Faculty DirectoryStephen Xia
Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech L457
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
Email Stephen Xia
Website
Departments
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Research Interests
My research focuses on bringing artificial intelligence to the physical world to create smarter, healthier, and safer environments. I develop resource-efficient systems and methods that allow us to embed intelligent perception and reasoning into common infrastructure and everyday objects found all around us and realize useful applications that improve our overall quality of life.
My work is at the intersection between systems, embedded AI, and data, spanning several domains including mobile and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, IoT, wearables, edge computing, smart cities, machine learning, robotics, and digital health.
Selected Publications
Stephen Xia, Minghui Zhao, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Kaiyuan Hou, Yuyang Chen, Jingping Nie, Eugene Wu, Karthik Dantu and Xiaofan Jiang. "Anemoi: A Low-cost Sensorless Indoor Drone System for Automatic Mapping of 3D Airflow Fields." 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’23), 2023.
Stephen Xia, Peter Wei, Yanchen Liu, Andrew Sonta and Xiaofan Jiang. "RECA: A Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Recommender System for Co-Optimizing Energy, Comfort and Air Quality in Commercial Buildings." 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys’23), 2023.
Jingping Nie, Stephen Xia, Yanchen Liu, Shengxuan Ding, Lanxiang Hu, Minghui Zhao, Yuang Fan, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Matthias Preindl and Xiaofan Jiang. "A Data-Driven and Human-Centric EV Charging Recommendation System at City-Scale." 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy’23), 2023.
Kaiyuan Hou, Stephen Xia, Emily Bejerano and Xiaofan Jiang. "ARSteth: Enabling Home Self-Screening with AR-Assisted Intelligent Stethoscopes." 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’23), 2023.
Minghui Zhao, Stephen Xia, Jingping Nie, Kaiyuan Hou, Avik Dhupar and Xiaofan Jiang. "LegoSENSE: An Open and Modular Sensing Platform for Rapidly-Deployable IoT Applications." 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI’23), 2023.
Yanchen Liu, Jingping Nie, Stephen Xia, Jiajing Sun, Peter Wei and Xiaofan Jiang. "SoFIT: Self-Orienting Camera Network for Floor Mapping and Indoor Tracking." 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS’22), 2022.
Stephen Xia and Xiaofan Jiang. "AvA: An Adaptive Audio Filtering Architecture for Enhancing Mobile, Embedded, and Cyber-physical Systems." 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’22), 2022.
Kaiyuan Hou, Yanchen Liu, Peter Wei, Chenye Yang, Hengjiu Kang, Stephen Xia, Teresa Spada, Andrew Rundle and Xiaofan Jiang. "A Low-Cost In-situ System for Continuous Multi-Person Fever Screening." 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’22), 2022.
Stephen Xia, Jingping Nie and Xiaofan Jiang. "CSafe: An Intelligent Audio Wearable Platform for Improving Construction Worker Safety in Urban Environments." 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '21), 2021.
Jingping Nie, Yigong Hu, Yuanyuting Wang, Stephen Xia and Xiaofan Jiang. " SPIDERS: Low-Cost Wireless Glasses for Continuous In-Situ Bio-Signal Acquisition and Emotion Recognition." 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI’20), 2020.
Peter Wei, Stephen Xia, Runfeng Chen, Jingyi Qian, Chong Li and Xiaofan Jiang. "A Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Recommender System for Occupant-Driven Energy Optimization in Commercial Buildings," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020.
Stephen Xia, Daniel de Godoy Peixoto, Bashima Islam, Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter R. Kinget and Xiaofan Jiang. "Improving Pedestrian Safety in Cities using Intelligent Wearable Systems." IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019.
Ji Jia, Jinyang Yu, Raghavendra S. Hanumesh, Stephen Xia, Peter Wei, Hyunmi Choi and Xiaofan Jiang. "Intelligent and Privacy-Preserving Medication Adherence System." Smart Health, 2018.
Stephen Xia, Peter Wei, Jordan M. Vega and Xiaofan Jiang. "Spindles+: An Adaptive and Personalized System for Leg Shake Detection." Smart Health, 2018.
Ji Jia, Chengtian Xu, Shijia Pan, Stephen Xia, Peter Wei, Hae Young Noh, Pei Zhang and Xiaofan Jiang. "Conductive Thread-based Textile Sensor for Continuous Perspiration Level Monitoring." Sensors, 2018.
Peter Wei, Stephen Xia and Xiaofan Jiang. "Energy saving recommendations and user location modeling in commercial buildings." 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP’18), 2018.
Peter Wei, Xiaoqi Chen, Jordan Vega, Stephen Xia, Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, and Xiaofan Jiang. "Eprints: A Real-time and Scalable System for Fair Apportionment and Tracking of Personal Energy Footprints in Commercial Buildings." 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys’17), 2017.