Yinghui He

Yinghui He

Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

I am currently a Research Fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. I received a Ph.D. degree from the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Guanding Yu, Prof. Yunlong Cai, and Prof. Jinsong Han. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2018.

My research focuses on wireless communication, integrated sensing and communication, and mobile edge computing. I have published more than 50 papers (including 4 highly cited papers) with .

If you have any questions or are interested in collaborating with me, please feel free to email me (yinghui.he@ntu.edu.sg).

🎓 Educations

  • 2018.09 - 2023.09, Ph.D. degree, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
  • 2014.09 - 2018.06, Bachelor’s degree, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

📚 Experiences

  • 2023.11 – Now, Research Fellow, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • 2017.07 – 2017.10, Research Assistant, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

🔔 News

  • [2026.03] One paper is accepted in IEEE TMC.
  • [2026.02] One paper is accepted in IEEE JSAC.
  • [2025.12] Three papers are accepted in IEEE TMC. One paper is accepted at IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
  • [2025.11] One paper is accepted in IEEE TCOM.

📝 Selected Publications

Journal

  1. [IEEE TMC] Y. He, M. Xu, Z. Chen, F. Xiao, and J. Luo, “Beamforming-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication over Commodity Multi-User Wi-Fi,” IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., early access, doi:10.1109/TMC.2026.3672117, 2026. [PDF]
  2. [IEEE JSAC] K. Chi, Y. He, Q. Yang, Y. Shu, Z. Wang, J. Luo, and J. Chen, “DeepGuard: Defending Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Against Eavesdropping at Physical-Layer,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., early access, doi:10.1109/JSAC.2026.3670338, 2026. [PDF]
  3. [IEEE TMC] Y. He, M. Xu, X. Li, J. Hu, Z. Chen, F. Xiao, and J. Luo, “Traffic Manipulation via Beamforming Feedback Forgery in Practical Wi-Fi Systems,” IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., early access, doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3649818, 2025. [PDF]
  4. [IEEE TMC] Y. He, X. Li, and J. Luo, “Task-Oriented Integrated Sensing and Semantic Communications for Multi-Device Video Analytics,” IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., early access, doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3641899, 2025. [PDF]
  5. [IEEE TMC] Z. Ye, Q. Xiao, J. Liu, Y. He (corresponding author), G. Yu, and J. Han, “Practical WiFi Indoor Localization: Unleashing the Potential of GNNs for Accuracy and Robustness,” IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., early access, doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3640665, 2025. [PDF]
  6. [IEEE TCOM] Q. Xiao, Z. Ye, Y. He (corresponding author), J. Liu, and G. Yu, “Meta-SimGNN: Adaptive and Robust WiFi Localization Across Dynamic Configurations and Diverse Scenarios,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 74, pp. 1732–1746, 2026. [PDF]
  7. [IEEE TWC] W. Chen, Y. He (corresponding author), G. Yu, J. Wang, and H. Luo, “Sensing Framework Design and Performance Optimization With Action Detection for ISCC,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 8361–8375, Oct. 2025. [PDF]
  8. [IEEE IOTJ] L. Huang, Y. He (corresponding author), G. Yu, J. Wang, and H. Luo, “ISAC-Oriented beamforming feedback design and optimization for WiFi systems”, IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 21068–21081, Jun. 2025.
  9. [IEEE IOTJ] Q. Xiao, Y. He (corresponding author), G. Yu, J. Yuan, and R. Yin, “Localization-assisted fast and robust beam optimization for mmWave communications”, IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 12383–12396, May 2025.
  10. [IEEE TWC] Y. He, G. Yu, Z. Tang, J. Wang, and H. Luo, “A Dual-Functional Sensing-Communication Waveform Design based on OFDM,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 16962–16975, Nov. 2024. [PDF] [Link (in Chineses)]
