Faculty Profiles - SHAO Qijia | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Qijia SHAO
邵琪佳

PhD in Computer Science
Columbia University, 2024

Assistant Professor
Division of Integrative Systems and Design

Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0002-2250-1549

ResearcherID

IRZ-8906-2023

Scopus ID

57215842058

Research Interest

Mobile and ubiquitous computing
Human-computer interaction
Cyber-physical systems

Publications

2025 2

LLM-based Conversational AI Therapist for Daily Functioning Screening and Psychotherapeutic Intervention via Everyday Smart Devices

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, January 2025
Nie, Jingping; Shao, Hanya; Fan, Yuang; Shao, Qijia; You, Haoxuan; Preindl, Matthias; Jiang, Xiaofan
Article

Enhancing the Educational Potential of Online Movement Videos: System Development and Empirical Studies with TikTok Dance Challenges

CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / edited by Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty, Phoebe Toups-Dugas. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, p. 1-19, article number 587
Blanchet, Julien Brooks; Hillis, Megan E.; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin J.; Kraemer, David J.
Conference paper

2024 4

Catch Me If You Can: Laser Tethering with Highly Mobile Targets

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2024, USENIX Association, 2024, p. 1847-1865
Carver, Charles J.; Schwartz, Hadleigh; Shao, Qijia; Shade, Nicholas; Lazzaro, Joseph; Wang, Xiaoxin; Liu, Jifeng; Fossum, Eric; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

Joey: Supporting Kangaroo Mother Care with Computational Fabrics

MOBISYS '24: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 237-251
Shao, Qijia; Liu, Jiting; Bejerano, Emily; Colman, Ho Man; Nie, Jingping; Jiang, Xiaofan; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

Normalization is All You Need: Robust Full-Range Contactless SpO2 Estimation Across Users

ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2024, p. 1646-1650, article number 10446435
Shao, Qijia; Zhu, Li; Ahmed, Mohsin; Vatanparvar, Korosh; Gwak, Migyeong; Rashid, Nafiul; Bae, Jungmok; Kuang, Jilong; Gao, Alex
Conference paper

Weaving Physical and Physiological Sensing with Computational Fabrics

MOBISYS '24: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 748-750
Shao, Qijia
Conference paper

2023 5

Communication for Underwater Robots: Recent Trends

Current Robotics Reports, v. 4, June 2023, p. 13-22
Li, Alberto Quattrini; Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Nelakuditi, Srihari
Article

N-euro Predictor: A Neural Network Approach for Smoothing and Predicting Motion Trajectory

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 7, (3), September 2023, article number 120, p. 1-25
Shao, Qijia; Wang, Jian; Zhou, Bing; Tran, Vu An; Krishnan, Gurunandan; Nayar, Shree
Article

Automatic Generation and Teaching of Dance Lessons from Video

HotMobile '23: Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 145
Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Kraemer, David; Balkcom, Devin
Conference paper

Catch Me if You Can: Demonstrating Laser Tethering with Highly Mobile Targets

ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1-3, article number 108
Carver, Charles J.; Schwartz, Hadleigh; Shao, Qijia; Shade, Nicholas; Lazzaro, Joseph P.; Wang, Xiaoxin; Liu, Jifeng; Fossum, Eric R.; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

LearnThatDance: Augmenting TikTok Dance Challenge Videos with an Interactive Practice Support System Powered by Automatically Generated Lesson Plans

UIST '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology / edited by Sean Follmer, Jeff Han, Jürgen Steimle, Nathalie Henry Riche. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1-4, article number 84
Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan E.; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Kraemer, David J.M.; Balkcom, Devin
Conference paper

2022 3

Air-Water Communication and Sensing with Light

2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2022 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2022, p. 371-374, article number 9668473
Carver, Charles J.; Tian, Zhao; Shao, Qijia; Zhang, Hongyong; Odame, Kofi M.; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

Overlapping semantic representations of sign and speech in novice sign language learners

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022, v. 44, 2022, p. 3346-3353
Hillis, Megan E.; Aubrey, Brianna; Blanchet, Julien; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin; Kraemer, David J.M.
Conference paper

