About Me

I am a third-year PhD student majoring in Data Science and Information Technology at Tsinghua University, expected to graduate in June 2025. My research focuses on ubiquitous sensing systems for indoor monitoring utilizing optical wireless communication and energy-harvesting technologies. I am jointly trained by Tsinghua University and Pengcheng Laboratory, under the Industrial Intelligence Laboratory led by Academicians Wen Gao and Weihua Gui. My advisors are Associate Professor Wenbo Ding (recipient of the National Overseas High-Level Talent Program for Young Scholars) and Associate Research Fellow Xiaojun Liang. My doctoral research centers on human-centered indoor sensing systems, addressing key technologies in three areas: contact-based sensing, non-contact sensing, and spatial indoor activity recognition. To date, I have published 18 academic papers, including 12 as the first author. Among them, 11 papers are published in SCI Q2 journals or conferences recommended by authoritative directories such as the Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) in categories B or higher. I have participated in multiple international conferences, receiving an annual Excellent Paper Award and a Best Oral Presentation Award. My research has been positively cited and reviewed by numerous renowned scholars, including nearly ten internationally recognized academicians and Fellows (e.g., Academician You Zheng, President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Wang Zhonglin, a four-academy academician and winner of the Eni Award, also known as the Nobel Prize for Energy). My works have garnered over 160 citations to date. In terms of international experience, I spent one academic year as an undergraduate exchange student at the University of California, Berkeley, and one semester at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. As a master’s student, I earned an MS degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley (ranked 3rd in the U.S. by US News in this field). During my PhD, I participated in a summer research program at the University of Oxford, supported by Tsinghua University’s Overseas Research Training Program for Counselors.

Publications

A Triboelectric Gait Sensor System for Human Activity Recognition and User Identification
Jiarong Li#, Zixuan Xie#, Zihan Wang#, Zenan Lin, Chengyue Lu, Zihao Zhao, Yuchao Jin, Jihong Yin, Shilong Mu, Chaobo Zhang, Weihua Gui, Xiaojun Liang, Jiyu Wang, Wenbo Ding.
Nano Energy, 2023, 112, 108473. (SCI Q1, IF: 17.6, cited by 23 times)
Triboelectric Nanogenerators Enabled Internet of Things: A Survey
Jiarong Li, Changsheng Wu, Ishara Dharmasena, Xiaoyue Ni, Zihan Wang, Haixu Shen, Shao-Lun Huang, Wenbo Ding.
Intelligent and Converged Networks, 2020, 1(2), 115-141. (EI, cited by 70 times, 2023 Excellent Paper Award)
Sensing Beyond Itself: Multi-functional Use of Ubiquitous Signals towards Wearable Applications
Zihan Wang, Jiarong Li, Yuchao Jin, Jiyu Wang, Fang Yan, Gang Li, Xiaoyue Ni, Wenbo Ding.
Digital Signal Processing, 2021, 116, 103091. (SCI Q2, IF: 2.9, cited by 21 times)
Integrated Sensing, Lighting and Communication Based on Visible Light Communication: A Review
Chenxin Liang, Jiarong Li, Sicong Liu, Fang Yang, Yuhan Dong, Jian Song, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Wenbo Ding.
Digital Signal Processing, 2023, 104340. (SCI Q2, IF: 2.9, cited by 19 times)
VLocSense: Integrated VLC System for Indoor Passive Localization and Human Sensing
Jiarong Li, Changshuo Ge, Chihan Xu, Junhao Gong, Weihua Gui, Chaobo Zhang, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding.
MobiCom, 2024. (Workshop, Oral, CCF A)
PowerGest: Self-Powered Gesture Recognition for Command Input and Robotic Manipulation
Jiarong Li, Qinghao Xu, Zhancong Xu, Changshuo Ge, Liguang Ruan, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding, Weihua Gui, Xiao-Ping Zhang.
ICPADS, 2024. (Oral, CCF C, acceptance rate: 19%)
Indoor Health Monitoring with VLC-Based Passive Posture Monitoring
Jiarong Li, Zixuan Xie, Chenxin Liang, Chihan Xu, Changshuo Ge, Zhancong Xu, Jingyang Wang, Liguang Ruan, Weihua Gui, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding.
2024 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 2024. (THU-B Class, Oral)
Gesture Recognition and Control based on Visible Light Communication
Xiaojun Liang#, Jiarong Li#, Chihan Xu, Zixuan Xie, Chaobo Zhang, Wenbo Ding, Weihua Gui.
2024 43rd Chinese Control Conference (CCC), 2024. (Oral)
Poster: Real-time Material and Texture Recognition Using Visible Light Communication
Jiarong Li, Chenxin Liang, Zixuan Xie, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding, Jian Song, Xiao-Ping Zhang.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2024. (CCF B, cited by 1 times)
Demo: SolarSense: A Self-powered Ubiquitous Gesture Recognition System for Industrial Human-Computer Interaction
Jiarong Li, Qinghao Xu, Qingyang Zhu, Zixuan Xie, Zhancong Xu, Changshuo Ge, Liguang Ruan, H. Y. Fu, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding, Weihua Gui, Xiao-Ping Zhang.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2024. (CCF B, cited by 1 times)
SolareSkin: Self-powered Visible Light Sensing Through a Solar Cell E-Skin
Jiarong Li#, Changshuo Ge#, Jun Tao, Jingyang Wang, Xiaomin Xu, Xinlei Chen, Weihua Gui, Xiaojun Liang, Wenbo Ding.
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2023. (Workshop, Oral, EI, CCF A, cited by 2 times)
TriboGait: A deep learning enabled triboelectric gait sensor system for human activity recognition and individual identification
Jiarong Li, Zihan Wang, Zihao Zhao, Yuchao Jin, Jihong Yin, Jiyu Wang, Shao-Lun Huang, Jiyu Wang.
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2021. (Workshop, Oral, EI, CCF A, cited by 13 times)
Observer-Based Decentralized Event-triggered Consensus for Leader-following Linear Multi-Agent Systems
Jiarong Li, Xiang Wu, Qiuying Li, Yefeng Li.
IEEE 3rd Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IAEAC), 2018. (EI, cited by 1 times)
Finite-time Distributed Event-triggered Consensus Control for Leader-following General Linear Multi-Agent Systems
Jiarong Li, Xiang Wu, Qiuying Li, Yefeng Li.
IEEE 3rd Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IAEAC), 2018. (EI, cited by 2 times)