Yiwen Song
Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
About me Happy Chinese Lunar New Year
I am a Ph.D. student at WiTech Lab of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Swarun Kumar. Before that, I obtained my bachelor's degree (with honor) in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I was advised by Prof. Haiming Jin. I also work closely with Prof. Lili Qiu at The University of Texas at Austin and Microsoft Research Asia.
Research
Education
- Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- B.S. (with honor) Information Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Recent News
Our paper on Frequency-reconfigurable, pneumatically-actuated soft antenna has been published in Advanced Science.
Our paper on Frequency-Selective Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators with Radio-Frequency has been published in Nature Communications.
PolarVisor: Clutter-free, Electronics-free Fiducial Markers for mmWave Radars Printed on Paper will appear at ACM MobiCom 2025.
MicroSurf: A metasurface to control heating inside microwave ovens will be presented at ACM MobiCom 2024.
Tomobrush has appeared in IMWUT. Lead author Kuang will present the work at Ubicomp 2024.
Awards
- ACM GetMobile Research Highlight 2024: MicroSurf: Guiding Energy Distribution inside Microwave Oven with Metasurfaces
- Ben Cook Presidential Graduate Fellowship in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2024-2025
- Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2023-2024
- MobiCom’23 S3 Best Poster Award: Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating.
Academic Services
- TPC Co-Chair - ACM S3 Workshop 2025. Co-located with ACM MobiCom’25, Hong Kong, China.
- Invited Reviewer - Advanced Science. 2025.
- Invited Reviewer - ACM IMWUT. 2022-2025.
- Invited Reviewer - IEEE TMC. 2023-2025.
- Invited Reviewer - IEEE IROS. 2023-2024.