Sunflower: Locating Underwater Robots From the Air

MobiSys '22: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, p. 607-608
Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Lensgraf, Samuel; Sniffen, Amy; Perroni-Scharf, Maxine; Gallant, Hunter; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

2021 1

FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 5, (3), September 2021, article number 110, p. 1-27
Kakaraparthi, Vimal; Shao, Qijia; Carver, Charles J.; Pham, Tien; Bui, Nam; Nguyen, Phuc; Zhou, Xia; Vu, Tam
Article

2020 3

Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 4, (4), December 2020, article number 152, p. 1-27
Shao, Qijia; Sniffen, Amy; Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan E.; Shi, Xinyu; Haris, Themistoklis K.; Liu, Jason; Lamberton, Jason; Malzkuhn, Melissa; Quandt, Lorna C.; Mahoney, James; Kraemer, David J. M.; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin
Article

PolarTag: Invisible data with light polarization

HotMobile '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 74-79
Tian, Zhao; Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Roznere, Monika; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia
Conference paper

ThreadSense: Locating Touch on an Extremely Thin Interactive Thread

CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 1-12
Ku, Pin-Sung; Shao, Qijia; Wu, Te-Yen; Gong, Jun; Zhu, Ziyan; Zhou, Xia; Yang, Xing-Dong
Conference paper

2019 1

Reconstructing human joint motion with computational fabrics

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 3, (1), March 2019, p. 1-26
Liu, Ruibo; Shao, Qijia; Wang, Siqi; Ru, Christina; Balkcom, Devin; Zhou, Xia
Article

2018 3

Energy efficiency maximization oriented resource allocation in 5G ultra-dense network: Centralized and distributed algorithms

Computer Communications, v. 130, October 2018, p. 10-19
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Zuo, Yue; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

Joint Estimation of Timing and Carrier Phase Offsets for MSK Signals in Alpha-Stable Noise

IEEE Communications Letters, v. 22, (1), January 2018, article number 8086206, p. 89-92
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

Nonlinear processing for correlation detection in symmetric alpha-stable noise

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, v. 25, (1), January 2018, article number 8118160, p. 120-124
Zhang, Guoyong; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

2017 2

Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithms for Energy Efficiency Maximization in Ultra-Dense Network

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254196, p. 1-6
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Conference paper

Performance Analysis and Algorithm Design for Synchronization in Alpha-Stable Impulsive Noise

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254477, p. 1-6
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Conference paper

Article 1

LLM-based Conversational AI Therapist for Daily Functioning Screening and Psychotherapeutic Intervention via Everyday Smart Devices

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, January 2025
Nie, Jingping; Shao, Hanya; Fan, Yuang; Shao, Qijia; You, Haoxuan; Preindl, Matthias; Jiang, Xiaofan

Conference paper 1

Enhancing the Educational Potential of Online Movement Videos: System Development and Empirical Studies with TikTok Dance Challenges

CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / edited by Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty, Phoebe Toups-Dugas. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, p. 1-19, article number 587
Blanchet, Julien Brooks; Hillis, Megan E.; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin J.; Kraemer, David J.

Conference paper 4

Catch Me If You Can: Laser Tethering with Highly Mobile Targets

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2024, USENIX Association, 2024, p. 1847-1865
Carver, Charles J.; Schwartz, Hadleigh; Shao, Qijia; Shade, Nicholas; Lazzaro, Joseph; Wang, Xiaoxin; Liu, Jifeng; Fossum, Eric; Zhou, Xia

Joey: Supporting Kangaroo Mother Care with Computational Fabrics

MOBISYS '24: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 237-251
Shao, Qijia; Liu, Jiting; Bejerano, Emily; Colman, Ho Man; Nie, Jingping; Jiang, Xiaofan; Zhou, Xia

Normalization is All You Need: Robust Full-Range Contactless SpO2 Estimation Across Users

ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2024, p. 1646-1650, article number 10446435
Shao, Qijia; Zhu, Li; Ahmed, Mohsin; Vatanparvar, Korosh; Gwak, Migyeong; Rashid, Nafiul; Bae, Jungmok; Kuang, Jilong; Gao, Alex

