View all of my publications here.

Preprints

  1. PhyT2V: LLM-Guided Iterative Self-Refinement for Physics-Grounded Text-to-Video Generation [pdf]
    Qiyao Xue, Xiangyu Yin, Boyuan Yang and Wei Gao.
  2. Achieving Sparse Activation in Small Language Models [pdf]
    Jifeng Song, Kai Huang, Xiangyu Yin, Boyuan Yang and Wei Gao.
  3. FreezeAsGuard: Mitigating Illegal Adaptation of Diffusion Models via Selective Tensor Freezing [pdf]
    Kai Huang, Haoming Wang and Wei Gao.

Conference Publications

  1. When Device Delays Meet Data Heterogeneity in Federated AIoT Applications
    Haoming Wang and Wei Gao. in Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2025.
  2. Modality Plug-and-Play: Runtime Modality Adaptation in LLM-Driven Autonomous Mobile Systems
    Kai Huang, Xiangyu Yin, Heng Huang and Wei Gao. in Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2025.
  3. Tackling Intertwined Data and Device Heterogeneities in Federated Learning with Unlimited Staleness [pdf]
    Haoming Wang and Wei Gao. in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
  4. Perceptual-Centric Image Super-Resolution using Heterogeneous Processors on Mobile Devices [pdf]
    Kai Huang, Xiangyu Yin, Tao Gu and Wei Gao. in Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2024.
  5. Towards Green AI in Fine-Tuning Large Language Models via Adaptive Backpropagation [pdf]
    Kai Huang, Hanyun Yin, Heng Huang and Wei Gao. in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
  6. ElasticTrainer: Speeding Up On-Device Training with Runtime Elastic Tensor Selection [pdf][source code]
    Kai Huang, Boyuan Yang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2023.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 41/198=20.7%)
  7. PTEase: Objective Airway Examination for Pulmonary Telemedicine using Commodity Smartphones [pdf]
    Xiangyu Yin, Kai Huang, Erick Forno, Wei Chen, Heng Huang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2023.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 41/198=20.7%)
  8. Real-time Neural Network Inference on Extremely Weak Devices: Agile Offloading with Explainable AI [pdf][source code]
    Kai Huang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference On Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2022.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 56/314=17.8%)
  9. Eavesdropping User Credentials via GPU Side Channels on Smartphones [pdf][source code]
    Boyuan Yang, Ruirong Chen, Kai Huang, Jun Yang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 27th ACM Int'l Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2022.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 80/397=20.2%)
  10. AiFi: AI-Enabled WiFi Interference Cancellation with Commodity PHY-Layer Information [pdf][source code]
    Ruirong Chen, Kai Huang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2022.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 52/209=24.8%)
  11. TransFi: Emulating Custom Wireless Physical Layer from Commodity WiFi [pdf][source code]
    Ruirong Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2022.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 38/176=21.6%)
  12. RAScatter: Achieving Energy-Efficient Backscatter Readers via AI-Assisted Power Adaptation [pdf][source code]
    Kai Huang, Ruirong Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2022.
  13. FaceListener: Recognizing Human Facial Expressions via Acoustic Sensing on Commodity Smartphones [pdf]
    Xingzhe Song, Kai Huang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2022.
  14. SpiroSonic: Monitoring Human Lung Function via Acoustic Sensing on Commodity Smartphones [pdf]
    Xingzhe Song, Boyuan Yang, Ge Yang, Ruirong Chen, Erick Forno, Wei Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2020.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 62/384=16.1%)

  15. MagHacker: Eavesdropping on Stylus Pen Writing via Magnetic Sensing from Commodity Mobile Devices [pdf]
    Yihao Liu, Kai Huang, Xingzhe Song, Boyuan Yang and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2020.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 34/175=19.4%)

