Overview
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the research group led by Prof. Qian Zhang at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Wei Wang in the MetaIoT Lab.
My research interests primarily lie in Backscatter Networking, Wireless Sensing, and Low-Power IoT Systems. My work has appeared in top-tier conferences and journals.
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Publications
AmbientRider: Towards Infrastructure-Independent Ambient Backscatter
Huixin Dong*, Lingyun Jin*, Renyi Zhi, Zhenkai Peng, Qian Zhang, Wei Wang
PassiveBLE: Towards Fully Commodity-Compatible BLE Backscatter
Huixin Dong, Yijie Wu, Feiyu Li, Wei Kuang, Yuan He, Qian Zhang, Wei Wang
GPSoil: Towards low-cost soil moisture sensing using GNSS signals
Huixin Dong, Jingqi Lin, Minhao Cui, Serene Zhang, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong, Wei Wang
GPSense: Passive Sensing with Pervasive GPS Signals
Huixin Dong*, Minhao Cui*, Ning Wang, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong, Wei Wang
A Unified Tunnel-diode Based Low Power Signal Waveform Transform Hardware for RF Computing
Huixin Dong, Liu Yang, Lehuan Yang, Zhiqing Luo, Chunshen Li, Xianan Zhang, Wei Wang
GPSMirror: Expanding accurate GPS positioning to shadowed and indoor regions with backscatter
Huixin Dong, Yirong Xie, Xianan Zhang, Wei Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Jianhua He
VESTA: In-Vehicle Sensing with GNSS Satellite Signals
Ning Wang, Huixin Dong, Minhao Cui, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong and Wei Wang
C-Cube: Rethinking distributed beamforming for concurrent charging in backscatter networks
Shiyue He, Wenyuan Ma, Huixin Dong, Lixia Xiao, Tao Jiang
Reliable Battery-free Backscatter Video Transmission for Ubiquitous Vision-based Sensing
Huixin Dong, Xinyi Wu, Liu Yang, Xianan Zhang, Guochao Song, Wei Wang
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things · Just Accepted
Accepted July 5, 2026 · Accepted manuscript online August 10, 2026
Accurate Indoor Localization for Bluetooth Low Energy Backscatter
Zhiqing Luo, Weiming Li, Yijie Wu, Huixin Dong, Luanjian Bian, Wei Wang
FreeScatter: Enabling concurrent backscatter communication using antenna arrays
Qianyi Huang, Guochao Song, Wei Wang, Huixin Dong, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang
WiSion: Bolstering MAV 3D indoor state estimation by embracing multipath of WiFi
Fei Xiao, Shengkai Zhang, Sheyang Tang, Shaojie Shen, Huixin Dong, Yi Zhong
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 72 (1), 253-266
Real-time Respiration Sensing with Pervasive GPS Signals
Ning Wang, Huixin Dong, Minhao Cui, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong, Wei Wang
Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Honors & Awards
Golden Prize — International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
2026.03 | ACLGuard
ACM SIGBED China Dissertation Award (优博)
2025.09 | ACM SIGBED
Best Paper Award in RFCom’24
2024.11 | ACM SenSys-RFCom
ACM MobiCom Student Travel Grant
2024.10 | ACM MobiCom
2nd Prize in Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Comp.
2024.10 | National Competition
Huawei Postgraduate Scholarship
2024.09 | Huawei
“ZhiXing” Postgraduate Scholarship
2024.09 | HUST
Student Academic Rising Star in HUST
2024.01 | HUST
Academic Services
Conference Committee Member
- Technical Program Committee (TPC), ICPADS 2026
- Artifact Evaluation, MobiCom 2025, 2026
- Artifact Evaluation, MobiSys 2024, 2025
- Artifact Evaluation, SenSys 2024
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
2024, 2025, 2026IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
2024, 2025IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
2026IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
2026ACM IMWUT
2023, 2024, 2025, 2026IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
2024, 2025IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (JRFID)
2026
Talks
Embedded Intelligence Summit (EIS) 2025 Forum Talk
2025.11.30 | Zhengzhou, China | Rising Star & Best Dissertation Forum
Low-Power, High-Performance Backscatter for RF Computing
MobiCom 2025 Conference Presentation
2025.11 | Hong Kong, China | Presented "PassiveBLE" and "GPSoil" to the community
HHME & HMCC 2025 — PCC Paper Presentation
2025.08.24 | Dalian, China | PCC Top Conference and Journal Paper Session
GPSense: Passive Sensing with Pervasive GPS Signals
MobiCom 2024 Conference Presentation
2024.11 | Washington, D.C, USA | Presented "GPSense" to the community
SenSys Workshop 2024
2024.11 | Hangzhou, China | Presented "TuniScatter" to the community
MobiCom 2023 Conference Presentation (GPSMirror)
2023.10 | Madrid, Spain | Presented "GPSMirror" to the community
