Yi-Chao Chen

Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
yichao [at] sjtu.edu.cn
800 Dongchuan Road, SEIEE Building 3, Rm 505, Shanghai, China
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I join Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2018. I received my B.S. and M.S. in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Prior to joining SJTU, I spent a year as a Researcher in Huawei Future Network Theory Lab in Hong Kong and then worked as a Chief Scientist in Hauoli LLC.

My research interests focus on networked systems and span the areas of mobile computing, wireless networking, and cyber-security.

news

Aug 23, 2026	BrewSense is accepted by ACM MobiHoc 2026.
Aug 21, 2026	OmniLayout is accepted as a Findings paper at EMNLP 2026.
Jul 22, 2026	Can XR Trust Its Nose? is accepted by MIMSVAI 2026.
Jun 29, 2026	Polarix and Ventrilo are accepted by ACM MobiCom 2026.
Jun 17, 2026	ICLAgent and OmniSch are accepted by ECCV 2026.
May 25, 2026	MagGuard is accepted by IEEE TMC.
Apr 30, 2026	LMM4-IC4K is accepted by ICML 2026.
Apr 08, 2026	Dynamic 3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Millimeter Wave is accepted by IEEE TMC.
Feb 20, 2026	SingSprite is accepted by SenSys 2026.
Jan 29, 2026	Work on single-chain analog backscatter tag is accepted by SenSys 2026.
Jan 13, 2026	BIND is accepted by ACM Web Conference 2026.
Dec 08, 2025	VibraGait is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
Nov 23, 2025	Three papers are listed in the IEEE BIBM 2025 program.
Sep 03, 2025	EMTap and OccMesh are published in ACM IMWUT 2025.
Aug 10, 2025	MODepth is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
Jul 26, 2025	SaDiF is accepted by ACM MobiHoc 2025.
Jun 24, 2025	WDNN is accepted by ACM MobiCom 2025 (winter round).
Apr 01, 2025	MIMSID is accepted by ACM MobiSys 2025.
Feb 01, 2025	M2Silent is accepted by CHI 2025.
Dec 10, 2024	Bridge and CGMM are accepted by ACM MobiCom 2025 (summer round).

selected publication

EMNLP

OmniLayout: A Schematic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Geometric Reasoning in PCB Layout

Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Mingjia Wang, Haolin Ye, Runze Liu, Yuxin Tian, Vahe Melkonyan, Haoyu Wang, Muchuan Wang, Chufan Hong, Yifan Yang, Sung-Liang Chen, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, and Mahanth Gowda

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 , Budapest, Hungary, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{lu-emnlp26,
  author = {Lu, Taiting and Lin, Kaiyuan and Wang, Mingjia and Ye, Haolin and Liu, Runze and Tian, Yuxin and Melkonyan, Vahe and Wang, Haoyu and Wang, Muchuan and Hong, Chufan and Yang, Yifan and Chen, Sung{-}Liang and Chen, Yi{-}Chao and Jin, Yincheng and Gowda, Mahanth},
  title = {OmniLayout: A Schematic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Geometric Reasoning in PCB Layout},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2026},
  time = {November 5-9, 2026},
  location = {Budapest, Hungary},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=A5uSrMqr0y},
  doi = {},
}

MOBICOM

Polarix: Monitoring Multi-Component Liquids via Polarized Light

Juntao Zhou, Longyuan Ge, Yi-Chao Chen, Qianfei Ren, Yijie Li, Dian Ding, Yida Wang, Hao Pan, Lili Qiu, Jiadi Yu, Lanqing Yang, and Guangtao Xue

In ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) , Boston, MA, USA, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{zhou-mobicom26-polarix,
  author = {Zhou, Juntao and Ge, Longyuan and Chen, Yi{-}Chao and Ren, Qianfei and Li, Yijie and Ding, Dian and Wang, Yida and Pan, Hao and Qiu, Lili and Yu, Jiadi and Yang, Lanqing and Xue, Guangtao},
  title = {Polarix: Monitoring Multi-Component Liquids via Polarized Light},
  booktitle = {{ACM} International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2026},
  time = {October 26-30, 2026},
  location = {Boston, MA, USA},
  url = {https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2026/accepted.html},
  doi = {},
}

MOBICOM

Ventrilo: From Mobile Bowel Sound to Precision Gastrointestinal Diagnostic

Juntao Zhou, Yutong Xue, Liren Dong, Zhuxi Chen, Yu Lu, Qianfei Ren, Yida Wang, Yongzhao Zhang, Yijie Li, Yi-Chao Chen, Zhenyi Jia, and Dian Ding

In ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) , Boston, MA, USA, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{zhou-mobicom26-ventrilo,
  author = {Zhou, Juntao and Xue, Yutong and Dong, Liren and Chen, Zhuxi and Lu, Yu and Ren, Qianfei and Wang, Yida and Zhang, Yongzhao and Li, Yijie and Chen, Yi{-}Chao and Jia, Zhenyi and Ding, Dian},
  title = {Ventrilo: From Mobile Bowel Sound to Precision Gastrointestinal Diagnostic},
  booktitle = {{ACM} International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2026},
  time = {October 26-30, 2026},
  location = {Boston, MA, USA},
  url = {https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2026/accepted.html},
  doi = {},
}