  16. StarLego: Enabling Custom Physical-Layer Wireless over Commodity Devices [pdf]
    Ruirong Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2020.
  17. EasyPass: Combating IoT Delays with Multiple Access Wireless Side Channels [pdf]
    Haoyang Lu, Ruirong Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2019. [Best Paper Award]
    (Acceptance Ratio: 32/190=16.8%) [Media coverage: AllAboutCircuits, Pitt Engineering News, IoTTechNews]
  18. DeltaVR: Achieving High-Performance Mobile VR Dynamics through Pixel Reuse [pdf]
    Yong Li and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2019.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 25/91=27.5%)
  19. The Computing Landscape of the 21st Century [pdf]
    Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Wei Gao and Brandon Lucia, in Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2019.
  20. Enabling Cross-Technology Coexistence for Extremely Weak Wireless Devices [pdf]
    Ruirong Chen and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2019.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 288/1464=19.7%)
  21. MUVR: Supporting Multi-User Mobile Virtual Reality with Resource Constrained Edge Cloud [pdf]
    Yong Li and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2018.
  22. Continuous Wireless Link Rates for Internet of Things [pdf]
    Haoyang Lu and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2018.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 22/82=26.8%)
  23. Interconnecting Heterogeneous Devices in the Personal Mobile Cloud [pdf]
    Yong Li and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 292/1395=20.9%)
  24. Scheduling Dynamic Wireless Networks with Limited Operations [pdf]
    Haoyang Lu and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2016.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 46/229=20.1%)
  25. Supporting Real-Time Wireless Traffic through A High-Throughput Side Channel [pdf][slides]
    Haoyang Lu and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2016.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 35/187=18.7%)
  26. Application-Aware Traffic Scheduling for Workload Offloading in Mobile Clouds [pdf][slides]
    Liang Tong and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 300/1644=18.25%)
  27. A Hierarchical Edge Cloud Architecture for Mobile Computing [pdf][slides]
    Liang Tong, Yong Li and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 300/1644=18.25%)
  28. Accurate Power Quality Monitoring in Microgrids [pdf]
    Zhichuan Huang, Ting Zhu, Haoyang Lu and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2016.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 23/117=19.6%)
  29. Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading in Cellular Networks [pdf]
    Yeli Geng, Wenjie Hu, Yi Yang, Wei Gao and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2015.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 38/187=20.3%)
  30. A Computation Offloading Framework For Soft Real-time Embedded Systems [pdf]
    Yuchuan Liu, Cong Liu, Xia Zhang, Wei Gao, Liang He, and Yu Gu, in Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2015.

  31. Code Offload with Least Context Migration in the Mobile Cloud [pdf][slides]
    Yong Li and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 316/1640=19%)

  32. On Exploiting Dynamic Execution Patterns for Workload Offloading in Mobile Cloud Applications [pdf][slides]
    Wei Gao, Yong Li, Haoyang Lu, Ting Wang, and Cong Liu, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2014.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 32/160=20%)

  33. Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: Towards Cross-System Malware Information Sharing [pdf]
    Ting Wang, Shicong Meng, Wei Gao, and Xin Hu , in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 95/457=21%)
  34. Power Grid Frequency Monitoring Over Mobile Platforms [pdf]
    Haoyang Lu, Lingwei Zhan, Yilu Liu, and Wei Gao, in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Int'l Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2014.

  35. Forwarding Redundancy in Opportunistic Mobile Networks: Investigation and Elimination [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao, Qinghua Li, and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2014.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 320/1645=19.4%)

  36. Delay-Constrained Caching in Cognitive Radio Networks [pdf]
    Jing Zhao, Wei Gao, Yi Wang, and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2014.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 320/1645=19.4%)

  37. Wakeup Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Communication in Opportunistic Mobile Networks [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao and Qinghua Li, in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2013.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 280/1613=17.4%)

  38. Distributed Maintenance of Cache Freshness in Opportunistic Mobile Networks [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao, Guohong Cao, Mudhakar Srivatsa, and Arun Iyengar, in Proceedings of the 32nd Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 71/515=13.7%)

  39. Supporting Cooperative Caching in Disruption Tolerant Networks [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao, Guohong Cao, Arun Iyengar, and Mudhakar Srivatsa, in Proceedings of the 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2011.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 15%)

  40. Win-Coupon: An Incentive Framework for Cellular Traffic Offloading [pdf]
    Xuejun Zhuo, Wei Gao, Guohong Cao, and Yiqi Dai, in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2011.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 31/189=16.4%)

  41. Contact Duration Aware Data Replication in Delay Tolerant Networks [pdf]
    Xuejun Zhuo, Qinghua Li, Wei Gao, Guohong Cao, and Yiqi Dai, in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2011.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 31/189=16.4%)

  42. User-Centric Data Dissemination in Disruption Tolerant Networks [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2011.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 291/1823=15.9%)

  43. On Exploiting Transient Contact Patterns for Data Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2010.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 31/170=18.2%)

  44. Geography-Aware Active Data Dissemination in Mobile Social Networks [pdf]
    Jialu Fan, Yuan Du, Wei Gao, Jiming Chen, and Youxian Sun, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Int'l Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2010.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 51/185=27.6%)

  45. Fine-Grained Mobility Characterization: Steady and Transient State Behaviors [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2010.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 26/154=16.9%)

  46. Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Social Network Perspective [pdf][ps][slides]
    Wei Gao, Qinghua Li, Bo Zhao, and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2009.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 31/175=17.7%)

  47. A Chain Reaction DoS Attack on 3G Networks: Analysis and Defenses [pdf][ps]
    Bo Zhao, Caixia Chi, Wei Gao, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2009.
    (Acceptance Ratio: 282/1435=19.6%)