Hello, I am Yanwen Wang

Associate Professor

College of Electrical and Information Engineering

Hunan University, Changsha, China

IEEE Member, ACM Member, CCF Member

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News

2023, June: Our work 'RemoteGesture' was accepted by IEEE SECON 2023!

2022, December: Our work 'RFChain' was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2023!

2022, December: Two of our works 'HearFire' and 'Multi-Vib' were published to ACM IMWUT (UbiComp 2023)!

2022, January: Our work 'HearLiquid' was accepted by IEEE IOTJ!

2021, August: Two of Our work 'RM-Dynamic' and 'ShakeReader' were accepted by IEEE TMC!

2021, March: Our work 'Low-cost Acoustic-based Liquid Fraud Detection' won Gold Award of The 4th China (Shanghai) International Exhibition of Invention and Innovation 2021!

2021, March: Our work 'low-cost RFID system for parallel sensing tasks' was accepted by IEEE IOTJ!

2020, December: Our work 'ShakeReader' was accepted to appear to INFOCOM 2021!

2020, October: Our journal version of 'RobuCIR' was accepted by IEEE TMC!

2020, July: Our work 'RobuCIR' won INFOCOM 2020 Best Paper Award! 😄😄

Resume

Education

The Hong Kong PolyU

Computer Science

Ph.D.


Research interests: Wireless Sensing, Mobile Computing, Signal Processing, Data Analysis

Missouri S&T

Electrical Engineering

M.S.



Research interests: Wireless Sensor Network

Hunan University

Electrical Engineering

B.S.



Research interests: Wireless Sensor Network

Research Interests

Wireless Sensing, Mobile Computing, Signal Processing, WSN

NFC tag authentication

Key techniques: NFC tag, physical-layer hardware fingerprinting, authentication
Publications:
[1] [INFOCOM'23] Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenlin An, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu, and Guoming Zhang, "NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication," in IEEE INFOCOM 2023, accepted. (CCF A)

We can HEAR the fire

Key techniques: Acoustic sensing, Sound absorption, Sound speed variation, CIR
Publications:
[1] [UbiComp'23] Zheng Wang, Yanwen Wang, Mi Tian and Jiaxing Shen*, "HearFire: Indoor Fire Detection via Inaudible Acoustic Sensing," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 185 (December 2022), 25 pages. (CCF A)

Multiple points' vibration monitoring using mmWave radar

Key techniques: FMCW, mmWave radar, Vibration monitoring, Corner reflector
Publications:
[1] [UbiComp'23] Yanni Yang, Huafeng Xu, Qianyi Chen, Jiannong Cao, and Yanwen Wang*, "Multi-Vib: Precise Multi-point Vibration Monitoring Using mmWave Radar," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 192 (December 2022), 26 pages. (CCF A)

We can HEAR the liquid fraud

Key techniques: Acoustic sensing, Auto-encoding, Data augmentation
Publications:
[1] [IEEE IOTJ] Yanni Yang, Yanwen Wang*, Jiannong Cao and Jinlin Chen, "HearLiquid: Non-intrusive Liquid Fraud Detection Using Commodity Acoustic Devices," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 13582-13597, 1 Aug.1, 2022. (SCI, JCR Q1)

A Low-cost RFID System for Distributed Parallel Sensing

Key techniques: RFID, Software Defined Reader, Cross-technology communication, Distributed sensing
Publications:
[1] [IEEE IOTJ] Yanwen Wang, Jiannong Cao and Yuanqing Zheng, "Toward A Low-cost Software-Defined UHF RFID System for Distributed Parallel Sensing," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 17, pp. 13664-13676, 1 Sept.1, 2021. (SCI, JCR Q1)

Let smartphones 'read' tags

Key techniques: RFID, Antenna Polarization, Gesture identification
Publications:
[1] [TMC] K. Cui, Y. Wang, Y. Zheng and J. Han, "ShakeReader: 'Read' UHF RFID using Smartphone," in IEEE TMC, 2021. (CCF A)
[2] [INFOCOM 2021] K. Cui, Y. Wang, Y. Zheng and J. Han, "ShakeReader: 'Read' UHF RFID using Smartphone," in IEEE INFOCOM 2021. (CCF A)

Gesture Identification

Key techniques: Acoustic sensing, Signal processing
Publications:
[1] [SECON 2023] M. Tian, Y. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Situ, X. Sun, X. Shi, C. Zhang and J. Shen, "RemoteGesture: Room-scale Acoustic Gesture Recognition for Multiple Users," in IEEE SECON, 2023, accepted. (CCF B)
[2] [TMC] Y. Wang, J. Shen and Y. Zheng, "Push the Limit of Acoustic Gesture Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020. (CCF A)
[3] [INFOCOM 2020] Y. Wang, J. Shen and Y. Zheng, "Push the Limit of Acoustic Gesture Recognition," in IEEE INFOCOM 2020. [Best Paper Award] (CCF A)

