Sicong Liu刘思聪

I'm currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). Before joining NPU, I received my Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2020. And I had an experience as a joint PhD student at Rice University.

Research:

I care about the knowledge discoveries towards building ubiquitous deep learning system for benefiting common users and reducing the workload of developers.
  • Efficient Deep Learning for Mobile, Embedded, and AIoT Systems.
  • Automated Framework for Mobile and Embedded Deep Learning.
  • Crowd Intelligence for Human-Machine-IoT.
  • Deep Learning Algorithm and Mobile System Co-design.

Recent Years' Papers/Books Highlights:

  • 2024 : UbiComp-EchoPFL, NSDI poster-AdaBridge, IoT-CPS Week Workshop 2 papers, ACM MobiSys Workshop 2 papers ...
  • 2023 : IEEE COMST, UbiComp-H-GEN, UbiComp-AdaEnlight, TMC-AdaEvo, TOSN-AdaMEC, 计算机学报-NestEvo, 计算机学报-AIoT，计算机研究与发展, 《智能物联网导论》专著.
  • 2022 : IoT J-CAQ, IoT J-CrowdHMT, IoT J-CrowdIM,《人机物融合群智计算》专著.
  • 2021 : UbiComp-Adaspring, UbiComp-CAS, Neurocomputing, Frontiers of Computer Science Journal.
  • 2020 : UbiComp-PAN, TMC-AdaDeep, SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis.
  • Before 2020 : MobiSys-AdaDeep, UbiComp-UbiEar, Journal of Tsinghua University 2 papers, IEEE Sensors Network, WASA, ICCCN.

System Platform:

Selected Publications, (Full List)

Book:

Crowd Intelligence with the Fusion of Human, Machine, Things

Bin Guo, Sicong Liu, Zhiwen Yu

China Machine Press 机械工业出版社 2022, Excellent Author Award

[Chapter slides download] [Introduction]

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence of Things

Bin Guo, Sicong Liu, Zhu Wang, Zhigang Li, Yan Liu

China Machine Press 机械工业出版社 2023, 金码奖

[Chapter slides download] [Introduction]

Conference:

EchoPFL: Asynchronous Personalized Federated Learning on Mobile Devices with On-Demand Staleness Control.

Xiaochen Li, Sicong Liu*, Zimu Zhou, Bin Guo, Yuan Xu, Zhiwen Yu

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2024, CCF-A

[paper]

AdaBridge: Dynamic Data and Computation Reuse for Efficient Multi-task DNN Co-evolution in Edge Systems.

Lehao Wang, Zhiwen Yu*, Sicong Liu*, Chenshu Wu, Xiangrui Xu, Bin Guo

USENIX NSDI 2024 poster, CCF-A

Genie in the Model: Automatic Generation of Human-in-the-Loop Deep Neural Networks for Mobile Applications.

Yanefei Wang, Zhiwen Yu, Sicong Liu, Zimu Zhou, Bin Guo

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2023, CCF-A

AdaEnlight: Energy-aware Low-light Video Stream Enhancement on Mobile Devices

Sicong Liu, Xiaochen Li, Zimu Zhou, Bin Guo, Meng Zhang, Haocheng Shen, Zhiwen Yu

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2023, CCF-A

[paper]

AdaSpring: Context-adaptive and Runtime-evolutionary Deep Model Compression for Mobile Applications

Sicong Liu, Bin Guo, Ke Ma, Zhiwen Yu, Junzhao Du

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2021, CCF-A

[paper]

Context-aware Adaptive Surgery: A fast and effective framework for adaptative model partition

Hongli Wang, Bin Guo, Jiaqi Liu, Sicong Liu, Yungang Wu, Zhiwen Yu

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2021, CCF-A

[paper] [video]

Privacy Adversarial Network: Representation Learning for Mobile Data Privacy

Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du, Anshumali Shrivastava, Lin Zhong

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2020, CCF-A

[paper] [video]

On-demand deep model compression for mobile devices: A usage-driven model selection framework

Sicong Liu, Yingyan Lin, Zimu Zhou, Kaiming Nan, Hui Liu, Junzhao Du

ACM MobiSys 2018, CCF-B

[paper] [video]

Ubiear: Bringing location-independent sound awareness to the hard-of-hearing people with smartphones

Sicong Liu, Zimu Zhou, Junzhao Du, Longfei Shangguan, Jun Han, Xin Wang

ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) 2017, Distinguished Paper Award, CCF-A

[paper]

MobiEar: Building an Environment-independent Acoustic Sensing Platform for the Deaf using Deep Learning

Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du

ACM MobiSys 2016, CCF-B

CrowdBlueNet: maximizing crowd data collection using bluetooth ad hoc networks

Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du, Xue yang, Rui Li, Hui Liu, Kewei Sha

WASA 2016, CCF-C

[paper]

Journal:

Enabling Resource-efficient AIoT System with Cross-level Optimization: A survey

Sicong Liu, Bin Guo, Cheng Fang, Ziqi Wang, Shiyan Luo, Zimu Zhou, Zhiwen Yu

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2023, Q1, IF: 35.6

[paper]

AdaEvo: Edge-Assisted Continuous and Timely DNN Model Evolution for Mobile Devices

Lehao Wang, Zhiwen Yu*, Haoyi Yu, Sicong Liu*, Yaxiong Xie, Bin Guo, Yunxin Liu

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2023, CCF-A

[paper]

AdaMEC: Towards a Context-Adaptive and Dynamically-Combinable DNN Deployment Framework for Mobile Edge Computing

Bowen Pang, Sicong Liu, Hongli Wang, Bin Guo, Yuzhan Wang, Hao Wang, Sheng Zhenli, Wang Zhongyi, Zhiwen Yu

ACM Transactions Sensor Network (TOSN) 2023, CCF-B

[paper]

CAQ: Towards Context-aware and Self-adaptive Deep Model Computation for AIoT Applications

Sicong Liu, Yungang Wu, Bin Guo, Yuzhang Wang, Ke Ma, Liyao Xiang, Zhetao Li, Zhiwen Yu

IEEE Journal of Internet of Things 2022, Q1, IF: 10.6

[paper]

CrowdHMT: Crowd Intelligence with the Deep Fusion of Human, Machine, and IoT

Bin Guo, Yan Liu, Sicong Liu, Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou

IEEE Journal of Internet of Things 2022, Q1, IF: 10.6

[paper]

CrowdIM: Crowd-Inspired Intelligent Manufacturing Space Design

Bin Guo, Jiaqi Liu, Sicong Liu, Jiayao Wang, Mengyuan Li, Chen Wang, Zhiwen Yu

IEEE Journal of Internet of Things 2022, Q1, IF: 9.515

[paper]

Investigation of the Determinants for Misinformation Correction Effectiveness on Social Media during COVID-19 pandemic

Yuqi Zhang, Bin Guo, Yasan Ding, Jiaqi Liu, Chen Qiu, Sicong Liu, Zhiwen Yu

Information Processing and Management 2022, Q1, IF: 6.222

[paper]

Towards information-rich, logical dialogue systems with knowledge-enhanced neural models

Hao Wang, Bin Guo, Wei Wu, Sicong Liu, Zhiwen Yu

NeuroComputing 2022, Q1, IF: 4.438

[paper]

CrowdDesigner: Information-rich and Personalized Product Description Generation

Qiuyun Zhang, Bin Guo, Sicong Liu, Jiaqi Liu, Zhiwen Yu

Frontiers of Computer Science 2021,

[paper]

AdaDeep: A Usage-Driven, Automated Deep Model Compression Framework for Enabling Ubiquitous Intelligent Mobiles

Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du, Kaiming Nan, Zimu Zhou, Atlas Wang, Yingyan Lin

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2020, CCF-A

[paper]

Deep model compression for mobile platforms: A survey

Kaiming Nan, Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du, Hui Liu

Tsinghua Science and Technology 2019, Q1, IF=3.515

[paper]

Energy-efficient algorithm to construct the information potential field in WSNs

Sicong Liu, Junzhao Du, Hui Liu, Rui Li, Xue Yang, Kewei Sha

IEEE sensor journal 2017, Q1, IF: 4.300

[paper]

Chinese Journal 中文期刊:

一种多终端视频流处理模型共进演化方法研究

王乐豪，刘思聪*，於志文*，于昊艺，郭斌

计算机学报 2024，CCF-A

智能物联网：概念、体系架构与关键技术

郭斌，刘思聪，刘琰，李志刚，於志文，周兴社

计算机学报 2023，CCF-A

[pdf]

面向泛在操作系统的人机交互模型与方法

郭斌，刘思聪，王柱, 张羽, 王羽展, 方程, 於志文, 周兴社

计算机研究与发展 2023，CCF-A

泛在计算视角下的群智模块化机器人

吴磊，郭斌，徐若楠， 刘思聪，丁亚三，党朝辉

中国科学：信息科学 2023，CCF-A

深度学习模型终端环境自适应方法研究

郭斌, 仵允港，王虹力，王豪，刘思聪，刘佳琪，於志文，周兴社

中国科学：信息科学 2020，CCF-A

Professional Activities:

Progran Committee Chair/Member:

