Xingyu Chen

Xingyu Chen | 陈星宇

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

xic063 (AT) ucsd (DOT) edu

News

[Nov 2025]

RF Digital Twin is accepted by MobiCom 2026.

[Mar 2025]

YORO is accepted by MobiSys 2025.

[Feb 2025]

RFScape is accepted by CVPR 2025.

[Sept 2024]

RFCanvas is accepted by SenSys 2024.

[Sept 2023]

RFGenesis is accepted by SenSys 2023.

[Sept 2023]

I had a wonderful internship at
Microsoft Research Asia.

[Feb 2023]

MetaWave is accepted by NDSS 2023.

Biography

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), advised by Prof. Xinyu Zhang.

I earned my bachelor's degree in computer science with honor in 3 years from University at Buffalo. I was a research assistant advised by Prof. Wenyao Xu. After graduating, I worked with Prof. Zhengxiong Li at University of Colorado Denver META Lab.

Research Interests

RF Simulation Rendering Computer Vision / Graphics Mobile Computing Ray Tracing Digital Twin Virtual Reality Differentiable Simulation

Education

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[Fall 2022 ~ Present]

UC San Diego

Ph.D. in Computer Science

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[Aug 2018 ~ June 2021]

University at Buffalo

B.S. in Computer Science

Experiences

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[June 2023 ~ Sept 2023]

Microsoft Research Asia

Research Intern, Wireless Group.
Advised by Prof. Lili Qiu.

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[Aug 2021 ~ Aug 2022]

META Lab, CU Denver

Research Assistant

Selected Publications

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YORO publication

MobiCom 2026

Acceptance Rate: 11% (29 of 260)

Physically Accurate Differentiable Inverse Rendering for
Radio Frequency Digital Twin

Xingyu Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Kai Zheng, Xinmin Fang, Tzu-Mao Li, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Zhengxiong Li

YORO publication

MobiSys 2025

Acceptance Rate: 18% (42 of 233)

You Only Render Once: Enhancing Energy and Computation Efficiency of Mobile Virtual Reality

Xingyu Chen, Xinmin Fang, Shuting Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Liang He, Zhengxiong Li

RFScape publication

CVPR 2025

Acceptance Rate: 22.1% (2878 of 13008)

Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Neural Object Representation

Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang

RFCanvas publication

SenSys 2024

Acceptance Rate: 18.5% (58 of 313)

RFCanvas: Modeling RF Channel by Fusing Visual Priors and Few-shot RF measurements

Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Ke Sun, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang

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RFGen publication

SenSys 2023

Acceptance Rate: 19.0% (34 of 179)

RF Genesis: Zero-Shot Generalization of mmWave Sensing through Simulation-Based Data Synthesis

Xingyu Chen, Xinyu Zhang

MetaWave publication

NDSS 2023

Acceptance Rate: 16.2% (94 of 581)

MetaWave: Attacking mmWave Sensing with Meta-material-enhanced Tags

Xingyu Chen, Zhengxiong Li, Baicheng Chen, Yi Zhu, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Zhengyu Peng, Feng Lin, Wenyao Xu, Kui Ren, Chunming Qiao

Awards

UCSD

Travel Grants

UC San Diego GPSA & SenSys'23 NSF

IEEE

Best Student Paper Award

IEEE ICHI 2022

ACM

Best Paper Award

ACM SenSys 2019

Service

Invited Reviewer