Publications

Underlined authors are direct advisees · * denotes co-primary authors

PerCom 2026
μTouch: Enabling Accurate, Lightweight Self-Touch Sensing with Passive Magnets
Siyuan Wang, Ke Li, Jingyuan Huang, Jike Wang, Cheng Zhang, Alanson Sample, Dongyao Chen
Self-touch gesture recognition via a novel magnetic sensing platform — nuanced facial touches, subtle finger scratches, and beyond.
μTouch
NDSS 2026
DualStrike: Accurate, Real-time Eavesdropping and Injection of Keystrokes on Commodity Keyboards
Xiaomeng Chen, Jike Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Qi Alfred Chen, Xinbing Wang, Dongyao Chen
First attack scheme that simultaneously listens and injects on commodity keyboards via magnetic sensing.
DualStrike
IJHCI 2025
Towards Extended Interaction with Differential Magnetic Tracking and Deep Learning
Zhenyu Chen, Peihang Chen, Jingyuan Huang, Dongyao Chen
Overcomes initial parameter sensitivity of the LM algorithm, expanding magnetic sensing usability for mobile scenarios.
MagDelta
MobiCom 2025
Bridge: Enabling BLE Direction Finding Feature Compatible with All Bluetooth Devices
Runting Zhang, Yijie Li, Dian Ding, Yi-Chao Chen, Yida Wang, Dongyao Chen, Jingxian Wang, Jiadi Yu, Ling Ma, Guangtao Xue
Backward compatibility of the BLE v5.1 direction finding feature with legacy BLE devices.
BRIDGE
UbiComp 2025  🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
MagDesk: Interactive Tabletop Workspace Based on Passive Magnetic Tracking
Kunpeng Huang, Yasha Iravantchi, Dongyao Chen, Alanson Sample
Real-time 3D tracking of passive magnets embedded in tabletop objects enabling rich interaction.
MagDesk
MobiCom 2024
Polaris: Accurate, Vision-free Fiducials for Mobile Robots with Magnetic Constellation
Jike Wang, Yasha Iravantchi, Alanson Sample, Kang G. Shin, Xinbing Wang, Dongyao Chen
World's first invisible fiducial tag for robots using magnetic sensing — enabling pose calibration and navigation without cameras.
Polaris
UbiComp 2024
MagDot: Drift-free, Wearable Joint Angle Tracking at Low Cost
Dongyao Chen, Qing Luo, Xiaomeng Chen, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
First wearable system for drift-free joint tracking. Accuracy: 2.72°, 4.14°, 4.61° for elbow, knee, and shoulder.
MagDot
AIoTSys @ MobiSys 2024
Implementation and Benchmark of Magnetic Tracking on Mobile Platforms
Zhenyu Chen, Jike Wang, Dongyao Chen
Deployment of magnetic tracking on commodity Android smartphones — energy-efficient and highly effective.
MagAndroid
SenSys 2023
METRO: Magnetic Road Markings for All-weather, Smart Roads
Jike Wang, Shanmu Wang, Yasha Iravantchi, Mingke Wang, Alanson Sample, Kang G. Shin, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou, Dongyao Chen
Magnetic encoding of road markings that remain visible regardless of weather — tested on real-world roads.
METRO
VehicleSec 2023  🏆 Best Paper Award
Guess Which Car Type I Am Driving: Information Leak via Driving Apps
Dongyao Chen, Mert D. Pesé, Kang G. Shin
Leveraging widely available smartphone sensor data to infer vehicle type — a new privacy leak in driving apps.
VeFi
MobiCom 2022
Automatic Calibration of Magnetic Tracking
Mingke Wang*, Qing Luo*, Yasha Iravantchi, Xiaomeng Chen, Alanson Sample, Kang G. Shin, Xiaohua Tian, Xinbing Wang, Dongyao Chen
MAGIC: systematic framework to automatically calibrate soft- and hard-iron disturbances for a MEMS magnetometer array.
MAGIC
MobiSys 2022
Enabling Software-defined PHY for Backscatter Networks
Fengyuan Zhu, Mingwei Ouyang, Luwei Feng, Yaoyu Liu, Xiaohua Tian, Meng Jin, Dongyao Chen, Xinbing Wang
First software-defined PHY enabling agile reprogrammability in wireless backscatter networks.
Backscatter
MobiCom 2021
MagX: Wearable, Untethered Hands Tracking with Passive Magnets
Dongyao Chen, Mingke Wang, Chenxi He, Qing Luo, Yasha Iravantchi, Alanson Sample, Kang G. Shin, Xinbing Wang
First untethered, mobile magnetic tracking platform for fine-grained hand tracking — AR/VR interaction and health monitoring.
MagX
UbiComp 2021
Authenticating Drivers Using Automotive Batteries
Liang He, Yuanchao Shu, Youngmoon Lee, Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin
B-Auth: driver authentication via battery voltage patterns correlated with driving behavior.
B-Auth
SECON 2022
DETROIT: Data Collection, Translation and Sharing for Rapid Vehicular App Development
Mert D. Pesé, Dongyao Chen, C. Andrés Campos, Alice Ying, Troy Stacer, Kang G. Shin
Open-source vehicle-agnostic end-to-end framework for vehicular data collection, translation and sharing.
DETROIT
UbiComp 2019
TurnsMap: Enhancing Traffic Safety with Crowdsensing and Deep Learning
Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin
IoT + AI framework for detecting safe left turns — democratizing traffic safety information for navigation apps.
TurnsMap
CCS 2019
LibreCAN: Automated CAN Message Translator
Mert D. Pesé, Troy Stacer, C. Andrés Campos, Eric Newberry, Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin
Automated translation of in-vehicle CAN data — making the data flow in cars transparent to developers.
LibreCAN
CoNEXT 2017
Locating and Tracking BLE Beacons with Smartphones
Dongyao Chen, Yurong Jiang, Kyu-Han Kim, Kang G. Shin
LocBLE: fine-grained location of BLE beacons using commodity smartphones. Collaborative work with Hewlett Packard Labs.
LocBLE
MobiSys 2015
Invisible Sensing of Vehicle Steering with Smartphones
Dongyao Chen, Kyong-Tak Cho, Sihui Han, Zhizhuo Jin, Kang G. Shin
V-Sense: vehicle steering detection middleware running on commodity smartphones with no additional sensors.
V-Sense
CCS 2014
Vulnerability and Protection of Channel State Information in Multiuser MIMO Networks
Yu-Chih Tung, Sihui Han, Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin
Sniff and power attacks exploiting plaintext CSI feedback in MU-MIMO — and defenses against them.
CSI Security