Openings
I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students, master sutdents and research interns to join my group. Feel free to send me an email with your CV.
Dr. Dong Li is an assistant professor of Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). His research vision is to develop mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous computing systems that can help humanity in healthcare equity, wealth distribution, and environmental sustainability by making them more affordable and accessible to the average user worldwide. His research interests lie in mobile computing, wireless sensing, wearable sensing, multi-model sensing, smart health, AI for IoT.
News
| 10/2025 | Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for MobiSys '26. |
| 10/2025 | Invited to serve as a collaborating faculty member for the Center for Research in Use-Inspired Cyber-Physical Systems (CYPRESS). Excited to collaborate with Dr. Nirmalya Roy and the team on impactful research initiatives. |
| 10/2025 | Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for SenSys '26. |
| 09/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for CHI '26. |
| 09/2025 | Our paper got accepted at IMWUT '26. |
| 09/2025 | Invited to serve on the Best Paper Committee for EWSN '25. |
| 08/2025 | Received the COEIT Interdisciplinary Proposal (CIP) Award. Grateful to COEIT for their generous support and recognition! |
| 07/2025 | Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for PerCom '26. |
| 07/2025 | Invited to serve on Technical Program Committee for IASA 2025 at MobiCom. |
| 07/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for TMC '25. |
| 07/2025 | Excited to co-chair the “Security and Privacy in Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems” track at ICPADS 2025. Welcome to submit paper in Security and Privacy in Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems! |
| 06/2025 | Received the 2025 Google Research Scholar Award. Many thanks to Google for the support and recognition! |
| 06/2025 | Received FEAT funding. Thanks to UMBC OIA and ORCA! |
| 05/2025 | Thrilled to share that our demo has been awarded the Best Demo Award at the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) – SecureTrans 2025! |
| 05/2025 | Congratulations to my student Kodi Mkpasi on receiving NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) funding for summer research! |
| 05/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for IMWUT '25. |
| 05/2025 | Congratulations to my student Riishav Guptaa for receiving the College of Engineering and Information Technology Research Day Poster Award! |
| 05/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for TMC '25. |
| 04/2025 | Excited to be co-organizing "BeyondSound: The First Workshop on Intelligent Acoustic Sensing on Wearables" at UbiComp 2025. |
| 04/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for BSN '25. |
| 04/2025 | Our paper got accepted at IMWUT '25. |
| 04/2025 | Invited to serve on the Artifact Evaluation Committee for MobiSys '25. |
| 03/2025 | Our paper "Demo: Disrupting In-Car mmWave Sensing Through IRS Manipulation" got accepted at S&P Workshop SecureTrans 2025. |
| 02/2025 | Awarded the UMB ICTR Pilot Grant. |
Selection Publications
| IMWUT/ UbiComp | Acoustoscillogram: Unlocking Arterial Health Insights via Acoustic Sensing with Low-cost Wired Earphones Xiaoxuan Liang, Zhaolong Wei, Shirui Cao, Quan Zhang, Longfei Shangguan, Dong Li, Jeremy Gummeson Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2026 |
| IMWUT/ UbiComp | WindDancer: Understanding Acoustic Sensing under Ambient Airflow Kuang Yuan, Dong Li, Hao Zhou, Zhehao Li, Lili Qiu, Swarun Kumar, Jie Xiong Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Espoo, Finland, October 2025 |
| S&P Workshop | SecureTrans: Demo: Disrupting In-Car mmWave Sensing Through IRS Manipulation Hanqing Guo, Dong Li, Ruofeng Liu, Yao Zheng IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, May 2025 |
| MobiHoc | SONDAR: Size and Shape Measurements Using Acoustic Imaging Xiaoxuan Liang∗, Zhaolong Wei∗, Dong Li, Jie Xiong, Jeremy Gummeson (*Equal contribution) ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, Athens, Greece, October 2024 |
| MobiCom | PowerPhone: Unleashing the Acoustic Sensing Capability of Smartphones Shirui Cao*, Dong Li*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution) ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Madrid, Spain, October 2023 PDF Webpage Code |
| SenSys | Room-scale Hand Gesture Recognition Using Smart Speakers Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boston, USA, November 2022 |
| MobiCom | Experience: Practical Problems for Acoustic Sensing Dong Li*, Shirui Cao*, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution) ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, November 2022 |
| IMWUT/ UbiComp | Enabling Contact-free Acoustic Sensing under Device Motion Jialin Liu*, Dong Li*, Lei Wang, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong (*Equal contribution) Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Atlanta, USA and Cambridge, UK, September 2022 |
| IMWUT/ UbiComp | LASense: Pushing the Limits of Fine-grained Activity Sensing Using Acoustic Signals Dong Li, Jialin Liu, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Jie Xiong Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Atlanta, USA and Cambridge, UK, September 2022 |