Doctoral Defense

Wireless Sensing for Home-based Health Monitoring with Robustness and Scalability

Zongxing Xie 

April 29, 2024
11:30 AM
Light Engineering, Room 250
Advisor:  Fan Ye

Beyond serving as carriers of information for wireless communication, wireless signals have been explored as a sensing modality, based on the association between signal characteristics andth monitoring. Nevertheless, the practical applications of wireless sensing have been hindered by challenges related to robustness and scalability.

This talk presents a selective overview of my research in smart and connected health, focused on robust and scalable wireless sensing for monitoring physiological and physical information. Specifically, I will first discuss the background of wireless sensing for vital signs monitoring and its robustness challenges, and then present a probabilistic method to dynamically combine heuristics for robust vital signs monitoring. Secondly, I will discuss the background of wireless sensing for indoor trajectory tracking and its scalability challenges, and then present a self-calibrating method to eliminate the need for costly manual measurements of 2D/3D sensor coordinates, facilitating scalable deployment of indoor tracking systems. Lastly, I will close the talk by highlighting my research agenda and plan in the field of smart and connected health.