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Jun Yang

Senior Researcher
Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto

Jun Yang joined Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto in June 2007 as a Senior Research Scientist. He is currently working with Social Physical and Proximity Interaction team on activity and gesture recognition with mobile devices. He also builds prototyping mobile applications that are enabled by the continuous sensing and recognition engine in mobile devices. Previously he has worked on Social Proximity Networks project and Innovation Radio and Wireless Sensors project.

From April 2005 to May 2007, Jun was a Senior Member of Research Staff in Philips Research North America. He participated in high data-rate WPAN standardization and its system design, as well as corporate research of cooperative communication systems. 

He graduated from University of Southern California in March 2005 with Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, majoring in communications science. He received M.S. in Probability and Statistics of Mathematics and B. S. in Information Sciences of Mathematics from Nankai University, TianJin, China, in 1999 and 1996, respectively.

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee of MobiCloud Workshop in conjunction with MobiCASE 2010
  • Peer reviewer for IEEE/ACM journals, conferences or symposiums
  • Member of Technical Program Committee for 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
  • Member of Technical Program Committee for 2007 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • Physical-layer Session Chair for 2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC)
  • Member of Technical Program Committee for 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN)
  • Member of the IEEE, Jan. 2003 – Present

Research Interests

Mobile Phone Sensing Techniques and Applications

Activity and Gesture Recognition

Mobile Social Networks and Applications 

Wireless Communications and Networking

Coding and Information Theory

Research Projects

Collectively Learning Activity Inference and Recognition Engine

Social Proximity Networks

Innovation Radio and Wireless Sensors

Publications

Book chapter

  1. J. Yang, H. Lu, Z. Liu, P. Boda, "Physical Activity Recognition with Mobile Phones: Challenges, Methods and Applications", invited book chapter for the Springer book entitled "Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces: Principles, Methods and Applications", 2010 

Conference papers

  1. J. Yang and Z. Liu, "AutoCal: An automatic monitor of calorie expenditure and daily activities on mobile devices", to be submitted
  2. H. Lu, J. Yang, Z. Liu, N. Lane, A. T. Campbell, T. Choudhury, "The Jigsaw Continuous Sensing Engine for Mobile Phone Applications", accepted by the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010), July 2010
  3. J. Yang, "Toward Physical Activity Diary: Motion Recognition Using Simple Acceleration Features with Mobile Phones", The 1st International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics (IMCE), ACM Multimedia 2009
  4. A. Liu, J. Yang and B. Peter, "Gesture recognition via continuous MaxEnt training on accelerometer data", presented at IPSN 2009 poster session, April 2009
  5. Z. Liu, H.Y. Pang, J. Yang, G. Yang and B. Péter, "WebCall – A Rich Context Mobile Research Framework", The International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2009
  6. G. Yang, Z. Liu, K. Seada, H. Pang, A. Joki, J. Yang, D. Rosner, M. Anand, P. Boda, "Social proximity networks on cruise ships", Mobile Interaction with the Real World Workshop at MobileHCI 2008, Sept. 2008
  7. J. Yang and M. Eyvazkhani, "Adaptive synchronization for Gbps single-carrier 60 GHz wireless systems", 2008 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
  8. C. Razzell, J. Yang and D. Birru, "Approaches and considerations for evolution of OFDM-based UWB PHY solutions beyond 1Gbps", invited paper, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)
  9. J. Yang, A. Seyedi, D. Birru and D. Wang, "Design and performance of multi-band OFDM UWB systems with multiple antennas", 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sept. 2007
  10. C.-T. Chou, J. Yang and D. Wang, "Cooperative MAC protocol with automatic relay selection in distributed wireless networks", invited paper, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
  11. J. Yang and M. Ghosh, "A simplified design of MIMO system with symbol spreading", Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC) 2007
  12. J. Yang and M. Ghosh, "Cooperative modulation for wireless relay networks", MSRI Workshop on Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, University of California Berkeley, Apr. 2006 (also appear in IEEE VTC 2007 Sring, Apr. 2007)
  13. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "The redundancy of multi-resolution coding for successively refinable sources", invited paper, 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Chendu, China
  14. X. Yan, Z. Zhang and J. Yang, "Explicit inner and outer bounds for multi-source multi-sink network coding", Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
  15. J. Yang and M. Ghosh, "On coded modulation with spreading rotation for multi-band OFDM systems", The 4th Philips Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2005
  16. O. Sahin, J. Yang and M. Ghosh, "An efficient relaying scheme for multiple users in spectral efficient cooperative networks", WICAT Workshop on Cooperative Communications, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, October 2005
  17. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "Causal coding of discrete-time Markov sources and its application", Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2005), Montreal Quebec, June 2005
  18. X. Yan, J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "An improved outer bound for multi-source multi-sink network coding", First Workshop on Network Coding, Theory, and Applications (NETCOD 2005), Riva del Garda Italy, April 2005
  19. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "Redundancy-complexity tradeoff of multi-resolution coding for successively refinable sources", 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 93, Chicago USA, July 2004
  20. Y. Wang, K. M. Chugg, J. Yang, Z. Zhang and C. H. Kuo, "On the trade-off between performance and rate for finite alphabet MIMO systems", ISIT 2003, pp. 324, Yokohama Japan, July 2003
  21. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "On the redundancy of universal trellis lossy source coding", ISIT 2003, pp. 168, Yokohama Japan, July 2003
  22. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "Rate-distortion performance of correlated Gaussian source", ISIT 2003, pp. 143, Yokohama Japan, July 2003
  23. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "The redundancy of multiple description source coding", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2002), pp. 92, Lausanne Switzerland, June 30-July 5, 2002
  24. Z. Zhang and J. Yang, "On a new non-Shannon-type information inequality", ISIT 2002, pp. 235, Lausanne Switzerland, June 30-July 5, 2002 

Journal papers

  1. G. Dubney, I. S. Reed, Trieu-Kien Truong and J. Yang, "Decoding the (47,24,11) quadratic residue code utilizing bit-error probability estimates", IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 57, No. 7, July 2009
  2. J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "Redundancy-complexity tradeoff of multiresolution coding for successively refinable sources", under revision, submitted to IEEE Trans. Information Theory, May 2005
  3. X. Yan, J. Yang and Z. Zhang, "An outer bound for multi-source multi-sink network coding with minimum cost consideration", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, pp. 2373- 2385, June 2006
  4. S.-Y. Shen, J. Yang, A. Yao and P.-I. Hwang, "Super pairwise alignment (SPA): an efficient approach to global alignment for homologous sequences", Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 477-486, 2002
  5. J. Yang, F.-W. Fu and S.-Y. Shen, "On the Tunstall codes in source coding", ACTA MATHEMATICAE APPLICATAE SINICA, vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 367-376, July 2000

Patents

Patent Filings

Eleven U.S./International patent application filings