SY / Shiming Yu

WIRELESS SYSTEMS · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Shiming Yu

Postdoctoral Fellow / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Exploring the intersection of AI, wireless technology, and network infrastructure.

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Shiming Yu
Hong Kong SAR, China
ABOUT

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). I received my Ph.D. from the same department, advised by my insightful supervisor Prof. Yuanqing Zheng. I received B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

RESEARCH

My research interests broadly fall under the intersection of AI, wireless technology, and wireless network infrastructure. The scope include but are not limited to AIoT, 5G/6G Mobile Network, AI/ML for Networking.

In the past, my research advances the following directions in wireless networking:

IoT Network (LoRa, LPWAN):

NextG Mobile Network (Open and AI RAN):

NEWS
I'm honored to be awarded the ACM SIGBED China Doctoral Dissertation Award.
I'm honored to be awarded the COMP PhD Thesis Outstanding Award.
Our paper RANPilot is accepted by ACM SIGCOMM 2026.
I'm honored to be recognized as one of the MobiSys’26 Rising Star!
I'm honored to be selected as the Distinguished Reviewer Board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)!
Serve as the publicity co-chair of ACM/IEEE SEC 2026. Please consider to submit!
Completed Ph.D. thesis defense!
Earlier updates
Our paper SlideLoRa is accepted by IEEE ICNP 2025 (60/238=25.21%); Serve as MobiCom 2025 Demo Program Committee.
Our paper Canas is accepted by ACM MobiSys 2025 (42/233=18.03%); Serve as MobiCom 2025 and MobiSys 2025 Artifact Evaluation Commitee.
Our paper HydraNet is accepted by ACM MobiCom 2025 (41/240=17.08%).
Our paper MoLoRa is accepted by ACM SenSys 2025 (46/245=18.78%).
Awarded ACM MobiCom 2024 Student Travel Grant.
Our paper FDLoRa is accepted by ACM SenSys 2024 (58/313=18.53%).
Awarded Best Oral Presentation Award @ PolyU CRSC 2024
Serve as ACM MobiSys 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
Serve as ACM MobiCom 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
Our paper XGate is accepted by ACM MobiCom 2024 (103/494=20.85%).
PUBLICATIONS
All publications ↗
SERVICE

Conference Organization

2026: Publicity Co-Chair for ACM/IEEE SEC

Program Committee Member

2026: MSN, GPC, MobiCom AE, MobiSys Demo & AE, CCS AE

2025: MobiCom Demo & AE, MobiSys AE

2024: MobiCom AE, MobiSys AE

Journal Reviewer

2026: TOSN, TMC, IMWUT, JNCA, Computer Networks, Computer Communications

2025: TOSN, TMC, IoTJ

2024: TOSN, IoTJ

2023: TOSN, TWC, Computer Networks

AWARDS
  • ACM SIGBED China Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2026
  • PhD Thesis Outstanding Award @ PolyU COMP, 2026
  • Rising Star @ ACM MobiSys, 2026
  • Distinguished Reviewer Board @ ACM TOSN 2026-2027
  • Winner (Rank 1) @ Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, PolyU FCMS, 2025
  • Student Travel Grant @ ACM MobiCom, 2024
  • Best Oral Presentation Award @ Research Student Conference, PolyU COMP, 2024
  • Full Ph.D. Scholarship @ PolyU, 2022-2026
  • National Encouragement Scholarship @ UESTC, 2019
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 15%) @ UESTC, 2019
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 15%) @ UESTC, 2020
TEACHING
  • COMP1010 Computational Thinking and Problem Solving, Teaching Assistant, 2025 Fall
  • COMP5434 Big Data Computing, Teaching Assistant, 2024 Fall
  • COMP5311 Internet Infrastructure And Protocols, Teaching Assistant, 2023 Fall
  • COMP1011 Programming Fundamentals, Teaching Assistant, 2023 Spring, 2024 Spring, 2025 Spring
  • COMP1004 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Teaching Assistant, 2022 Fall

GET IN TOUCH

shiming.yu@connect.polyu.hk ↗

QT404, Department of Computing, Chow Yei Ching Building
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China