Mingyue Tang

Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Email: mt55 [at] illinois [dot] edu


Bio

My name is Mingyue Tang, I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Working with Prof. Elahé Soltanaghai on wireless and IoT problems with machine learning approches. Check our group website here. I was a M.Eng. (originally a Ph.D.) student at the University of Virginia (UVa) Link Lab . I am passionate about exploring the potential of technology to improve our daily lives.

My research interests include Mobile Sensing, Mobile Computing, Signal Processing and Internet of Things, Data Mining, Pervasive Computing, and Healthcare Systems. Through my work, I aim to create innovative wireless/mobile sensing solutions that can address real-world problems and make a positive impact on society. I believe that technology has the power to revolutionize the way we live and work, and I am excited to share my research and ideas with you!

Previously, I cooperated with Prof. Laura Barnes (UVa), Prof. Ang Li (UMD), Prof. Mehdi Boukhechba (UVa, now at Janssen R&D), Prof. Carl Yang (Emory), Prof. Pan Li (GaTech), Prof. José Luis Ambite (USC ISI), Prof. Tiffany Tang (WKU), and Prof. Pinata Winoto(WKU)

Main Research Interests

Mingyue's research interests are Wireless Sensing, Mobile Sensing, Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) System, and all the above things + Healthcare.


News

[03/2025] Our Paper "ChirpEye: Passive Sensing and Profiling of FMCW Radars with a Resource-constrained Tag" has been accepted to MobiCom 2025.
[02/2025] Our team has been selected as a finalist for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
[02/2025] Our (with UVa) Paper "Atlas: Ensuring Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Federated IoT Applications" has been accepted to ICCPS 2025.
[12/2024] The paper from my internship at Abbott, Case report: Potential physiological sources of the late response in epidural spinal recordings induced by spinal cord stimulation during intraoperative neuromonitoring, has been accepted to Clinical Neurophysiology Practice.
[10/2024] I have been selected for an N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship to organize an N2Women event at SenSys 2024.
[09/2024] Our Paper "BSENSE: In-vehicle Child Detection and Vital Sign Monitoring with a Single mmWave Radar and Synthetic Reflectors" was accepted by SenSys 2024 .
[09/2024] Our Poster "Extended-Range Two-way Radar Backscatter Communication with Low-Power IoT Tags" was accepted by MobiCom 2024.
[08/2024] Semi-volunteered as a student co-ordinators for CS 591 WN: Wireless Networking Seminar, register if you are interested in wireless topics!
[08/2024] Our (with WKU) recently accepted workshop in UbiComp 2024 on the topic of Interactive Design with Autistic Children Using LLM and IoT for Personalized Training: The Good, The Bad and The Challenging will happening in Melbourne, Australia this year.
[05/2023] Transfer to UIUC. Graduated again, glad to received my master degree in Systems and Information engineering at UVa!
[04/2023] Our fluid overload detection paper accepted by CHIL 2023 has been selected for an oral presentation (13.3%)!
[04/2023] One paper was accepted by EMBC 2023 on personalized state anxiety detection using linguistic indicators!
[04/2023] One paper was accepted by CHIL 2023 on fluid overload detection in ESKD patients!
[03/2023] I decided to choose University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as my next stop to continue my Ph.D. journey.
[01/2023] I started my internship at Abbott as Scientist I.


Selected Publications

See my full list at [Google Scholar]
* indicates equal contribution!

ChirpEye: Passive Sensing and Profiling of FMCW Radars with a Resource-constrained Tag
Mingyue Tang*, Jizheng He*, Ryu Okubo, Dhruv Panchmia, Elahe Soltanaghai
Published in MobiCom 2025

Atlas: Ensuring Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Federated IoT Applications
Jiechao Gao*, Mingyue Tang*, Wenpeng Wang, Tushar Routh, Bradford Campbell
Published in ICCPS 2025 (CPS Week)

BSENSE: In-vehicle Child Detection and Vital Sign Monitoring with a Single mmWave Radar and Synthetic Reflectors
Mingyue Tang, Pranshu Teckchandani, Jizheng He, Hanbo Guo, Elahe Soltanaghai
Published in SenSys 2024
[Paper] [Code]

Extended-Range Two-way Radar Backscatter Communication with Low-Power IoT Tags
Jizheng He, Mingyue Tang, Ryu Okubo, Dhruv Panchmia, Elahe Soltanaghai
Published in MobiCom 2024 (Poster)
[Paper]

