Qiming Cao PhD Student at Purdue University Contact: cao393@purdue.edu

About me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, advised by Professor Lu Su. I earned my Master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University and my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology. My research primarily focuses on wireless sensing and computer vision. Currently, I am working on enhancing the generalizability of deep learning models for wireless sensing data.

Home

Publications (* indicates equal contribution)

  • RAM-Hand: Robust Acoustic Multi-Hand Pose Reconstruction Using a Microphone Array
    Shiyang Wang, Henglin Pu, Qiming Cao, Wenjun Jiang, Xingchen Wang, Tianci Liu, Zhengxin Jiang, Hongfei Xue, Lu Su
    The 23rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, SenSys25

    🏆 Best Paper Award

  • Towards Robust mmWave-based Human Activity Recognition using Large Simulated Dataset for Model Pretraining
    Vinay Joshi (Undergraduate Student), Shengkai Xu, Qiming Cao, Yi Zhu, Pu Wang, Hongfei Xue
    2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData24

    🏆 Best Undergraduate Paper Award

  • mmCLIP: Boosting mmWave-based Zero-shot HAR via Signal-Text Alignment
    Qiming Cao, Hongfei Xue, Tianci Liu, Xingchen Wang, Haoyu Wang, Xincheng Zhang, Lu Su
    The 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, SenSys24

  • Towards Efficient Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Federated Learning with Hierarchical Knowledge Disentanglement
    Xingchen Wang, Haoyu Wang, Feijie Wu, Tianci Liu, Qiming Cao, Lu Su
    The 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, SenSys24

  • Towards Smartphone-based 3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Acoustic Signals
    Shiyang Wang, Xingchen Wang, Wenjun Jiang, Chenglin Miao, Qiming Cao, Haoyu Wang, Ke Sun, Hongfei Xue, Lu Su
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, TOSN24

  • Towards Generalized mmWave-based Human Pose Estimation through Signal Augmentation
    Hongfei Xue, Qiming Cao, Chenglin Miao, Yan Ju, Haochen Hu, Aidong Zhang, Lu Su
    The 29th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking, MobiCom23

  • M4esh: mmWave-based 3D Human Mesh Construction for Multiple Subjects
    Hongfei Xue*, Qiming Cao*, Yan Ju, Haochen Hu, Haoyu Wang, Aidong Zhang, Lu Su
    The 20nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, SenSys22

  • Active Crowd Analysis for Pandemic Risk Mitigation for Blind or Visually Impaired Persons
    Samridha Shrestha, Daohan Lu, Hanlin Tian, Qiming Cao, Julie Liu, John-Ross Rizzo, William H. Seiple, Maurizio Porfiri, Yi Fang
    European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, ECCVW20

  • Towards 3D Perception and Closed-Loop Control for 3D Construction Printing
    Xuchu Xu, Ruoyu Wang, Qiming Cao, Chen Feng
    International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC20

Services

  • Technical Program Committee: ACM/IEEE IoTDI Posters/Demos Program 2023
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2024