Qian Zhang

Tencent Professor of Engineering,
Chair Professor of Department of CSE, HKUST,
Fellow of IEEE,
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE),
Acting Head, Division of Integrative System and Design,
Director of HKUST MOE/MSRA Information Technology Key Laboratory,
Director, Digital Life Research Center, HKUST,
HKUST IAS Senior Fellow

Talks and presentations

“We can Learn a lot from Our Breathing Sound”, keynote talk in workshop on Intelligent Acoustic Systems and Applications (IASA) of ACM Mobicom, 2025.
“From Research Lab to Billions of Devices”, panel discussion in ACM Mobicom conference, 2025.
“Multi-Modality Sensing to Empower Intelligent Chronic Disease Management in an Ageing Society”, invited talk in CCF CNCC conference, 2025.
“Edge-AI Powered mmWave Sensing: Towards Intelligent Human-Centric Systems”, keynote talk in IEEE ICCT conference, 2025.
“Smart Sensing for Food Nutrition and Quality: A Consumer-Grade Spectral Approach”, invited talk in ACM Truc Conference, 2025.
“AIoT empowers new home health services”, invited talk in CCF Hong Kong Forum, 2025.
“Consumer-grade near-infrared spectroscopy system for routine food nutrition and quality testing”, Keynote talk in Rehabilitation Forum in Guangdong, 2025.
“AIoT empowers new home health services”, invited talk in CCF Forum, 2025.
“Human-Centric Sensing with mmWave”, invited talk in IEEE ICCC, 2025.
“AIoT Technology Empowers Life-Cycle Chronic Disease Management”, invited talk in Fujita Health University, 2025.
“Multimodal smart sensing enables home health management in the AIoT era”, keynote talk in World Health Expo, 2025.
“AIoT sensing technology enables intelligent innovation and application of medical terminals”, invited talk in CUHK-Shenzhen, 2025.
“AIoT empowers Health”, invited talk in Webank Corp., 2025.
“Ubiquitous Internet of Things Applications (Human Activity Recognition) —- Domain Adaptation and Generalization”, invited talk in CCF CNCC conference, 2024.
“Smart Sensing for Human Behavior Understanding”, invited talk in CCF CNCC conference, 2024.
“Future Home Heathcare Empowered by Mobile Sensing”, invited talk in IEEE ICCC, 2024.
“Smart Sensing for Human Behavior Understanding”, invited talk in ACM Turc conference, 2024.
“Non-intrusive Food Sensing in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in ACM Turc conference, 2024.
“Understanding Human Behavior with Wireless Sensing”, invited talk in IEEE ICCNC, 2024.
“Sensing for Healthcare in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in Sigcomm Networking, 2024.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in ITU, 2024.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in Fujita Health University, 2024.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare in the Age of AIoT”, distinguished talk in PolyU, 2024.
“Human-Centric Contactless Sensing Design in the Age of AIoT”, Keynote speech in IEEE MSN 2023.
“Integrated Sensing and Communication in the Age of AIoT”, Keynote speech in the IoT Forum, 2023.
“AI+IoT: Human-Centric Mobile Sensing Design”, invited talk in CNCC conference, 2023.
“Mobile Sensing Empowered Smart Healthcare and Convenient HCI”, invited talk in CNCC conference, 2023.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare and Convenient HCI in the Age of AIoT”, Keynote speech in ISAC summit, 2023.
“Acoustic Sensing: The Design for Convenient Interaction and Smart Healthcare”, keynote speech in IHPCF conference, 2023.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare and Convenient HCI in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in AI for Internet of Things forum, 2023.
“智能感知助力吞咽困难患者居家康复管理,” invited talk in BSSF (第二届粤港澳大湾区脑科学高峰论坛) , 2023.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare and Digital Home in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in Tsinghua University forum, 2022.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: From Wearable to Contactless Sensing to Smart Healthcare in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in Wuhan University forum, 2022.
“Empowering Smart and Secure RF Sensing with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)”, invited talk in NSFC-RGC focused theme forum, 2022.
“Pushing the Limit of Mobile Sensing: Smart Healthcare and Digital Home in the Age of AIoT”, invited talk in Tianjin University forum, 2022.
“Pushing the limit of Mobile Sensing: Intelligent and Secure Sensing Driven Design”, keynote talk in IEEE ICECI conference, 2021
“Pushing the limit of Mobile Sensing: Intelligent and Secure Sensing Driven Design”, keynote talk in CCF Seminar (IoT Committee), 2021
