Zi Wang

Zi Wang

Zi Wang is an assistant professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University.

About

RA positions available: I am happy to work with self-motivated Ph.D. students. If you are interested in my research area, please email me with your CV, transcripts, TOEFL/GRE score, and representative publications (if any).

Zi Wang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University. His research spans the intersection of Mobile Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence. He has published in premier venues including ACM UbiComp, ACM MobiCom, and ACM CHI. His work focuses on developing novel sensing systems that leverage cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to enhance human-centered applications. Before joining Augusta University, he was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University, supervised by Prof. Jie Yang.

Research Interests

Mobile and Wearable Computing, AI-Enhanced Human-centered Sensing, Healthcare and Biometric Security, Human-Computer Interaction

Publication

Zi Wang, Yilin Wang, Jie Yang,, “EarSlide: a Secure Ear Wearables Biometric Authentication Based on Acoustic Fingerprint”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT) (UbiComp 2024). (Acceptance Rate≈ 20%) - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Youngone Lee, Sheng Tan, Zi Wang, “CochlearMotion: Head Gesture Recognition Leveraging Ear Canal Deformation Sensing”, The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58), January 2025.

Yilin Wang, Zi Wang (Co-first), Jie Yang, ”Acoustic-based Alphanumeric Input Interface for Earables”, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. (ICCCN 2024)

Zi Wang, Yili Ren, Yingying Chen, and Jie Yang, “ToothSonic: Earable Authentication via Acoustic Toothprint”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT) (UbiComp 2022). (Acceptance Rate≈ 20%) - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Zi Wang, Sheng Tan, Linghan Zhang, Yili Ren, Zhi Wang, and Jie Yang, “EarDynamic: An Ear Canal Deformation Based Continuous User Authentication Using In-Ear Wearables”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT) (UbiComp 2021). (Acceptance Rate≈ 20%) - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Zi Wang, Linghan Zhang, Sheng Tan, Jie Yang, “ObstacleWatch: Acoustic-based Obstacle Collision Detection for Pedestrian Using Smartphone”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT) (UbiComp 2019). (Acceptance Rate ≈ 20%) - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Yili Ren, Zi Wang, Yichao Wang, Sheng Tan, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang. “GoPose: 3D Human Pose Estimation Using WiFi”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp 2022), September 2022. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Yili Ren, Zi Wang, Sheng Tan, Yingying Chen Jie Yang. “Winect: 3D Human Pose Tracking for Free-form Activity Using Commodity WiFi”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp 2022), September 2022. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Linghan Zhang, Sheng Tan, Zi Wang, Yili Ren, Zhi Wang, Jie Yang, “VibLive: A Continuous Liveness Detection for Secure Voice User Interface in IoT Environment”, accepted by the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020), December 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 23.41%)

Yili Ren, Sheng Tan, Linghan Zhang, Zi Wang, Zhi Wang, Jie Yang. “Liquid Level Sensing Using Commodity WiFi in a Smart Home Environment”, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp 2020), September 2020. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Sheng Tan, Linghan Zhang, Zi Wang, Jie Yang, “MultiTrack: Multi-User Tracking and Activity Recognition Using Commodity WiFi”, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 23.8%) - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Zi Wang, Yili Ren, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “Earable Authentication via Acoustic Toothprint”, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2021) poster, Virtual, 2021. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Zi Wang, Yili Ren, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “An Ear Canal Deformation Based Continuous User Authentication Using Earables” The 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2021) poster, Virtual, 2021. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Y. Ren, Z. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Tan, Y. Chen, J. Yang, “Tracking Free-form Activity Using WiFi Signals” The 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2021) poster, Virtual, 2021. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Y. Ren, Z. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Tan, Y. Chen, J. Yang “Poster Abstract: 3D Human Pose Estimation Using WiFi Signals” The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021) poster, Virtual, 2021. - top-tier csrankings.org conference

Services and Awards

Committee and Editors, DATA 2024 Committee, CANS 2023 Organizing Committee Co-chair, Electronics Guest Editor

Reviewer for conferences, Reviewer of IEEE INFOCOM 2025, Ubicomp/IMWUT 2024, CHI 2024, MASS 2023, Interact 2023, helped in reviewing paper of InfoCom 2022/2021, ASIACCS 2022, ACSAC 2021, CNS 2021, ESORICS2021, DCOSS 2021, Wisec2021, WASA2021, IWQoS 2021, ICCCN 2021, IoT 2021/2020/2019, MSN 2019.

Reviewer for journals, Reviewer of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Journal of Systems Architecture, Sensors, Electronics, Healthcare, IoT, Applied Sciences, Future Internet, Biomedicines, Signals, Network, IJMS, JFMK.

Outstanding Research Award (1 out of 90 Ph.D. students), Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, 2021

Teaching

Lecturer:

CYBR 2600 Introduction to Networking and Cyber Security, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023 AIST 2220 Intro to Web Development, Fall 2023

Guest lecturer and teaching assistant:

COP 4020 Programming Language, Spring 2018, 2019, 2020, Fall 2020 CDA 3100 Computer Organization, Fall 2018, 2019 CIS 4403, CIS4360 - Fall 2017, 2021 CGS2060 Computer Fluency, Summer 2018

Misc

I enjoy many sports like badminton, tennis, swimming, basketball, paddle boarding, and skateboard.

I am interested in playing and developing video games. I am also a fan of D&D and MTG.