Zhi Lu

卢智 / Zhi Lu

Research Associate Professor

School of Cyber Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Google Scholar / GitHub

About

I am currently a Research Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and a member of the IPLab. My research interests include multimedia computing and wireless intelligent sensing, with a particular focus on RF-based human sensing.

Experiences

Research Associate Professor 2025  -  Now University of Science and Technology of China
Postdoctoral Researcher 2023 - 2025 University of Science and Technology of China Advisor: Yan Chen

Education

Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing 2018 - 2022 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Advisors: Bing Zeng, Yang Hu, Yan Chen
M.S. in Signal and Information Processing 2015 - 2018 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Advisors: Bing Zeng, Yang Hu, Yan Chen
B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering 2011 - 2015 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Selected Publications

† Equal contribution. * Corresponding author.
Contactless 12-lead Electrocardiogram via Deep Computational Radar Zhi Lu†, Jinbo Chen†, Dongheng Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Ping Huang, Fang Zhou, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Ming Gao, Yan Chen. npj Biomedical Innovations, 2026.
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Physio-BP: Physiologically-guided Dual Radar System for Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation Zhenzhen Cao, Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2026.
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Translation of Radar Signals into Latent Cardiac Event Space for Scalable, Annotation-free Heart Disease Diagnosis Aoxiang Yue†, Zhi Lu†, Yang Hu, Zhenzhen Cao, Yan Chen. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2025.
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Radar HRV Monitoring with Physiological Prior Inspired Deep Neural Networks Haoyu Wang, Jinbo Chen, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2025.
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WN-sleep: Modeling Whole-night Data for Improved Sleep Staging Classification Fang Zhou, Zhi Lu, Zhi Wu, Gaohan Ye, Lingjie Shu, Yu Pu, Beilei Wang, Dong Zhang, Dongheng Zhang, Yang Hu, Yan Chen. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2025.
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Unleashing the Potential of Self-supervised RF Learning with Group Shuffle Ruiyuan Song, Zhi Lu, Dongheng Zhang, Liang Fang, Zhi Wu, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
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Atrial Fibrillation Detection via Contactless Radio Monitoring and Knowledge Transfer Yuqin Yuan, Jinbo Chen, Dongheng Zhang, Ruixu Geng, Hanqin Gong, Guixin Xu, Yu Pu, Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Dong Zhang, Likun Ma, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. Nature Communications, 2025.
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Learning-based Tracking-before-detect for Unconstrained Indoor Human Tracking Using RF Signal Zhi Wu, Dongheng Zhang, Zixin Shang, Yuqin Yuan, Hanqin Gong, Binquan Wang, Zhi Lu, Yadong Li, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
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UMIMO: Universal Unsupervised Learning for mmWave Radar Sensing with MIMO Array Synthesis Haoyu Zhang, Dongheng Zhang, Ruiyuan Song, Zhi Wu, Jinbo Chen, Liang Fang, Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Hui Lin, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
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Monitoring Long-term Cardiac Activity with Contactless Radio Frequency Signals Bin-bin Zhang, Dongheng Zhang, Yadong Li, Zhi Lu, Jinbo Chen, Haoyu Wang, Fang Zhou, Yu Pu, Yang Hu, Li-kun Ma, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. Nature Communications, 2024.
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PRISM: Pre-training RF Signals in Sparsity-aware Masked Autoencoders Liang Fang, Ruiyuan Song, Zhi Lu, Dongheng Zhang, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2024.
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DiffRadar: High-quality mmWave Radar Perception with Diffusion Probabilistic Model Jincheng Wu, Ruixu Geng, Yadong Li, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu*, Yang Hu, Yan Chen. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.
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Contactless Radar Heart Rate Variability Monitoring via Deep Spatio-temporal Modeling Haoyu Wang, Jinbo Chen, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu*, Changwei Wu, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.
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RFGAN: RF-based Human Synthesis Cong Yu, Zhi Wu, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023.
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Passive Non-line-of-sight Imaging Using Optimal Transport Ruixu Geng, Yang Hu, Zhi Lu, Cong Yu, Houqiang Li, Hengyu Zhang, Yan Chen. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022.
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Learning Fashion Compatibility with Context Conditioning Embedding Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Cong Yu, Yunchao Jiang, Yan Chen, Bing Zeng. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022.
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Personalized Fashion Recommendation with Discrete Content-based Tensor Factorization Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Cong Yu, Yan Chen, Bing Zeng. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022.
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Personalized Outfit Recommendation with Learnable Anchors Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Yan Chen, Bing Zeng. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
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Learning Binary Code for Personalized Fashion Recommendation Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Yunchao Jiang, Yan Chen, Bing Zeng. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.
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Sampling for Approximate Maximum Search in Factorized Tensor Zhi Lu, Yang Hu, Bing Zeng. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017.
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Talks

Human-centric RF Sensing: Pose Estimation, ECG Monitoring and Self-supervised Learning Yan Chen, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Lu. APSIPA ASC 2024
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Awards

墨子杰出青年特资津贴（一等） Mozi Distinguished Young Scholar Special Allowance (First Class) University of Science and Technology of China · 2024

Courses

工程硕士专业英语（电子信息） Engineering Master's Professional English (Electronic Information) Fall 2025
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