Liyao Li

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105 White Rd

Room 340 Davis Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, co-advised by Prof. Yaxiong Xie and Prof. Wenyao Xu. I am in NExt-generation MObile-network (NEMO) lab and ESC Group at UB.

My research interests include wireless communications, backscatter communications, smart health and internet of things.

My work has been published in conferences including MobiCom and NSDI. Please feel free to check my publications, and I am always happy to answer any questions or discuss potential collaborations. You can contact me through my email(liyao@buffalo.edu).

News

May 12, 2025 Our work OhmSense has been awarded the Artifacts Available, Artifacts Evaluated Funtional/Reusable badges.
Apr 24, 2025 I passed my OQE exam.
Dec 11, 2024 OhmScanner is accepted by MobiCom 2025.
Dec 07, 2023 Cyclops is accepted by NSDI 2024.

Selected publications

  1. MobiCom
    SmartLens: Sensing eye activities using zero-power contact lens
    Liyao Li, Yaxiong Xie, Jie Xiong, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking, 2022
  2. NSDI
    Cyclops: A Nanomaterial-based, Battery-Free Intraocular Pressure (IOP) Monitoring System inside Contact Lens
    Liyao Li, Bozhao Shang, Yun Wu, and 3 more authors
    In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24), 2024
  3. MobiCom
    From signal-based to Impedance-based Sensing: A Paradigm Shift for Plug-and-play, Mobile, and Sensitive Battery-free Sensing
    Liyao Li, Wu Yun, Minsung Kim, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 31th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking, 2025