Xingyu Chen

Xingyu Chen | 陈星宇

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

xic063 (AT) ucsd (DOT) edu

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I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market, looking for tenure-track faculty positions.

News

[May 2026]

FlowForm is accepted by SIGCOMM 2026.
Congrats to Wuqiong!

[May 2026]

SNRFT is accepted by ICML 2026.
Congrats to Yinyan!

[Dec 2025]

KDC is accepted by NSDI 2026.

[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.

Biography

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Xinyu Zhang. I also work with Prof. Tzu-Mao Li on extending differentiable rendering beyond the optical band (e.g., RF/mmWave).

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.

My Research

My research lies at the intersection of Wireless, Systems, and Graphics. I focus on bridging Differentiable Rendering, Electromagnetic (RF) Simulation, and Wireless System Design to enable physically-accurate, learning-based wireless channel modeling for 6G communication and sensing.

I am interested in both physically-accurate mathematical modeling (especially differentiable formulations) and practical system implementation with real-world efficiency and energy constraints. My vision is to leverage cross-disciplinary techniques to build complete Computational Wireless Systems.

My Open Source Research Platform

WiTwin.AI

An open-source platform for differentiable electromagnetic simulation and wireless digital twin.

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Education

UCSD logo

[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

Microsoft logo

[June 2023 ~ Sept 2023]

Microsoft Research Asia

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

CU Denver logo

[Aug 2021 ~ Aug 2022]

META Lab, CU Denver

Research Assistant

Selected Publications

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FlowForm publication

SIGCOMM 2026

FlowForm: Scalable Passive Metasurface Network for mmWave Coverage Expansion

Wuqiong Zhao, Baicheng Chen, Kai Zheng, Xingyu Chen, Wenqian Zhang, Xinyu Zhang

Metasurfaces
SNRFT publication

ICML 2026

Acceptance Rate: 26.6% (6352 of 23918)

Stochastic Neural Ray Tracing for Radio Frequency Channel Modeling

Yinyan Bu, Jiajie Yu, Xingyu Chen, Bo Wen, Xinyu Zhang, Piya Pal

RF Digital Twin
YORO publication

NSDI 2026

Acceptance Rate: 22.1% (100 of 452)

From Bits to Tokens: Knowledge-Driven Generative Communication of Multimodal Data

Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Wuqiong Zhao, Jianrong Ding, Ke Sun, Xinyu Zhang

Mobile System
RFDT 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

RF Digital Twin
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

Mobile System
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

RF Digital Twin
AutoMS publication

MobiCom 2024

AutoMS: Automated Service for mmWave Coverage Optimization using Low-cost Metasurfaces

Ruichun Ma, Shicheng Zheng, Hao Pan, Lili Qiu, Xingyu Chen, Liangyu Liu, Yihong Liu, Wenjun Hu, Ju Ren

Metasurfaces
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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RF Digital Twin
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

RF Digital Twin
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

Metasurfaces RF Digital Twin

Awards

ACM

Best Artifacts Honorable Mention

ACM MobiSys 2025

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

Teaching & Talks

Teaching Assistant

University of Colorado Denver

  • CSCI 4771/5771 Introduction to Mobile Computing
  • CSCI 4773/5773 Introduction to Emerging System Security

Invited Talks

  • Samsung Research America Spark Session
  • UCSD CWC Seminar
  • UCSD CSE 291 Pixel Cafe Seminar

Mentorship

  • Wenxuan Guo — UCSD (Master)
  • Zihao Feng — UCSD (Master) → USC (PhD)
  • Xinmin Fang — Middle School → High School → Guangdong University of Technology (Bachelor) → CU Denver (PhD)