Publications
A full list is also available on my Google Scholar profile. Names marked with * denote equal contribution.
2026
Power-Aware Compute Allocation for Real-Time Multi-Cell mmWave Baseband Processing with Nexus
MobiCom'26 (Demo) Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2026
To appear
@inproceedings{qi2026power,
title = {Power-aware compute allocation for real-time multi-cell {mmWave} baseband processing with Nexus},
author = {Qi, Zhenzhou and Tung, Chung-Hsuan and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle = {Proc. ACM MobiCom'26},
year = {2026},
}BatStation: Toward In-Situ Radar Sensing on 5G Base Stations with Zero-Shot Template Generation
MobiHoc'26 Proc. ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, 2026
@inproceedings{gao2026batstation,
title = {BatStation: Toward in-situ radar sensing on {5G} base stations with zero-shot template generation},
author = {Gao, Zhihui and Liu, Zhecun and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle = {Proc. ACM MobiHoc'26},
year = {2026},
}ARCTAN: Arbitrary RF Containment Using Tactical Aerial Networks and Differentiable Ray Tracing
MILCOM'26 Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2026
To appear
@inproceedings{rivera2026arctan,
title = {ARCTAN: Arbitrary {RF} containment using tactical aerial networks and differentiable ray tracing},
author={Rivera, Sam and Gao, Zhihui and Li, Yiming and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE MILCOM'26},
year={2026}
}Sub-Symbol Beam Switching with CSI Extraction for ISAC in 5G mmWave Networks
TMC IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026
@article{gao2026sub,
title={Sub-symbol beam switching with {CSI} extraction for {ISAC} in {5G} {mmWave} networks},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Liu, Zhecun and Chen, Tingjun},
journal={Trans. Mob. Comput.},
year={2026},
publisher={IEEE}
}OASIS: Outlier-Aware LUT-Based GEMM with Dual-Side Quantization for LLM Inference Acceleration
ISCA'26 Proc. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2026
@inproceedings{wu2026oasis,
title = {OASIS: Outlier-aware {LUT}-based {GEMM} with dual-side quantization for {LLM} inference acceleration},
author = {Wu, Xueying and Zhou, Baijun and Gao, Zhihui and Fu, Yuzhe and Zheng, Qilin and He, Yintao and Li, Hai},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE/ACM ISCA'26},
year = {2026},
}SPEAR-BF: Wideband Multi-Channel D-Band Beamformer Based on the RFSoC Platform
DySPAN'26 Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2026
@inproceedings{cheng2026spear,
title={SPEAR-BF: Wideband multi-channel {D}-band beamformer based on the {RFSoC} platform},
author={Cheng, Wei and Gao, Zhihui and Guajardo, Jose and Beshary, Hesham and Chen, Yiran and Niknejad, Ali M and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE DySPAN'26},
year={2026}
}Chameleon: Integrated Sensing and Communication with Sub-Symbol Beam Switching in mmWave Networks
RFSA'26 IEEE MTT-S RF Systems & Applications (RFSA) Symposium, 2026
@inproceedings{gao2026chameleon,
title = {Chameleon: Integrated sensing and communication with sub-symbol beam switching in {mmWave} networks},
author = {Gao, Zhihui and Liu, Zhecun and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle = {Proc. IEEE MTT-S RFSA'26},
year = {2026},
}Disaggregated Machine Learning via In-Physics Computing at Radio Frequency
Science Advances 2026
@article{gao2026disaggregated,
title={Disaggregated machine learning via in-physics computing at radio frequency},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Vadlamani, Sri Krishna and Sulimany, Kfir and Englund, Dirk and Chen, Tingjun},
journal={Science Advances},
volume={12},
number={2},
pages={eadz0817},
year={2026},
publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science}
}Nexus: Efficient and Scalable Multi-Cell mmWave Baseband Processing with Heterogeneous Compute
MobiCom'26 Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2026
@inproceedings{qi2026nexus,
title = {Nexus: Efficient and scalable multi-cell {mmWave} baseband processing with heterogeneous compute},
author = {Qi, Zhenzhou and Tung, Chung-Hsuan and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
journal = {Proc. ACM MobiCom'26},
year = {2026},
}2025
WISE: Wireless Analog Computing at Radio Frequency for Disaggregated Deep Learning Inference
AI4NextG'25 Proc. Neurips'25 Workshop on AI and ML for Next-Generation Wireless Communications and Networking, 2025
