About Me

I am an Associate Professor at the College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. My research interests include readout electronics for medical imaging devices, ultrasonic imaging, high-performance reconfigurable hardware, ultra-fast signal sampling and processing, mobile sensing, deep learning, signal processing, and embedded system design.

Research Goals

• Earable sensing
• Ultrasonic sensing for medical and industrial applications
• Multi-channel high-speed data acquisition systems

Recent Publications

1. Junyi Zhou, Yiyi Zhang, Henglin Pu, Peng Guo, Tianyue Zheng, Chao Cai, Jun Luo. EarPCG: Recovering Heart Sounds from in-Ear Audio via Physics-Informed Neural Network. ACM SenSys, 2026.
2. Junyi Zhou, Chaoyi Sun, Chao Cai, et., al. Continuous Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring using In-ear Microphone. IEEE INFOCOM, 2026.
3. Xueqiang Han, Jinyang Huang, Meng Li, Chao Cai, Tianyue Zheng. Loki: Physical-World Adversarial Attacks on Wireless Indoor Localization via Differentiable Object Placement. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025.
4. Y. Dong, B. Cao, Z. Wang, M. Hu, C. Cai, T. Zheng. A Joint Game-Theoretic Approach for Multicast Routing and Load Balancing in LEO Satellite Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025.
5. Menglan Hu, Bo Zhou, Chao Cai, et., al. Energy-Efficient Joint Deployment and Routing for Delay-Sensitive Microservices in Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2025.

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Students

• Jiawen Zhou, graduated master student, awarded excellent graduate student and National Scholarship
• Fei Wang, Ph.D. student, awarded rising star and National Scholarship
• Ziyi Weng, master student, awarded National Scholarship
• Jiale Zhang, master student
• Linyi Liu, master student

Teaching

• Analog Circuit
• Embedded System Design

Books

• Acoustic Sensing on Commodity Devices and Its Applications

Professional Activity

• TPC member for IEEE TrustCom
• TPC member for IEEE MASS
• Editor for Multimodal Sensing, Computing and Their Monitoring Application
• Editor for Quantum Wireless Sensing

Reviewer Service

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE INFOCOM
• IEEE Access
• ACM UbiComp
• ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
• Other journals and conferences

Interests

• Biking and hiking
• Photography
• DIY electronics
• History