Kun Qian

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California San Diego

Biography

Kun Qian is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, working with Professor Xinyu Zhang. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Software at Tsinghua University in January 2019, under the supervision of Professor Yunhao Liu and Professor Zheng Yang. Before that, he received his B.E. in Software Engineering in 2014 from the School of Software at the Tsinghua University.

I will be joining the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Cyber-Physical Systems Link Lab, starting in Spring 2024!

Education

Ph.D. in Software Engineering, 2019
Tsinghua University
B.E. in Software Engineering, 2014
Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Wireless Sensing and Communication

Main topics: mmWave radar backscatter, passive intelligent surface, super-resolution radar sensing, ubiquitous Wi-Fi sensing.

Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

Main topics: SLAM, mobile healthcare, mobile data mining.

News

📢 2022/12 Our paper SLNet got accepted by USENIX NSDI 2023.
📢 2022/11 Our paper UniScatter got conditionally accepted by ACM MobiCom 2023.
📢 2022/01 Our paper MilliMirror got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2022.
📢 2021/08 Extended version of “Widar3.0” (MobiSys'19) got accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
📢 2021/05 Our paper RoS got accepted by ACM SIGCOMM 2021.
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Publications

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Kun Qian, Lulu Yao, Kai Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, Tse Nga Ng (2023). UniScatter: a Metamaterial Backscatter Tag for Wideband Joint Communication and Radar Sensing. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

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Zheng Yang, Yi Zhang, Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu (2023). SLNet: A Spectrogram Learning Neural Network for Deep Wireless Sensing. In Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).

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Kun Qian, Lulu Yao, Xinyu Zhang, Tse Nga Ng (2022). MilliMirror: 3D Printed Reflecting Surface for Millimeter-Wave Coverage Expansion. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

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Kun Qian, Zhaoyuan He, Xinyu Zhang (2021). 3D Point Cloud Generation with Millimeter-Wave Radar. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).

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John Nolan, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang (2021). RoS: Passive Smart Surface for Roadside-to-Vehicle Communication. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).

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Yi Zhang, Yue Zheng, Kun Qian, Guidong Zhang, Yunhao Liu, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang (2021). Widar3.0: Zero-Effort Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition with Wi-Fi. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).

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Kun Qian, Shilin Zhu, Xinyu Zhang, Li Erran Li (2021). Robust Multimodal Vehicle Detection in Foggy Weather using Complementary Lidar and Radar Signals. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

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Kun Qian, Yumeng Lu, Zheng Yang, Kai Zhang, Kehong Huang, Xinjun Cai, Chenshu Wu, Yunhao Liu (2021). AIRCODE: Hidden Screen-Camera Communication on an Invisible and Inaudible Dual Channel. In Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).

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Renjie Zhao, Timothy Woodford, Teng Wei, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang (2020). M-Cube: A Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Software Radio. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

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Jing Chu, Xu Wang, Kun Qian, Lina Yao, Fu Xiao, Jianbo Li, Zheng Yang (2020). Passenger Demand Prediction with Cellular Footprints. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

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Jingao Xu, Hengjie Chen, Kun Qian, Erqun Dong, Min Sun, Chenshu Wu, Li Zhang, Zheng Yang (2019). iVR: Integrated Vision and Radio Localization with Zero Human Effort. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).

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Yue Zheng, Yi Zhang, Kun Qian, Guidong Zhang, Yunhao Liu, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang (2019). Zero-Effort Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition with Wi-Fi. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Zimu Zhou, Xu Wang, Yunhao Liu (2018). Enabling Phased Array Signal Processing for Mobile WiFi Devices. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Yi Zhang, Guidong Zhang, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu (2018). Widar2.0: Passive Human Tracking with a Single Wi-Fi Link. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Fu Xiao, Yue Zheng, Yi Zhang, Zheng Yang (2018). Acousticcardiogram: Monitoring Heartbeats using Acoustic Signals on Smart Devices. In Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Fugui He, Tianzhang Xing (2018). Enabling Contactless Detection of Moving Humans with Dynamic Speeds Using CSI. In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Kyle Jamieson (2017). Widar: Decimeter-Level Passive Tracking via Velocity Monitoring with Commodity Wi-Fi. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zimu Zhou, Yue Zheng, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu (2017). Inferring Motion Direction using Commodity Wi-Fi for Interactive Exergames. In Proceedings of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Zimu Zhou, Xu Wang, Yunhao Liu (2016). Tuning by Turning: Enabling Phased Array Signal Processing for WiFi with Inertial Sensors. In Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM).

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Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Zimu Zhou, Kun Qian, Yunhao Liu, Mingyan Liu (2015). PhaseU: Real-time LOS Identification with WiFi. In Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM).

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Kun Qian, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Zimu Zhou (2014). PADS: Passive Detection of Moving Targets with Dynamic Speed using PHY Layer Information. In Proceedings of IEEE international conference on parallel and distributed systems (ICPADS).

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Awards

🏆 Best Paper Award, MobiCom, 2020 (2/384)
🏆 Best In-Session Presentation Award, INFOCOM, 2018 (1/4)
🏆 Beijing Outstanding Graduate Award (Ph.D.), 2018
🏆 National Scholarship, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
🏆 Honorable Mention Award, CHI, 2017
🏆 Best Paper Candidate, ICPADS, 2014 (4/323)
🏆 Tsinghua Future Scholarship Award, 2014
🏆 Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Award, 2014
🏆 Beijing Outstanding Graduate Award (B.Sc.), 2014
🏆 Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Thesis, 2014
🏆 Tsinghua “December 9th” Scholarship, 2013
🏆 National Scholarship, 2012