@inproceedings{gao2025wise,
title = {WISE: Wireless analog computing at radio frequency for disaggregated deep learning inference},
author = {Gao, Zhihui and Vadlamani, Sri Krishna and Sulimany, Kfir and Englund, Dirk and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle = {Proc. AI4NextG'25},
year = {2025},
}IoT-MCP: Bridging LLMs and IoT Systems Through Model Context Protocol
WiNTECH'25 Proc. ACM MobiCom'25 Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization, 2025
@inproceedings{yang2025iot,
title={IoT-MCP: Bridging {LLMs} and {IoT} systems through model context protocol},
author={Yang, Ningyuan and Lyu, Guanliang and Ma, Mingchen and Lu, Yiyi and Li, Yiming and Gao, Zhihui and Ye, Hancheng and Zhang, Jianyi and Chen, Tingjun and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={Proc. ACM WiNTECH'25},
year={2025}
}ClickDT: Building Scalable and High-Resolution Wireless Digital Twins with a Few Clicks
MILCOM'25 (Demo) Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2025
@inproceedings{li2025clickdt,
title = {ClickDT: Building scalable and high-resolution wireless digital twins with a few clicks},
author={Li, Yiming and Francini, Scarlett and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE MILCOM'25},
year={2025}
}SPEAR+: Streaming-Based Multi-Channel SDR Implementation Using the RFSoC Platform
MILCOM'25 Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2025
@inproceedings{cheng2025spear,
title = {SPEAR+: Streaming-based multi-channel {SDR} implementation using the {RFSoC} platform},
author={Cheng, Wei and Gao, Zhihui and Guajardo, Jose and Beshary, Hesham and Niknejad, Ali and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE MILCOM'25},
year={2025}
}Machine Intelligence on Wireless Edge Networks
arXiv arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12210, 2025
@article{vadlamani2025machine,
title = {Machine intelligence on wireless edge networks},
author = {Vadlamani, Sri Krishna and Sulimany, Kfir and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun and Englund, Dirk},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12210},
year = {2025},
}A Generalized Deep Learning Model for Signal Coverage Prediction in the CBRS Band
DySPAN'25 Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2025
@inproceedings{li2025a,
title={A generalized deep learning model for signal coverage prediction in the {CBRS} band},
author={Li, Yiming and Gao, Zhihui and Palathinkal, Joshua and Ghosh, Monisha and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE DySPAN'25},
year={2025}
}2024
SPEAR: Software-Defined Python-Enhanced RFSoC for Wideband Radio Applications
WiNTECH'24 Proc. ACM MobiCom'24 Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization, 2024
@inproceedings{cheng2024spear,
title={Spear: Software-defined Python-enhanced {RFSoC} for wideband radio applications},
author={Cheng, Wei and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM WiNTECH'24},
year={2024}
}Real-Time Wideband Software-Defined Radio with Python Programmability Based on RFSoC
MobiCom'24 (Demo) Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024
@inproceedings{cheng2024real,
title={Real-time wideband software-defined radio with Python programmability based on {RFSoC}},
author={Cheng, Wei and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM MobiCom'24},
year={2024}
}DeepMon: Wi-Fi Monitoring Using Sub-Nyquist Sampling Rate Receivers with Deep Learning
MLNextG'24 Proc. ACM MobiCom'24 Workshop on Machine Learning for NextG Networks, 2024
@inproceedings{gao2024deepmon,
title={DeepMon: {Wi-Fi} monitoring using sub-Nyquist sampling rate receivers with deep learning},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Zhang, Yunjia and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM MLNextG'24},
year={2024}
}Mambas: Maneuvering Analog Multi-User Beamforming Using an Array of Subarrays in mmWave Networks
MobiCom'24 Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024
@inproceedings{gao2024mambas,
title={Mambas: Maneuvering analog multi-user beamforming using an array of subarrays in {mmWave} networks},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Qi, Zhenzhou and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM MobiCom'24},
year={2024}
}Geo2SigMap: High-Fidelity RF Signal Mapping Using Geographic Databases
DySPAN'24 Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2024
@inproceedings{li2024geo2sigmap,
