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PhD Student in Computer Science

University of California, Los Angeles

• Advisor: Prfessor Omid Abari.
• Research focus area: Wireless sensing and communication systems.
• Major area: Computer Network Systems
• Minor areas
  • Artificial Intelligence.
  • Human-Computer Interaction.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Thesis advisor: Professor Romit Roy Choudhury.
• Thesis project: Indoor Localization with the Assistance of Ultrasonic Beacons

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

Zhejiang University, China

[HotNets'22]: Bringing WiFi Localization to Any WiFi Devices

• Authors: Haofan Lu, Tianxiang Li, Reza Rezvani, Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
• Acceptance rate: 32/104 = 30.8%.

[IJHMT]: Deep learning techniques elucidate and modify the shape factor to extend the effective medium theory beyond its original formulation [Link]

• Authors: Haofan Lu, Yi Yu, Ankit Jain, Yee Sin Ang, Wee-Liat Ong
• IF: 5.584

WiFi Physical Layer security loopholes and their implications

• Reveal that WiFi Physical layer replies ACK to any packet, even those coming out of the network.
• Reveal that WiFi Physical layer power-saving mechanism can be manipulated by fake beacon packets.
• Investigate the possible security implications of these loopholes, including the disclosure of sensitive information, such as breathing rate; battery drainage of important IoT devices, such as security cameras.

WiFi Localization for IoT devices with a single RF chain

• Investigate the WiFi Probing Mechanism and combine it with the Frequency Scanning Antenna (FSA) technique for Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) measurement.
• Develop Time-of-Flight (ToF) based ranging techniques that achieve sub-meter level accuracy on ESP32 platform.
• Combine ToF and AoA information to enable localization for devices with a single RF chain.

JOKER: JOint KnowledgE & Reference -- A Note-taking App for Researchers [Link]

• Designed and Implemented Web UI using Javascript based on jQuery and BootStrap3.
• Implemented backend using Django and integrated a graph database: Neo4j.
• Employed NLP algorithms to automatically parse the citation and extract keywords.
• Built and Visualized citation tree and related articles in the database.

A Crowd-sourcing Urban Air Quality Monitoring System on Bicycles [Link]

• Designed and fabricated air quality sensor boards that measure air contaminants concentrations.
• Developed backend with Nginx and use Influx DB to store collected sensor data.
• Visualized the air quality at each area of the city in a Web application using Amap API.

• Graduation with Highest Honor of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Dean's List of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Second-class Scholarship of Zhejiang University