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Weitao Xu

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

City University of Hong Kong (CityU)

Biography

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of New South Wales (UNSW) from June 2017 to August 2019. I obtained my PhD degree from the University of Queensland in 2017 (advised by Prof. Neil Bergmann and Prof. Wen Hu. I received my B.E. degree in Communication Engineering and M.E. degree in Communication and Information System both from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University (SDU) , China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

[Recruitment] I'm leading the S2MC lab@CityU and we're looking for self-motivated PhD students to join us. I have relatively broad research interests, but generally my previous research focuses on IoT such as smart sensing, IoT security, IoT+AI, wireless network etc (please visit our group website for more details). For current available PhD positions in my group. please visit Recruitment for more information.

Email: weitaoxu@cityu.edu.hk

Interests

  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Mobile Computing
  • IoT Security
  • Wearable Devices
  • Low-power Wide-area Network (LPWAN)

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017

    University of Queensland

  • MEng in Information System, 2013

    Shandong University

  • BEng in Communication Engineering, 2010

    Shandong University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

City University of Hong Kong

Aug 2019 – Present Hong Kong
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

University of New South Wales

Jun 2017 – Aug 2019 Sydney, Australia
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Australia CSIRO

Oct 2013 – Dec 2014 Brisbane, Australia

News

*2022.9 Congrats to Zehua who recevied the Outstanding Academic Performnace Award and Huanqi who received the Research Tuition Scholarship!

*2022.7 We paper entitled “Eavesdropping Mobile App Activity via Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting” has been conditionally accepted by USENIX Security!, Congrats, Tao Ni!

*2022.6 We paper entitled “SwipePass: Acoustic-based Second-factor User Authentication for Smartphones” has been conditionally accepted by IMWUT 2022!, Congrats, Yongliang!

*2022.5 Our paper entitled “Recent Advances in LoRa: A Comprehensive Survey” has been accepted by ACM TOSN!, Congrats, Zehua!

*2022.4 Our paper entitled “Vehicle-Key: A Secret Key Establishment Scheme for LoRa-enabled IoV Communications” has been accepted by ICDCS 2022! Congrats, Huanqi!

*2022.3 Our paper entitled “Time-constrained Ensemble Sensing with Heterogeneous IoT Devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems” has been accepted by IEEE TITS!

*2022.2 Our paper entitled “i^2Key: A Cross-sensor Symmetric Key Generation System using Inertial Measurements and Inaudible Sound” has been accepted by IPSN 2022!

*2021.12 Our paper entitled “GASLA: Enhancing the Applicability of Sign Language Translation” has been accepted by INFOCOM 2022!

*2021.10 I'm so honoured to receive 2021 ACM SIGBED China Rising Star Award!

*2021.10 Congrats to Tony, we received the 2021 Ubicomp CPD Workshop Best Paper Award!

*2021.5 Our paper entitled “No Need of Data Pre-processing: A General Framework for Radio-Based Device-Free Context Awareness” has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Internet of Things!

*2021.1 We have two papers accepted by IPSN 2021!

*2020.10 Our Paper “Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gait Recognition using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester” has been accepted by TMC (IF: 5.115)!

*2020.10 Our Survey “Key Generation for Internet of Things: A Contemporary Survey” has been accepted by CSUR (IF: 7.99)!

*2020.07 Invited to serve on the TPC of EWSN 2020!

*2020.06 Our paper entitled “Nephalai: Towards LPWAN C-RAN with Physical Layer Compression” has been accepted by Mobicom 2020!