MNS Publications

Publications

• PROS: an Efficient Pattern-Driven Compressive Sensing Framework for Low-Power Biopotential-based Wearables with On-chip Intelligence.
  MobiCom 2022 - The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2019.
  Nhat Pham, Hong Jia, Minh Tran, Tuan Dinh, Nam Bui, Young Kwon, Dong Ma, Phuc Nguyen, Cecilia Mascolo, Tam Vu.
  (56 out of 314 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.8%).
• IoTree: A Battery-free Wearable System with Biocompatible Sensors for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring.
  MobiCom 2022 - The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2019.
  Tuan Dang, Trung Tran, Khang Nguyen, Tien Pham, Nhat Pham, Tam Vu, and Phuc Nguyen.
  (56 out of 314 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.8%).
• FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System.
  ACM UbiComp 2021 - ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC’21).
  Vimal Kakaraparthi, Qijia Shao, Charles J. Carver, Tien Pham, Nam Bui, Tam Vu, Phuc Nguyen, and Xia Zhou.
  
• Detection of Microsleep Events with a Behind-the-ear Wearable System.
  IEEE TMC - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 5.112, preprint).
  Nhat Pham, Tuan Dinh, Taeho Kim, Zohreh Raghebi, Nam Bui, Hoang Truong, Tuan Nguyen, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Ann Halbower, Thang Dinh, Phuc Nguyen, and Tam Vu.
  
• Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Using Polarized Light.
  SenSys 2020 - The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  Tianxing Li, Derek Bai, Temiloluwa O. Prioleau, Nam Bui, Tam Vu, and Xia Zhou.
  (44 out of 213 submissions, acceptance ratio: 20.6%)
• DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Remote PassiveRF Sensing.
  SenSys 2020 - The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  Phuc Nguyen, Vimal Kakaraparthi, Nam Bui, Nikshep Umamahesh, Nhat Pham, Hoang Truong, Yeswanth Guddeti, Dinesh Bharadia, Eric Frew, Richard Han, Dan Massey, Tam Vu.
  (44 out of 213 submissions, acceptance ratio: 20.6%)
• WAKE: A Behind-the-ear Wearable System for Microsleep Detection.
  MobiSys 2020 - The 18th ACM Intl' Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services.
  Nhat Pham, Tuan Dinh, Zohreh Raghebi, Taeho Kim, Nam Bui, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Ann Halbower, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu.
  (34 out of 175 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19.4%)
• Painometry: Wearable and Objective Quantification System for Acute Postoperative Pain.
  MobiSys 2020 - The 18th ACM Intl' Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services.
  H. Truong, N. Bui, Z. Raghebi, M. Ceko, N. Pham, P. Nguyen, A. Nguyen, T. Kim, K. Siegfried, E. Stene, T. Tvrdy, L. Weinman, T. Payne, D. Burke, T. Dinh, S. D'Mello, F. Banaei-Kashani, T. Wager, P. Goldstein, and T. Vu.
  (34 out of 175 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19.4%)
• eBP: A Wearable System For Frequentand Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring From User’s Ear. - Best Paper Award; SIGMOBILE Research Highlights 2019[PDF]
  MobiCom 2019 - The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2019.
  Nam Bui, Nhat Pham, Jessica Jacqueline Barnitz, Zhanan Zou, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Taeho Kim, Nicholas Farrow, Anh Nguyen, Jianliang Xiao, Robin Deterding, Thang Dinh and Tam Vu.
  (55 out of 290 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.9%).
• Smartphone-Based SpO2 Measurement by Exploiting Wavelengths Separation And Chromophore Compensation.
  TOSN - Transactions on Sensor Networks.
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding, and Tam Vu.
• Demo: Earable - An Ear-Worn Biosignal Sensing Platform forCognitive State Monitoring and Human-Computer Interaction.
  Mobisys 2019 - 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Jun. 2019.
  Nhat Pham, Taeho Kim, Frederick M Thayer, Anh Nguyen, and Tam Vu.
• Novel Pediatric Automated Respiratory Score Using Physiologic Data and Machine Learning in Asthma.
  Pediatric Pulmonology Journal 2019.
  Amanda I. Messinger, Nam Bui, Brandie D. Wagner, Stanley J. Szefler, Tam Vu and Robin R. Deterding
• Blocking Self-avoiding Walks Stops Cyber-epidemics: A Scalable GPU-based Approach
  IEEE TKDE 2019 - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2019.
  Hung Nguyen, Alberto Cano, Tam Vu, and Thang Dinh
• CapBand: Battery-free Successive Capacitance Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition - Slides
  - Best Paper Runner-up Award 2018
  ACM SenSys 2018 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Nov. 2018.
  Hoang Truong, Shuo Zhang, Ufuk Muncuk, Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Qin Lv, Kaushik Chowdhury, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  (23 out of 147 submissions, acceptance ratio: 15.6%)
• Body-Guided Communications: A Low-power, Highly-Confined Primitive to Track and Secure Every Touch
  ACM MobiCom 2018 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2018.
  Viet Nguyen, Mohamed Ibrahim, Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Richard Howard, Marco Gruteser and Tam Vu
  (42 out of 187 submissions, acceptance ratio: 22.5%)
• Cost-Effective and Passive RF-Based Drone Presence Detection and Characterization
  ACM GetMobile 2018 - ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review 2018
  Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, and Tam Vu
  
