Baicheng Chen

Fourth Year Ph.D. student

Computer Science and Engineering Department

University of California San Diego (UCSD)

b3chen@ucsd.edu 

baichengchen@outlook.com

Bio

University of California San Diego

Ph.D. track student • Aug 2021 - Present

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

My advisor is Dr. Xinyu Zhang. My research focuses on Mobile Computing, Metamaterial/Metasurface Sensor, and Internet of Things.


University at Buffalo

Research Intern • August 2017 - Aug 2021

I am a undergraduate research assistant at Dr. Wenyao Xu's Embedded Sensing and Computing Group (ESC), in State University of New York(SUNY), at Buffalo(UB), worked closely with Dr. Zhengxiong Li. Our group focuses on innovative applications of Internet of Things(IoT) in the fields of healthcare, security, and advanced manufacturing. 

News

---2024---

{PAPER} MetaSoil + MetaLink paper accepted by SenSys'24.

{PAPER} MetaBioLiq paper accepted by MobiCom'24.

---2023---

{CAREER} Had another wonderful internship at Samsung Research America (SMI lab)

{PAPER} MetaWave paper accepted by NDSS'23.

---2022---

{CAREER} Had a wonderful internship at Samsung Research America (SMI lab). 

{SERVICE} Invited to serve as the Shadow PC on SenSys '22.

{PAPER} DroneTrace paper accepted by UbiComp'22.

{MEDIA} CRA-E Undergraduate Research Highlight

---2021---

{PAPER} SpiralSpy paper accepted by NDSS'22.

{CAREER} I will be joining Prof. Xinyu Zhang's group at UCSD by Fall 2021 Quarter.

{AWARD} Recipient of [Dean’s Undergraduate Achievement Award] at University of Buffalo. [UB SEAS NEWS]

{AWARD} Recipient of [Silent Hoist and Crane Co., Materials Handling Award] at University of Buffalo.

{AWARD} Finalist of [CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award]. [UB SEAS STORY

---2020---

{AWARD} Recipient of [Philip Becker Goetz Student Scholarship] at University of Buffalo.

{PAPER} ThermoWave paper accepted by MobiCom'20.

---2019---

{AWARD} Recipient of [McCarthy Family Scholarship] at University of Buffalo.

{PAPER} FerroTag received ACM SenSys Best Paper Award 


Selected Publications

 [* Co-Primary Author]

MetaSoil: Passive mmWave Metamaterial Multi-layer Soil Moisture Sensing

Baicheng Chen, John Nolan, Xinyu Zhang, Wan Du

SenSys 2024 - The 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems  

[Link] [PDF] [PPT]

MetaLink: Extending Air-to-Water Wireless Communications Using Passive Bianisotropic Metasurfaces

John Nolan, Baicheng Chen, Xinyu Zhang

SenSys 2024 - The 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems  

[Link] [PDF] [PPT]

MetaBioLiq: A Wearable Passive Metasurface Aided mmWave Sensing Platform for BioFluids

Baicheng Chen, John Nolan, Xinyu Zhang

MobiCom 2024 - The 30th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking 

[Link] [PDF] [PPT]

MetaWave: Attacking mmWave Sensing with Meta-material-enhanced Tags

Xingyu Chen, Zhengxiong Li, Baicheng Chen, Yi Zhu, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Zhengyu Peng, Feng Lin, Wenyao Xu, Kui Ren, Chunming Qiao

NDSS 2023 - The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023

[Link] [PDF]

Reliable Digital Forensics in the Air: Exploring an RF-based Drone Identification System

Zhengxiong Li*, Baicheng Chen*, Xingyu Chen, Chenhan Xu, Yuyang Chen, Feng Lin, Changzhi Li, Karthik Dantu, Kui Ren, Wenyao Xu

UbiComp/IMWUT 2022 - The 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

[Link] [PDF]

SpiralSpy: Exploring a Stealthy and Practical Covert Channel to Attack Air-gapped Computing Devices via mmWave Sensing

Zhengxiong Li*, Baicheng Chen*, Xingyu Chen, Huining Li, Chenhan Xu, Feng Lin, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Kui Ren, Wenyao Xu

NDSS 2022 - The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022

[Link] [PDF]

ThermoWave: A New Paradigm of Wireless Passive Temperature Monitoring via mmWave Sensing

Baicheng Chen, Huining Li, Zhengxiong Li, Chenhan Xu, Xingyu Chen, Wenyao Xu

MobiCom 2020 - The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

[Link] [PDF]

WaveSpy: Remote and Through-wall Screen Attack via mmWave Sensing

Zhengxiong Li, Fenglong Ma, Aditya Rathore, Baicheng Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Lu Su, Wenyao Xu

Oakland 2020 - The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

[Link] [PDF] 

RehabPhone: A Software-Defined Tool using 3D Printing and Smartphones for Personalized Home-based Rehabilitation

Hanbin Zhang, Gabriel Guo, Emery Comstock, Baicheng Chen, Xingyu Chen, Chen Song, Jerry Ajay, Jeanne Langan, Sutanuka Bhattacharjya, Lora A Cavuoto, Wenyao Xu

MobiSys 2020 - The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

[Link] [PDF]

FerroTag: A Paper-based mmWave-Scannable Tagging Infrastructure

Zhengxiong Li, Baicheng Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Huining Li, Chenhan Xu, Xingyu Chen, Kun Wang, Wenyao Xu

SenSys 2019 - The 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Best Paper Award

[Link] [PDF]

SpecEye: Towards Pervasive and Privacy-Preserving Screen Exposure Detection in Daily Life

Zhengxiong Li, Aditya Rathore, Baicheng Chen, Chen Song, Zhuolin Yang, Wenyao Xu

MobiSys 2019 - The 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

[Link] [PDF]

Awards and Honors

2021

Silent Hoist and Crane Co., Materials Handling Prize Award

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award - Finalist

Dean’s Undergraduate Achievement Award

UB Undergraduate Research Award

2020

Philip Becker Goetz Student Scholarship

2019

ACM SenSys Best Paper Award 

McCarthy Family Scholarship 

Intel Edge AI Scholarship 

NSF SaTC PI Meeting Undergraduate Track Travel Grant

2018

University at Buffalo Dean’s List 

Teaching and Presentations

2024

[Nov. 2024] - Presenter - SenSys 2024 - MetaSoil and MetaLink paper

[Nov. 2024] - Presenter - MobiCom 2024 - MetaBioLiq paper

[Sept. 2024] - TA - CSE 158 - Web Mining and Recommender Systems

[Jan. 2024] - TA - CSE 127 - Computer Security

2022

[April 2022] - Presenter - UbiComp 2022 - DroneTrace paper

[April 2022] - Presenter - NDSS 2022 - SpiralSpy paper

2021

[Aug. 2021] - Guest Speaker - CU Denver CSCI 4771/5771 Introduction to Mobile Computing

2020

[Sept. 2020] - Presenter - MobiCom 2020 - ThermoWave paper