  • Program Vice-Chair, IEEE Metaverse 2023
  • TPC Member, ACM MobiSys 2023, 2021, CCF-B
  • TPC Member, IEEE ICUS 2022
  • TPC Member, EAI MobiQuitous 2022

Conference Session Chair:

  • ACM UbiComp 2021, CCF-A
  • ACM MobiSys 2021, CCF-B

Journal Editor:

Reviewer:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), CCF-A
  • The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), CCF-A
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), CCF-A
  • IEEE Journal of Internet of Things, SCI-1

Selected Awards and Honors:

  • I was Selected into the Future Female Scientist Program of the China Association for Science and Technology 中国科协未来女科学家计划（全国每年10人）, July, 2022.
  • I Won the Spark Award 华为云世界难题火花奖 for publishing world problems from Huawei, August, 2022.
  • I Won the 2021 ACM China Council SIGBED Chapter DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD, June, 2021.
  • I won the 2020 ACM Xi'an Chapter DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD, May 2020.
  • Our work received the First Prize of Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Colleges and Institutions, March 2019.
  • Our work received the ACM Ubicomp (CCF-A) Distinguished Paper Award, October 2018.
  • I Won the Networking Networking Women (N2 Women) Fellowship and moderated an N2 Women Panel at MobiSys, May 2018.
  • I Won the MobiSys Student Scholarship, May 2016.
  • I Won the Silver Award in Tencent QRobot development and application contest with the "Magic Tone" Android project, January 2015.

Supervision/Co-supervision:

PhD students:

  • Lehao Wang 王乐豪, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu), TMC 2023（CCF-A），计算机学报 2023（CCF-A），国家发明专利2项, 2022.09-
  • Ke Ma 马可, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), ACM UbiComp 2021 (CCF-A), 国家发明专利2项, 2021.09-2023.09, Next position: visiting student at Tsinghua Unverisity
  • Ziqi Wang 王梓琪, (M.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), 2021.09-
  • Ruixiang Xu 徐瑞祥, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu), 2023.09-

Master students:

  • Yungang Wu 仵允港, (B.E. QIT, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), 2019.09-2021.04, 中国科学：信息科学 2020 (CCF-A), IoT Journal (SCI-1), next position: Engineer at Beijing Kingsoft Digital Entertainment Science and Technology
  • Hongli Wang 王虹力, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), ACM UbiComp 2022 (CCF-A), TOSN 2023 (CCF-B), 国家发明专利2项，软件著作权1项, 2020.09--2022.04
  • Yanfei Wang 王延飞, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu), ACM UbiComp 2023 (CCF-A), 2021.09--2022.04
  • Haoyi Yu 于昊艺, (B.E. HEU, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu), TMC 2023（CCF-A）, 国家发明专利1项 2020.09-2022.04
  • Jingyi Hao 郝静怡, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), ICPADS 2022, 2020.09--2022.04
  • Xiaochen Li 李晓晨, (B.E. NWU), ACM UbiComp 2023 (CCF-A), ACM UbiComp 2024 (CCF-A)，国家发明专利1项, 2022.09-
  • Cheng Fang 方程, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), IEEE UIC 2022, 软件著作权1项 , 2022.09-
  • Yuzhan Wang 王羽展, (B.E. NPU, co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo), 2022.09-
  • Hao Luo 骆浩, (B.E. NPU), 国家发明专利2项, 2022.09-
  • Yuan Xu 徐源, (B.E. NPU), 2023.09-
  • Yuan Gao 高元, (B.E. NPU), 2023.09-

Undergraduate students (due to space constraints, only a partial is shown here):

  • Lehao Wang 王乐豪, 2021.09-2022.06, Recipient of Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis), next position: PhD student in our Lab
  • Ke Ma 马可, 2020.09-2021.09, Recipient of Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis), next position: PhD student in our Lab

Teaching:

  • IoT Data Processing, Required Course for Internet of Things Engineering Major
  • Frontiers of Internet of Things Technology, Elective Course for Internet of Things Engineering Major

Recent Talks:

  • 边端情境自适应深度计算与演化，last update-2023, CCF计算之美大会2021，全国计算视觉暑期学校，南京大学, 华为云workshop
  • Tutorial on Mobile ML，last update-2021，MobiSys 2021
  • 我们需要选题审美和解题执行力，last update-2023
  • 授人以渔和授人以鱼, last update-2022, “导学相长竞赛” 特等奖
  • 做有特色的系统性研究，last update-2022
  • 从迷茫到笃定，last update-2021
  • Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning Design，last update-2018，谷歌，阿里（硅谷），杜克大学，芝加哥大学

Last update: March, 2024