“Pushing the limit of Mobile Sensing: Intelligent and Secure Sensing Driven Design”, invited talk in CUHK-Shenzhen, 2021
“Bridging Between Digital Space and Physical World: IoT Sensing Driven Design”, Keynote talk in IEEE MASS 2020
“Pushing the limit of IoT Sensing: Intelligent and Secure Sensing Driven Design”, Keynote talk in CNCC (China National Computer Congress), 2020
“Beyond Communication: Intelligent and Secure IoT Sensing Driven Design”, Keynote talk in International Conferences on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2020.
“Beyond Communicaiton: Intelligent and Secure IoT Sensing Leveraging RF”, Advanced Technology Forum for RF Sensing, CCF, 2020.
“AIoT Applications for Healthcare and Wellness Management”, seminar talk, Fujita Health University, 2019.
“Efficient Communication for Ubiquitous Sensing in the age of IoT”, Workshop on Intelligent Network and Edge Computing, 2019.
“Energy Efficient and Secure Communication in the Age of IoT”, keynote speech, International Workshop on Wireless and Security, 2019.
“大健康产业-物联网创新创业机遇与挑战”, invited talk, Ofweek, 2019.
“Ubiquitous Communication and Sensing in the age of IoT”, invited talk, Zhejiang University, 2019.
“Ubiquitous Communication and Sensing in the age of IoT”, invited talk, ACM Turc Conference, 2019.
“Ubiquitous Communication and Sensing in the age of IoT”, invited talk, Tsinghua University, 2019
“智能物联技术的创新, 助力大健康产业发展”, invited talk, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 2019.
“IoT Applications for Healthcare and Wellness Management”, invited talk, HK Hospital Authority, 2018.
“Energy-efficient Communications for IoT Devices”, invited talk, Huawei Wireless Forum, 2018.
“Health Service Innovation Leveraging IoT Technology”, Innovation Forum, Nanyang Technological University, 2018.
“Researches in Mobile Health and Smart Home”, invited talk, Midea Corporate Research, July 2017.
“物联网技术的创新对产业的改变”, HKUST EMBA sharing, 2016/2017.
“Integrated PHY/MAC Design for Next-Gen WiFi”, invited talk, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, July 2013.
“Integrated PHY/MAC Design for Next-Gen WiFi”, invited talk, ComComAP conference, March 2013.
“Economics issues related to hybrid access in femtocell networks”, invited talk, Taiwan University, Aug. 2012.
“Economics issues related to hybrid access in femtocell networks”, invited talk, Taiwan Jiaotong University, Aug. 2012.
“Remote healthcare monitoring and Internet of Healthcare Things”, invited talk, Singapore Nanyang Technology University, July 2012.
“Advances in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture Tour at Australia, Aug. 2011.
“Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture Tour at Australia, Aug. 2011.
“Advances in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture Tour at Malaysia, Dec. 2010.
“Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture Tour at Malaysia, Dec. 2010.
“Exploiting Node Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture Tour at Malaysia, Dec. 2010.
“Spectrum Usage Understanding and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing”, invited talk, Microsoft Research Redmond, June 2010
“Spectrum Usage Understanding and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing”, invited talk, Huawei DOSS Symposium, April 2010
“Advanced topics in Cognitive Radio Networks”, invited talk, JiNan University, Jan. 2010
“Mining Spectrum Usage Data: a Large-scale Spectrum Measurement Study”, invited talk, Northeastern University, Dec. 2009
“Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks”, invited talk, XiDian University, May 2009
Panel Discussion, “Current Trends in Wireless Networks”, IEEE Infocom 2009, April 2009.
“Cooperative Cognitive Wireless Networking”, invited talk, Huawei Wireless Symposium, Dec. 2008.
Keynote speech, “Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networking”, IEEE WiCOM, Oct. 2008.
Panel Discussion, “Next-Generation Wireless Networking: Opportunities and Challenges”, ICST QShine, July 2008.
Panel Discussion, “Cooperative Communication and Collaborative Computing”, IEEE ICC, May 2008.
Panel Discussion, “New Architectures and Disruptive Technologies for the Future Wireless Networks”, ACM MobiHoc , May 2008.
Panel discussion, “Networking in Challenging Environments: Hype or Reality”, IEEE Infocom 2008, April 2008.
Panel discussion, “Pervasive Computing: Dream or Reality?”, IEEE Percom 2008, March 2008.
“Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networking”, invited talk, Huawei Wireless Networking Forum, Feb. 2008.
Keynote talk: “Understanding the Power of Pull-based P2P Streaming Protocol: We can do even better”, (slide), Peer-to-Peer Streaming and IP-TV Workshop (P2P-TV), ACM SIGCOMM, 2007.