• TYTH-Typing On Your Teeth: Tongue-Teeth Localization for Human-Computer Interface - Slides
  ACM MobiSys 2018 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2018
  Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Abhijit Suresh, Matthew Whitlock, Duy Pham, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  (37 out of 138 submissions, acceptance ratio: 26.8%)
• ParkSense: Automatic Parking Positioning by Leveraging In-Vehicle Magnetic Field Variation
  IEEE Access 2017 - IEEE Access Journal 2017
  Phuc Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen, Dong Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Hung M. La, and Tam Vu
  
• Android User Privacy Preserving through Crowdsourcing
  IEEE TIFS 2017 - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2017
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Anh Nguyen, Tam Vu, Elisa Bertino
  
• EIR: Edge-Aware Inter-Domain Routing Protocol for the Future Mobile Internet
  Computer Networks 2017 - Elsevier Computer Networks Journal 2017
  Shreyasee Mukherjee, Shravan Sriram, Tam Vu, Dipankar Raychaudhuri
  
• Through-body Capacitive Touch Communication
  ACM MobiCom 2017 - S3 Workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2017.
  Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Viet Nguyen, Mohamed Ibrahim, Richard Howard, Marco Gruteser and Tam Vu
  
• Photometry based Blood Oxygen Estimation through Smartphone Cameras - Best Paper Award, 2017
  ACM MobiCom 2017 - S3 Workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2017.
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding and Tam Vu
  
• DEMO: Low-power Capacitive Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition
  ACM MobiCom 2017 - S3 Workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct. 2017.
  Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui, and Tam Vu
  
• PhO2: Smartphone based Blood Oxygen Level Measurement Systems using Near-IR and RED Wave-guided Light - Slides
  - Best Paper Award Nominee 2017; 2nd Prize ACM MobiCom App Contest 2017
  ACM SenSys 2017 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Nov. 2017.
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding and Tam Vu
  
• Outward Influence and Cascade Size Estimation in Billion-scale Networks
  ACM SIGMETRICS 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 2017.
  Hung Nguyen, Tri Nguyen, Tam Vu, and Thang Dinh
  (Acceptance ratio: 14.3%)
  
• Thermal-Depth Fusion for Occluded Body Skeletal Posture Estimation - Slides
  IEEE/ACM CHASE 2017 - The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, June 2017.
  Shane Transue, Phuc Nguyen, Tam Vu and Min-Hyung Choi
  
• Matthan: Drone Presence Detection by Identifying Physical Signatures in the Drone’s RF Communication - Slides
  - SIGMOBILE Research Highlights, 2017
  ACM MobiSys 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2017.
  Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, and Tam Vu
  (34 out of 188 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18%)
  Presentation: Youtube link
• Capacitive sensing 3D-printed Wristband for Enriched Hand Gesture Recognition
  ACM MobiSys 2017 - WearSys workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2017.
  Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui, and Tam Vu
  