  11. [IEEE CL] D. Wang, W. Chen, Y. He (corresponding author), J. Wang, H. Luo, and G. Yu, “Experimental Study on ISAC Performance With Different Sensing Sequences,” IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 2538–2542, Nov. 2024. [PDF]
  12. [IEEE IOTJ] Q. Chen, Y. He (corresponding author), G. Yu, C. Xu, M. Liu, and Z. Li, “KBMP: Kubernetes-orchestrated IoT online battery monitoring platform,” IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 11, no. 14, pp. 25358–25370, Jul. 2024. [PDF]
  13. [IEEE JSAC] Y. He, J. Liu, M. Li, G. Yu, and J. Han, “Forward-Compatible Integrated Sensing and Communication for WiFi,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 2440–2456, Sep. 2024. [PDF]
  14. [IEEE TWC] Y. He, G. Yu, Y. Cai, and H. Luo, “Integrated Sensing, Computation, and Communication: System Framework and Performance Optimization,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1114–1128, Feb. 2024. [PDF] [PPT] [Link (in Chineses)] (Highly Cited Paper)
  15. [IEEE TDSC] J. Liu, Y. He, C. Xiao, J. Han, and K. Ren, “Time to Think the Security of WiFi-based Behavior Recognition Systems,” IEEE Trans. Depend. Sec. Comput., vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 449–462, Jan.-Feb. 2024. [PDF]
  16. [IEEE TCOM] M. Zhang, Y. He, Y. Cai, and G. Yu, “Design and Performance Analysis for Wireless Legitimate Surveillance Systems with Radar Function,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 2517–2531, Apr. 2023. [PDF]
  17. [IEEE JSAC] Y. He, Y. Cai, H. Mao, and G. Yu, “RIS-assisted Communication Radar Coexistence: Joint Beamforming Design and Analysis,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 2131–2145, Jul. 2022. [PDF] (Highly Cited Paper)
  18. [IEEE TCOM] Y. He, Y. Cai, and G. Yu, “Joint transceiver design for dual-functional full-duplex relay aided radar-communication systems,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 8355–8369, Dec. 2022. [PDF]
  19. [IEEE TVT] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and J. Yuan, “Importance-aware data selection and resource allocation in federated edge learning system,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 13593–13605, Nov. 2020. [PDF]
  20. [IEEE TWC] J. Ren, Y. He, D. Wen, G. Yu, K. Huang, and D. Guo, “Scheduling for cellular federated edge learning with importance and channel awareness,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 7690–7703, Nov. 2020. [PDF]
  21. [IEEE TWC] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and Y. Cai, “Optimizing the learning performance in mobile augmented reality systems with CNN,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 5333–5344, Aug. 2020. [PDF]
  22. [IEEE TWC] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and Y. Cai, “D2D communications meet mobile edge computing for enhanced computation capacity in cellular networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1750–1763, Mar. 2019. [PDF]
  23. [IEEE Network] J. Ren, Y. He, G. Huang, G. Yu, Y. Cai, and Z. Zhang, “An edge-computing based architecture for mobile augmented reality,” IEEE Netw., vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 162–169, Jul. 2019. [PDF]
  24. [IEEE TVT] J. Ren, G. Yu, Y. He, and G. Y. Li, “Collaborative cloud and edge computing for latency minimization,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Techn., vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 5031–5044, May 2019. (Highly Cited Paper)
  25. [IEEE TWC] J. Ren, G. Yu, Y. Cai, and Y. He, “Latency optimization for resource allocation in mobile-edge computation offloading,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 5506–5519, Aug. 2018. [PDF] (Highly Cited Paper)
  26. [IEEE TCOM] L. Deng, Y. He, Y. Zhang, M. Chen, Z. Li, J. Y. B. Lee, Y. Zhang, and L. Song, “Device-to-device load balancing for cellular networks,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 3040–3054, Dec. 2018. [PDF]
- Q. Chen, **Y. He** (corresponding author), G. Yu, C. Xu, M. Liu, and Z. Li, "KBMP: Kubernetes-orchestrated IoT online battery monitoring platform," IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 11, no. 14, pp. 25358--25370, Jul. 2024. [[PDF]](pdf/IOTJ24_KBMP.pdf) , working with Prof. Jun Luo (FIEEE)

