Yu-Lin Wei (Wally)

6th year PhD student
Dept. of ECE, UIUC
Advised by Romit Roy Chouhury in SiNRG
M.S / B.S in CSIE, NTU
yulinlw2@illinois.edu Google Scholar
Research interest

acoustic signal processing, IoT, wireless/ visible light communication, indoor positioning

Main Publications

Sample-Constrained Black Box Optimization for Audio Personalization
[AAAI'24] Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Yu-Lin Wei, Romit Roy Choudhury
Self-Supervised Speech Denoising using Multi-Modal Data
[NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Audio'23] Yu-Lin Wei, Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Bashima Islam, Romit Roy Choudhury
Audio Personalization through Human-in-the-loop Optimization
[NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Audio'23] Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Yu-Lin Wei, Romit Roy Choudhury
Angle–of–Arrival (AoA) Factorization in Multipath Channels
[IEEE ICASSP'21] Yu-Lin Wei and Romit Roy Choudhury
Estimating Angle of Arrival (AoA) of multiple Echoes in a Steering Vector Space
[arXiv preprint] Yu-Lin Wei and Romit Roy Choudhury
Inferring Facing Direction from Voice Signals
[arXiv preprint] Yu-Lin Wei, Rui Li, Abhinav Mehrotra, Romit Roy Choudhury, and Nic Lane
Ear-AR: Indoor Acoustic Augmented Reality on Earphones
[ACM MobiCom'20] Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Sheng Shen, and Romit Roy Choudhury
EarSense: Earphones as a Teeth Activity Sensor
[ACM MobiCom'20] Jay Prakash, Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury
Voice Localization Using Nearby Wall Reflections
[ACM MobiCom'20] Sheng Shen, Daguan Chen, Yu-Lin Wei, Zhijian Yang, and Romit Roy Choudhury
Augmenting Indoor Inertial Tracking with Polarized Light
[ACM MobiSys'18] Zhao Tian, Yu-Lin Wei, Wei-Nin Chang, Xi Xiong, Changxi Zheng, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Kate Ching-Ju Lin and Xia Zhou
CELLI: Indoor positioning using polarized sweeping light beams
[ACM MobiSys'17] Yu-Lin Wei, Chang-Jung Huang, Hsin-Mu Tsai, and Kate Ching-Ju Lin
Best Demo Runner-up
LiCompass: extracting orientation from polarized light
[IEEE INFOCOM'17] Yu-Lin Wei, Hsin-I Wu, Han-Chung Wang, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Rayana Boubezari, Hoa Le Minh, and Zabih Ghassemlooy
Time variation in vehicle-to-vehicle visible light communication channels
[IEEE VNC'16] Ai-Ling Chen, Hao-Ping Wu, Yu-Lin Wei, Hsin-Mu Tsai
Rollinglight: Enabling line-of-sight light-to-camera communications
[ACM MobiSys'15] Hui-Yu Lee, Hao-Min Lin, Yu-Lin Wei, Hsin-I Wu, Hsin-Mu Tsai, and Kate Ching-Ju Lin
Location-independent WiFi action recognition via vision-based methods
[ACM MM'16] Jen-Yin Chang, Kuan-Ying Lee, Yu-Lin Wei, Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Winston Hsu
Characterizing link asymmetry in vehicle-to-vehicle Visible Light Communications
[IEEE VNC'15] Hua-Yen Tseng, Yu-Lin Wei, Ai-Ling Chen, Hao-Ping Wu, Hsuan Hsu, Hsin-Mu Tsai
STEAR: Robust Step Counting from Earables
[ACM Earcomp'19] Jay Prakash, Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Romit Roy Choudhury
Position: Augmenting Inertial Tracking with Light
[ACM VLCS'17] Zhao Tian, Yu-Lin Wei, Xi Xiong, Wei-Nin Chang, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Changxi Zheng, Xia Zhou
Traffic shockwave mitigation with human-driven vehicles: is it feasible?
[ACM CarSys'16] Hao-Ping Wu, Wen-Hsuan Shen, Yu-Lin Wei, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Qianyan Xie
ACM CarSys 2016
LiBeamScanner: Accurate Indoor Positioning with Sweeping Light Beam
[ACM VLCS'15] Chang-Jung Huang, Yu-Lin Wei, Chiao Fu, Wen-Hsuan Shen, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Ching-Ju Kate Lin
ECE Rambus Fellowship, UIUC
2020-2021
Young Researcher at Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Sep. 2019
MobiSys Best Demo Runner-up
June 2017
Best TA, NTU
Fall 2014
Presidential Awards, NTU
Spring 2012/ Fall 2011
Beamforming lecture in CS434 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mar. 2023
Network lecture in CS438 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Oct. 2022
Tutorial on Earable Computing at MobiCom'22
Aug. 2022
VLC lecture at National Cheng Kung University
Apr. 2018
VLC introduction at Delta Electronic Research Group
July 2017
Contributor of IEEE 802.15.7r1 light-to-camera world standard
Jan. 2017
Publication co-chair of IEEE VNC
Dec. 2016