You Xu (许优)

You Xu (许优)

⛪About me

Hello, my name is You Xu. I’m a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Sixth Generation Mobile Communication (6G) Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. I work on millimeter-wave non-line-of-sight sensing algorithms under different relay surfaces, especially using electromagnetic features of these relay surfaces to enhance the target contour reconstruction capability in the non-line-of-sight region.

I am fortunate to be advised by IEEE Fellow Prof. Tao Jiang. I was a Visiting Student Researcher at the University of Macau, where I worked with Prof. Shaodan Ma in The State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City . I received my master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2021.

My research interest includes mmWave Sensing, sparse signal processing and NLOS imaging. I have published 10+ papers at the IEEE conferences/journals such as TSP, IOTJ, SPL, PIMRC.

I am on the job market for postdoc and industry research scientist positions. Please reach out if you are interested in my research! Here is my Research Statement.

🖥️Research Statement

My research goal is to leverage environmental information and millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar sensing to reconstruct non-line-of-sight (NLOS) target features in dark, complex underground environments such as mines and tunnels. To achieve this, I am investigating mmWave sparse signal reconstruction and electromagnetic imaging techniques for hidden target detection. Specifically, I focus on extracting high-fidelity target characteristics from multipath echoes, enabling UAVs, robots, or autonomous vehicles to perceive and navigate through occluded and geometrically uncertain spaces:

  • Analysis and Design of Relay Surface Characteristics: Investigate the scattering properties of three key types of rough relay surfaces | Design optimized relay surfaces
  • Multipath Signal Processing and Sparse Reconstruction: mmWave imaging resolution using compressed sensing and Bayesian | Develop advanced signal separation techniques to isolate true target signatures.
  • Adaptive NLOS Sensing System Development: Design a reconfigurable mmWave radar system capable of dynamically adjusting beamforming and signal processing based on relay surface properties.
  • Experimental Validation in Real-World Scenarios: Conduct lab-scale experiments using controlled rough surfaces to validate signal models| Deploy and test the system in realistic underground environments.

🔥 News

  • 2025.08: 🎉 Pass the final defense at HUST!
  • 2025.08: 🎉 We have one paper accepted at GlobeCom 2025.
  • 2025.06: 🎉 We have one paper accepted at PIMRC 2025.
  • 2025.05: 🎉 We have one paper accepted at IEEE SPL.
  • 2024.12: 🎉 We have one paper accepted at IEEE TSP.

📝 Publications

📡 Signal Processing for mmWave Sensing

IEEE TSP 2024
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Double Sparse Structure-enhanced mmWave NLOS Imaging under Multiangle Relay Surface
You Xu, Guanghua Liu, Xiaotong Lu, Chao Xie, Lixia Xiao, Tao Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP) 2024

Project

  • Method: Sparse Method.
  • Academic Contribution:
IEEE IoTJ 2023
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Leveraging Rough-Relay-Surface Scattering for Non-Line-of-Sight mmWave Radar Sensing
You Xu, Guanghua Liu, Tao Jiang
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) 2023

Project

  • Method: Tensor.
  • Academic Contribution:
IEEE SPL 2025
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Bayesian Compressive Sensing for NLOS mmWave Imaging under Imprecisely Multiangle Surfaces \ You Xu, Guanghua Liu, Xiaotong Lu, Lixia Xiao, Tao Jiang
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) 2025

Project

  • Method: Bayesian Compressive Sensing.
  • Academic Contribution:
IEEE PIMRC 2025
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Metasurface-Aided near-Field mmWave Sparse Imaging Via Fused Binary Compressive Sensing
You Xu, Guanghua Liu, Huaijin Zhang. Xiaotong Lu, Lixia Xiao, Tao Jiang
IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (TBC) 2025

Project | | Hugging Face

  • Method: MIMO Precoding.
  • Academic Contribution:

📶 Signal Processing for mmWave/MIMO Communications

IEEE TBC 2021
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An Imaginary Interference-Free Method for MIMO Precoding in FBMC/OQAM Systems
You Xu, Zhongxiu Feng, Jing Zou, Dejin Kong, Yu Xin, Tao Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting (TBC) 2021

  • Project
  • Method: MIMO Precoding.
  • Academic Contribution:

⚙️ mmWave Platforms

-AS-SAR for NLOS Millimeter-Wave Imaging Systems: IWR1843+DCA1000+LiDAR

  • MIMO-FMCW Radar for NLOS Localization: IWR1843+DCA1000+LiDAR

📖 Educations

  • 2021.09 - 2025.08, Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan.
  • 2019.09 - 2021.06, Master, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan.
  • 2015.09 - 2019.06, Undergraduate, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan.

📖 Academic Services

  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Reviewer of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • Reviewer of IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Reviewer of IEEE Remote Sensing Letters
  • Reviewer of China Communications
  • Reviewer of IEEE Access
  • Reviewer of IEEE Network

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2025.09 Conference paper presentation, IEEE PIMRC 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • 2025.06 Oral Presentation, Chinese Institute of Electronics Outstanding Doctoral Forum in Hangzhou, China.
  • 2024.10 Conference paper presentation, The 6th Electronic Warfare Conference in Chengdu, China.

👨‍💻 Experience

  • 2021.12 - 2022.03, University of Macau, Research Assistant, Macau.
  • 2019.07 - 2025.08, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Master & Ph.D., Wuhan, China.