title={Geo2SigMap: High-fidelity {RF} signal mapping using geographic databases},
author={Li, Yiming and Li, Zeyu and Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE DySPAN'24},
year={2024}
}2023
Swirls: Sniffing Wi-Fi Using Radios with Low Sampling Rates
MobiHoc'23 Proc. ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, 2023
@inproceedings{gao2023swirls,
title={Swirls: Sniffing {Wi-Fi} using radios with low sampling rates},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Chen, Yiran and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM MobiHoc'23},
year={2023}}
}Programmable Millimeter-Wave MIMO Radios with Real-Time Baseband Processing
WiNTECH'23 Proc. ACM MobiCom'23 Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization, 2023
@inproceedings{qi2023programmable,
title={Programmable millimeter-wave {MIMO} radios with real-time baseband processing},
author={Qi, Zhenzhou and Gao, Zhihui and Tung, Chung-Hsuan and Chen, Tingjun},
booktitle={Proc. ACM WiNTECH'23},
year={2023}
}Open-Access Millimeter-Wave Software-Defined Radios in the PAWR COSMOS Testbed: Design, Deployment, and Experimentation
COMNET (Invited) Elsevier Computer Networks, 2023
@article{chen2023open,
title={Open-access millimeter-wave software-defined radios in the {PAWR} {COSMOS} testbed: Design, deployment, and experimentation},
author={Chen, Tingjun and Maddala, Prasanthi and Skrimponis, Panagiotis and Kolodziejski, Jakub and Adhikari, Abhishek and Hu, Hang and Gao, Zhihui and Paidimarri, Arun and Valdes-Garcia, Alberto and Lee, Myung and others},
journal={Computer Networks},
volume={234},
pages={109922},
year={2023},
publisher={Elsevier}
}2022
Next Generation Federated Learning for Edge Devices: An Overview
CIC'22 (Invited) In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, 2022
@inproceedings{zhang2022next,
title={Next generation federated learning for edge devices: An overview},
author={Zhang, Jianyi and Du, Zhixu and Sun, Jingwei and Li, Ang and Tang, Minxue and Wu, Yuhao and Gao, Zhihui and Kuo, Martin and Li, Hai-Helen and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE CIC'22},
year={2022}
}Mom: Microphone Based 3D Orientation Measurement
IPSN'22 Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2022
@inproceedings{gao2022mom,
title={Mom: Microphone based {3D} orientation measurement},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Li, Ang and Li, Dong and Liu, Jialin and Xiong, Jie and Wang, Yu and Li, Bing and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={Proc. ACM/IEEE IPSN'22},
year={2022},
}An Audio Frequency Unfolding Framework for Ultra-Low Sampling Rate Sensors
ISQED'22 (Invited) Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2022
@inproceedings{gao2022audio,
title={An audio frequency unfolding framework for ultra-low sampling rate sensors},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Tang, Minxue and Li, Ang and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={Proc. IEEE ISQED'22},
year={2022}
}2021
FedSwap: A Federated Learning Based 5G Decentralized Dynamic Spectrum Access System
ICCAD'21 (Invited) Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design, 2021
@inproceedings{gao2021fedswap,
title={FedSwap: A federated learning based {5G} decentralized dynamic spectrum access system},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Li, Ang and Gao, Yunfan and Li, Bing and Wang, Yu and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={IEEE/ACM ICCAD'21},
year={2021},
}Hermes: Decentralized Dynamic Spectrum Access System for Massive Devices Deployment in 5G
EWSN'21 Proc. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, 2021
@inproceedings{gao2021hermes,
title={Hermes: Decentralized dynamic spectrum access system for massive devices deployment in {5G}},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Li, Ang and Gao, Yunfan and Wang, Yu and Chen, Yiran},
booktitle={Proc. ACM EWSN'21},
year={2021},
}2020
CRISLoc: Reconstructable CSI Fingerprinting for Indoor Smartphone Localization
IoT Journal IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020
@article{gao2020crisloc,
title={CRISLoc: Reconstructable {CSI} fingerprinting for indoor smartphone localization},
author={Gao, Zhihui and Gao, Yunfan and Wang, Sulei and Li, Dan and Xu, Yuedong},
journal={IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
volume={8},
number={5},
pages={3422--3437},
year={2020},
publisher={IEEE}
}