Mingmin Zhao

Mingmin Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department. His research bridges wireless technologies, machine learning, digital health, and robust robotic perception.

Research Interests:

• Wireless sensing systems with novel propagation modeling
• Multi-modal machine learning for signal and visual data
• Contactless health monitoring and biomarker discovery
• Robotic perception in adverse conditions

Scientific Awards:

• Best Demo Award at MobiCom 2024
• First Place in Student Research Competition at MobiCom 2024
• ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up
• CACM Research Highlights
• ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights

Advising: Mentoring PhD students Haowen Lai, Richeek Das, and Yiduo Hao. Professional service includes organizing tutorials at CVPR 2020 and ICCV 2021.

Labs & Collaborations: Conducts research in the WAVES Lab at UPenn and collaborated with Emerald Innovations to deploy his PhD work at scale.