Yiwen Song

About me

I am a Postdoctoral associate at WiTech Lab of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Swarun Kumar, where I also gained my Ph.D. degree. 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

IoT Wireless Sensing Wireless Communications Signal Processing Hardware-Software Co-design

Education

Mar 8, 2026

Our paper on imaging bones at radio frequency is accepted at MobiSys 2026 in Cambridge. Take a look at a preliminary version on arxiv first.

Mar 5, 2026

I will present a talk about Space-based RF Solar Power at ASPLOS 2026’s WCAI session at 6:30 PM on May 24. Stay tuned!

Dec 30, 2025

I am on the academic job market world-wide. If you are interested, do not hesitate to contact me through email.

Dec 15, 2025

Our paper on Frequency-reconfigurable, pneumatically-actuated soft antenna has been published in Advanced Science.

Aug 7, 2025

Our paper on Frequency-Selective Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators with Radio-Frequency has been published in Nature Communications.

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.

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.