{"id":21841,"date":"2025-07-25T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&p=21841"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:51:54","slug":"nus-ece-phd-student-receives-best-paper-award-at-ieee-icc-2025","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/nus-ece-phd-student-receives-best-paper-award-at-ieee-icc-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NUS ECE PhD Student Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to Ms. Liu Han, PhD student at NUS ECE, on receiving the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025, held from 8 to 12 June in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n

Her paper, entitled \u201cGenFi: A Robust and Generalizable WiFi-Based Human Activity Recognition System,\u201d<\/em> addresses key limitations in WiFi-based sensing systems\u2014an emerging field with applications in smart homes, security monitoring, and healthcare. These systems offer privacy-preserving and cost-effective alternatives to camera-based solutions by analyzing variations in wireless signals to detect human activities. However, their real-world applicability has been hindered by significant performance drops across different users, environments, and deployment conditions.<\/p>\n

To overcome these challenges, Ms. Liu Han proposes GenFi, a novel WiFi-based human activity recognition framework that demonstrates strong generalization and robustness across diverse scenarios. Unlike conventional methods that rely solely on scenario-invariant features, GenFi integrates both general and scenario-specific representations. The framework leverages adversarial learning and meta-learning techniques to intelligently fuse these features, enabling accurate, stable, and lightweight activity recognition in unseen environments.<\/p>\n

Experimental evaluations show that GenFi outperforms existing approaches in both accuracy and efficiency, marking a significant step forward in the development of deployable, privacy-conscious indoor sensing technologies.<\/p>\n

The award was presented at IEEE ICC 2025, one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society and a premier international platform for advancements in communication technologies. This year\u2019s conference, themed \u201cCommunications Technologies 4Good,\u201d<\/em> spotlighted innovations that contribute to social welfare, sustainability, and inclusive development. The conference featured 13 symposia across cutting-edge topics such as IoT and sensor networks, mobile and wireless communications, and machine learning for communications, alongside industry panels, tutorials, and exhibitions.<\/p>\n

This achievement underscores the calibre of research undertaken by NUS ECE students and reinforces the department\u2019s leadership in advancing impactful, future-ready communication and sensing technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Ms. Liu Han, PhD student at NUS ECE, on receiving the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025, held from 8 to 12 June in Montreal, Canada. Her paper, entitled \u201cGenFi: A Robust and Generalizable WiFi-Based Human Activity Recognition System,\u201d addresses key limitations in WiFi-based sensing systems\u2014an emerging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21843,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[37,47,49],"class_list":["post-21841","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-ece","news_category-awards-achievements","news_category-research-impact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21862,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21841\/revisions\/21862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=21841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}