Lei Wang

Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

wanglei@suda.edu.cn

shuishanglei@gmail.com

github-wanglei

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Biography

Dr. Lei Wang, an Associate Professor at Soochow University, was recognized as a Youth Talent by the Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Nanjing University in April2020 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University from September 2020 to November 2022.

His research focuses on AIoT and wireless sensing, with over 20 publications in top conferences and journals such as MobiSys, UbiComp, and TMC. He has received awards including the UbiComp 2022 Distinguished Paper Award, WASA 2022 Best Paper Award, and ACM Rising Star Award (Nanjing Chapter). He also serves as a PC member or Track Chair for conferences like ICDCS, HPCC, ICA3PP, and WASA.

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Selected Awards

  • National Public Study Abroad Scholarship, China Scholarship Council, 2018
  • IEEE WASA Best Paper Award, 2022
  • Young Distinguished Professor, Soochow University, 2022
  • ACM Rising Star Award (Nanjing Chapter), 2023
  • ACM UbiComp Distinguished Paper Award, 2023

    • Selected Publications (Full List)

    mP-Gait: Fine-grained Parkinson’s Disease Gait Impairment Assessment with Robust Feature Analysis
    Wenhao Zhang, Haipeng Dai, Dongyu Xia, Yang Pan, Zeshui Li, Wei Wang, Zhen Li, Lei Wang, Guihai Chen
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2024

    We propose mP-Gait, a system for precise gait impairment assessment in Parkinson’s patients, enabling remote monitoring and personalized healthcare.
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    Accurate Blood Pressure Measurement Using Smartphone's Built-in Accelerometer
    Lei Wang, Xingwei Wang, Yu Zhang, Xiaolei Ma, Haipeng Dai, Yong Zhang, Zhijun Li, Tao Gu
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2024

    We propose Accurate Blood Pressure Measurement, using smartphones' accelerometers to provide reliable, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring for daily health management.
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    Knowing Your Heart Condition Anytime: User-Independent ECG Measurement using Commercial Mobile Phones
    Lei Wang, Xingwei Wang, Dalin Zhang, Xiaolei Ma, Yong Zhang, Haipeng Dai, Chenren Xu, Zhijun Li, Tao Gu
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2023

    We propose Knowing Your Heart Condition Anytime, a system enabling user-independent ECG measurement via mobile phones for continuous, accessible heart health monitoring.
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    DFSense: Dual Forming in Acoustic based Heartbeat Monitoring for Multiple Users
    Lei Wang, Tao Gu, Wei Li, Yong Zhang, Haipeng Dai, Chenren Xu, Daqing Zhang
    ACM MobiSys 2023

    We propose DFSense, a dual acoustic beamforming system for real-time, multi-user heartbeat monitoring in healthcare, fitness, and smart home environments.
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    Watching Your Phone’s Back: Gesture Recognition by Sensing Acoustical Structure-borne Propagation
    Lei Wang, Xiang Zhang, Yuanshang Jiang, Yong Zhang, Chenren Xu, Ruiyang Gao, Daqing Zhang
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2021

    We propose Watching Your Phone’s Back, a system using acoustical waves through the phone's body for sensor-free, accurate gesture recognition in mobile, gaming, and accessibility applications.
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    WiTrace: Centimeter-Level Passive Gesture Tracking Using WiFi Signal
    Lei Wang, Haoran Wan, Ting Zhao, Ke Sun, Shuyu Shi, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen, Haodong Liu, Wei Wang
    IEEE TMC 2023

    We propose WiTrace, a WiFi-based system for real-time, centimeter-level gesture tracking without wearables, enabling applications in smart homes, gaming, and health monitoring.
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    HeadTracker: Fine-grained Head Orientation Tracking with a Head-mounted Ultrasound Device
    Jinpeng Song, Haipeng Dai, Shuyu Shi, Lei Wang, Haoran Wan, ZhizhengYang, Fu Xiao, Guihai Chen
    IEEE WASA 2022, Best Paper Award

    We propose HeadTracker, a head-mounted ultrasound system for precise head orientation tracking, enabling robust performance across applications like VR, gaming, and HCI.
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    SCALAR: Self-Calibrated Acoustic Ranging for Distributed Mobile Devices
    Lei Wang, Haoran Wan, Ting Zhao, Ke Sun, Shuyu Shi, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen, Haodong Liu, Wei Wang
    IEEE TMC 2023

    We propose SCALAR, a self-calibrated acoustic ranging system that achieves sub-millimeter ranging accuracy on distributed commercial devices.
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    VECTOR: Velocity Based Temperature-field Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Devices
    Haoran Wan, Lei Wang, Ting Zhao, Ke Sun, Shuyu Shi, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen, Haodong Liu, Wei Wang
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2022

    We introduce VECTOR, a temperature-field monitoring system that achieves high temperature sensing accuracy and fast response time using commercial sound playing/recording devices.
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    LoEar: Push the Range Limit of Acoustic Sensing for Vital Sign Monitoring
    Lei Wang, Wei Li, Ke Sun, Fusang Zhang, Tao Gu, Chenren Xu, Daqing Zhang
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2022

    We propose LoEar, which is a novel acoustic sensing system using only a single microphone and speaker to detect vital signs (respiration and heartbeat) with a significantly increased sensing range (> 6 meter).
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    Unlock With Your Heart: Heartbeat-based Authentication on Commercial Mobile Phones
    Lei Wang, Kang Huang, Ke Sun, Wei Wang, Chen Tian, Lei Xie, Qing Gu
    ACM IMWUT (UbiComp) 2018

    ''Unlock with your heart'' uses the built-in accelerometer to capture the heartbeat signals on commercial mobile phones. The user only needs to press the phone on his/her chest, and the system can identify the user within a few heartbeats.
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    Projects

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022.01-2024.12, 300,000 RMB, Project No.: 62102006, PI
  • Peking University-Baidu Funded Project, 2020.01-2021.12, 2 million RMB, Project No.: 2019BD005, Participant, PI
  • Research Project by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 2019.06-2020.06, 250,000 RMB, Project No.: YBN2019055183, Participant
  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Research Project, 2019.07-2021.07, 800,000 RMB, Project No.: YBN2019075008, Participant
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016.01-2018.12, 290,000 RMB, Project No.: 6150060217, Participant
  • Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China, 2023.07-2025.07, Project No.: 1020231697, PI
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2025.01-2028.12, 500,000 RMB, Project No.: 62472299, PI

    • Service

    Editorial Service
  • Session chair at COCOON 2024
  • Co-Chair at IMWST workshop, co-located with ICA3PP 2023
  • Publicity Chair at MobiQuitous 2022
  • Session chair at WASA 2022
  • TPC member at ICDCS 2024, HPCC 2021, 2024, UIC 2024, ICA3PP 2024
    • Review Service
  • 2024: UbiComp/IMWUT, ICDCS, IOTJ, UIC, ICA3PP, HPCC
  • 2023: UbiComp/IMWUT, CHI, HPCC
  • 2022: UbiComp/IMWUT
  • 2021: UbiComp/IMWUT