Zhiyuan Xie

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Embedded AI and IoT Lab of Department of Information Engineering, CUHK, working with Prof. Guoliang Xing. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the same department in 2023, advised by Prof. Guoliang Xing. I also work closely with Prof. Xiaoming Liu from Michigan State University.

My research interest is building Mobile Sensing/Vision Systems, with a primary focus on advancing the sensing capabilties of Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth cameras. I also have extensive experience in building AI-powered mobile health systems in natural living environments. I won the Best Paper Award of ACM MobiSys in 2023.

I also co-founded a startup in Hong Kong named ThingX Technologies and work as CTO to apply AI technologies to daily health monitoring and home care.

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News

  • [2024/09] I am awarded the 2023 Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award from the Faculty of Engineering for my PhD thesis titled "Extending Sensing Capabilities of ToF Cameras for High-precision Mobile Applications". (Supervisor: Prof. Guoliang Xing)
  • [2023/06] Mozart paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award in MobiSys 2023! (1 out of 198 submissions)
  • [2023/02] Two papers (Mozart & Harmony) accepted by MobiSys'23.

Major Publications


Mozart: A Mobile ToF System for Sensing in the Dark through Phase Manipulation

Zhiyuan Xie*, Xiaomin Ouyang* (*co-first authors), Li Pan, Wenrui Lu, Guoliang Xing, Xiaoming Liu

[MobiSys 2023] In the 21th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Acceptance ratio: 41/198=20.7%)

Best Paper Award (1 out of 198 submissions)

[ paper] [ slides] [ codes]

UltraDepth: Exposing High-resolution Texture from Depth Cameras

Zhiyuan Xie, Xiaomin Ouyang, Xiaoming Liu, Guoliang Xing

[SenSys 2021]In the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Acceptance ratio: 25/139=17.9%)

[ paper] [ video] [ sldies]

Harmony: Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Federated Learning through Disentangled Model Training

Xiaomin Ouyang, Zhiyuan Xie, Heming Fu, Sitong Cheng, Li Pan, Neiwen Ling, Guoliang Xing, Jiayu Zhou, Jianwei Huang

[MobiSys 2023] In the 21th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Acceptance ratio: 41/198=20.7%)

[ paper] [ slides] [ codes] [datasets]

ClusterFL: A Similarity-Aware Federated Learning System for Human Activity Recognition

Xiaomin Ouyang, Zhiyuan Xie, Jiayu Zhou, Jianwei Huang, Guoliang Xing

[MobiSys 2021] In the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Acceptance ratio: 36/166=21.6%)

[ paper] [ video] [ slides] [datasets] [codes]

Other Publications

Selected Awards

  • Best Paper Award (1/198), ACM MobiSys, 2023
  • Reaching Out Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023
  • Best Presentation Award, "C9+1" Forum, University of Hong Kong, 2018
  • Entrepreneurship Training Award, the Ministry of Education, 2017
  • Outstanding Student Leader, Peking University, 2016 to 2017

Teaching Experience

    Teaching Assistant

  • IERG3310: Computer Networks, 2020 Spring, CUHK
  • ENGG1110: Problem Solving by Programming, 2021 Spring, CUHK
  • IERG1810: Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory, 2020 Fall, CUHK
  • CSCI2100: Data Structures, 2021 Fall, CUHK

Professional Services

    Technical Program Committee Member

  • ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2023 Posters/Demos Program
  • ACM SenSys 2022 Shadow Program
  • Invited Reviewer

  • ACM/IEEE CHASE 2021, IEEE ICRA 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.