Luca Yu

I am Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, a graduating Ph.D. candidate at CDS, The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chenshu Wu. Currently, I am an intern at Microsoft Research Asia, advised by Dr. Yuqing Yang and Dr. Rui Ma. Previously, I was a research assistant at IIIS, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, advised by Prof. Hang Zhao. Before that, I got my B.Eng. degree and was a research intern at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, advised by Prof. Anfu Zhou.

I study systems design and orchestration, spanning agentic, mobile, networking, and sensing systems.

I am actively looking for internship opportunities.

I am open to collaboration and happy to discuss. If you're interested in my research, feel free to contact me.

Email / CV / LinkedIn / Scholar / GitHub / Twitter

Selected Publications

Vigil: Automating Symbolic Verification for Mobile GUI Agents
Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Daqian Ding, Zhixiong Niu, Yiming Qiu, Chenshu Wu

under submission

RF-LEGO: Modularized Signal Processing-Deep Learning Co-Design for RF Sensing via Deep Unrolling
Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chenshu Wu
ACM MobiCom, 2026, Austin, TX, USA 🇺🇸

preprint / project / code /

"Take Me Home, Wi-Fi Drone": A Drone-Based Wireless System for Wilderness Search and Rescue
Weiying Hou, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chenshu Wu
ACM MobiCom, 2026, Austin, TX, USA 🇺🇸

preprint / project / code / demo / media /

USpeech: Ultrasound-Enhanced Speech with Minimal Human Effort via Cross-Modal Synthesis
Luca Jiang-Tao Yu*, Running Zhao*, Sijie Ji, Edith C.H. Ngai, Chenshu Wu
ACM UbiComp, 2025, Espoo, Finland 🇫🇮

paper / preprint / code / project / media

Radio2Text: Streaming Speech Recognition using mmWave Radio Signals
Running Zhao*, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu*, Hang Zhao, Edith C.H. Ngai
ACM UbiComp, 2023, Cancun, Mexico 🇲🇽

paper / preprint / media / media

Radio2Speech: High Quality Speech Recovery from Radio Frequency Signals
Running Zhao, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Tingle Li, Hang Zhao, Edith C.H. Ngai
ISCA Interspeech, 2022, Incheon, South Korea 🇰🇷

paper / preprint / code / project / media / zhihu

OctoNet: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Dataset for Human Activity Understanding Grounded in Motion-Captured 3D Pose Labels
Dongsheng Yuan*, Xie Zhang*, Weiying Hou, Sheng Lyu, Yuemin Yu, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chengxiao Li, Chenshu Wu
NeurIPS, 2025, San Diego, CA, USA 🇺🇸

paper / dataset / project / code / supplemental

SPACE: Speaker Adaptation for Acoustic Eavesdropping using mmWave Radio Signals
Running Zhao, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Tingle Li, Zhihan Jiang, Chenwei Zhang, Chenshu Wu, Hang Zhao, Edith C.H. Ngai
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

paper

FASTer: Toward Powerful and Efficient Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models With Learnable Action Tokenizer and Block-Wise Decoding
Shiduo Zhang*, Yicheng Liu*, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Xiaopeng Yu, Linqi Yin, Tianyuan Yuan, Junhao Shi, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, John Zheng, Tao Jiang, Jingjing Gong, Hang Zhao, Xipeng Qiu
ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil🇧🇷

paper

NeuroDet: Unfolding Target Detection with State Space Model
Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chenshu Wu
Pre-print

preprint / code

News

RF-LEGO and Wi2SAR each received all four ACM artifact badges at MobiCom 2026.Sep. 2026
Delighted to start my internship at Microsoft Research Asia in Shanghai.Aug. 2026
Honored to receive ACM MobiSys 2026 Travel Grant Award.May. 2026
Invited to give a talk at Shenzhen University by Prof. Rukun Zhang.May. 2026
Two papers were accepted by ACM MobiCom 2026.Jan. 2026
PhD candidature is confirmed.Oct. 2025
Honored to renew as a recipient of the IEEE 2025 Signal Processing Society Scholarship.Sep. 2025

One dataset paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2025.Sep. 2025
Honored to have been invited to serve as a PC member for IEEE ICPADS 2025.Aug. 2025
One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.Apr. 2025
One paper was accepted by UbiComp 2025.Apr. 2025
Honored to be selected as a recipient of the IEEE 2024 Signal Processing Society Scholarship.Oct. 2024
Honored to have been invited to serve as a PC member for IEEE ICPADS 2024.Aug. 2024
One paper was accepted by ACM UbiComp 2023.Jul. 2023
Graduated from BUPT.Jun. 2023
I got a PhD offer from the Dept of CS, HKU, coming soon the next year.Sep. 2022
One paper was accepted by ISCA Interspeech 2022.Jun. 2022
I joined MARS Lab, IIIS, Tsinghua University as a research intern, advised by Prof. Hang Zhao and worked at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute.Nov. 2021
I joined Intelligent Comm. Software & Multimedia Key Lab as a research intern, School of CS, BUPT, advised by Prof. Anfu Zhou.Jun. 2020

Awards

ACM MobiSys 2026 Travel Grant AwardMay. 2026
IEEE 2025 Signal Processing Society ScholarshipSep. 2025
Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher EducationFeb. 2024
IEEE 2024 Signal Processing Society ScholarshipOct. 2024
HKU Postgraduate ScholarshipSep. 2022
National Scholarship (Rank: 0.7%)Dec. 2021
China Mobile Outstanding Student Scholarship (Rank: 1%)Dec. 2021

Academic Service

Reviewer — ACM IMWUT/UbiComp (Feb. '24, Nov. '24, Feb. '25, May. '25, Feb. '26, May. '26), ACM CHI '26, ACM TIOT, IEEE JSAS, IEEE VTM, IEEE TMC
AE Committee — ACM MobiCom '26, ACM MobiSys '23, USENIX ATC '23, USENIX OSDI '23
TPC Member — IEEE ICPADS ('24, '25), HumanSys '26
TA — COMP1117 (Computer Programming, '23 Fall), COMP7310 (Artificial Intelligence of Things, '25 Spring), COMP3230 (Principles of Operating Systems, '25 Fall, '26 Spring)
Invited Talk — How to Stay Ourselves in the Age of LLMs: A PhD Student Perspective (May. '26)