• Transitivity Demolition and the Falls of Social Networks
  IEEE Access 2017 - IEEE Access Journal 2017.
  Hung T. Nguyen, Nam P. Nguyen,Tam Vu, Huan X. Hoang, and Thang N. Dinh
• A Lightweight And Inexpensive In-ear Sensing System For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Stage Monitoring
  - Best Paper Award 2016; SIGMOBILE Research Highlights 2016[PDF]; CACM Research Highlights 2017
  ACM SenSys 2016 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2016.
  Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  (21 out of 119 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.6%)
  Presentation: Youtube link
• Battery-Free Identification Token for Touch Sensing Devices - Slides
  ACM SenSys 2016 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2016.
  Phuc Nguyen, Ufuk Muncuk, Ashwin Ashok, Kaushik R Chowdhury, Marco Gruteser and Tam Vu
  (21 out of 119 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.6%)
  Presentation: Youtube link
• WikiSpiro: Non-contact Respiration Volume Monitoring during Sleep - Best Paper Award, 2016
  ACM S3 2016 - The ACM S3 Workshop (conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2016), October 2016.
  Phuc Nguyen, Shane Transue, Min-Hyung Choi, Ann C. Halbower and Tam Vu
• LIBS: A Low-cost In-Ear Bioelectrical Sensing Solution for Healthcare Applications
  ACM S3 2016 - The ACM S3 Workshop (conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2016), October 2016.
  Anh Nguyen, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashan, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
• Android Permission Recommendation using Transitive Bayesian Inference Model
  ESORICS 2016 - The European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, September 2016.
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Anh Nguyen and Tam Vu
• Android Fine-grained Permission Control System with Real-Time Expert Recommendations
  PMC 2016 - Pervasive and Mobile Computing 2016.
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Tam Vu
• In-ear Biosignal Recording System: A Wearable For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Staging
  ACM MobiSys 2016 - WearSys workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2016.
  Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
• Investigating Cost-effective RF-based Detection of Drones
  ACM MobiSys 2016 - DroNet workshop - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2016.
  Phuc Nguyen, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han and Tam Vu
• Real-time Tidal Volume Estimation using Iso-surface Reconstruction - Slides
  IEEE CHASE 2016 - The IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, June 2016.
  Shane Transue, Phuc Nguyen, Tam Vu and Min-Hyung Choi
• A Smart Shoe for Building a Real-Time 3D Map
  JAC 2016 - Journal of Automation in Construction, pp.1-10, March 2016.
  Luan V. Nguyen, Hung Manh La, Jesus Sanchez and Tam Vu
• What Am I Looking At? Low-Power Radio-Optical Beacons For In-View Recognition Using Smart-Glasses
  IEEE TMC 2016 - The IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, 2016
  Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser, Rich Howard, Yanyong Zhang, Narayan Mandyam, Wenjia Yuan, Kristin Dana
• Continuous and Fine-grained Breathing Volume Monitoring from Afar Using Wireless Signals - Slides
  IEEE INFOCOM 2016 - The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, April 2016
  Phuc Nguyen, Xinyu Zhang, Ann Halbower, and Tam Vu
  (300 out of 1644 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.25%).
• Sensing Occupant Comfort using Wearable Technologies: A Pilot Study
  ASCE CRC 2015 - Construction Research Congress - American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015
  Caroline Clevenger, Moatassem Abdallah, Tam Vu, Anh Nguyen
• Mobile Device Identification by Leveraging Built-in Capacitive Signature
  ACM CCS 2015 - Poster Session - The 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  Manh Huynh, Phuc Nguyen, Marco Gruteser, and Tam Vu
• Continuous and Fine-grained Respiration Volume Monitoring Using Continuous Wave Radar [Poster]
  ACM MobiCom 2015 - Poster Session - The 21st ACM Annual Int' Conf' on Mobile Computing and Networking
  Phuc Nguyen, Xinyu Zhang, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
• Low-Power Radio-Optical Beacons For In-View Recognition
  IEEE VTC 2015 - IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference
  Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Yanyong Zhang, Narayan Mandayam, Wenjia Yuan, Kristin Dana
• Community Detection in Multiplex Social Networks
  IEEE INFOCOM 2015 - WIDN workshop - The 34th Annual IEEE Int' Conf' Computer Communications
  Hung T. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Tam Vu
• mSleepWatcher: Why didn’t I sleep well?
  ISSAT MCSE 2015 - Int. Conf. on Modeling of Complex System and Environment
  Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Ann C. Halbower, Tam Vu
• A Internet of Things Framework for Smart Energy in Buildings: Designs, Prototype, and Experiments
  IEEE IoT 2015 - IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal
  Jianli Pan, Raj Jain, Subharthi Paul, Tam Vu, Abusayeed Saifullah, Mo Sha
• Dude, Ask The Experts: Android Resource Access Permission Recommendation with RecDroid
  IEEE IM 2015 - 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM)
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Tam Vu
• Demo: RecDroid: An Android Resource Access Permission Recommendation System
  ACM MobiHoc 2015 - Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Gerrit Bond, Steven Jackson, Marcus Pare, Tam Vu
• RecDroid: A Resource Access Control Portal and Recommendation Service for Smartphone Users
  ACM MobiCom - SPME 2014 - Proceedings of ACM MobiCom - SPME 2014
  Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Tam Vu
• Detection of On-Road Vehicles Emanating GPS Interference
  ACM CCS 2014 - Proceedings of ACM CCS 2014
  Gorkem Kar, Hossen Mustafa, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Wenyuan Yu, Marco Gruteser, Tam Vu
  (114 out of 585 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19%)
• Enriching Communication Methods for Composable Mobile Systems
  PhD Thesis - Rutgers University, October 2013
  Tam Vu
• Demo: BiFocus - Using Radio-Optical Beacons for An Augmented Reality Search Application
  MobiSys 2013 - Proceedings of Mobisys 2013
  Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Yanyong Zhang, Narayan Mandayam, Wenjia Yuan, Kristin Dana
• Enabling Vehicular Networking in the MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture
  WoWMoM 2013 - 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
  Akash Baid, Shreyasee Mukherjee, Tam Vu, Sandeep Mudigonday, Kiran Nagaraja, Junichiro Fukuyamaz, Dipankar Raychaudhuri
  (28 out of 148 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.9%)
  
