Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

NYU WIRELESS

Lead probabilistic RF localization, measurement-aligned digital-twin inference, and robotic RF experiments. Current systems include MAGNETAR, MAPLE-RF, MC-CLE/LOCUS-DT, MobiFR3, and MCMB-HDT; mentor one Ph.D. and three M.S. researchers across RF localization, wireless control, experimental systems, and multimodal spatial reasoning.

Graduate Research Assistant

NYU C2SMARTER Center

Predictive correlated online learning, distributed pan-tilt-camera control, and digital-twin closed-loop analytics for traffic monitoring, driver-risk-aware mobility/safety prediction, and distributed online control.

Graduate Research Assistant

NYU Center for Cybersecurity

Safe adaptive control and routing under strategic behavior for cyber-physical systems.

Algorithm Engineer Intern

JD.com, Inc.

Developed CenterNet/PIoU-based rotated-object detection and supported integration and on-site validation in a manufacturing laboratory.

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

New York University

Advisor: Prof. Sundeep Rangan (Director, NYU WIRELESS) Award: 2023 Ernst Weber Fellowship

M.S. in Computer Engineering

New York University

B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Automation

China Agricultural University

Technical Expertise

Inference & learning

Spatial inference under uncertainty

  • Probabilistic localization, likelihood modeling, Bayesian fusion, and uncertainty calibration
  • U-Net, attention, and Transformer architectures for spatial posterior estimation
  • VLM-guided perception and tool-mediated information exchange for object-centric RGB-D spatial memory
  • Physics-informed reinforcement learning and PPO for sensing and navigation decisions

Simulation & software

Digital twins and research prototypes

  • Sionna RT scene design, ray-tracing experiments, and measurement-aligned real-to-sim calibration
  • ROS 2 and TurtleBot4 integration; Wireless InSite, SUMO, and CARLA workflows
  • Python, PyTorch, MATLAB, Linux, and reproducible experimental pipelines

Experimental systems

RF, robotics, and sensing

  • MobiFR3 system architecture, experiment design, RF-robot alignment, and evaluation
  • Team-operated Pi-Radio SDR channel sounding; antenna-pattern and RF-chain calibration
  • TI mmWave radar point-cloud acquisition and filtering for UAV trajectory estimation
Mentoring

Teaching Assistant

  • ECE-GY5213 Introduction to System Engineering (Spring 2024)

Graduate Mentoring

  • Ruibin Chen (Ph.D. student, NYU) - Mentor research on MCMB-HDT, which I lead, and on RF localization; joint work includes IEEE ICC Workshops 2026 and manuscripts at IEEE JSAC and IEEE ICRA 2027, Feb 2025 - Present
  • Yuheng Liu & Ashesh Kaji (M.S. students, NYU) - Mentor one project on object-centric RGB-D spatial memory, including VLM-guided proposals, depth-grounded 3D projection, cross-view association, retrieval, and localization, Jan 2026 / Jul 2026 - Present
  • Yuhan Jiang (M.S. student, NYU) - Mentor RF hardware operation, calibration, and data acquisition for the FR3 robotic localization platform; co-author of MAGNETAR, under review at IEEE ICRA 2027, Jul 2026 - Present
Awards
Ernst Weber Fellowship (NYU Tandon School of Engineering)
New York University ∙ January 2023
School of Engineering Fellowship (NYU Tandon School of Engineering)
New York University ∙ January 2022
Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit - AI-Driven Interactive Safe Autonomous Driving
New York University ∙ January 2022
CyberByte feature
Beijing Higher Education Association Mathematical Contest (Second Prize)
BHEAMC ∙ January 2017
China National University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training Program
CAU ∙ January 2017
Review Services

Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL)
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM)
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)

Conferences

  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2026)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025)
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2025)
  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)
  • American Control Conference (ACC 2024)