Seminar by Professor Dongyao Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 26 Aug 2024, CCDS Meeting Room

Time: 10:30-12:00am, August 26th, Monday 2024

Venue: CCDS Meeting Room (N4-02a-35)

Title: Enabling Magnetoreception for Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract:

Sensing the surrounding world is an essential capability for the rapid-evolving cyber-physical systems such as virtual reality, robots, and autonomous vehicles. Empowered with AI-powered techniques, these systems have revolutionized how we work, entertain, and commute. As these systems integrate into every corner of the world, various unprecedented sensing requirements are fast emerging. For example, can we capture human motion on a millimeter scale at a low cost? Is it possible to navigate robots when robots cannot even “see” the environment?

Over the last three years, my team and I have been developing novel magnetic sensing technologies. Compared with other sensing modalities, the physics of magnetic field unlocks unique pathways for achieving fine-grained sensing with minimum overheads. Specifically, we discovered new design principles that enable magnetic sensing to achieve millimeter-scale tracking accuracy, thus largely facilitating essential applications such as at-home healthcare and sports analytics. We also integrated magnetic sensing techniques for robots to tackle challenging scenarios that legacy sensors, e.g., cameras and radars, cannot address. In this talk, I will show our journey so far and elaborate on pressing challenges in magnetic sensing..

Biography:

Dongyao Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research interests broadly lie in mobile sensing, interactive systems, and security/privacy issues of emerging sensing technologies. At SJTU, he leads the CyPhy research team, a curiosity-driven team works on building practical systems to solve real-world challenges. His research has been published in top conferences such as MobiCom, MobiSys, UbiComp, SenSys, and CCS. He co-founded DriverX, a mobile telematic startup based on the technologies developed in his works, focuses on democratizing AI-powered sensing systems for making roads safer. Recently, he was awarded the Best Paper Award at VehicleSec 2023. His works also received with four US patents. Chen received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.