I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and a proud member of the Cake Lab! Broadly, I am interested in designing systems mechanisms and policies to handle trade-offs in cost, performance, and efficiency for emerging applications. Specifically, I have worked on projects related to cloud/edge resource management, big data frameworks, deep learning inference, distributed training, neural architecture search, and AR/VR.
I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst advised by Prof. Prashant Shenoy. Before that, I received my B.E. from Nanjing University and was an exchange student at National Cheng Kung University.
Applied vision and augmented reality
Zhanhong HuangRobotic-inspired augmented reality
Distributed quantum computing
Automne PetitjeanDynamic 3D scene understanding
Davud AzizovDistributed quantum computing
Robotic-inspired augmented reality
Harsh ShahRobotic-inspired augmented reality
- Jean-Baptiste Truong · Deep Learning Engineer at Geopipe, Inc.
- Dr. Xin Dai · Research Scientist at Visa Research
- Dr. Sam Ogden · Tenure-track Assistant Professor at California State Monterey bay
- Dr. Morteza Nabavinejad · Tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Washington, Tacoma
- Dr. Yiyang Zhao · Research Scientist at Meta
- Dr. Yiqin Zhao · Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
- 03/23/2026: I presented our recent work on human-centered AR evaluation at WPI's XR forum.
- 03/13/2026: [Grant] Thanks NVIDIA for sponsoring my research!
- 02/28/2023-03/12/2026: A lot of things have happened.
- 02/27/2023: 😁 I received the tenure decision letter! I will be promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure effectively July 1, 2023.
- 01/28/2023: [Paper] Two papers have been accepted to CCGrid 2023. It is great to see LayerCake, the last piece of Sam's thesis got accepted! The other paper on gradient accumulation is conditionally accepted. [Update:02/27/2023] The revision is successful and the revised submission has been accepted!
- 01/13/2023: 💰 [Grant] I received the NSF CAREER award to work on designing a specialized edge for AR.
Can Foundation Models Revolutionize Mobile AR Sparse Sensing?
International Workshop on Foundation Models for Cyber-Physical Systems & Internet of Things 2026 (FMSys'26)
An exploration of whether large foundation models can address the sparse sensing challenges inherent in mobile AR, including depth estimation and environment understanding from limited sensor data.
A High-Fidelity Robotic Manipulator Teleoperation Framework for Human-Centered Augmented Reality Evaluation
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys'26)
ARBot is a teleoperation framework designed to support human-centered AR evaluation, enabling high-fidelity interaction studies in augmented reality environments.
AR as an Evaluation Playground: Bridging Metrics and Visual Perception of Computer Vision Models
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys'26)
ARCADE is a human-centered evaluation framework that bridges the gap between quantitative metrics and human visual perception for computer vision models, using AR as a testbed for perceptual quality assessment.
CleAR: Robust Context-Guided Generative Lighting Estimation for Mobile Augmented Reality
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT'25)
CleAR leverages generative models with context guidance to produce robust, high-quality lighting estimates for mobile AR, improving visual coherence even in challenging lighting conditions.
