Luca Yu

I am Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at CDS, The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chenshu Wu and Prof. Heming Cui. 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.

My research interests span AI agents, wearable/wireless sensing, and human-computer interaction.

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

Publications

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 / 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

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 🇺🇸

preprint / dataset / project / code

SPACE: Speaker Adaptation for Acoustic Eavesdropping using mmWave Radar
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

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

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

preprint / code

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

News

May. 2026 — Honored to receive ACM MobiSys 2026 Travel Grant Award.
Jan. 2026 — Two papers were accepted by ACM MobiCom 2026.
Oct. 2025 — PhD candidature is confirmed.
Sep. 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.
Aug. 2025 — Honored to have been invited to serve as a PC member for IEEE ICPADS 2025.

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

Awards

May. 2026 — ACM MobiSys 2026 Travel Grant Award
Sep. 2025 — IEEE 2025 Signal Processing Society Scholarship
Oct. 2024 — IEEE 2024 Signal Processing Society Scholarship
Sep. 2022 — HKU Postgraduate Scholarship
Dec. 2021 — National Scholarship (Rank: 0.7%)
Dec. 2021 — China Mobile Outstanding Student Scholarship (Rank: 1%)

Academic Service

Reviewer — ACM IMWUT/UbiComp (Feb. 2024, Nov. 2024, Feb. 2025, May. 2025, Feb. 2026), ACM CHI 2026, IEEE TIOT, IEEE JSAS
AE Reviewer — ACM MobiCom 2026, ACM MobiSys 2023, USENIX ATC 2023, USENIX OSDI 2023
PC Member — IEEE ICPADS (2024, 2025)
TA — COMP1117 (Computer Programming, '23 Fall), COMP7310 (Artificial Intelligence of Things, '25 Spring), COMP3230 (Principles of Operating Systems, '25 Fall)

Affiliations

CDS, HKU

Hong Kong

2023 – present

Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute

Shanghai, China

2021 – 2023

IIIS, THU

Beijing, China

2021 – 2023

SICE, BUPT

Beijing, China

2019 – 2023