Zhenlin An

Publications

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2026
IEEE TMC
MetaRFence: Protecting Human Motion Privacy Against RFID Sensing via Metasurface
Zheng Shi, Zhikai Ding, Yanni Yang, Zhenlin An, Runyu Pan, Yanling Bu, Guoming Zhang, Pengfei Hu, Jiannong Cao
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026
IEEE TMC
Toward Scalable Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Using Commercial RFIDs
Jingyu Tong, Xiaopeng Zhao, Zhicheng Wang, Donghui Dai, Zheng Gong, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026
CVPR W.
Efficient Structure-Guided 3D Physical Property Reasoning
Hongbo Lan, Zhenlin An, Haoyu Li, Vaibhav Singh, Longfei Shangguan
CVPR Workshop on Open-World 3D Scene Understanding (OpenSUN3D), 2026
2025
INFOCOM
RFnoID: Protecting RFID Motion Privacy via Metasurface
Yanni Yang, Zheng Shi, Zhenlin An, Runyu Pan, Yanling Bu, Guoming Zhang, Pengfei Hu, Jiannong Cao
IEEE INFOCOM, 2025
INFOCOM
Commercial RFIDs as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Jingyu Tong, Xiaopeng Zhao, Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2025
IEEE RAL
MetaSonic: Advancing Robot Localization with Directional Embedded Acoustic Signals
Junling Wang, Zhenlin An, Yi Guo
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
DySPAN
RadioTwin: A Digital Building Material Twin for Wideband, Cross-link, Cross-band Wireless Channel Prediction
Zhenlin An, Longfei Shangguan, John Kaewell, Philip Pietraski, Kyle Jamieson
IEEE DySPAN, 2025
SenSys
LeakyFeeder: In-Air Gesture Control Through Leaky Acoustic Waves
Yongjie Yang, Tao Chen, Zhenlin An, Shirui Cao, Xiaoran Fan, Longfei Shangguan
Proceedings of ACM SenSys, 2025
🏆 Best Paper Award Nominee
2024
INFOCOM
RF-Parrot: Wireless Eavesdropping on Wired Audio
Yanni Yang, Genglin Wang, Zhenlin An, Pengfei Hu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Guoming Zhang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2024
MobiCom
Binary Optical Machine Learning: Million-Scale Physical Neural Networks with Nano Neurons
Xueyuan Yang, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang, Dangyuan Lei, Yulong Fan
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2024
MobiCom
Enabling Cross-Medium Wireless Networks with Miniature Mechanical Antennas
Zheng Gong, Zhenlin An, Donghui Dai, Jingyu Tong, Shuijie Long, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2024
NSDI
RFID+: Spatially Controllable Identification of UHF RFIDs via Controlled Magnetic Fields
Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Zheng Gong, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI, 2024
MobiSys
Understanding Localization by a Tailored GPT
Xiaopeng Zhao, Guosheng Wang, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, 2024
IEEE IoTJ
Pushing the Boundaries of High-Precision AoA Estimation with Enhanced Phase Estimation Protocol
Xiaopeng Zhao, Guosheng Wang, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024
MobiHoc
In-Sensor Machine Learning: Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing
Jingyu Tong, Zhenlin An, Xiaopeng Zhao, Sicong Liao, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, 2024
IEEE TMC
Romeo: Fault Detection of Rotating Machinery via Fine-Grained mmWave Velocity Signature
Yanni Yang, Pengfei Hu, Jun Luo, Zhenlin An, Jiannong Cao, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024
2023
JAG
A Bi-LSTM Approach for Modelling Movement Uncertainty of Crowdsourced Human Trajectories under Complex Urban Environments
Yue Yu, Yepeng Yao, Zhewei Liu, Zhenlin An, Biyu Chen, Liang Chen, Ruizhi Chen
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023
Demo
Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing (Demo)
Jingyu Tong, Zhenlin An, Xiaopeng Zhao, Sicong Liao, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2023
Demo
MagCode: Bringing NFC Feature to All Smartphones (Demo)
Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2023
SECON
Revisiting Backscatter Frequency Drifts for Fingerprinting RFIDs: A Perspective of Frequency Resolution
Qingrui Pan, Zhenlin An, Xiaopeng Zhao, Lei Yang
IEEE SECON, 2023
🏆 Best Paper Award
INFOCOM
Transfer Beamforming via Beamforming for Transfer
Xueyuan Yang, Zhenlin An, Xiaopeng Zhao, Lei Yang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
INFOCOM
NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication
Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenlin An, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu, Guoming Zhang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
MobiCom
MagCode: NFC-Enabled Barcodes for NFC-Disabled Smartphones
Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2023
IEEE S&P
Inducing Wireless Chargers to Voice Out for Inaudible Command Attacks
Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2023
SenSys
XiTuXi: Sealing the Gaps in Cross-Technology Communication by Neural Machine Translation
Sicong Liao, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Xiaopeng Zhao, Jingyu Tong, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM SenSys, 2023
