Bio:
Wenqiang (Winston) Chen is a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL. He attained his PhD from the University of Virginia, working with Professor John Stankovic. His research resides at the convergence of ubiquitous and mobile sensing, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and human-computer interaction (HCI). In particular, his focus is on imbuing everyday objects with interactive intelligence. The primary challenge has revolved around devising effective intelligent interaction platforms tailored for the next generation of computing. As the first author, he has published his research in various top conferences and journals, such as Mobicom, Ubicomp, UIST, and Transactions on Mobile Computing. His work has earned him three best paper/demo awards as the first author: the IEEE SECON 2018 Best Paper Award, the ACM SenSys 2020 Best Demo Award, and the ACM Mobicom 2022 S3 workshop Best Paper Award. In 2022, he was selected to CPS Rising Stars. Beyond academia, Winston's innovations have been granted seven patents, and his intellectual properties have been transferred to thousands of consumer devices.
News:
- [January 2024] A paper accepted to appear in IMWUT/Ubicomp.
- [October 2023] A paper accepted to appear in IMWUT/Ubicomp.
- [August 2023] A paper accepted to appear in ACM UIST.
- [October 2022] We received Best Paper Award in ACM Mobicom S3 workshop！
- [October 2022] A paper accepted to appear in ACM Mobicom S3 workshop.
- [June 2022] I am joining MIT CSAIL as a postdoc fellow this fall, working with Wojciech Matusik and Dina Katabi.
- [April 2022] I gave invited talks at MIT CSAIL and UCSD HDSI.
- [April 2022] I am selected for CPS Rising Stars 2022!
- [February 2022] A demo accepted to appear in ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2022.
- [December 2021] I serve as the program committee member of ICCPS 2022 WIP . Please submit your work and join us at CPS-IoT Week 2022!
- [Aug - Nov] I gave invited talks at MIT, Georgia Tech , UCLA, Columbia, Vanderbilt and Tufts University.
- [November 2021] I received the Link Lab Student Seminar Award (single awardee), which is the highest award in recognition of excellence in CPS research at a 200+ person lab.
- [October 2021] I was chosen as a spearker for UVA Engeenring School Board of Trustees.
- [August 2021] A demo accepted to appear in ACM UIST 2021.
- [July 2021] I am selected to teach CS 1010 Introduction to Information Technology in this fall at UVA!
- [July 2021] A paper accepted to appear in ACM IMWUT/Ubicomp 2021.
- [June 2021] I am selected to give a student presentation at NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting, 2021.
- [May 2021] I am selected by ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition to present a poster at CPS-IoT Week, 2021.
- [April 2021] I am invited to give a workshop in IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 2021.
- [January 2021] I gave invited talks at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Washington (UW). "Vibration Intelligence: Bringing Machine Perception Beyond the Human-like."
- [January 2021] A paper accepted to appear in ACM IMWUT/Ubicomp 2021.
- [November 2020] We received ACM SenSys The Best Demo Award！ "A Smartwatch Product Provides On-body Tapping Gestures Recognition."
- [October 2020] I gave an invited talk at Charlottesville High School. "Machine learning: introduction and applications."
- [October, 2020] Two demos accepted to appear in ACM SenSys 2020!
- [June 2020] I won the Best Research Talk Award in UVA CS Research Symposium 2020!
Honors and Awards:
- Best Paper Award, ACM Mobicom S3 workshop, 2022
- Selected for CPS Rising Stars, 2022
- Link Lab Student Seminar Award (the highest research award for only one student at a 200+ person lab). 2021.
- Best Demo Award, ACM SenSys, 2020.
- Best Research Talk Award, UVA CS Research Symposium, 2020.
- Fellowship Scholar, UVA, 2019.
- Outstanding Graduates, SZU, 2019.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE SECON, 2018.
- National Graduates Scholarship, China. (highest recognition awards to graduate students), 2018&2017 (two times).
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, SZU, 2016.
Representative Papers:
Sensor2Text: Enabling Natural Language Interactions for Daily Activity Tracking Using Wearable Sensors. (To appear)Wenqiang Chen, Jiaxuan Cheng, Leyao Wang, Wei Zhao, Wojciech Matusik.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024. (CORE Rank: A*)
ViObject: Harness Passive Vibrations for Daily Object Recognition with Commodity Smartwatches. (To appear)
Wenqiang Chen, Shupei Lin, Zhencan Peng, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Seongkook Heo, Shwetak Patel, Wojciech Matusik, Wei Zhao, John Stankovic.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024. (CORE Rank: A*)
CAvatar: Real-time Human Activity Mesh Reconstruction via Tactile Carpets.
