Kuang Yuan

I'm currently a 4th-year Ph.D. student of WiTech Lab in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor is Prof. Swarun Kumar and I also work closely with Prof. Justin Chan. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2021 with the Guo Moruo Scholarship (The highest honor for USTC students).

My research interests lie in developing intelligent audio systems and sensing technologies, to promote human well-being in everyday life and support seamless human-computer interfaces. I design and build mobile systems which integrates sensors (acoustics, radar, IMU, etc.), real-time signal processing, and machine learning algorithms.

I interned at Meta Reality Labs during Summer 2024 working on audio technologies on smart glasses. I'm also fortunate to work with Prof. Jie Xiong during my undergrad years and the 2023 summer internship at Microsoft Research Asia.

Publications

DeWinder: Single-Channel Wind Noise Reduction using Ultrasound Sensing

Kuang Yuan, Shuo Han, Swarun Kumar, Bhiksha Raj.
Interspeech'24
[Paper] [Poster]

Rethinking Orientation Estimation with Smartphone-equipped Ultra-wideband Chips

Hao Zhou, Kuang Yuan, Mahanth Gowda, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong.
ACM MobiCom'24
[Paper]

Towards Ubiquitous IoT through Long Range Wireless Energy Harvesting

Mohamed Ibrahim, Atul Bansal, Kuang Yuan, Junbo Zhang, Swarun Kumar.
ACM MobiHoc'24
[Paper]

Battery-free Wideband Spectrum Mapping using Commodity RFID Tags

Mohamed Ibrahim, Atul Bansal, Kuang Yuan, Swarun Kumar, Peter Steenkiste.
ACM MobiCom'23
[Paper]

EarphoneTrack: Involving Earphones into the Ecosystem of Acoustic Motion Tracking

Gaoshuai Cao*, Kuang Yuan*, Jie Xiong, Panlong Yang, Yubo Yan, Hao Zhou, and Xiang-Yang Li. (*Co-primary Author)
ACM SenSys'20
[Paper] [Talk] [Slides]