Xinghua Sun 孙兴华
ECE Ph.D. candidate at University of Washington
Hi👋! I am currently a 4th year Ph.D. candidate at University of Washington in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am a member of the Networking and Emerging Wireless Technologies Lab (NEWT), working on wireless and mobile systems under the supervision of Prof. Akshay Gadre.
I am passionate about building systems that solve exciting and impactful real-world challenges, and my work aims to push the boundaries of wireless sensing through innovative system design. Currently, my research focuses on practical mmWave sensing and imaging systems, building distributed and coherent radar systems that achieve high-fidelity imaging (MulDar) and enable new sensing capabilities (POLySight) on commodity hardware.
News
| Jun 25, 2026 | The MobiSys Rising Star talk, MulDar, and TwinFocus were presented at ACM MobiSys 2026! |
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| May 11, 2026 | I will be presenting POLySight and demoing MulDar on May 12th in Saint-Malo at SenSys, come by if you are around! |
| Apr 25, 2026 | Selected as MobiSys Rising Star 2026 🌟! I will give a remote oral presentation on Towards Practical mmWave Sensing: A Distributed and Coherent Radar Approach. |
| Apr 20, 2026 | I will attend the CPS-IoT PhD Forum in Saint-Malo and present on May 11th. |
| Apr 06, 2026 | Our papers MulDar: Unleashing the Potential of Distributed COTS mmWave Radar by Exploiting Cross-Device Channels and TwinFocus: Autofocus for Handheld mmWave SAR Imaging via Physical and Digital Twin References have been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2026! 🎉 |
| Mar 05, 2026 | I will join the NVIDIA XR team as an intern this summer, working on robotics and Physical AI! |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Our paper POLySight: Towards Practical Bi-Static Polarimetric Imaging using Commodity mmWave Radars for Material Sensing has been accepted to ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026! 🎉 |
| Jun 02, 2025 | Passed my PhD Qualification Exam. |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Won the Best Demo Award (sponsored by Apple) at the UW ECE Research Showcase 2025. |
| Nov 18, 2024 | We will be presenting a Demo and a Workshop paper at Mobicom 2024 in Washington, D.C. |
| Jun 11, 2024 | We have presented our work RayTrack at T-Mobile’s headquarter in Bonn, Germany. And won the T-Mobile Challenge Most Engaging Presentation Award 2024. |
Talks
Publications
- Demo: "My WiFi is not working!" Augmenting Wireless Awareness in Consumers via XR
Workshop: Synthetic Data for Data-Driven WirelessMobiCom Demo, S3 Workshop, MobiCom 1st Open and AI RAN Workshop, 2024
- Demo: AI Therapist for Daily Functioning Assessment and Intervention Using Smart Home DevicesSensys, 2022
Awards
- ACM MobiSys Rising Star
- UW ECE Research Showcase Best Demo Award sponsored by Apple
- T-Mobile T-Challenge — AI for Telecommunications Finalist & Most Engaging Presentation Award
- ACM SenSys 2022 Best Demo Runner-up
Experience
Professional
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Software Engineer InternNVIDIA · XR · Robotics Data Collection InfrastructureMentors: Qingsi Wang, Andrei Aristarkhov, Srinivasan Seshan
Education
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Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Washington · Networking and Emerging Wireless Technologies Lab (NEWT)Advisor: Akshay Gadre -
M.S. in Electrical EngineeringColumbia University · Intelligent and Connected Systems Lab (ICSL)Advisor: Fred Jiang -
B.E. in Automation Science and EngineeringSouth China University of Technology
Services
- Reviewer — ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
- Reviewer — ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH)
- Reviewer — IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant — UW EE 497/598 Engineering Entrepreneurial Capstone
- Teaching Assistant — UW EE 419/565 Computer Communication Networks
- Teaching Assistant — UW EE 417/506 Modern Wireless Communications
- Teaching Assistant — UW EE 215 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering