Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Incoming Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Senior Research Associate, Affiliated Lecturer,
Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Name is the student I mentored for those publications.

Journal Articles

[1] Jiani Cao, Jiesong Chen, Chengdong Lin, Yang Liu, Kun Wang, Zhenjiang Li. "Practical Gaze Tracking on Any Surface with Your Phone." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2024.
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[2] Kayla-Jade Butkow, Ting Dang, Andrea Ferlini, Dong Ma, Yang Liu, Cecilia Mascolo. "An Evaluation of Heart Rate Monitoring with In-ear Microphones under Motion." Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal 2024.
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[3] Jiao Li, Jiakai Xu, Yang Liu, Weitao Xu, Zhenjiang Li. "Enhancing the Applicability of Sign Language Translation." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2024.
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[5] Changshou Hu, Thivya Kandappu, Yang Liu, Cecilia Mascolo, Dong Ma. "BreathPro: Monitoring Breathing Mode during Running with Earables." ACM IMWUT journal (UbiComp) 2024.
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[6] Zhen Xiao, Tao Chen, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li. "Keystroke Recognition with the Tapping Sound Recorded by Mobile Phone Microphones." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2021.
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[8] Jiao Li, Yang Liu, Tao Chen, Zhen Xiao, Zhenjiang Li, Jianping Wang. "Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey." IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2020.
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[9] Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li. "aLeak: Context-Free Side-Channel from Your Smart Watch Leaks Your Typing Privacy." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2019.
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[10] Kang Yang, Tianzhang Xing, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li, Xiaoqing Gong, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang. "cDeepArch: A Compact Deep Neural Network Architecture for Mobile Sensing." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) 2019.
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[11] Yang Liu, Yonghang Jiang, Zhenjiang Li, Jianping Wang. "Rulers on Our Arms: Waving to Measure Object Size through Contactless Sensing." ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) 2019.
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Conference Papers

[Preprint] Changshuo Hu*, Qiang Yang*, Yang Liu* (Co-primary author*), Tobias Röddiger, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Mathias Ciliberto, Adam Luke Pullin, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Mahbub Hassan, Cecilia Mascolo, Dong Ma. "A Survey of Earable Technology: Trends, Tools, and the Road Ahead." arxiv 2025.
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[1] Jordan Waters, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Yang Liu, Kayla-Jade Butkow and Cecilia Mascolo. "PDeep-Learning Based Segmentation of In-Ear Cardiac Sounds." IEEE EMBC 2025.

[2] Qiang Yang, Yang Liu, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Emeli Panariti, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo. "SmarTeeth: Augmenting Manual Toothbrushing with In-ear Microphones." ACM CHI 2025.
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[3] Yang Liu, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Adam Pullin, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo. "RespEar: Earable-Based Robust Respiratory Rate Monitoring." IEEE PerCom 2025 Mark Weiser Best Paper Award [1/152].
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[4] Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Yang Liu, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Josh Carte, Qiang Yang, Ezio Preatoni, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo. "WalkEar: Holistic Gait Monitoring using Earables." IEEE PerCom 2025.
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[5] Yuwei Zhang, Tong Xia, Jing Han, Yu Wu, Georgios Rizos, Yang Liu, Mohammed Mosuily, Jagmohan Chauhan, Cecilia Mascolo. "Towards Open Respiratory Acoustic Foundation Models: Pretraining and Benchmarking." NeurIPS 2024.
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[6] Qiang Yang, Yang Liu, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo. "BrushBuds: Toothbrushing Tracking Using Earphone IMUs." ACM EarComp 2024.
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[7] Changshuo Hu, Thivya Kandappu, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Yang Liu, Anthony Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Dong Ma. "Detecting Foot Strikes during Running with Earbuds." ACM BodySys 2024.
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[8] Tamisa Ketmalasiri, Yu Wu, Kayla-Jade Butkow, Cecilia Mascolo, Yang Liu. "IMChew: Chewing Analysis using Earphone Inertial Measurement Units." ACM BodySys 2024.
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[9] Jacob Brown, Yang Liu, Cecilia Mascolo. "Yawning Detection using Earphone Inertial Measurement Units." ACM SmartWear 2023.
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[10] Jiao Li, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li, Jin Zhang. "EarPass: Continuous User Authentication with In-ear PPG." ACM EarComp 2023 Best Paper Award.
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[11] Jiani Cao, Chengdong Lin, Yang Liu, Kun Wang, Zhenjiang Li. "Poster: Gaze Tracking on Any Surface with Your Phone." ACM TURC 2023 Poster.
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[13] Jiao Li, Yang Liu, Weitao Xu, Zhenjiang Li. "GASLA: Enhancing the Applicability of Sign Language Translation." IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
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[14] Zhen Xiao, Tao Chen, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li. "Mobile Phones Know Your Keystrokes through the Sounds from Finger's Tapping on the Screen." IEEE ICDCS 2020.
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[16] Yang Liu, Chengdong Lin, Zhenjiang Li, Zhidan Liu, Kaishun Wu. "Poster: When Wearable Sensing Meets Arm Tracking." ACM MobiSys 2019 Poster.
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[17] Yonghang Jiang, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li. "Data Fusion and Alignment for Location-Aware Crowdsourcing Applications." IEEE DySPAN 2019.
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[18] Kang Yang, Xiaoqing Gong, Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li, Tianzhang Xing, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang. "cDeepArch: A Compact Deep Neural Network Architecture for Mobile Sensing." IEEE SECON 2018.
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[20] Yang Liu, Zhenjiang Li. "Poster Abstract: Context-Free Wearable Side-Channel Leaks Your Typing Privacy." IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Poster.
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