I’m a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where I am working in the Networked Systems Lab (NSL) with Prof. Ramesh Govindan and Prof. Morley Mao. Previously, I pursued a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where I also worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Xinyu Zhang. Prior to my graduate studies at UCSD, I earned a joint bachelor’s degree with honors in Communication Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and the University of Glasgow (UofG).

🔥 News

2025.12: Our paper Efficient and Resilient Sensor Data Delivery through Knowledge-Driven Communication has been accepted by NSDI 2026!
2025.11: Our paper MANA: Towards Efficient Mobile Ad Detection via Multimodal Agentic UI Navigation has been accepted by MobiCom 2026!
2025.8: I’m excited to share that I started my PhD journey at USC!
2025.5: I will be joining Prof. Ju Ren’s Group at Tsinghua University as a visiting student.
2025.3: Excited to announce I’ll be joining the Networked Systems Lab (NSL) in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC) as a PhD student starting August 2025!
2025.2: Our paper Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Neural Object Representation has been accepted by CVPR 2025!
2024.11: I will be presenting my workshop paper at ACM MobiCom 2024 in Washington, D.C. See you there!
2024.9: Our paper RFCanvas: Modeling RF Channel by Fusing Visual Priors and Few-shot RF measurements has been accepted by SenSys 2024!
2024.8: Our paper Hybrid Data-Driven and Simulation-Driven Prediction of mmWave Network Performance has been accepted by MobiCom Workshop 2024 @ PICASSO!

📝 Publications

Efficient and Resilient Sensor Data Delivery through Knowledge-Driven Communication (To Appear)
- Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Wuqiong Zhao, Jianrong Ding, Ke Sun, Xinyu Zhang
- NSDI 2026
MANA: Towards Efficient Mobile Ad Detection via Multimodal Agentic UI Navigation (To Appear)
- Yizhe Zhao, Yongjian Fu, Zihao Feng, Hao Pan, Yongheng Deng, Yaoxue Zhang, Ju Ren
- MobiCom 2026
Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Neural Object Representation [Paper]
- Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang
- CVPR 2025
RFCanvas: Modeling RF Channel by Fusing Visual Priors and Few-shot RF measurements [Paper]
- Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Ke Sun, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang
- SenSys 2024
Hybrid Data-Driven and Simulation-Driven Prediction of mmWave Network Performance [Paper]
- Zihao Feng, Xingyu Chen, Xuyang Cao, Xinyu Zhang
- MobiCom Workshop 2024

2025.08 – Present, University of Southern California (USC)
- PhD in Computer Science
2023.09 – 2025.03, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
- MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2019.09 – 2023.06, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
- BEng in Communication Engineering, GPA: 3.87/4.0, Rank: Top 5%
- BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, GPA: 19.27/22
2016.09 – 2019.06, Hangzhou No 2 High School of Zhejiang Province
- Full-time High School Student

Apr. 2023, First-class Honors Degree at University of Glasgow
Sept. 2022, Outstanding Graduate of UESTC
Sept. 2022, China National Scholarship (Top 0.2% undergrads nationwide)
Sept. 2020, 2021, 2022, First-Class Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship of UESTC

Aug. 2025 – Present, University of Southern California
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Ramesh Govindan and Prof. Morley Mao
May. 2025 – Aug. 2025, Tsinghua University
- Visiting Student
- Advisor: Prof. Ju Ren
Sep. 2023 – Jan. 2025, University of California San Diego
- Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Xinyu Zhang

English (Fluent), Chinese (Native)

Aside from research, I enjoy photography, road trips, and playing basketball and soccer.