Program

The ACM MobiSys 2026 conference will take place from Sunday, June 21st to Thursday, June 25th, 2026.

Program Overview

Sunday June 21Ray Dolby Centre	Monday June 22Ray Dolby Centre	Tuesday June 23Ray Dolby Centre	Wednesday June 24William Gates Building	Thursday June 25William Gates Building
08:30 – 09:15 Registration	08:00 – 08:45 Registration 08:45 – 09:00 Opening	08:00 – 09:00 Registration	08:00 – 09:30 Registration	08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:15 – 17:30 Pre-Conference Events IoT Day Rising Stars Forum N²Women Workshop Coffee Breaks: 10:30 – 11:00 & 15:00 – 15:30 · Lunch: 12:30 – 14:00	09:00 – 10:30 Keynote: Dina Katabi	09:00 – 10:30 Keynote: Vili Lehdonvirta	09:30 – 10:30 Session 7: On-Device AI	09:00 – 17:00 Workshops EMPOWER 2026 EMDL 2026 EIFCOM 2026 HeadSys 2026 Agentic Systems: AutoSys · AutoEdge Real-World AI: NetAISys · EnvSys Edge AI: EdgeSys · Excellence in Edge AI Coffee Breaks & Lunch · Schedule TBA — see Accepted Workshops
	10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break	10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break	10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
	11:00 – 12:00 Session 1: Paper Preview + Material and Environmental Sensing	11:00 – 12:00 Session 4: Health, Human, and Bio-Sensing Systems	11:00 – 12:00 Session 8: Learning for Sensing Systems
	12:00 – 13:00 Lunch	12:00 – 13:00 Lunch	12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
	13:00 – 14:00 Session 2: Mobile Agents and Personal AI Systems	13:00 – 14:00 Session 5: Spatial AI and XR	13:00 – 13:30 Rising Stars Forum Talks 13:30 – 14:30 Session 9: Systems and Security
	14:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break with Posters & Demos (1)	14:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break with Posters & Demos (2)	14:30 – 15:30 Coffee Break
	15:30 – 16:45 Session 3: RF Perception and Large-Scale Signal Sensing	15:30 – 16:45 Session 6: Communication Systems and Spectrum	15:30 – 16:30 Session 10: Novel Hardware and Edge Design
		16:45 – 17:45 SIGMOBILE Townhall Meeting	16:30 – 16:45 Conference Closing Session
	18:00 – 20:00 Reception	Starts 19:00 · 19:00 – 22:00 Banquet

Detailed Program

Day 1: Monday, June 22

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 1: Paper Preview + Material and Environmental Sensing

Session Chair: Zerina Kapetanovic

TIPS: Thermal Image based Plastics Sorting Featured Paper

Long Duong (University at Buffalo); Charuvahan Adhivarahan (University at Buffalo, State University of New York); Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Karthik Dantu (University at Buffalo)

WheatScout: A Handheld Analyzer for Pre-Harvest Wheat Protein and Moisture Monitoring

Shanwen Chen, Haiyan Hu (HKUST); Meng Yang (Shandong Agricultural University); Qian Zhang (HKUST)

Reliable Metal Foreign Object Detection for Mobile Wireless Charging via Harmonic Fingerprinting

Shenyao Jiang (City University of Hong Kong); Yang Liu (Florida State University); Lixiang Han (City University of Hong Kong); Xinyu Wang, Hao Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhenjiang Li (City University of Hong Kong)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 2: Mobile Agents and Personal AI Systems

Session Chair: Qiang Yang

TimelyLLM: Time-sensitive LLM Serving System for Physical-I/O Limited Agents Featured Paper

Neiwen Ling, Guojun Chen, Anurag Khandelwal, Lin Zhong (Yale University)

Agent-X: Full Pipeline Acceleration of On-device AI Agents

Jinha Chung, Byeongjun Shin, Jiin Kim, Minsoo Rhu (KAIST)

