[Jan, 2025] LeekyFeeder conditional accepted by SenSys'25.

[Jan, 2025] Our group had an exciting opportunity to visit Senegal, Africa, to deploy low-cost hearable health monitors for supporting local underserved communities.

[Nov, 2024] Asclepius won Best Paper Award at MobiCom 2024 and I was invited to present it at both main conference and AgeTech workshop.

[Nov, 2024] "Earable Multimodal Sensing and Stimulation: A Prospective Towards Unobtrusive Closed-Loop Biofeedback" accepted by IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering.

[Nov, 2024] Vision paper "Towards Next-Generation Human Computer Interface Based On Earables" now accepted by IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[Jul, 2024] Zero-shot IoT sensing with foundation models now accepted by ECAI'24.

[Mar, 2024] EarVoice is now accepted by MobiSys'24 :)

[Jan, 2024] Mobile Acoustic Field (MAF) is accepted by CHI'24.

[Nov, 2023] Asclepius and MagWear are both accepted by MobiCom'24. See you in DC next year!

[Jun, 2023] Happy to receive the Best Poster Presentation Award (12/300+) at Pitt Postdoctoral Symposium 2023!

[Dec, 2022] Humbled to receive the ACM SIGMOBILE Student Community Grant award!

I am an experimental computer researcher. My research centers on building human-centric mobile system, aims to bring novel perception and ambient intelligence to wearable devices through cutting-edge AI, sensing, and computational technologies. Passionate about sensor + ML technology, I currently work on the following areas to create intelligent systems and applications:

- Digital health: Asclepius(MobiCom'24,Best Paper), Magwear(MobiCom'24), Zero-shot activities logging(ECAI'24), Earable(RBME'24)
- Audio, sensory, physical AI: EarVoice(MobiSys'24), SpotSound(MobiCom'23), SoundSticker(ToSN), Metamorph(NDSS'20), TapLeak(ICDCS'20)
- Spatial computing: MAF(CHI'24), LeekyFeeder(SenSys'25)

I am always open to collaborations. If you see any interest, feel free to drop an email and I am happy to chat!

I am currently a postdoc researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, working with Prof. Longfei Shangguan. Prior to my postdoc, I received my Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Zhenjiang Li.

I am a quick learner, easily adapt to new things, and get the job done.

Towards Remote Auscultation With Commodity Earphones

Tao Chen, Xiaoran Fan, Yongjie Yang, Longfei Shangguan

SenSys 2022 , Boston, USA, November 2022

Poster: Room-Scale Over-the-Air Audio Adversarial Examples

Tao Chen, Longfei Shangguan, Zhenjiang Li, Kyle Jamieson

NDSS Symposium 2020 , San Diego, USA, February 2020

ACM SigMobile Research Highlight, 2025

Best Paper Award (1 out of all submissions) , ACM MobiCom, 2024

SIGMOBILE Student Community Grant Award, ACM SIGMOBILE, 2022

Best Poster Presentation Award (12/300+), Pitt Postdoctoral Research Symposium, 2023

Student Travel Grant, NDSS, 2020

Research Tuition Scholarship, CityU, 2020

Robosub Best New Team, AUVSI and ONR, 2016

Singapore AUV Challenge First Place, IEEE OES Singapore, 2016

Exploring the Feasibility of Remote Cardiac Auscultation Using Earphones
- ACM MobiCom 2024
- MobiCom4AgeTech workshop 2024
- Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Audio and Beyond: Building Multimodal Sensory AI Systems
- University of Pittsburgh
- Samsung Research America
- Starkey Hearing Technologies
- Dolby Laboratories Inc
- Apple
- AIZIP

Sensing and Interpretation: Push the Limit of Accessible Consumer Health
- University of Pittsburgh
- Samsung Research America

Enabling Hands-Free Voice Assistant Activation on Earphones
- Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Exploring Biomagnetism for Inclusive Vital Sign Monitoring: Modeling and Implementation
- Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Editor:
Electronics: Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Flexible and Wearable Electronics (Special Issue)

TPC:
2025: HumanSys;
2024: ISWC; MobiCom (AEC); NDSS (AEC); IPSN (Poster); IEEE ICPADS; EAI MobiQuitous; EarComp; IEEE MSN; ACM BigCom; IEEE ISPA; SENSORDEVICES;
2023: MobiCom (AEC); SOSP (AEC); IEEE ICPADS; EAI MobiQuitous; EarComp; IEEE Cloud Summit;
2022: IEEE ICPADS; EAI MobiQuitous; ACM SenSys (shadow);

Reviewer:
ACM CHI 2025, 2023;
ACM BigCom 2024;
ACM ICDCS 2024;
ACM ASSETS 2023;
IEEE VIS 2023;
ACM MobiCom 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021;
The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp), 2024, 2023, 2021;
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing;
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security;
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks;
IEEE Pervasive Computing;
IEEE Internet of Things Journal;
Frontiers Artificial Intelligence of Things;

Organization:
2022: Session Chair, MobiQuitous