Activity Recognition

Key techniques: RFID, Reflection modeling, Signal processing, Classification
Publications:
[1] [UbiComp'19] Y. Wang and Y. Zheng. "Modeling RFID Signal Reflection for Contact-free Activity Recognition," in ACM UbiComp 2019. (CCF A)

Human Respiration Monitoring

Key techniques: RFID, RF signal processing
Publications:
[1] [TMC] Y. Yang, J. Cao and Y. Wang*, "Robust RFID-based Respiration Monitoring in Dynamic Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2021. (CCF A)
[2] [TMC] Y. Wang and Y. Zheng, "TagBreathe: Monitor Breathing with Commodity RFID Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2019. (CCF A)
[3] [ICDCS'17] Y. Hou, Y. Wang and Y. Zheng, "TagBreathe: Monitor Breathing with Commodity RFID Systems," in IEEE ICDCS 2017. (CCF B)

Software Defined Network

Key techniques:WSN,SDN,Node sleep schedule
Publications:
[1] [JNCA] Yanwen Wang, Hainan Chen, Xiaoling Wu, Lei Shu, "An energy-efficient SDN based sleep scheduling algorithm for WSNs," Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 59, 2016, Pages 39-45. [Best Paper Award JNCA 2017] (JCR Q1)

Full Publications

Books/Chapters

[1] Yuanqing Zheng and Yanwen Wang, "Chapter 12 - rfid-based vital signsmonitoring," in Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring (Wenjin Wang and Xuyu Wang, eds.), pp. 257–279, Elsevier Academic Press, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822281-2.00021-4.

Journals (*Corresponding Author)

[1] [ACM UbiComp'23] Zheng Wang, Yanwen Wang, Mi Tian and Jiaxing Shen. 2022. "HearFire: Indoor Fire Detection via Inaudible Acoustic Sensing," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 185 (December 2022), 25 pages. (CCF A)
[2] [ACM UbiComp'23] Yanni Yang, Huafeng Xu, Qianyi Chen, Jiannong Cao, and Yanwen Wang*. 2022. "Multi-Vib: Precise Multi-point Vibration Monitoring Using mmWave Radar," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 192 (December 2022), 26 pages. (CCF A)
[3] [IEEE IOTJ] Yanni Yang, Yanwen Wang*, Jiannong Cao and Jinlin Chen, "HearLiquid: Non-intrusive Liquid Fraud Detection Using Commodity Acoustic Devices," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 13582-13597, 1 Aug.1, 2022. (SCI, JCR Q1)
[4] [IEEE TMC] Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao and Yanwen Wang*, "Robust RFID-based Respiration Monitoring in Dynamic Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1717-1730, 1 March 2023. (CCF A)
[5] [IEEE TMC] Kaiyan Cui, Yanwen Wang, Yuanqing Zheng and Jinsong Han, "ShakeReader: 'Read' UHF RFID using Smartphone," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1717-1730, 1 March 2023. (CCF A)
[6] [IEEE IOTJ] Yanwen Wang, Jiannong Cao and Yuanqing Zheng, "Toward A Low-cost Software-Defined UHF RFID System for Distributed Parallel Sensing," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 17, pp. 13664-13676, 1 Sept.1, 2021. (SCI, JCR Q1)
[7] [IEEE TMC] Yanwen Wang, Jiaxing Shen and Yuanqing Zheng, "Push the Limit of Acoustic Gesture Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1798-1811, 1 May 2022. (CCF A)
[8] [IEEE TMC] Yanwen Wang and Yuanqing Zheng, "TagBreathe: Monitor Breathing with Commodity RFID Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 969-981, 1 April 2020. (CCF A)
[9] [ACM UbiComp'19] Yanwen Wang and Yuanqing Zheng. 2018. "Modeling RFID Signal Reflection for Contact-free Activity Recognition," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol (UbiComp 2019). 2, 4, Article 193. (CCF A)
[10] [Elsevier JNCA] Yanwen Wang, Hainan Chen, Xiaoling Wu, Lei Shu, "An energy-efficient SDN based sleep scheduling algorithm for WSNs," Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 59, 2016, Pages 39-45. [Best Paper Award JNCA 2017] (SCI, JCR Q1)
[11] [IJDSN] Yanwen Wang, Ivan G. Guardiola, and Xiaoling Wu, "RSSI and LQI Data Clustering Techniques to Determine the Number of Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 380526, 11 pages, 2014. (SCI, JCR Q1)
[12] [SCN] Yanwen Wang, Xiaoling Wu, and Hainan Chen, "An Intrusion Detection Method for WSN based on Mathematical Morphology," Journal of Security and Communication Networks, 2015. (SCI, JCR Q1)
[13] [Wireless Nwk.] Xiaoling Wu, Hainan Chen, Yanwen, Wang, Lei Shu and Guangcong Liu, "BP Neural Network based Continuous Objects Distribution Detection in WSNs," Wireless Networks, Springer, vol.22, no.6, pp.1917-1929, 2016. (SCI, JCR Q1)
[14] [Sensors J.] Hainan, Chen, Xiaoling, Wu, Guangcong, Liu and Wang, Yanwen, "A Novel Multi-Module Separated Linear UWSNs Sensor Node," in Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, 2015. (SCI, JCR Q1)

