Selected Publications

Underlined indicates students directly working with me. Indicates corresponding author. Full list of publications is available on my Google Scholar.

2025

Multimodal Large Language Models in Human-centered Health: Practical Insights

Ting Dang, Hong Jia

IEEE Pervasive Computing 2025 PDF

LightLLM: A Versatile Large Language Model for Predictive Light Sensing

Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia, Mahbub Hassan, Lina Yao, Brano Kusy, Wen Hu

ACM SenSys 2025 [Ranking: A*] PDF Code

Leafeon: Towards Accurate, Robust and Low-cost Leaf Water Content Sensing Using mmWave Radar

Mark Cardamis, Hong Jia, Hao Qian, Wenyao Chen, Yihe Yan, Oula Ghannoum, Aaron Quigley, Chung Tung Chou, Wen Hu

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2025 PDF

2024

Efficient and Personalized Mobile Health Event Prediction via Small Language Models

Xin Wang, Ting Dang, Vassilis Kostakos, Hong Jia

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. (Oral Presentation) PDF

TinyTTA: Efficient Test-time Adaptation via Early-exit Ensembles on Edge Devices

Hong Jia, Young Kwon, Alessio Orsino, Ting Dang, Domenico Talia, Cecilia Mascolo

NeurIPS 2024 [Ranking: A*] PDF

UR2M: Uncertainty and Resource-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers

Hong Jia, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma, Nhat Pham, Lorena Qendro, Tam Vu, Cecilia Mascolo

IEEE PerCom 2024 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 14.5%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

A Framework for On-Device Uncertainty-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers

Hong Jia, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma, Nhat Pham, Lorena Qendro, Tam Vu, Cecilia Mascolo

PMCJ 2024 PDF

Impact of Adversarial Attacks on Human-AI Joint Performance

Hong Jia, Zheguang Zhao, Olya Ohrimenko, Benjamin Tag, Dali Kaafar, Shlomo Berkovsky, Vassilis Kostakos

ArXiv 2024 Preprint To appear

Enabling On-Device LLMs Personalization with Smartphone Sensing

Shiquan Zhang, Ying Ma, Le Fang, Hong Jia, Simon D'Alfonso, Vassilis Kostakos

ACM UbiComp 2024 PDF

Leveraging LLMs to Predict Affective States via Smartphone Sensor Features

Tianyi Zhang, Songyan Teng, Hong Jia, Simon D'Alfonso

Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Oral Presentation) PDF

LiDARSpectra: Synthetic Indoor Spectral Mapping with Low-cost LiDARs

Jiawei Hu, Yanxiang Wang, Hong Jia, Cheng Jiang, Mahbub Hassan, Brano Kusy, Wen Hu

ACM IPSN 2024 Best Paper Runner-up Award (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 21.5%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Exploring Large-Scale Language Models to Evaluate EEG-Based Multimodal Data for Mental Health

Yongquan Hu, Shuning Zhang, Ting Dang, Hong Jia, Flora Salim, Wen Hu, Aaron Quigley

Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Oral Presentation) PDF

2023

Ubiquitous, Secure, and Efficient Mobile Sensing Systems

Hong Jia

ACM MobiSys 2023 MobiSys Rising Star (Oral Presentation) [Ranking: A*] PDF

LifeLearner: Hardware-Aware Meta Continual Learning System for Embedded Computing Platforms

Young D. Kwon, Jagmohan Chauhan, Hong Jia, Stylianos I. Venieris, Cecilia Mascolo

ACM SenSys 2023 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 18.9%) [Ranking: A*] PDF Code

UDAMA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation through Multi-discriminator Adversarial Training with Noisy Labels Improves Cardio-fitness Prediction

Yu Wu, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Jia, Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Tomas Gonzales, Soren Brage, Nicholas Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo

Machine Learning for Health Symposium, NeurIPS 2023 (Oral Presentation) [Ranking: A*] PDF Code

Spectral-Loc: Indoor Localization using Light Spectral Information

Yanxiang Wang, Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Ashraf Uddin, Brano Kusy, Moustafa Youssef

ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2023 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 20.5%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Subject Adaptive Loose Fitting Smart Garment Platform For Human Activity Recognition

Qi Lin, Shuhua Peng, Yuezhong Wu, Jun Liu, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne, Chun H Wang

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2023 [Ranking: A*] PDF

2022

PROS: an efficient pattern-driven compressive sensing framework for low-power biopotential-based wearables with on-chip intelligence

Nhat Pham, Hong Jia, Minh Tran, Tuan Dinh, Nam Bui, Young Kwon, Dong Ma, Phuc Nguyen, Cecilia Mascolo, Tam Vu

ACM MobiCom 2022 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 17.8%) [Ranking: A*] PDF Slides Code

Turning Silver into Gold: Domain Adaptation with Noisy Labels for Wearable Cardio-Respiratory Fitness Prediction

Yu Wu, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Jia, Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Tomas I Gonzales, Soren Brage, Nicholas Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo

NeurIPS Adjunt 2022 Google DeepMind Travel Award PDF

Passive Light Spectral Indoor Localization

Jiawei Hu, Yanxiang Wang, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Ashraf Uddin, Brano Kusy, Moustafa Youssef

ACM MobiCom 2022 Best Poster Runner-up Award (Oral Presentation) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Pistis: Replay Attack and Liveness Detection for Gait-Based User Authentication System on Wearable Devices Using Vibration

Wei Song, Hong Jia, Min Wang, Yuezhong Wu, Wanli Xue, Chun Tung Chou, Jiankun Hu, Wen Hu

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022 (Oral Presentation) PDF

2021

SwingNet: Ubiquitous Fine-Grained Swing Tracking Framework via Stochastic Neural Architecture Search and Adversarial Learning

Hong Jia, Jiawei Hu, Wen Hu

ACM UbiComp 2021 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 21.4%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Condor: Mobile Golf Swing Tracking via Sensor Fusion using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Hong Jia, Jun Liu, Yuezhong Wu, Tomasz Bednarz, Lina Yao, Wen Hu

ACM EWSN 2021 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 19.7%) [Ranking: A] PDF

Design of a Novel Force Feedback Master Manipulator

Hong Jia, Yunxiang Jiang, Peng Sun, Yiwen Zhao

IEEE IFAC 2021 (Oral Presentation) PDF

Rfaceid: Towards RFID-Based Facial Recognition

Chengwen Luo, Zhongru Yang, Xingyu Feng, Jin Zhang, Hong Jia, Jianqiang Li, Jiawei Wu, Wen Hu

ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 22.5%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Artificial Intelligence Of Things For Ubiquitous Sports Analytics

Hong Jia

ArXiv 2021 Preprint PDF

2020

KEHKey: Kinetic energy harvester-based authentication and key generation for body area network

Qi Lin, Weitao Xu, Guohao Lan, Yesheng Cui, Hong Jia, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne

ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2020 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 23.7%) [Ranking: A*] PDF

Auto-Key: Using autoencoder to speed up gait-based key generation in body area networks

Yuezhong Wu, Qi Lin, Hong Jia, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu

ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2020 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 20.5%) [Ranking: A*] PDF