Conference

  1. [ACM/IEEE SenSys’26] L. Fan, Y. He (co-first author), L. Xie, S. Zhang, J. Luo, “Sense with Polyface Mirror: Enhancing Wi-Fi Sensing Diversity via Programmable Metasurfaces,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE SenSys, May, 2026.
  2. [ACM MobiCom’25] X. Li, Y. He (corresponding author), and J. Luo, “𝜇Ceiver-Fi: Exploiting Spectrum Resources of Multi-Link Receiver for Fine-Granularity Wi-Fi Sensing,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom, Nov. 2025, pp. 1045–1059. (CCF-A, acceptance rate in the winter session: 36/348=10.3%) [PDF]
  3. [ACM UbiComp’25] Y. He, M. Xu, Z. Chen, F. Xiao, and J. Luo, “Beam-Fi: Integrated Sensing and Communication via MU-MIMO upon Commodity Wi-Fi,” in Proc. ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, Sep. 2025, pp. 1–21. (CCF-A) [PDF]
  4. [IEEE INFOCOM’25] Y. He, M. Xu, F. Xiao, and J. Luo, “VersaBeam: Versatile Beamforming for Integrated Sensing and Communication over Commodity Wi-Fi,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2025, pp. 1–10. (CCF-A, acceptance rate: 272/1458=18.7%) [PDF]
  5. [ISOC NDSS’25] R. Xiao, X. Chen, Y. He, J. Han, and J. Han, “Lend Me Your Beam: Privacy Implications of Beamforming Feedback Packets in WiFi,” in Proc. ISOC NDSS, 2025, pp. 1–17. (CCF-A) [PDF]
  6. [ACM MobiCom’24] M. Xu, Y. He (co-first author), X. Li, J. Hu, Z. Chen, F. Xiao, and J. Luo, “Beamforming made Malicious: Manipulating Wi-Fi Traffic via Beamforming Feedback Forgery,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2024, pp. 1–15. (CCF-A, acceptance rate: 103/494=20.9%) [PDF]
  7. [IEEE ICC’24 Workshop] Y. He, Y. Cai, and G. Yu, “Beamforming design with bilevel optimization for RIS-assisted SWIPT systems,” in Proc. IEEE ICC Workshop-NGATFWN, CO, USA, Jun. 2024, pp. 1–6 [PDF] [PPT] (Workshop Best Paper Award)
  8. [IEEE IWQoS’24] J. Liu, Y. He, W. Xu, Y, Xie, and J, Han, “Manipulating semantic communication by adding adversarial perturbations to wireless channel,” in Proc. IEEE IWQoS, Guangzhou, China, Jun. 2024, pp. 1–10. [PDF]
  9. [ACM MobiCom’23] Y. He, J. Liu, M. Li, G. Yu, J. Han, and K. Ren, “SenCom: Integrated Sensing and Communication with Practical WiFi,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2023, pp. 1–16. (CCF-A, acceptance rate: 24.4%) [PDF] [PPT]
  10. [IEEE ICC’23] Y. He, G. Yu, Y. Cai, and H. Luo, “Performance optimization in integrated sensing, computation, and communication systems,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Roma, Italy, May 2023, pp. 1–6.
  11. [IEEE INFOCOM’22] J. Liu, Y. He, C. Xiao, J. Han, L. Cheng, and K. Ren, “Physical-world attack towards WiFi-based behavior recognition,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2022, pp. 1–10. (CCF-A) [PDF]
  12. [IEEE GLOBECOM’20] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and J. Yuan, “Resource allocation for wireless federated edge learning based on data importance,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2020, pp. 1–6.
  13. [IEEE ICC’20] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and Y. Cai, “Optimizing the learning accuracy in mobile augmented reality systems with CNN,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 2020, pp. 1–6.
  14. [IEEE ICC’19] Y. He, J. Ren, G. Yu, and Y. Cai, “Joint computation offloading and resource allocation in D2D enabled MEC networks,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Oct. 2019, pp. 1–6.

Miscellaneous

🏅 Honors and Awards

🌐 Professional Activities

  • Journal reviewer: IEEE JSAC, IEEE TWC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TCOM, IEEE IOTJ, etc
  • Distinguished reviewer for ACM TIOT, ACM TOSN
  • TPC member for conference: IEEE GLOBECOM (2026), IEEE WCNC (2024–2026), IEEE WCSP (2021, 2023, 2024)