu-Han Kim
Kyu-Han Kim Pathlight - Performance Intelligence Platform
Parameswaran Ramanathan
Parameswaran Ramanathan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside
Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra Microsoft (United States)
Tao Jiang
Tao Jiang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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