SAIL: Redesigning Collaborative Language Inference with a Single Server-to-Mobile Handoff

Gibum Park, Sanghyun Han, Yonghwa Cho, Chanjeong Park, Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University)

MemoLens: Empowering Augmented Reality Glasses with Super Memory

Samiul Alam, Shakhrul Iman Siam, Mi Zhang (The Ohio State University)

[Emerging Ideas] Artificial Tripartite Intelligence: A Bio-Inspired, Sensor-First Architecture for Physical AI

You Rim Choi, Subeom Park, Hyung-Sin Kim (Seoul National University)

AgentProg: Empowering Long-Horizon GUI Agents with Program-guided Context Management

Shizuo Tian, Hao Wen, Yuxuan Chen (Tsinghua University); Jiacheng Liu (Peking University); Shanhui Zhao, Guohong Liu, Ju Ren, Yunxin Liu, Yuanchun Li (Tsinghua University)

Mobile GUI Agents under Real-world Threats: Are We There Yet?

Guohong Liu (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University); Jialei Ye (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Jiacheng Liu (Peking University); Wei Liu, Pengzhi Gao, Jian Luan (MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc.); Yuanchun Li, Yunxin Liu (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University)

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 3: RF Perception and Large-Scale Signal Sensing

Session Chair: Dong Li

Towards Seeing Bones at Radio Frequency Featured Paper

Yiwen Song (Carnegie Mellon University); Hongyang Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Kuang Yuan, Ran Bi, Swarun Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)

MulDar: Unleashing the Potential of Distributed COTS mmWave Radar by Exploiting Cross-Device Channels

Xinghua Sun, Qiancheng Li, Akshay Gadre (University of Washington)

TwinFocus: Autofocus for Handheld mmWave SAR Imaging via Physical and Digital Twin References

Yadong Li, Xinghua Sun, Qiancheng Li, Akshay Gadre (University of Washington)

MuPose: Breaking the Scalability Barrier of mmWave Multi-User Pose Estimation in the Wild

Duo Zhang, Zhehui Yin, Xusheng Zhang, Junzhe Wang, Hongliu Yang, Zhiyun Yao, Zizhou Fan, Wenwei Li, Daqing Zhang (Peking University)

ZA-SLAM: Leveraging Vision-Language Model for Zero-Shot Acoustic SLAM

Zhuochen Yu, David K.Y. Yau (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Yijie Shen (ShanghaiTech University); Xiaoran Fan (Google); Tao Chen (Independent Researcher); Qun Song (City University of Hong Kong)

Needle in a Haystack: Tracking UAVs from Massive Noise in Real-World 5G-A Base Station Data

Chengzhen Meng, Chenming He, Yidong Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China); Xiaoran Fan (Independent Researcher); Dequan Wang, Lingyu Wang, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Pinpointing Transmitting LEO Satellites from a Single Passive Array

Ishani Janveja (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Jida Zhang (Stanford University); Emerson Sie, Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Surface Characterization with mmWave Signals

Haowen Lai, Zitong Lan, Dongyin Hu, Mingmin Zhao (University of Pennsylvania)

Day 2: Tuesday, June 23

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 4: Health, Human, and Bio-Sensing Systems

Session Chair: Akshay Garde

[Emerging Ideas] Phonotonos: Through-Skin Ultrasonic Blood Flow Sensing Using Smartphones Featured Paper

Shirui Cao (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Jie Xiong (Nanyang Technological University); Riishav Guptaa (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Sunghoon Ivan Lee (UMass Amherst); Jeremy Gummeson (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Dong Li (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

BladderSense: A Wearable Ultrasound System for Continuous Bladder Monitoring in Real-World Use

Kaixin Chen, Usman Saleh Toro (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Jinyu Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Chang Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Junfan Xiang, Lu Wang (Shenzhen University); Huachen Cui, Lei Zhu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Kaishun Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ))

Fine-grained Soundscape Control for Augmented Hearing

Seunghyun Oh, Malek Itani, Aseem Gauri, Shyamnath Gollakota (University of Washington)