ECCV

ICLAgent: Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Labeling via LMM-empowered Multi-Agent Framework

Yida Wang, Yixin Liu, Taiting Lu, Lanqing Yang, Dian Ding, Juntao Zhou, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, and Mahanth Gowda

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Malmo, Sweden, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{wang-eccv26,
  author = {Wang, Yida and Liu, Yixin and Lu, Taiting and Yang, Lanqing and Ding, Dian and Zhou, Juntao and Yang, Yifan and Chen, Yi-Chao and Gowda, Mahanth},
  title = {ICLAgent: Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Labeling via LMM-empowered Multi-Agent Framework},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2026},
  time = {September 8-12, 2026},
  location = {Malmo, Sweden},
  url = {},
  doi = {},
}

ECCV

OmniSch: A Multimodal PCB Schematic Benchmark For Structured Diagram Visual Reasoning

Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Yuxin Tian, Yubo Wang, Muchuan Wang, Sharique Khatri, Akshit Kartik, Yixi Wang, Amey Santosh Rane, Yida Wang, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, and Mahanth Gowda

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Malmo, Sweden, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{lu-eccv26,
  author = {Lu, Taiting and Lin, Kaiyuan and Tian, Yuxin and Wang, Yubo and Wang, Muchuan and Khatri, Sharique and Kartik, Akshit and Wang, Yixi and Rane, Amey Santosh and Wang, Yida and Yang, Yifan and Chen, Yi-Chao and Jin, Yincheng and Gowda, Mahanth},
  title = {OmniSch: A Multimodal PCB Schematic Benchmark For Structured Diagram Visual Reasoning},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2026},
  time = {September 8-12, 2026},
  location = {Malmo, Sweden},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00270},
  doi = {},
}

SENSYS

A Single-Chain Analog Backscatter Tag for Multi-Sensor Multiplexing

Yijie Li, Weichong Ling, Taiting Lu, Bao Dao, Yi-Chao Chen, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Lili Qiu, and Jingxian Wang

In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (SenSys) , Saint-Malo, France, 2026

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{li-sensys26,
  author = {Li, Yijie and Ling, Weichong and Lu, Taiting and Dao, Bao and Chen, Yi-Chao and Ranganathan, Vaishnavi and Qiu, Lili and Wang, Jingxian},
  title = {A Single-Chain Analog Backscatter Tag for Multi-Sensor Multiplexing},
  booktitle = {{ACM/IEEE} International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (SenSys)},
  pages = {74--87},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2026},
  time = {May 11-14, 2026},
  location = {Saint-Malo, France},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774906.3802756},
  doi = {10.1145/3774906.3802756},
}

ICML

LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding

Yida Wang, Taiting Lu, Runze Liu, Lanqing Yang, Zhe Chen, Yuehai Wang, Yixin Liu, Kaiyuan Lin, XiaoMeng Chen, Dian Ding, Yijie Li, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, and Mahanth Gowda

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , Seoul, South Korea, 2026

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{wang-icml26,
  author = {Wang, Yida and Lu, Taiting and Liu, Runze and Yang, Lanqing and Chen, Zhe and Wang, Yuehai and Liu, Yixin and Lin, Kaiyuan and Chen, XiaoMeng and Ding, Dian and Li, Yijie and Yang, Yifan and Chen, Yi-Chao and Jin, Yincheng and Gowda, Mahanth},
  title = {LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {PMLR},
  year = {2026},
  time = {July 6-11, 2026},
  location = {Seoul, South Korea},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/65113},
  doi = {},
}

MOBISYS

High-resolution mmWave Imaging using Metasurface and Diffusion

Yida Wang, Yu Lu, Yuxuan Zhou, Yifei Shen, Lili Qiu, Zeyuan Lai, Yi-Chao Chen, Hao Pan, Juntao Zhou, Dian Ding, Mei Wang, Guangtao Xue, and Qian Zhang

In ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys) , Anaheim, CA, USA, 2025

(MobiSys Best Artifact Award - Runner-Up)

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{wang-mobisys25,
  author = {Wang, Yida and Lu, Yu and Zhou, Yuxuan and Shen, Yifei and Qiu, Lili and Lai, Zeyuan and Chen, Yi-Chao and Pan, Hao and Zhou, Juntao and Ding, Dian and Wang, Mei and Xue, Guangtao and Zhang, Qian},
  title = {High-resolution mmWave Imaging using Metasurface and Diffusion},
  booktitle = {{ACM} International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys)},
  pages = {319--332},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2025},
  time = {June 23-27, 2025},
  location = {Anaheim, CA, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3711875.3729162},
  doi = {10.1145/3711875.3729162},
  special = {MobiSys Best Artifact Award - Runner-Up}
}

MOBICOM

CGMM: Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Wearables Using Metasurfaces

Hao Pan, Yezhou Wang, Jiting Liu, Ruichun Ma, Lili Qiu, Yi-Chao Chen, Guangtao Xue, and Ju Ren

In ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) , Hong Kong, 2025