Wenqiang Chen, Yexin Hu, Wei Song, Yingcheng Liu, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024. (CORE Rank: A*)
Robust Finger Interactions with COTS Smartwatches via Unsupervised Siamese Adaptation. (To appear)
Wenqiang Chen, Ziqi Wang, Pengrui Quan, Zhencan Peng, Shupei Lin, Mani Srivastava, Wojciech Matusik, John Stankovic.
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2023.
ViFin: Harness Passive Vibration to Continuous Micro Finger Writing with a Commodity Smartwatch.
Wenqiang Chen, Lin Chen, Meiyi Ma, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Shwetak Patel, John Stankovic.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2021. (acceptance rate 23%, CORE Rank: A*)
SenseCollect: We Need Efficient Ways to Collect On-body Sensor-based Human Activity Data!
Wenqiang Chen, Shupei Lin, Elizabeth Thompson, John Stankovic.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2021. (acceptance rate 23%, CORE Rank: A*)
Taprint: Secure Text Input for Commodity Smart Wearables.
Wenqiang Chen, Lin Chen, Yandao Huang, Xinyu Zhang, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby, Kaishun Wu.
The Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2019. (acceptance rate 18.9%, CORE Rank: A*)
ViType: A Cost Efficient On-body Typing System through Vibration.
Wenqiang Chen, Maoning Guan, Yandao Huang, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby, Wen Hu, Kaishun Wu.
The Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2018. (Best Paper Award, 1/211) (acceptance rate 23.2%)
Other Publications:
(Best Paper Award) ViWatch: Harness Vibrations for Finger Interactions with Commodity Smartwatches.
Wenqiang Chen, John Stankovic.
ACM Mobicom S3 workshop, 2022.
Making Vibration-based On-body Interaction Robust. (Demo)
Wenqiang Chen, Ziqi Wang, Pengrui Quan, Zhencan Peng, Shupei Lin, Mani Srivastava, John Stankovic.
ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2022.
ViObject: A Smartwatch-based Object Recognition System via Vibrations. (Demo)
Wenqiang Chen, Daniel Bevan, John Stankovic.
In The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Softwareand Technology, 2021.
Machine Learning Introduction for Newbies (invited workshop)
Wenqiang Chen, John Stankovic.
IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 2021.
Vibration Intelligence: Bringing Machine Perception Beyond the Human-Like. (poster abstract)
Wenqiang Chen, John Stankovic.
ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition at CPS-IoT Week, 2021.
Tuna Robotics: Using Machine Learning and Interial Measurement Sensors for Sensory Feedback During Swimming. (abstract)
Wenqiang Chen, Joseph Zhu, John Stankovic, George V. Lauder, Hilary Bart-Smith
The Society for integrative and comparative biology, 2021.
(Best Demo Award) Demo Abstract: A Smartwatch Product Provides On-body Tapping Gestures Recognition.
Wenqiang Chen, Lin Chen, Kenneth Wan, and John Stankovic.
In The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 16–19, 2020, Virtual Event, Japan.
Demo Abstract: Continuous Micro Finger Writing Recognition with a Commodity Smartwatch.
Wenqiang Chen, Lin Chen, Meiyi Ma, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Patel Shwetak, and John Stankovic.
In The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 16–19, 2020, Virtual Event, Japan.
Power Saving and Secure Text Input for Commodity Smart Watches.
Kaishun Wu, Yandao Huang, Wenqiang Chen, Lin Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020.
A Low Latency On-body Typing System through Single Vibration Sensor.
Wenqiang Chen, Maoning Guan, Yandao Huang, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby, Wen Hu, Kaishun Wu.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019.
G-Fall: Location-assisted Training-free Fall Detection with Geophones.
Yandao Huang*, Wenqiang Chen*, Hongjie Chen, Lu Wang, and Kaishun Wu.(*Joint first authors)
The Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2019.
FaceInput: A Hand-Free and Secure Text Entry System through Facial Vibration.
Maoning Guan, Wenqiang Chen, Yandao Huang, Rukhsana Ruby, Kaishun Wu.
The Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2019.
Demo: Virtual Keyboard for Wearable Wristbands.
Wenqiang Chen, Yanming Lian, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby, Wen Hu, Kaishun Wu.
The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2017.
FLoc: Device free Passive Indoor Localization in Complex Environments.
Wenqiang Chen, Maoning Guan, Lu Wang, Rukhsana Ruby, Wen Hu, Kaishun Wu.
The IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2017.