About Me

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington. I received PhD degree from Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, under the supervision of Prof. Jie Xiong.
I was a recipient of Google PhD Fellowship.

Opening: I am currently looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students starting from Spring 2025 and Fall 2025. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Research Interests: Wireless Sensing, Mobile Health, Cyber-physical Systems, Smart IoT, and Wireless Networking

Recent Publications

  • EVLeSen: In-Vehicle Sensing with EV-Leaked Signal.
    Minhao Cui, Binbin Xie, Qing Wang, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 48/207=23.2%)
  • Wall Matters: Rethinking the Effect of Wall for Wireless Sensing.
    Binbin Xie, Minhao Cui, Deepak Ganesan, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024.
    (Full paper)
  • Boosting the Long Range Sensing Potential of LoRa.
    Binbin Xie, Minhao Cui, Deepak Ganesan, Xiangru Chen, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2023.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 41/198=20.7%)
  • DancingAnt: Body-empowered Wireless Sensing Utilizing Pervasive.
    Minhao Cui, Binbin Xie, Qing Wang, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2023.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 92/377=24.4%)
  • Embracing LoRa Sensing with Device Mobility.
    Binbin Xie, Deepak Ganesan, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2022.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 52/208=25%)
  • Experience: Pushing Indoor Localization from Laboratory to the Wild.
    Jiazhi Ni, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong, Qiang Huang, Zhaoxin Chang, Junqi Ma, Binbin Xie, Pengsen Wang, Guangyu Bian, Xin Li, Chang Liu.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2022.
    (Experience paper, acceptance rate: 56/314=17.8%) Best Community Paper Award Runner-up
  • Pushing the Limits of Long Range Wireless Sensing with LoRa.
    Binbin Xie, Yuqing Yin, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2021.
    (Full paper)
  • Combating Interference for Long Range LoRa Sensing.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 43/213=20.2%)
  • Exploring Commodity RFID for Contactless Sub-millimeter Vibration Sensing.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 43/213=20.2%)
  • Tagtag: Material Sensing with Commodity RFID.
    Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Eugene Chai, Liyao Li, Zhanyong Tang, Dingyi Fang.
    ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2019.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 28/144=19.4%)
  • LiFS: Low Human-effort, Device-free Localization with Fine-grained Subcarrier Information.
    Ju Wang, Hongbo Jiang, Jie Xiong, Kyle Jamieson, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang, Binbin Xie.
    ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2016.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 31/226=13.7%)

Awards & Honors

  • Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award Finalist, 2024.
  • Rising STARs Award, UT System, 2024.
  • Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing (only 1 awardee selected worldwide), 2022 - 2024.
  • MobiSys Travel Grant, 2023.
  • Krithi Ramamritham Computer Science Scholarship, UMass Amherst, 2023.
  • MobiCom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-up.
  • Mohan Graduate Scholarship, UMass Amherst, 2022.
  • Common Good Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2021.
  • Ph.D. Candidacy with Distinction, UMass Amherst, 2020.
  • SenSys Travel Grant, 2019.
  • MobiSys Travel Grant, 2016.
  • National Scholarship, China, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
  • Second Prize, Intel Embedded System Design Contest, 2012.
    (placed 27th among 160 teams from 12 countries/regions)

Professional Service

  • MobiSys 2025, Technical Program Committee (Light)
  • EWSN 2025, Technical Program Committee
  • UIC 2024, Technical Program Committee
  • IMWUT/UbiComp 2024, Reviewer
  • MobiCom 2023, Artifact Evaluation Committee
  • IMWUT/UbiComp 2023, Reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Reviewer
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Reviewer

Teaching

  • CSE 4321 Software Testing & Maintenance, Spring 2025.
Binbin Xie

binbin.xie@uta.edu
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington

News

October 2024

I'm invited to give a seminar talk at the ECSE Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Thanks to Dr. Ish Jain.

October 2024

I'm invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for MobiSys '25 and EWSN '25.

October 2024

I'm very honored to be selected as a finalist for Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp '24.

September 2024

I'm very honored to receive the Rising STARs award.

February 2024

Our paper was accepted at MobiCom '24.

October 2023

One paper was accepted at IMWUT/UbiComp '24.

August 2023

Our paper was accepted at MobiCom '23.

May 2023

One paper was accepted at MobiSys '23.

May 2023

I'm happy to receive MobiSys '23 Travel Grant.

May 2023

I'm happy to receive Krithi Ramamritham Computer Science Scholarship.

October 2022

Our indoor localization paper won MobiCom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-up.

October 2022

One paper was accepted at SenSys '22.

August 2022

I have been awarded the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship, and I'm the only awardee in the field of mobile computing.
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