Pengyu Zhang

I am a Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group Seattle Office. I was a postdoc researcher at Stanford working with Sachin Katti. I received my Ph.D. from UMass Amherst. My advisor was Deepak Ganesan. I received my bachelor and master from Tsinghua University.

I design and build embedded systems and wireless systems for applications in the Internet-of-Things.

Email: zhangelsu@gmail.com

Awards

ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award at UMass Amherst 2016
MobiSys 2017 Best Paper Award Nominee
SenSys 2016 Best Paper Award Nominee
UbiComp 2016 Honorable Mention Award
Mobicom 2014 Best Paper Award Runner Up
Tsinghua University Scholarships, 2005 and 2008

Selected publications (Full list)

RF-CHORD: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistics Network
Bo Liang, Purui Wang, Renjie Zhao, Heyu Guo, Pengyu Zhang, Junchen Guo, Shunming Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Chenren Xu
NSDI 2023

NFC+: Breaking NFC Networking Limits Through Resonance Engineering
Renjie Zhao (Co-primary), Purui Wang (Co-primary), Yunfei Ma, Pengyu Zhang, Hongqiang Liu, Xianshang Lin, Xinyu Zhang, Chenren Xu and Ming Zhang
SIGCOMM 2020

Glimpse: A Programmable Early-Discard Camera Architecture for Continuous Mobile Vision
Saman Naderiparizi, Pengyu Zhang, Matthai Philipose, Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, Deepak Ganesan
MobiSys 2017
Best Paper Award Nominee

HitchHike: Practical Backscatter using Commodity WiFi
Pengyu Zhang (Co-primary), Dinesh Bharadia (Co-primary), Kiran Joshi, Sachin Katti
SenSys 2016
Best Paper Award Nominee
Press cover: Stanford News, ACM TechNews, ECN, Science Blog, Pace Today, North Dallas Gazette, New Electronics, RFID Journal, NFC World, etc.

Ph.D. Thesis: Leveraging Backscatter For Ultra-Low Power Wireless Sensing Systems
Pengyu Zhang
ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award at UMass Amherst 2016

Enabling Practical Backscatter Communication for On-body Sensors
Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, Pan Hu, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2016

Braidio: An Integrated Active-Passive Radio for Mobile Devices with Asymmetric Energy Budgets
Pan Hu, Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2016
Press cover: Science Daily, Energy Harvesting Journal, PHYS, Elektor Magazine, Electronics360, etc.

Laissez-Faire: Fully asymmetric backscatter communication
Pan Hu, Pengyu Zhang, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2015

EkhoNet: High Speed Ultra Low-power Backscatter for Next Generation Sensors
Pengyu Zhang, Pan Hu, Vijay Pasikanti, Deepak Ganesan
Mobicom 2014
Best paper award runner up.

Enabling Bit-by-Bit Backscatter Communication in Severe Energy Harvesting Environments
Pengyu Zhang, Deepak Ganesan
NSDI 2014

TPC Service

MobiCom: 2021, 2020, 2019
CoNEXT: 2018
Infocom: 2018
MobiSys: 2019, 2017
SenSys: 2017