Longfei Shangguan
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Center for African Study (adjunct professor)
University of Pittsburgh
I lead Pittsburgh Experimental Research Group (PERG). My group builds hardware and software systems to push the limits of computing, sensing, and communication barrier of sensor and wireless technologies. Before joining Pitt in the fall of 2022, I was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton and later as a senior researcher at Microsoft. I earned my Ph.D. from HKUST in 2015 under Yunhao Liu and Ke Yi.
My work has been awarded the Best Paper Award at MobiCom 2024, Best Paper Runner-up Award at MobiCom 2021, Distinguished Paper Award at Ubicomp 2016, and Best Paper Award at TrustCom 2014. I am a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2024, a Google Research Scholar Award in 2023, and the AIoTSys Young Scientist Award in 2023.
Current Project
- Computing - Sensor-in-the-loop AI Agent: developing personalized AI agent through multi-modal sensor technologies.
- Sensing - Inside-out & Outside-in: exploring various sensor modalities (acoustic, vision, and many others) for human-centric sensing.
- Communication - Wireless Digital Twin: understanding the wireless world through neural ray tracing.
Professional Activities
- Editor: IEEE Pervasive Computing, ACM GetMobile
- PC members: MobiCom'25, NSDI'25, MobiCom'24, SenSys'24, HotMobile'24, InfoCom'24, SenSys'23, SEC'23, MobiCom'23, IPSN'23, INFOCOM'23, MobiCom'22, SenSys'22 ...
- TPC co-chairs: ICPADS'22, MobiQuitous'22
- Co-organizers (with Xia, Marco, Haitham, Luca, and Kyle): Dagstauhl seminar on Novel Scenarios for the Wireless Internet of Things
Pittsburgh Experimental Research Group (PERG)
- Postdoc: Tao Chen, Zhenlin An (Princeton Postdoc, co-host with Kyle Jamieson)
- Ph.D. student: Yongjie Yang, Zhiwei Ren, Vaibhav Singh, Junbo Li, Hongbo Lan
- Master student: Haoyu Li, Niccolo Nobili, Maanya Shanker
- Alumni:
- Yuxuan Zhang (M): master thesis on drive-by sensing, next stop: Ph.D. student at TAMU.
- Yujing Huang (F): undergraduate thesis on accelerating sphere decoding through ray tracing, next stop: Ph.D. student at U Buffalo.
Recruiting
- Ph.D. openings: I'm always looking for self-motivated, hands-on students with CS/CE/EE background to join my group.
- For master students: please drop me an email if you want to do a master thesis with me.
- Undergraduate research opportunities: I have a few projects for undergraduates, drop me an email if interested.