Xiaofan Jiang

Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and an Affiliate in the Computer Science Department. He serves as Co-Chair of the Smart Cities Center at the Data Science Institute and Vice Chair of ACM SIGEnergy. His research spans intelligent embedded systems, mobile/wearable computing, Internet of Things, and connected health.

Education

• B.Sc. (2004), M.Sc. (2007), Ph.D. (2010) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley

His work focuses on

• City-scale energy footprint tracking with real-time analytics
• Privacy-preserving wearable systems for urban safety
• AI-driven thermal comfort estimation in buildings
• Magnetic-based indoor localization
• Smart plug meters and energy analytics
• LLM integration for medical diagnostics

Recent publications highlight trends in

• Reconfigurable drone systems for physical-digital interfaces
• Transformer architectures for speech and sensor data
• Generative AR for sensor data visualization
• Multi-modal physiological data analysis
• Programless smart home interfaces

Scientific Awards

• NSF Graduate Fellowship
• Vodafone-US Foundation Fellowship
• NSF CAREER Award

Students

• Jingping Nie (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill faculty from 2025)
• Minghui (Scott) Zhao (Ph.D. candidate, ACM SRC winner)
• Qijia Shao (Ph.D., now at HKUST)

and active lab members contributing to ACM HumanSys, SenSys, and MobiCom publications.