Tao Gu

Tao Gu

Professor
IEEE Fellow
AAIA Fellow
ACM Distinguished Member
Email: firstname dot lastname AT mq.edu.au
Phone: +61-2-9850-4357
Address: Room 267, 4 Research Park Drive, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia

School of Computing, Macquarie University

I am currently a Professor in School of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, and the Founder/Director of Deego Technology Pty Ltd. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore, M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, and B.Eng. in Automatic Control from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. I have served as an Editor of Proc. of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J). I am currently serving as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

My research foscuses on advancing intelligent sensing and AI technologies—spanning edge, embedded, and embodied systems—to create autonomous solutions that seamlessly perceive and interact with the physical world. My current research interests include Edge, Embedded, and Embodied AI, Intelligent Sensing, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Wireless Networks, and Internet of Things. We usually publish our work in journals and conferences, including MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, UbiComp, IPSN, and INFOCOM. Please visit the Projects page for the specific research we are doing.

We are hiring multiple PhD students! Please see Hiring.

Research Projects

Edge, Embedded, and Embodied AI

Foundation model design, model fine-tuning and re-training, lightweight and resource-efficient model design, multimodal model training, cross-domain model transfer.

[MobiCom'24] Kai Huang, Xiangyu Yin, Tao Gu, and Wei Gao. Perceptual-Centric Image Super-Resolution using Heterogeneous Processors on Mobile Devices, in Proc. of the 30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2024), Washington, D.C., USA, September 30–October 4, 2024.
[SenSys'23] Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Mingda Jia, Zehua Sun, Pengfei Hu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Weitao Xu. XGait: Cross-Modal Translation via Deep Generative Sensing for RF-based Gait Recognition , in Proc. of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, 12-17 November 2023.
[ToN'21] Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Xi Zhang. MDLdroid: a ChainSGD-reduce Approach to Mobile Deep Learning for Personal Mobile Sensing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2021.
[SenSys'20] Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Xi Zhang. MDLdroidLite: a Release-and-Inhibit Control Approach to Resource-Efficient Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices, in Proc. of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020), Yokohama, Japan, November 16-19, 2020. [Demo Video]

Intelligent Sensing

New sensors, multi-modal sensing, fusion algorithms, and novel intelligent sensing systems powered by edge/embedded AI models.

[UbiComp'24] Lei Wang, Xingwei Wang, Yu Zhang, Xiaolei Ma, Haipeng Dai, Yong Zhang, Zhijun Li, and Tao Gu. Accurate Blood Pressure Measurement Using Smartphone’s Built-in Accelerometer, the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2024.
[MobiCom'23] Xi Zhang*, Yu Zhang*, Zhenguo Shi, and Tao Gu. mmFER: Millimetre-wave Radar based Facial Expression Recognition for Multimedia IoT Applications, in Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2023), Madrid, Spain, October 2-6, 2023. (* Equal Contribution)
[MobiSys'23] Lei Wang, Tao Gu, Wei Li, Haipeng Dai, Yong Zhang, Dongxiao Yu, Chenren Xu, and Daqing Zhang. DFSense: Dual Forming based Multi-user Acoustic Sensing for Heartbeat Monitoring , in Proc. of the 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2023), Helsinki, Finland, June 18-22, 2023.
[MobiCom'22] Yao Wang, Tao Gu, Yu Zhang, Minjie Lyu, Tom H. Luan, and Hui Li. Enabling Secure Touch-to-Access Device Pairing based on Human Body's Electrical Response, in Proc. of the 28th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Neworking (MobiCom 2022), Sydney, Australia, October 17-21, 2022. [Demo Video]

Wireless Networks

Space-air-ground integrated networks, low-power wide-area networks, integration of sensing, communication and computing.

[MobiCom'25] Ruonan Li, Ziyue Zhang, Xianjin Xia, Ningning Hou, Wenchang Chai, Shiming Yu, Yuanqing Zheng, and Tao Gu. From Interference Mitigation to Toleration: Pathway to Practical Spatial Reuse in LPWANs, in Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2025), Hong Kong, Nov 2025.
[MobiCom'24] Shiming Yu, Xianjin Xia, Ningning Hou, Yuanging Zheng, and Tao Gu. Revolutionizing Loa Gateway with XGate: Scalable Concurrent Transmission across Massive Logical Channels, in Proc. of the 30th International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2024), Washington, D.C., USA, September 30 - October 4, 2024.
[TWC'24] Jingbo Zhao, Zhaoming Lu, J. Andrew Zhang, Weicai Li, Yifeng Xiong, Zijun Han, Xiangming Wen, and Tao Gu. Performance Bounds for Passive Wireless Sensing in Asynchronous ISAC Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, 2024.
[IPSN'23] Zehua Sun, Tao Ni, Huanqi Yang, Kai Liu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Weitao Xu. FLoRa: Energy-Efficient, Reliable, and Beamforming-Assisted Over-The-Air Firmware Update in LoRa Networks, in Proc. of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2023), San Antonio, Texas, May 9-12, 2023.