[Emerging Ideas] Towards Practical Metabolic Sensing with Wearable TEGs

Bosco Nkurunziza, Antoine Nzeyimana, Luke Arieta, Michael Busa, Jeremy Gummeson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

GlucOS: Security, correctness, and simplicity for automated insulin delivery

Hari Venugopalan, Shreyas Madhav Ambattur Vijayanand, Caleb Stanford, Stephanie Crossen, Samuel T. King (UC Davis)

Rapid Plant Health Monitoring for Leafy Greens through Carbon Dioxide Sensing

Ngoc Que Anh Tran, Liang He (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

AquaCode: Turning Transaction Platforms into Non-Invasive Liquid Quality Checker

Sijie Ji (California Institute of Technology); Sheng Lyu (Independent Researcher); Wenjian Li, Wei Gao (California Institute of Technology)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 5: Spatial AI and XR

Session Chair: Robert Likamwa

Towards Fast and Fully Automatic Drone Mapping Featured Paper

Jingao Xu, Xiangliang Chen, Mihir Bala, Thomas Eiszler, Aditya Chanana, Jan Harkes, Babu Pillai, Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

BlenDR: Bandwidth-efficient RGB-D Representation and Delivery for Live 3D Video Streaming

Jaehong Kim (Inha University); Joon Ha Kim (University of Texas at Austin); Yunheon Lee, Dongsu Han (KAIST)

AdaSprite: Resource-efficient Online Co-Adaptation for V2I Systems Under Large-scale Data Drifts

Lehao Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University); Zhiwen Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Harbin Engineering University); Sicong Liu, Kefan Chen, Fengmin Wu, Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Ouroboros: Instilling Motion Awareness in ViTs for Efficient Video Analytics on the Edge

Chanjeong Park, Donggyu Yang, Sooyoung Kwon, Gibum Park (Seoul National University); Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University); Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University)

HoloMobile: Photorealistic Avatar on Mobile via Compact Dynamic Gaussians from a Monocular Video

Yuting He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Yihua Huang, Xiaojuan Qi (The University of Hong Kong); Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

[Emerging Ideas] ConCord: Human-in-the-Loop, Cooperative Robot Exploration

Mayooran Thavendra, Akhitha Manjitha, Kasthuri Jayarajah (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Building Audio-Visual Digital Twins with Smartphones

Zitong Lan, Yiwei Tang (University of Pennsylvania); Yuhan Wang (University of Pennsylvania); Haowen Lai, Yiduo Hao, Mingmin Zhao (University of Pennsylvania)

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Ray Dolby Centre

Session 6: Communication Systems and Spectrum

Session Chair: Ruichun Ma

BeamFormer: Transformer-based Beam Management for 6G Networks Featured Paper

Shunqiang Feng (University of Virginia); Swastik Kanjilal (RPI); Kun Qian (University of Virginia); Ish Kumar Jain (RPI)

Wideband Low-complexity High-speed 5G NR Backscatter

Zhenzhe Lin (George Mason University); Yoon Chae (University of Texas at Arlington); Panneer Selvam Santhalingam (Brooklyn College, CUNY); Mingyo Jeong, Parth Pathak (George Mason University)

Listen Over the Air: Towards Long-Range Low-Power Backscatter Downlink

YiJie Chen, Shuai Tong, Jiliang Wang (Tsinghua University)

BeamMix: 3D Gaussian Mixture-of-Experts for Element-Space Wireless Channel Modeling

William Bjorndahl, Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University)

RF Super Resolution: A Deep Learning Approach to Spatial Enhancement for LoRa

Andreas Kuster (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Huatao Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University); Mo Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

SpecSentry: Micro-power Wideband Spectrum Surveillance for Ephemeral Transmissions

Aritrik Ghosh, Nirupam Roy (University of Maryland, College Park)

AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices

Beitong Tian, Lingzhi Zhao, Bo Chen, Mingyuan Wu, Haozhen Zheng, Deepak Vasisht, Francis Y. Yan, Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