Personalized State Anxiety Detection: An Empirical Study with Linguistic Biomarkers and Machine Learning Pipeline
Zhiyuan Wang, Mingyue Tang, Maria A. Larrazabal, Emma Toner, Mark Rucker, Congyu Wu, Bethany A. Teachman, Mehdi Boukhechba, Laura E. Barnes
Published in EMBC 2023
[Paper]

SRDA: Mobile Sensing based Fluid Overload Detection for End Stage Kidney Disease Patients using Sensor Relation Dual Autoencoder
Mingyue Tang*, Jiechao Gao*, Guimin Dong, Carl Yang, Bradford Campbell, Jamie Zoellner, Brendanand Bowman, Emaad Abdel-Rahman, Mehdi Boukhechba
Published in CHIL 2023 (Oral 13.3%)

PFed-LDP: A Personalized Federated Differential Privacy framework for IoT sensing
Jiechao Gao*, Mingyue Tang*, Tianhao Wang, Bradford Campbell
Published in SenSys 2022 (Poster)
[Paper]

Mobile Sensing in the COVID-19 Era
Zhiyuan Wang*, Haoyi Xiong*, Mingyue Tang, Mehdi Boukhechba, Tabor Flickinger, Laura Barnes
Published in SPJ Health Data Science journal
[Paper] [WeChat Post (in Chinese)]

Dynamic Network Anomaly Modeling of Cell-Phone Call Detail Records for Infectious Disease Surveillance
Carl Yang*, Hongwen Song*, Mingyue Tang, Leon Danon, Ymir Vigfusson
Published in KDD 2022 Best Paper in Health Day
[Paper]

GNNs in IoT: A Survey
Guimin Dong, Mingyue Tang, Zhiyuan Wang, Jiechao Gao, Sikun Guo, Lihua Cai, Robert Gutierrez, Bradford Campbell, Laura E. Barnes, Mehdi Boukhechba
Published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
[Paper] [GitHub]

Graph Auto-Encoder via Neighborhood Wasserstein Reconstruction
Mingyue Tang*, Carl Yang*, Pan Li
Published in ICLR 2022
[Paper] [GitHub]

Using Ubiquitous Mobile Sensing and Temporal Sensor-Relation GNN to Predict Fluid Intake of End Stage Kidney Patients
Mingyue Tang, Guimin Dong, Jamie Zoellner, Brendanand Bowman, Emaad Abdel-Rahman, Mehdi Boukhechba
Published in IPSN 2022
[Paper]



Experience

Abbott, TX, US

       Scientist I,   Spring 2023

       Mentor: Mingming Zhang

University of Virginia, Data Science School VA, US

       Teaching Assistant,   Spring 2021 - Present

Novartis, Inc., NJ, US

       Data Strategy Team,   Summer 2020

University of Southern California, Information Science Institute (ISI) , Marina Del Rey, US

       Research Assistant,   Fall 2019 & Fall 2020

       Mentors: José Luis Ambite , Pedro Szekely



Selected Projects

Federated Learning on IoT data
Collaborated with Jiechao Gao, advised by Prof. Brad Campbell

Optimized the accuracy of collaborative training data from IoT edge devices while preserving privacy.


SIMS - Social Interactions Monitoring Study
Collaborated with Zhiyuan Wang, advised by Prof. Laura Barnes

Monitoring social state anxiety with wearable sensors and webcams.

FluiSense
Advised by Prof. Mehdi Boukhechba

Using multi-modal mobile sensing for better fluid control for end stage kidney disease (ESKD) Patients. Conducted a 4-week study and collected time-series data with on-body physiological and behavioral sensors (e.g., PPG, IMU) from ESKD patients.

Graph Unsupervised Representation Learning
Advised by Prof. Carl Yang and Prof. Pan Li

A new unsupervised way of graph learning, addressed existing limitations in graph autoencoder, graph structure learning, and infomax-based methods.




Service

  • Conference Program Committee or Reviewer:
    - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025,  
    - The 20th International Conference Advanced Data Mining and Applications 2024 ,  
    - 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023 ,  
    - International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2023 ,  
    - International Conference on Internet of Things (CIoT) 2023 ,  
    - Computer Science and Application Engineering (CASE) 2022 ,  

  • Journal Reviewer:
    - ACM Transactions on Internet of Things ,  
    - Information Fusion ,  
    - IEEE Transactions on Big Data,  



  • Teaching

    2022 Fall      Teaching Assistant      DS 5110: Big Data Systems
    2022 Spring      Teaching Assistant      DS 5100: Programming for Data Science
    2021 Fall      Teaching Assistant      Data Science Systems