Conferences

[1] [IEEE SECON'23] Mi Tian, Yanwen Wang, Zheng Wang, Junhua Situ, Xiaoqi Sun, Xiaokang Shi, Chenwei Zhang and Jiaxing Shen, "RemoteGesture: Room-scale Acoustic Gesture Recognition for Multiple Users," in IEEE SECON, 2023, accepted. (CCF B)
[2] [IEEE INFOCOM'23] Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenlin An, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu, and Guoming Zhang, "NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication," in IEEE INFOCOM 2023, accepted. (CCF A)
[3] [IEEE INFOCOM'21] Kaiyan Cui, Yanwen Wang, Yuanqing Zheng and Jinsong Han, "ShakeReader: 'Read' UHF RFID using Smartphone," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 1-10, Online, 2021. (CCF A)
[4] [IEEE INFOCOM'20] Yanwen Wang, Jiaxing Shen and Yuanqing Zheng, "Push the Limit of Acoustic Gesture Recognition," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 566-575, Beijing, China, 2020. [Best Paper Award] (CCF A)
[5] [IEEE ICDCS'17] Yuxiao Hou, Yanwen Wang and Yuanqing Zheng, "TagBreathe: Monitor Breathing with Commodity RFID Systems," 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA, 2017, pp. 404-413. (CCF B)
[6] Wang, Yanwen; Wu, Xiaoling; Chen, Hainan; Liu, Guangcong, "A Granulometric Size Distribution based intrusion detection method for WSN," Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), 2014 9th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,6, 14-16 Aug. 2014. (EI)
[7] Yanwen Wang; Xiaoyu Li; Xiaoling Wu; Zhangbing Zhou; Hainan Chen, "Horizontal hierarchy slicing based data compression for WSN," Computing, Communications and IT Applications Conference (ComComAp), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.255,260, 20-22 Oct. 2014. (EI)
[8] Dongyang Luo, Yanwen Wang, Xiaoling Wu, Lei Shu, and Hainan Chen. 2015. "The Enhancement of GSD Algorithm with Data Preprocessing Technique for WSN," In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Mobile Sensing, Computing and Communication (MSCC'15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 31-34. (EI)
[9] Chen, Hainan; Liu, Guangcong; Wu, Xiaoling; Wang, Yanwen; Huang, Tingting; Wang, Shiwei, "Optimal Fusion Set based Clustering in WSN for continuous objects monitoring," Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), 2014 9th International Conference on, vol., no., pp.26,31, 14-16 Aug. 2014. (EI)
[10] Shiwei Wang; Xiaoling Wu; Hainan Chen; Yanwen Wang; Daiping Li, "An optimal slicing strategy for SDN based smart home network," in Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2014 International Conference on, vol., no., pp.118-122, 3-5 Nov. 2014. (EI)
[11] Chen, Hainan, Xiaoling Wu, Yanwen Wang, Guangcong Liu, Lei Shu, and Xiaobo Zhang. "A Dynamic Underwater Sensor Network Architecture Based on Physical Clustering and Intra-cluster Autonomy." In Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks, pp. 82-92. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. (EI)
[12] Zeng, Dewen, Xiaoling Wu, Yanwen Wang, Hainan Chen, Kangkang Liang, and Lei Shu. "A Survey on Sensor Deployment in Underwater Sensor Networks." In Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks, pp. 133-143. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. (EI)
[13] Li Dong, Xiaoling Wu, Liang Yang, Hainan Chen, Yanwen Wang, and Xiaobo Zhang. "Energy-efficient dynamic cooperative virtual MIMO based routing protocol in wireless sensor networks." In Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), 2013 8th International ICST Conference on, pp. 523-527. IEEE, 2013. (EI)

Others

[1] [Sensys'23 Poster] Zheng Wang, Yanwen Wang, Xiaoqi Sun, and Chenwei Zhang. 2023. "UltraFlame: Ultrasonic-Based Fire Source Localization and Fire Severity Assessment System," In Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2023), Poster. ACM, Istanbul, Turkiye. (EI)
[2] [IPSN'15 Poster] Yanwen Wang, Hainan Chen, Xiaoling Wu, and Lei Shu. 2015. "Improving WSNs sleep scheduling mechanism with SDN-like architecture," In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '15), Poster. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 338-339. (EI)

Project Experience

Principal Investigator

1. The Nature Science Foundation of Hunan province, China ,2023.1-2025.12
2. The National Nature Science Foundation of China ,2022.1-2024.12
3. The Nature Science Foundation of Hunan province, China ,2022.1-2024.12
4. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,2021.1-2024.12

Core Participant

1. 国家自然科学基金(青年科学基金项目):RFID 跨层优化及实验平台研究,2018.1-2020.12
2. 2017年度广东省大数据分析与处理重点实验室开放基金:基于多源融合用户画像的游戏平台商业化数据分析技术研究与系统开发,2017.1-2017.12
3. 2017年度广州市天河区科技计划:基于商业智能分析的互动娱乐行业内容分发和渠道管理大数据平台的研发,2017.1-2017.12
4. 2016年度广州市天河区科技计划:面向移动游戏行业的智能化运营及垂直分销大数据服务平台的研制与应用,2016.1-2016.12
5. 2015广东省自然基金自由申请项目:基于特征信号聚类的无线传感器网络防入侵技术的研究,2014.10-2016.9
6. 2015深圳市基础研究项目:基于综合数据聚类的无线传感器网络入侵监测的研究,2015.1-2016.12
7. 2014中国民航大学省部级科研机构开放基金:基于特征信号聚类的无线传感器网络防入侵技术的研究,2014.10– 2016.9
8. 佛山院市合作项目:基于信息加密传输的智能家居系统,2014.6-2016.5

Participant

1. 2014广州市珠江科技新星:基于无线传感器网络的突发性环境污染实时监测系统的研究,2014.4-2017.3
2. 2014广东省石化装备故障诊断重点实验室开放基金:基于免疫检测器的故障诊断中的多传感器信息融合技术研究,2013.12-2014.12

Patents

Granted

1. 王砚文,王征,施孝康,孙小齐,田蜜,“一种状态检测方法、系统、电子装置及存储介质”,专利号:202310844599.6,申请日:2022.8.8,申请人:湖南大学
2. 刘荻,刘冶,王砚文,陈宇恒,印鉴,马朔,“一种消息过滤的方法及装置”,专利号:2016102838667,申请日:2016.4.29,申请人:中山大学;火烈鸟网络(广州)股份有限公司
3. 王砚文,吴晓鸰,陈海南,等,“一种基于数学形态学的无线网络攻击检测方法”,专利号:2014100108482,申请日:2014.1.9,申请人:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所
4. 吴晓鸰,李建军,王砚文,曾德文,李汉,王慰,“穿戴式虚拟键盘及其实现方法”,专利号:2014100042748,申请日:2014.1.2,申请人:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所

Accepted

1. 王砚文,田蜜,王征,刘敏,徐振轩,赵言涛,汤博,“一种声学感知系统及增大声学感知范围的方法”,专利号:202210608568.6,申请日:2022.6.1,申请人:湖南大学
2. 王砚文,王征,田蜜,刘敏,徐振轩,赵言涛,汤博,“一种非接触式火灾监测系统及方法”,专利号:202210422052.2,申请日:2022.4.21,申请人:湖南大学
3. 王砚文,吴晓鸰,陈海南,王诗伟,曾德文,李建军,“一种基于PAM聚类算法的无线传感器网络入侵监测方法”,专利号:2014102391796,申请日:2014.6.3,申请人:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所
4. 吴晓鸰,王砚文,陈海南,“一种用于工厂突发事件的监控报警方法”,专利号:2014106556088,申请日:2014.11.17,申请人:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所
5. 吴晓鸰,陈海南,曾德文,李汉,王砚文,“一种水下传感器网络及其节点装置”,专利号:2013104455285, 申请日:2013.9.26,申请单位:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所
6. 曾德文,李汉,吴晓鸰,王文韬,李建军,王慰,王砚文,张欢,“一种基于液晶触控屏的交互式触控会议系统”,专利号:2013105976542,申请日:2013.11.22,申请人:广州中国科学院先进技术研究所

Academic Service

TPC

1. IEEE RTCSA
2. IEEE MASS
3. IEEE ICPADS

Reviewer

1. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
2. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
3. ACM Computing Surveys
4. ACM IMWUT (Ubicomp)
5. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
6. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
7. IEEE System Journal