• Personal Touch-Identification Tokens
  Pervasice Computing 2013 - IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, Apirl 2013
  Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser
• Capacitive Touch Communication: A Technique to Input Data Through Devices' Touchscreen
  TMC 2013 - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, 2013
  Tam Vu, Akash Baid,Simon Gao, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Janne Lindqvist, Predrag Spasojevic, Jeffrey Walling
• Distinguishing Users with Capacitive Touch Communication - Slides - Best Paper Award, 2012
  MobiCom 2012 - The 18th ACM Annual Int' Conf' on Mobile Computing and Networking
  Tam Vu, Akash Baid,Simon Gao, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Janne Lindqvist, Predrag Spasojevic, Jeffrey Walling
  Press Release: MIT Technology Review, Phys.org, Demo Video , Interdigital Innovation Challenge Finalist
  (32 out of 212 submissions, acceptance ratio: 15.1%)
  
• Demo: User Identification and Authentication with Capacitive Touch Communication
  MobiSys 2012 - Proceedings of Mobisys 2012
  Tam Vu, Ashwin Ashok, Akash Baid, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Janne Lindqvist, Predrag Spasojevic, Jeffrey Walling
  [Demo Video]     [Long Demo Video]
• DMap: A Shared Hosting Scheme for Dynamic Identifier to Locator Mappings in the Global Internet - Slides
  ICDCS 2012 - The 32nd Int' Conf' on Distributed Computing Systems
  Tam Vu, Akash Baid, Yanyong Zhang, Thu Nguyen, Junichiro Fukuyama, Richard Martin and Dipankar Raychaudhuri
  [Internet-scale (26,000+ ASes) Simulation source code]
  (71 out of 515 submissions, acceptance ratio: 13.8%)
  
• Phantom: Physical Layer Cooperation for Location Privacy Protection - Slides
  INFOCOM 2012 - The 31st Annual IEEE Int' Conf' Computer Communications - Mini Conf'
  Sangho Oh, Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser, Suman Banerjeey
  (278 out of 1547 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.9%)
  
• Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging Through Car Speakers
  TMC 2012 - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012.
  Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Hongbo Liu, Nic Cec, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin
  
• Comparing Alternative Approaches for Networking of Named Objects in the Future Internet
  INFOCOM 2012 - The 31st Annual IEEE Int' Conf' Computer Communications - NOMEN workshop
  Akash Baid, Tam Vu, Dipankar Raychaudhuri
• Detecting Driver Phone Use Leveraging Car Speakers - Best Paper Award, 2011
  MobiCom 2011 - The 17th ACM Annual Int' Conf' on Mobile Computing and Networking
  Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Hongbo Liu, Nic Cec, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin
  Press Release: MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, CNET News, Yahoo News, National Public Radio 1] [NPR 2]
  (29 out of 214 submissions, acceptance ratio: 13.6%)
  
• Tracking Vehicular Speed Variations by Warping Mobile Phone Signal Strengths - Slides
  PerCom 2011 - 9th Annual IEEE Int' Conf' on Pervasive Computing and Communications
  Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshavsky, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen
• Vehicular Speed Estimation using Received Signal Strength from Mobile Phones - Slides
  UbiComp 2010 - ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshavsky, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen
• Ask, Don't Search: A Social Help Engine for Online Social Network Mobile Users - Slides
  Sarnoff 2012 - The 35th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
  Tam Vu, Akash Baid