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
| 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 participate in the DCC CAREER Mock-Up Panel. |
| 05/2025 | Invited to serve as a session chair for CHASE '25. |
| 05/2025 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for IMWUT '25. |
| 05/2025 | Invited to visit Nano Dimension at Boston. |
| 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 | Invited to give a guest lecture at the CS Department, University of Pittsburgh. Thanks to Dr. Shangguan. |
| 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. |
| 03/2025 | I am honored to be nominated by Dean Anupam Joshi and Associate Dean Vandana Janeja, with support from the Office of the Provost, to participate in the NCFDD Faculty Success Program (Summer 2025), a prestigious initiative that fosters faculty productivity and professional growth. |
| 03/2025 | Invited to serve as a session chair for PerCom '25. |
| 03/2025 | Received SURFF funding. Thanks to UMBC ORD! |
| 02/2025 | Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for HumanSys '25. |
| 02/2025 | Awarded the UMB ICTR Pilot Grant. |
Selection Publications
| 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 Coming Soon! |
| 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 |