Rising Stars Forum Program

The Rising Stars Forum will take place in the Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge, UK, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2026.

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Schedule

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Opening Remarks

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Wireless Communication & Networking

Enabling Practical Full-Duplex Wireless: From Circuits to Software

Alon Levin (Columbia University)

High-Performance Networked Systems: A Tale of Connectivity at Scale

Zehua Sun (National University of Singapore)

Towards Next-Generation Scalable LoRa Networks

Shiming Yu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Rethinking the Architecture of Low-Power Wireless Communication

Pramuka Sooriya Patabandige (National University of Singapore)

Harnessing Ambient Radio Signals for Ultra Low Power Sensing and Communication Systems

Geneva Ecola (Stanford University)

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Physical AI

Democratizing Physical AI via Hardware-Software Co-design for Everyday Environments

Minghui Zhao (Columbia University)

Collaborative Edge AI for Physical Agents

Liekang Zeng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Democratizing Physical-AI Interfaces for Scalable Human-Centered Sensing

Sheng Lyu (The University of Hong Kong)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Trust & Provenance

Trustworthy Provenance for Physical and Digital Artifacts with Commodity Mobile Devices

Bangjie Sun (National University of Singapore)

Towards Trustworthy AIoT Systems: An Interaction-Centric Perspective

Xiaoyue Ma (George Mason University)

11:30 AM - 12:40 PM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Edge Computing & Intelligence

Efficient On-Device Intelligence: From Continual Adaptation to Generative AI on Edge Devices

Young D. Kwon (Samsung AI Center-Cambridge)

Enabling Carbon-aware Edge System Design

Xuesi Chen (Cornell Tech)

On-Device Intelligent Interaction for Everyday Natural Interfaces

Jiani Cao (City University of Hong Kong)

Toward Trustworthy Multi-Model Edge Intelligence

Yan Wang (University of Edinburgh)

System Support for Reliable Edge Computing under Intermittent Energy

Eren Yildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Beyond-Voice: A Roadmap for Private, Affective, and Accessible Articulatory Interaction (Non-archival)

Tanmay Srivastava (Stony Brook University)

12:40 PM - 01:50 PM

Lunch Area

Lunch

01:50 PM - 03:00 PM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Wireless Sensing & Networking

Towards Mobile High-Resolution mmWave SAR Imaging via Prior-Guided Autofocus

Yadong Li (University of Washington)

Toward Physics-Grounded Environmental Intelligence through Wireless Sensing

Juexing Wang (Michigan State University)

Beyond the Clinic: Multimodal Sensing Systems for Practical Healthcare

Qingyong Hu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Audio-Centric Earable Computing: Connecting the Device, the Body, and the User

Changshuo Hu (Singapore Management University)

Towards Practical mmWave Sensing: A Distributed and Coherent Radar Approach (online)

Xinghua Sun (University of Washington)

Towards Scalable and Efficient mmWave vRAN with Heterogeneous Compute (online)

Zhenzhou Qi (Duke University)

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Coffee Break

03:30 PM - 03:50 PM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

1-min Madness of Posters

03:50 PM - 05:00 PM

Lecture Theatre, Ray Dolby Centre

Poster Session

1. Toward Practical Voice Privacy Protection in Physical and Digital Communication

Peng Huang (Zhejiang University)

2. Resource-Efficient UI Agents for Mobile Task Automation

Hao Wen (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University)

3. Resilient Wireless Intelligence for Communication-Constrained Environments

Zheng Gong (Tianjin University)

4. Unlocking Human Movement: Detailed Gait and Impact Assessment from Consumer Earable Devices

Jake Stuchbury-Wass (University of Cambridge)

5. Scaling Mobile Agent Systems: From Capability Density to Collective Intelligence

Bowei He (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

6. Physical AI for Health in the Wild: Closing the Cyber-Physical Loop

Sijie Ji (California Institute of Technology)

7. Towards Ultra-Low-Power Standalone Wireless Communication Systems

Madhushanka Padmal (Uppsala University)

8. Stable and Adaptive Edge Intelligence with Continuous-Time Neural Networks

Yimin Dai (Nanyang Technological University)

9. Toward Practical Integrated Sensing and Communication upon Commodity Wi-Fi

Yinghui He (Nanyang Technological University)

10. Tackling Domain Specificity in Learning-Based Wireless Sensing: From Adaptation to Exploitation

Jingzhi Hu (Imperial College London)

11. From Body Heat to Behavioral Horizons: Spatial Sensing Intelligence with Thermal Arrays

Xie Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)

12. Ubiquitous Computational Spectroscopy: Bridging Lab-grade Spectroscopy to Everyday Devices

Haiyan HU (HKUST)

13. Building Efficient Inference Systems for Resource-Constrained Edge AI Deployment

Xiangyu Li (Institue for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University)

14. Towards Automated, Resilient, and Robust AIoT

Leming Shen (University College London)

15. Integrated Sensing and Communication with Open RAN Infrastructure

Tianxin Wang (University of Edinburgh)

16. Toward Intelligent Wearables: Sensing, Interaction, and LLM EDA Automation

Taiting Lu (Pennsylvania State University)

17. Efficient and Generalizable Wi-Fi Sensing via Representation Learning and Cross-Domain Modeling

Yunming Zhao (Zhejiang University)

18. Towards Efficient Inference and Training of Deep Neural Networks on Edge Devices

Kun Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

19. Scaling LoRa to Massive IoT: A Physical Layer Approach

Jialuo Du (Michigan State University)

20. Transformer-Based Non-Sparse Wideband Monitoring

Jinbo Peng (Fudan University)

21. Towards Cognitive mmWave Agents: From Physical Sensing to Cognitive Computing

Duo Zhang (Peking University)