Sheng Shen

Software Engineer and Researcher, Facebook Reality Labs
  • M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2019) in ECE, UIUC
  • SyNRG Group, Advised by Romit Roy Choudhury
  • B.S. (2014) in ECE, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Research intern at Intel (2016), Microsoft Research Asia (2013-14)

Contact Info

Research Interests: Mobile/Wearable Computing, Wireless Sensing, IoT, AR/VR, Localization, Smart Homes

Sheng Shen
Publications
Main Publications
  • [ACM MobiCom'20] Voice Localization Using Nearby Wall Reflections [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2020voice,
      title={Voice localization using nearby wall reflections},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Chen, Daguan and Wei, Yu-Lin and Yang, Zhijian and Choudhury, Romit Roy},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      pages={1--14},
      year={2020}
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, Daguan Chen, Yu-Lin Wei, Zhijian Yang, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [ACM MobiCom'20] Ear-AR: Indoor Acoustic Augmented Reality on Earphones [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{yang2020ear,
      title={{Ear-AR}: Indoor Acoustic Augmented Reality on Earphones},
      author={Yang, Zhijian and Wei, Yu-Lin and Shen, Sheng and Choudhury, Romit Roy},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      year={2020}
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [ACM SIGCOMM'18] MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation [pdf] [slides] [video] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2018mute,
      title={{MUTE}: Bringing {IoT} to noise cancellation},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Roy, Nirupam and Guan, Junfeng and Hassanieh, Haitham and Choudhury, Romit Roy},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication},
      pages={282--296},
      year={2018},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, Nirupam Roy, Junfeng Guan, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [ACM MobiCom'18] Closing the Gaps in Inertial Motion Tracking [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2018closing,
      title={Closing the gaps in inertial motion tracking},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Gowda, Mahanth and Roy Choudhury, Romit},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      pages={429--444},
      year={2018},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [NSDI'18] Inaudible Voice Commands: The Long-Range Attack and Defense [pdf] [slides] [video] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{roy2018inaudible,
      title={Inaudible voice commands: The long-range attack and defense},
      author={Roy, Nirupam and Shen, Sheng and Hassanieh, Haitham and Choudhury, Romit Roy},
      booktitle={15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 18)},
      pages={547--560},
      year={2018}
    }
    
    Nirupam Roy, Sheng Shen, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [NSDI'17] Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{gowda2017bringing,
      title={Bringing {IoT} to sports analytics},
      author={Gowda, Mahanth and Dhekne, Ashutosh and Shen, Sheng and Choudhury, Romit Roy and Yang, Lei and Golwalkar, Suresh and Essanian, Alexander},
      booktitle={14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 17)},
      pages={499--513},
      year={2017}
    }
    
    Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Lei Yang, Alex Essanian, Suresh Golwalkar
  • [ACM MobiSys'16] I Am a Smartwatch and I Can Track My User's Arm [pdf] [slides] [video] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2016smartwatch,
      title={I am a smartwatch and {I} can track my user's arm},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Wang, He and Roy Choudhury, Romit},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services},
      pages={85--96},
      year={2016},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, He Wang, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [ACM UbiComp'16] AutoLabel: Labeling Places From Pictures and Websites [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{meng2016autolabel,
      title={Autolabel: Labeling places from pictures and websites},
      author={Meng, Rufeng and Shen, Sheng and Choudhury, Romit Roy and Nelakuditi, Srihari},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing},
      pages={1159--1169},
      year={2016},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Rufeng Meng, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
Other Publications
  • [Ph.D. Dissertation] Actively Exploiting Propagation Delay for Acoustic Systems [pdf] [bibtex]
    @phdthesis{shen2019active,
      title={Actively exploiting propagation delay for acoustic systems},
      author={Shen, Sheng},
      year={2019},
      school={University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen
  • [ACM MobiCom'18] Poster: Networked Acoustics Around Human Ears [pdf] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2018networked,
      title={Networked Acoustics Around Human Ears},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Roy, Nirupam and Guan, Junfeng and Hassanieh, Haitham and Roy Choudhury, Romit},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      pages={747--749},
      year={2018},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, Nirupam Roy, Junfeng Guan, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury
  • [ACM GetMobile'17] IoT Platform for Sports Analytics [pdf] [bibtex]
    @article{gowda2018iot,
      title={{IoT} platform for sports analytics},
      author={Gowda, Mahanth and Dhekne, Ashutosh and Shen, Sheng and Choudhury, Romit Roy and Yang, Sharon Xue and Yang, Lei and Golwalkar, Suresh and Essanian, Alexander},
      journal={GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications},
      volume={21},
      number={4},
      pages={8--14},
      year={2018},
      publisher={ACM}
    }
    
    Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Lei Yang, Alex Essanian, Suresh Golwalkar
  • [ACM MobiSys'16 Ph.D. Forum] Extended Abstract: Arm Posture Tracking Using a Smartwatch [pdf] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2016arm,
      title={Arm Posture Tracking Using a Smartwatch},
      author={Shen, Sheng},
      booktitle={Proceedings of MobiSys 2016 PhD Forum},
      pages={9--10},
      year={2016},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen
  • [ACM WPA'15] Matching Physical Sites With Web Sites for Semantic Localization [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{meng2015matching,
      title={Matching physical sites with web sites for semantic localization},
      author={Meng, Rufeng and Shen, Sheng and Roy Choudhury, Romit and Nelakuditi, Srihari},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Physical Analytics},
      pages={31--36},
      year={2015},
      organization={ACM}
    }
    
    Rufeng Meng, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  • [ECOC'13] Dynamic Advance Reservation Multicast in Data Center Networks Over Elastic Optical Infrastructure [pdf] [bibtex]
    @inproceedings{shen2013dynamic,
      title={Dynamic advance reservation multicast in data center networks over elastic optical infrastructure},
      author={Shen, Sheng and Lu, Wei and Liu, Xiahe and Gong, Long and Zhu, Zuqing},
      booktitle={39th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2013)},
      pages={1--3},
      year={2013},
      organization={IET}
    }
    
    Sheng Shen, Wei Lu, Xiahe Liu, Long Gong, Zuqing Zhu
Awards
UIUC
  • 2019: M.E. Van Valkenburg Fellowship
  • 2018: Yee Fellowship
  • 2018: Dr. Ok Kyun Kim Fellowship
  • 2017: Rambus Fellowship
Others
  • 2011, 12, 13, 14: Outstanding Student Scholarship
    (Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China)
  • 2013: Microsoft Research Asia Young Fellowship
Services
Editorial Board
  • International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
TPC Member
  • IEEE VTC, Spring 2019
  • ACM S3 Workshop, 2017, 18
  • ACM MobiSys Ph.D. Forum, 2017
Invited Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • ACM IMWUT (formerly UbiComp)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing