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Chenhan Xu
Chenhan Xu

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

North Carolina State University

2268 Engineering Building II, Raleigh, NC 27606

chenhanxu (AT) ncsu (DOT) edu

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「君子不器」 — Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Openings

I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students/interns to work on Wireless and Mobile Sensing. Feel free to send me an email with your CV.

Dr. Chenhan Xu is an Assistant Professor of Department of Computer Science in the North Carolina State University. His research focuses on the convergence of Internet of Things (IoT), Physiological Science, and Smart Health. Chenhan is the receipient of Best Student Paper Award at ICHI 2022, Best Paper Award at MobiSys 2020, Best Paper Award at SenSys 2019, Best Paper Award at ICC 2019, Best Paper Award at GlobeCom 2016, and Best Paper Nominee at ACM SenSys 2022.

Chenhan and his group explore advanced embedded sensing and computing systems to enable high-impact real-world IoT applications. The research involves pioneering advancements in sensing and computing system paradigm, data analytics, signal processing, algorithm, and hardware innovations for Internet of Human-Centric Things by

  • Precision Sensing that arguments IoT “resolution”: exploring new wireless and wearable sensing technologies to precisely, securely, and robustly interrogate human physiological information, including noise-immune voice tone [MobiSys'19] and resilient voice biometrics [SenSys'20] , fine-grained heart activities [UbiComp'21] , anti-spoofing fingerprint [NDSS’22] and wearable fine-grained finger tracking [CHI'23] , and authentic body inertia [ICHI’22] .
  • Novel Human-IoT Interface that enables extra “bandwidth”: investigating new interfaces between human and IoT through broad-spectrum wireless modalities of human physiological activities (e.g., IoT-heart interface via voice [SenSys'22] and mmWave [UbiComp'21] ).
  • Pervasive and Privary-preserving mobile health that have extended “coverage”: exploring effortless, accurate, and secure health monitoring and disease prevention through IoT devices and facilities, including passive medication adherence management of Parkinson’s disease (PD) [UbiComp'19] and privacy-preserving early detection of PD [MobiCom'19] .
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Activity

Chenhan completed the NIH mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) at UCLA.

(2024/08)
Publication

One poster is accepted by IPSN'24.

(2024/03)
Publication

One paper is accepted by ICC'24.

(2024/02)
Service

Chenhan served as Program Committee Member of ICCCN'24.

(2024/02)
Service

Chenhan served as Program Committee Member of BSN'23.

(2023/09)
Service

Chenhan served as Program Committee Member of IPCCC'23.

(2023/08)
Activity

Chenhan joined Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University.

(2023/08)
Award

Chenhan received the SEAS Dean’s Graduate Achievement Award.

(2023/07)
Selected Publications

Chenhan Xu, Bing Zhou, Gurunandan Krishnan, Shree Nayar, “AO-Finger: Hands-free Fine-grained Finger Gesture Recognition via Acoustic-Optic Sensor Fusing”, Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23), Hamburg, Germany, Apr. 2023. ( Acceptace rate: 28.39%, 880 out of 3182 ) PDF

Chenhan Xu, Tianyu Chen*, Huining Li, Alexander Gherardi*, Michelle Weng*, Zhengxiong Li, Wenyao Xu, “Hearing Heartbeat from Voice: Towards Next Generation Voice-User Interfaces with Cardiac Sensing Function”, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'22), Boston, MA, Nov. 2022. ( Acceptance Rate: 24.8%, 52 out of 209 , Best Paper Award Candidate, 7 out of 209 ) PDF

Chenhan Xu, Huining Li, Zhengxiong Li, Xingyu Chen*, Aditya Singh Rathore, Hanbin Zhang, Kun Wang, Wenyao Xu, “The Visual Accelerometer: A High-fidelity Optic-to-Inertial Transformation Framework for Wearable Health Computing”, IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI'22), Rochester, MN, June 2022. ( Best Student Paper Award, 2 out of 109 ) PDF

Chenhan Xu, Huining Li, Zhengxiong Li, Hanbin Zhang, Aditya Singh Rathore, Xingyu Chen, Kun Wang, Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, “CardiacWave: A mmWave-based Scheme of Non-Contact and High-Definition Heart Activity Computing”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp/IMWUT'21), Volume 5, Issue 3, Sept. 2021, Pages 1 - 26. ( R1 Initial Acceptance Rate in May: 2.14%, 3 out of 140, overall AR: 25% ) PDF

Huining Li, Chenhan Xu, Aditya Singh Rathore, Zhengxiong Li, Hanbin Zhang, Chen Song, Kun Wang, Lu Su, Feng Lin, Kui Ren, Wenyao Xu, “VocalPrint: Exploring A Resilient and Secure Voice Authentication via mmWave Biometric Interrogation”, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'20), Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 2020. ( Acceptance Rate: 20.6%, 44 out of 213 ) PDF

Chenhan Xu, Zhengxiong Li, Hanbin Zhang, Aditya Singh Rathore, Huining Li, Chen Song, Kun Wang, Wenyao Xu, “WaveEar: Exploring a mmWave-based Noise-resistant Speech Sensing for Voice-User Interface”, ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'19), Seoul, South Korea, June 2019. ( Acceptance Rate: 23.2%, 40 out of 172 ) PDF

Professional Activities

Program Committee Member

  • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) [2024]
  • IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) [2023]
  • IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks: Sensor and Systems for Digital Health (BSN) [2023]
  • International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) [2023]
  • ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) Shadow PC [2022]
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) [2018, 2019, 2020]

Reviewer

  • ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) [2024]
  • ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) [2022, 2023]
  • Nature Scientific Data (2023)
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
  • ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) [2021, 2022]
  • IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) - [2019, 2020]
  • IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) [2019]
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing [2016]