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
Zhenzhou Qi, Chung-Hsuan Tung, Zhihui Gao, and Tingjun Chen
MobiCom'26 (Demo) Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2026
@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
Zhihui Gao, Zhecun Liu, and Tingjun Chen
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
Sam Rivera, Zhihui Gao, Yiming Li, Tingjun Chen
MILCOM'26 Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2026
@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
Zhihui Gao, Zhecun Liu, and Tingjun Chen
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
Xueying Wu, Baijun Zhou, Zhihui Gao, Yuzhe Fu, Qilin Zheng, Yintao He, Hai Li
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
Wei Cheng, Zhihui Gao, Jose Guajardo, Hesham Beshary, Yiran Chen, Ali Niknejad, Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Zhecun Liu, and Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Kfir Sulimany, Dirk Englund, Tingjun Chen
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
Zhenzhou Qi, Chung-Hsuan Tung, Zhihui Gao, and Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Kfir Sulimany, Dirk Englund, Tingjun Chen
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
Ningyuan Yang, Guanliang Lyu, Mingchen Ma, Yiyi Lu, Yiming Li, Zhihui Gao, Hancheng Ye, Jianyi Zhang, Tingjun Chen, and Yiran Chen
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
Yiming Li, Scarlett Francini, Zhihui Gao, Tingjun Chen
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
Wei Cheng, Zhihui Gao, Jose Guajardo, Hesham Beshary, Ali Niknejad, Tingjun Chen
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
Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Kfir Sulimany, Zhihui Gao, Tingjun Chen, Dirk Englund
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
Yiming Li, Zhihui Gao, Joshua Palathinkal, Monisha Ghosh, and Tingjun Chen
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
Wei Cheng, Zhihui Gao, and Tingjun Chen
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
Wei Cheng, Zhihui Gao, and Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao*, Yunjia Zhang*, and Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Zhenzhou Qi, Tingjun Chen
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
Yiming Li, Zeyu Li, Zhihui Gao, Tingjun Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Yiran Chen, Tingjun Chen
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
Zhenzhou Qi, Zhihui Gao, Chung-Hsuan Tung, and Tingjun Chen
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
Tingjun Chen, Prasanthi Maddala, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Jakub Kolodziejski, Abhishek Adhikari, Hang Hu, Zhihui Gao, Arun Paidimarri, Alberto Valdes-Garcia, Myung Lee, Sundeep Rangan, Gil Zussman, Ivan Seskar
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
Jianyi Zhang, Zhixu Du, Jingwei Sun, Ang Li, Minxue Tang, Yuhao Wu, Zhihui Gao, Martin Kuo, Hai-Helen Li, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Bing Li, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Minxue Tang, Ang Li, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Yunfan Gao, Bing Li, Yu Wang, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Yunfan Gao, Yu Wang, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao*, Yunfan Gao*, Sulei Wang, Dan Li, Yuedong Xu
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}
}