MobiCom
NeRF2: Neural Radio-Frequency Radiance Fields
Xiaopeng Zhao*, Zhenlin An*, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2023
🏆 Best Paper Runner-up Award
2022
Demo
Inducing Wireless Chargers to Voice Out (Demo)
Donghui Dai, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2022
Demo
Constructing Smart Buildings with In-Concrete Backscatter Networks (Demo)
Zheng Gong, Zhenlin An, Jingyu Tong, Donghui Dai, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2022
🏆 Best Demo Runner-up Award
INFOCOM
LSAB: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Efficiency of AoA Tracking Systems
Qingrui Pan, Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
ACM TOSN
LSAB: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Efficiency of AoA Tracking Systems
Qingrui Pan, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2022
IEEE/ACM ToN
Tagcaster: Activating Wireless Voice of Electronic Toll Collection Systems with Zero Start-up Cost
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Lei Xie
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022
ACM TOSN
Localizing RFIDs in Pixel Dimensions
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Yi Guo, Ping Li
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2022
MobiCom
RF-DNA: Large-Scale Physical-Layer Identifications of RFIDs via Dual Natural Attributes
Qingrui Pan, Zhenlin An, Xueyuan Yang, Xiaopeng Zhao, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2022
SIGCOMM
Empowering Smart Buildings with Self-Sensing Concrete for Structural Health Monitoring
Zheng Gong, Lubing Han, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Siqi Ding, Yu Xiang
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, 2022
2021
Thesis
On Cross-Technology Mutualism in the Internet of Things: Communication and Localization (PhD Thesis)
Zhenlin An
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2021
IJGIS
RegNet: A Neural Network Model for Predicting Regional Desirability with VGI Data
Wenzhong Shi, Zhewei Liu, Zhenlin An, Pengfei Chen
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2021
IEEE/ACM ToN
Identifying UHF RFIDs in Range of Readers with WiFi
Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021
INFOCOM
Turbocharging Deep Backscatter Through Constructive Power Surges with a Single RF Source
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2021
MobiCom
One Tag, Two Codes: Identifying Optical Barcodes with NFC
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Xiaopeng Zhao, Lei Yang, Dongliang Zheng, Guiqing Wu, Shan Chang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2021
2020
SECON
RFCamera: Identifying RFIDs in Pixel Dimensions
Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Zhenlin An, Yi Guo, Ping Li
IEEE SECON, 2020
🏆 Best Paper Award
IEEE/ACM ToN
Acquiring Bloom Filters Across Commercial RFIDs in Physical Layer
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Wei Lou, Lei Xie
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020
IEEE TMC
Revitalizing Ultrasonic Positioning Systems for Ultrasound-Incapable Smart Devices
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Yi Guo
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020
MobiSys
General-Purpose Deep Tracking Platform Across Protocols for the Internet of Things
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Ping Li, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, 2020
2019
Demo
Activating Wireless Voice for E-Toll Collection Systems with Zero Start-up Cost (Demo)
Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2019
IEEE TMC
RFID Harmonic for Vibration Sensing
Ping Li, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Panlong Yang, Qiongzheng Lin
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019
IEEE/ACM ToN
Tash: Toward Selective Reading as Hash Primitives for Gen2 RFIDs
Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Chunhui Duan, Zhenlin An
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019
INFOCOM
Towards Physical-Layer Vibration Sensing with RFIDs
Ping Li, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Panlong Yang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2019
INFOCOM
Embracing Tag Collisions: Acquiring Bloom Filters Across RFIDs in Physical Layer
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Wei Lou
IEEE INFOCOM, 2019
🏆 Best-in-Session Presentation Award
MobiCom
Rebooting Ultrasonic Positioning Systems for Ultrasound-Incapable Smart Devices
Qiongzheng Lin, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2019
2018
MobiCom
Cross-Frequency Communication: Near-Field Identification of UHF RFIDs with WiFi!
Zhenlin An, Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2018
2017
MobiCom
Analog On-Tag Hashing: Towards Selective Reading as Hash Primitives in Gen2 RFID Systems
Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin, Chunhui Duan, Zhenlin An
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, 2017