[Emerging Ideas] OrbitTransit: Traffic Delivery and Diffusion for Earth Observation via Satellite Mobility

Haoyuan Zhao, Long Chen, Yi Ching Chou, Hao Fang, Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University)

Day 3: Wednesday, June 24

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

William Gates Building

Session 7: On-Device AI

Session Chair: Dongqi Cai

Vec-LUT: Vector Table Lookup for Parallel Ultra-Low-Bit LLM Inference on Edge Devices Featured Paper

Xiangyu Li (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University); Chengyu Yin (Beijing Jiaotong University); Weijun Wang (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University); Jianyu Wei (University of Science and Technology of China); Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu (Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University)

SpMAP: Transparent Sparsity for LLMs

Wonkyo Choe, Felix Xiaozhu Lin (University of Virginia)

ShadowNPU: System and Algorithm Co-design for NPU-Centric On-Device LLM Inference

Wangsong Yin (Key Lab of HCST (PKU), MOE; SCS, Peking University, China); Daliang Xu, Mengwei Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu (Key Lab of HCST (PKU), MOE; SCS, Peking University, China)

Act Before It's Too Late: Power-Efficient LLM Inference on Mobile Device

Haolin Chu, Jinxiao Fan, Jiabin Deng, Bensong Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Liguang Xie (Bytedance technology company Limited); Liang Liu, Huadong Ma, Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

FBLayout: Optimizing Memory Layout for Efficient LLM Finetuning on Mobile GPUs

Kahou Tam (University of Macau); Wei Niu (University of Georgia); Yu Bao (University of Macau); Xiaomin Ouyang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); ChengZhong Xu, Li Li (University of Macau)

KVSwap: Disk-aware KV Cache Offloading for Long-Context On-device Inference

Huawei Zhang, Chunwei Xia, Zheng Wang (University of Leeds)

VLMCache: Efficient On-Device Vision-Language Model Inference

Yinyuan Zhang (Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education; School of Computer Science, Peking University); Daliang Xu (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology; School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Zhiyang Chen (Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University); Chenghua Wang (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology; School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Ying Zhang (Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education; School of Computer Science, Peking University); Mengwei Xu (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology; School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Gang Huang (Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education; School of Computer Science, Peking University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

William Gates Building

Session 8: Learning for Sensing Systems

Session Chair: Rui Xiao

Physical Self-Supervised Learning: IMU Sensing without Manual Labels Featured Paper

Yuyang Leng, Renyuan Liu (George Mason University); Shaohan Hu, Peijun Zhao (JPMorganChase); Chun-Fu Chen (JPMorgan Chase); Songqing Chen, Shuochao Yao (George Mason University)

A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset and Benchmarks for Human Activity Scene Understanding and Reasoning

Siyang Jiang, Mu Yuan, Xiang Ji, Bufang Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Zeyu Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Lilin Xu (Columbia University); Yang Li, Yuting He, Liran Dong, Wenrui Lu, Zhenyu Yan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xiaofan Jiang (Columbia University); Wei Gao (University of Pittsburgh); Hongkai Chen, Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Solving Scarce Wireless Signal Dilemma in Model Training using Cross-Modal Learning Leveraging Limited Video Data

Qiufan Ji (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Honglu Li (Rutgers University); Cong Shi (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Yan Wang (Temple University); Jerry Q. Cheng (New York Institute of Technology); Yingying Chen (Rutgers University)

ADL-CLIP: Text-Aligned RF Representation for Continuous ADL Detection in Home Environments

Mengjing Liu (Stony Brook University); Zongxing Xie (Kennesaw State University); Fan Ye (Stony Brook University)

DeformRF: Data-driven Beamforming and Direction Finding with Deformable Antenna Arrays

Xingda Chen, Mohammad Mehdi Rastikerdar, Ankur Aditya, Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

StreamSplit: Continuous Audio Representation Learning via Uncertainty-Guided Adaptive Splitting

Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana (Deakin University)

Diversified Neural Networks: Defeating Adversarial Attacks via Numerous Orthogonal Variants

Ying Meng, Qiang Zeng (George Mason University)

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

William Gates Building

Session 9: Systems and Security

Session Chair: Tao Ni

Insecurity of Lost/Stolen Phone Reporting Services: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures Featured Paper

Min-Yue Chen (Michigan State University); Yiwen Hu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Yu-An Chen (Michigan State University); Chi-Yu Li (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University); Tian Xie (Utah State University); Guan-Hua Tu (Michigan State University)

GeoTwins: Uncovering Hidden Geographic Disparities in Android Apps

Marco Alecci, Pedro Jesús Ruiz Jiménez, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein (SnT, University of Luxembourg)

Fragile Deliveries: Inconsistencies in Android Parcel and Their Security Consequences

Hongkai Chen (Arizona State University); Chao Wang (The Ohio State University); Yuqing Yang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security); Jennifer Miller, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Adam Doupé (Arizona State University); Zhiqiang Lin (The Ohio State University); Yan Shoshitaishvili (Arizona State University)

Analysis of Always-Listening Services on Android

Leo Cao, Jack West, Kassem Fawaz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Hide-and-Sweep: Detecting Concealed Cameras via LED Illumination Sweeps

Jonghyuk Yun, Jaeyoung Moon, Yunseo Park (KAIST); Sean Rui Xiang Tan (National University of Singapore); Byunghyun Kim (KAIST); Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University); Jun Han (KAIST)

Ringmaster: How to juggle high-throughput host OS system calls from TrustZone TEEs

Richard Habeeb (Yale University); Man-Ki Yoon (North Carolina State University); Hao Chen (CertiK); Zhong Shao (Yale University)

Bringing Confidential Computing to Android

Mark Kuhne, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, Nicolas Dutly, Fabio Aliberti, Srdjan Capkun, Shweta Shinde (ETH Zurich)

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

William Gates Building

Session 10: Novel Hardware and Edge Design

Session Chair: Zehua Sun

Microwatt Microwave (M²) Oscillator: Going Beyond the Delegation Architecture of Low-power Wireless Communication Featured Paper

Pramuka Sooriya Patabandige, Dhairya Shah, Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani, Spanddhana Sara (National University of Singapore); Prabal Dutta (UC Berkeley); Ambuj Varshney (National University of Singapore)

AutoRF: Towards an Agentic Framework for Automated RF Hardware Design

Ruichun Ma (Microsoft Research Asia); Lili Qiu (UT Austin, MSRA Shanghai); Wenjun Hu (Yale University); Jiazhao Wang (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Yiwen Song (Carnegie Mellon University); Hao Pan (Microsoft Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

[Emerging Ideas] IoTGen: Towards LLM-driven IoT Hardware Generation

Qinpei Luo (University of California, San Diego); Ruichun Ma (Microsoft Research); Xinyu Zhang (University of California, San Diego); Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin)

BIONIC: A Co-Designed Hardware and Runtime for Time-Sensitive Battery-Free IoT

Eren Yildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology); Davide Cavedon, Stefano Antonio Putelli (University of Trento); Josiah Hester (Georgia Institute of Technology); Kasim Sinan Yildirim (University of Trento)

[Emerging Ideas] A Greener Edge: A Framework on Carbon-aware Edge ML System Design

Xuesi Chen, Ilan Mandel (Cornell Tech); Eren Yildiz, Josiah Hester (Georgia Institute of Technology); Udit Gupta (Cornell Tech)

WiMirror: Towards 802.11-Compliant RIS Control Using Compressed Beamforming Reports

Youdong Wang, Chenhao Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Jun Huang (City University of Hong Kong); Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Armstrong: A Full-Duplex Backscatter Architecture for the mmWave IoT

Skanda Harisha, Jimmy G D Hester, Aline Eid (University of Michigan)