Jian Ding

Jian Ding

Yale University

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. I work with Prof. Leandros Tassiulas in the SmartNets Lab. My research is focused on developing wireless systems for next-generation communication and agricultural sensing. I am especially interested in designing systems that leverage general-purpose commodity hardware for the radio-access network (RAN) infrastructure of massive MIMO systems (Argos, Renew) and soil property monitoring.

I was fortunate to intern with Ranveer Chandra on the FarmBeats project at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Our work on Wi-Fi based soil sensing is featured in Bill Gates’s blog & video for his visit to a FarmBeats deployment site in Carnation, WA.


🔥 News


📝 Publications

Conference papers

MobiSys 2025 Commodity Hardware for Scalable RAN Infrastructure and Agricultural Sensing, Jian Ding, in Proc. of ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) Rising Stars Forum, June 2025 (PDF).

MobiCom 2024
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Cost-Effective Soil Carbon Sensing with Wi-Fi and Optical Signals

Jian Ding, Ranveer Chandra, Rattan Lal, and Leandros Tassiulas

in Proc. of ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), November 2024.

(PDF, Source code)

Best Runner-up Poster Award

CoNEXT 2020
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Agora: Real-time massive MIMO baseband processing in software

Jian Ding, Rahman Doost-Mohammady, Anuj Kalia, and Lin Zhong

in Proc. of ACM Int. Conf. emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 2020.

(PDF, Source code, Video, Slides)

MobiCom 2019
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Towards Low Cost Soil Sensing Using Wi-Fi

Jian Ding and Ranveer Chandra

in Proc. of ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), October 2019.

(PDF, Slides)

Best Paper Honorable Mention

ACM GetMobile Highlights

Featured in Bill Gates’ blog

Asilomar 2017 ArgosNet: a multi-cell many-antenna MU-MIMO platform, Clayton Shepard, Rahman Doost-Mohammady, Jian Ding, Ryan Guerra, and Lin Zhong, in Proc. of IEEE Asilomar Conference (invited paper), 2017 (PDF).

Asilomar 2016 Understanding real many-antenna MU-MIMO channels, Clayton Shepard, Jian Ding, Ryan E. Guerra, and Lin Zhong, in Proc. of IEEE Asilomar Conference (invited paper), 2016 (PDF, Released data).

Journal and magazine papers

IEEE Micro 2022 Democratizing Data-Driven Agriculture Using Affordable Hardware, Ranveer Chandra, Manohar Swaminathan, Tusher Chakraborty, Jian Ding, Zerina Kapetanovic, Peeyush Kumar, Deepak Vasisht, in IEEE Micro, 2022 (PDF).

GetMobile 2020 Strobe: Towards Low-Cost Soil Sensing Using Wi-Fi, Jian Ding and Ranveer Chandra, in ACM GetMobile, 2020 (PDF).

Others

Patent Soil measurement system using wireless signals, Ranveer Chandra and Jian Ding, U.S. Patent No. 10,761,206, September 2020. (Link)

MS Thesis Software-based Baseband Processing for Massive MIMO, Jian Ding, Master’s Thesis, Rice University, August 2019. (PDF)


🎖 Honors and Awards


💻 Internships

  • 2018.06-2018.09, Research Intern, mentored by Ranveer Chandra, FarmBeat Project, Microsoft Research Redmond. Presented my work to Bill Gates during his visit to a FarmBeats deployment site in Carnation, WA. Check out Bill Gates’s blog & video for this visit.
  • 2017.05-2018.03, Research Intern, mentored by Ranveer Chandra, FarmBeat Project, Microsoft Research Redmond.
  • 2013.07-2013.08, Research Intern, ECE Department, NC State University.


📖 Educations

  • 2020-present, Ph.D., Computer Science, Yale University.
  • 2024, MPhil, Computer Science, Yale University.
  • 2023, M.S., Computer Science, Yale University.
  • 2019, M.S., Computer Engineering, Rice University (Thesis).
  • 2014, B.E., Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.


💬 Talks

  • 2025.06, Commodity Hardware for Scalable RAN Infrastructure and Agricultural Sensing, conference talk at MobiSys’25 Rising Stars Forum.
  • 2025.05, Smarter Soil Insights through Wi-Fi and AI, invited pitch at the Roberts Innovation Fund Showcase, Yale Innovation Summit.
  • 2025.05, Low-Cost Soil Sensing with Wi-Fi and Machine Learning, invited talk at Yale Climate Day & Yale Center for Nature Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Spring 2025 Symposium.
  • 2024.11, Scarf, conference talk at MobiCom’24.
  • 2021.10, Strobe, invited talk at the Digital Agriculture and the Future of Food Workshop as part of Microsoft Research Summit.
  • 2021.04, Agora, invited talk at Alibaba.
  • 2020.11, Agora, invited talk at Yale CSL meeting.
  • 2020.11, Agora, conference talk at CoNEXT’20.
  • 2019.09, Strobe, conference talk at MobiCom’19.


📚 Academic Service


📷 Personal

  • I love photography. I post my favorite photos here.