Mingyue Ji
University of Florida, FL·Engineering·Early-career
Modern wireless networks and cloud computers share a common problem. Resources such as radio spectrum, computing machines and communication bandwidth are limited, crowded and always changing.
- Fields
Engineering
Computer Science
Mathematics & Statistics
- Topics
integrated sensing and communication
wireless communications
beamforming
- Grants
- 4 known grants, through Oct 2028
What they work on
- Develop reconfigurable radio hardware and CAP-MIMO antenna designs, whose sub-apertures can be split between tasks, so one system can sense surroundings and communicate at once in the INSTINCT system.
- Design multi-dimensional waveforms and electromagnetics-informed channel models in the wavenumber-delay-Doppler domain, and analyze how synchronization errors, hardware flaws and multi-user interference affect sensing and communication.
- Build domain-informed neural networks that jointly design antenna beams for communication and radar sensing, plus a learning-based framework for dynamically sharing radio spectrum.
- Formulate computing frameworks for cloud virtual machines that differ in speed and storage and can be preempted on short notice, and use combinatorial and information-theoretic tools to find fundamental tradeoffs for coded and uncoded storage.
- Design low-complexity, secure elastic computing algorithms and evaluate them on Amazon EC2 against existing solutions.
- Design optimal coded caching schemes that let users retrieve the output of a function of remote data, such as a bilinear query, while keeping the requested function private.
- Devise server-private function retrieval strategies for settings where users also send data, overcome complexity bottlenecks, and test the codes on Amazon EC2 and the POWDER 5G platform.
- Build UnionLabs, a federation hosted on AWS that links wireless and IoT testbeds at four universities through edge computing and a single web interface, with standard interfaces so new testbeds can join.
More about the research
This research looks for designs that use these resources efficiently while staying reliable and private. The work combines information theory, the mathematics of how much data can be sent or stored, with algorithm design and tests on real platforms. Four projects apply this approach to different settings: a radio system that both senses and communicates, computing on cheap but unreliable cloud machines, private queries on distributed databases, and a shared network of wireless testbeds.
Why it matters
This work could make wireless networks better at sensing their surroundings while carrying data, which matters for autonomous vehicles, smart cities and industrial automation. It could also lower the cost of large computing jobs run on cheap, preemptible cloud machines, and protect user privacy when querying remote databases. In addition, it could give researchers nationwide remote access to wireless testbeds for testing 5G and Internet of Things systems.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Collaborative Research: U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Integrated Sensing and Telecommunications for Intelligent Connection and Transmission (INSTINCT)
NSF · Nov 2025 – Oct 2028
Collaborative Research: CIRC: Dev: UnionLabs: Facilitating Shared Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Testbeds Through Grassroots-Driven Federation
NSF · Oct 2025 – Sep 2027
Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multi-user Private Function Retrieval
NSF · Oct 2024 – Sep 2027
Closest labs
Yasaman Ghasempour
Princeton University, NJ·Engineering·Early-career
Steer narrow terahertz beams electronically using a new multi-slit antenna, in which the beam's angle depends on the signal frequency and the slit geometry, to overcome the high signal loss at frequencies above 100 GHz.
Hulya Seferoglu
University of Illinois Chicago, IL·Engineering·Early-career
Characterize the cost-benefit trade-offs of coded computation, which adds redundancy to tolerate slow or failed workers, in practical edge computing systems.
Junming Diao
Mississippi State University, MS·Engineering·Early-career
Build an Earth-scale distributed radio telescope by synchronizing large numbers of IoT devices, such as smartphones and laptops, as sensor nodes, using embedded signal processing and distributed digital beamforming.
The school
University of Florida: 65 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 795 research doctorates a year.
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