About

My name is Yunze Zeng. I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Roblox in San Mateo, CA. Before that, I was a Research Scientist at Bosch Research, where I built intelligent sensing systems with applied machine learning. Especially, I brought in innovative wireless sensing ideas to enable new business for Bosch in automotive and smart home/building domains.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California Davis where I was supervised by Prof. Prasant Mohapatra. During the study at Davis, I was selected as Business Development Fellow from Graduate School of Management, and I got Honorable Mention in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Research from Computer Science Department.

Before coming to Davis, I received my B.S. from Beijing Jiaotong University in China where I was studying in Science Experimental Class (“思源班”). As an undergraduate, I was also a visiting student at University of California San Diego.

Current Research Interest

Multimodal ML, Generative AI, Applied ML Systems, Wireless Sensing

Awards

• Best Paper Runner-up Award at IEEE SECON 2020
• Robert Bosch Innovation Award (4 projects per year for the whole company), Robert Bosch LLC 2019
• Honorable Mention in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Research, UC Davis 2016
• Business Development Fellow (9 fellows each year campus-wide), UC Davis 2015
• Best Paper Award at IEEE/IFIP Networking 2014
• Best Paper Award at ACM BodyNets 2013
• Student travel grant awards for ACM MobiCom 2014 and ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016
• Excellent Student Leader, Beijing Jiaotong University 2011
• Outstanding Student, Beijing Jiaotong University 2010

Pulications

• CarOSense: Car Occupancy Sensing with the Ultra-Wideband Keyless Infrastructure [PDF] [Video]
  Yongsen Ma, Yunze Zeng, and Vivek Jain
  (Co-first authors)
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2020

• CaraoKey: Car States Sensing via the Ultra-Wideband Keyless Infrastructure [PDF]
  Avinash Kalyanaraman, Yunze Zeng, Sushanta Rakshit, and Vivek Jain
  (Co-first authors)
  IEEE SECON 2020 (Acceptance ratio: 27%)
  Best Paper Runner-up Award!

• Enriching WLANs with Advanced Sensing and Networking Applications [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of California Davis, 2018

• MU-MIMO-Aware AP Selection for 802.11ac Networks [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Kyu-Han Kim, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM MobiHoc 2017 (Acceptance ratio: 17%)

• WearIA: Wearable Device Implicit Authentication based on Activity Information [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Amit Pande, Jindan Zhu, and Prasant Mohapatra
  IEEE WoWMoM 2017

• Vital Sign and Sleep Monitoring Using Millimeter Wave [PDF]
  Zhicheng Yang, Parth H. Pathak, Yunze Zeng, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2017

• Throughput, Energy Efficiency and Interference Characterisation of 802.11ac [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak and Prasant Mohapatra
  Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2017

• Monitoring Vital Signs Using Millimeter Wave [PDF]
  Zhicheng Yang, Parth H. Pathak, Yunze Zeng, Xixi Liran, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM MobiHoc 2016 (Acceptance ratio: 18.7%)

• WiWho: WiFi-based Person Identification in Smart Spaces [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016 (Acceptance ratio: 19.6%)
  Most-cited work!(>400 citations)

• Human Tracking and Activity Monitoring using 60GHz mmWave [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, Zhicheng Yang, and Prasant Mohapatra
  Poster, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016

• Activity-based Implicit Authentication for Wearable Devices [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng
  PhD Forum, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016

• PBA: Prediction-based Authentication for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications [PDF]
  Chen Lyu, Dawu Gu, Yunze Zeng, and Prasant Mohapatra
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2016

• Analyzing Shopper’s Behavior through WiFi Signals [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM WPA @ MobiSys 2015

• Sensor-assisted Codebook-based Beamforming for Mobility Management in 60GHz WLANs [PDF]
  Zhicheng Yang, Parth H. Pathak, Yunze Zeng, and Prasant Mohapatra
  IEEE MASS 2015 (Acceptance ratio: 26%)

• Using Smartphone Sensors for Improving Energy Expenditure Estimation [PDF]
  Amit Pande, Jindan Zhu, Aweek K. Das, Yunze Zeng, Prasant Mohapatra, and Jay J. Han
  IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Vol. 3, 2015

• A First Look at 802.11ac in Action: Energy Efficiency and Interference Characterization [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, and Prasant Mohapatra
  IEEE/IFIP Networking 2014 (Acceptance ratio: 25.34%)
  Best Paper Award!

• Your AP Knows How You Move: Fine-grained Device Motion Recognition through WiFi [PDF]
  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, Chao Xu, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM HotWireless @ Mobicom 2014

• Energy Expenditure Estimation with Smartphone Body Sensors [PDF]
  Amit Pande, Yunze Zeng, Aweek K. Das, Prasant Mohapatra, Sheridan Miyamoto, Edmund Seto, Erik K. Henricson, and Jay J. Han
  ACM BodyNets 2013 (Acceptance ratio: 35%)
  Best Paper Award!

• Accurate Energy Expenditure Estimation using Smartphone Sensors [PDF]
  Amit Pande, Yunze Zeng, Aweek K. Das, Prasant Mohapatra, Sheridan Miyamoto, Edmund Seto, Erik K. Henricson, and Jay J. Han
  Demo, ACM Wireless Health Conference 2013

• Evaluating Perceptual Video Quality for Mobile Clients in 802.11n WLAN [PDF]
  Victor Omwando, Amit Pande, Yunze Zeng, and Prasant Mohapatra
  ACM WiNTECH @ Mobicom 2013