Weaving Physical and Physiological Sensing with Computational Fabrics

MOBISYS '24: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 748-750
Shao, Qijia

Article 2

Communication for Underwater Robots: Recent Trends

Current Robotics Reports, v. 4, June 2023, p. 13-22
Li, Alberto Quattrini; Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Nelakuditi, Srihari

N-euro Predictor: A Neural Network Approach for Smoothing and Predicting Motion Trajectory

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 7, (3), September 2023, article number 120, p. 1-25
Shao, Qijia; Wang, Jian; Zhou, Bing; Tran, Vu An; Krishnan, Gurunandan; Nayar, Shree

Conference paper 3

Automatic Generation and Teaching of Dance Lessons from Video

HotMobile '23: Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 145
Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Kraemer, David; Balkcom, Devin

Catch Me if You Can: Demonstrating Laser Tethering with Highly Mobile Targets

ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1-3, article number 108
Carver, Charles J.; Schwartz, Hadleigh; Shao, Qijia; Shade, Nicholas; Lazzaro, Joseph P.; Wang, Xiaoxin; Liu, Jifeng; Fossum, Eric R.; Zhou, Xia

LearnThatDance: Augmenting TikTok Dance Challenge Videos with an Interactive Practice Support System Powered by Automatically Generated Lesson Plans

UIST '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology / edited by Sean Follmer, Jeff Han, Jürgen Steimle, Nathalie Henry Riche. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1-4, article number 84
Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan E.; Lee, Yeongji; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Kraemer, David J.M.; Balkcom, Devin

Conference paper 3

Air-Water Communication and Sensing with Light

2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2022 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2022, p. 371-374, article number 9668473
Carver, Charles J.; Tian, Zhao; Shao, Qijia; Zhang, Hongyong; Odame, Kofi M.; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia

Overlapping semantic representations of sign and speech in novice sign language learners

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022, v. 44, 2022, p. 3346-3353
Hillis, Megan E.; Aubrey, Brianna; Blanchet, Julien; Shao, Qijia; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin; Kraemer, David J.M.

Sunflower: Locating Underwater Robots From the Air

MobiSys '22: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, p. 607-608
Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Lensgraf, Samuel; Sniffen, Amy; Perroni-Scharf, Maxine; Gallant, Hunter; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia

Article 1

FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 5, (3), September 2021, article number 110, p. 1-27
Kakaraparthi, Vimal; Shao, Qijia; Carver, Charles J.; Pham, Tien; Bui, Nam; Nguyen, Phuc; Zhou, Xia; Vu, Tam

Article 1

Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 4, (4), December 2020, article number 152, p. 1-27
Shao, Qijia; Sniffen, Amy; Blanchet, Julien; Hillis, Megan E.; Shi, Xinyu; Haris, Themistoklis K.; Liu, Jason; Lamberton, Jason; Malzkuhn, Melissa; Quandt, Lorna C.; Mahoney, James; Kraemer, David J. M.; Zhou, Xia; Balkcom, Devin

Conference paper 2

PolarTag: Invisible data with light polarization

HotMobile '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 74-79
Tian, Zhao; Carver, Charles J.; Shao, Qijia; Roznere, Monika; Li, Alberto Quattrini; Zhou, Xia

ThreadSense: Locating Touch on an Extremely Thin Interactive Thread

CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 1-12
Ku, Pin-Sung; Shao, Qijia; Wu, Te-Yen; Gong, Jun; Zhu, Ziyan; Zhou, Xia; Yang, Xing-Dong

Article 1

Reconstructing human joint motion with computational fabrics

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 3, (1), March 2019, p. 1-26
Liu, Ruibo; Shao, Qijia; Wang, Siqi; Ru, Christina; Balkcom, Devin; Zhou, Xia

Article 3

Energy efficiency maximization oriented resource allocation in 5G ultra-dense network: Centralized and distributed algorithms

Computer Communications, v. 130, October 2018, p. 10-19
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Zuo, Yue; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian

Joint Estimation of Timing and Carrier Phase Offsets for MSK Signals in Alpha-Stable Noise

IEEE Communications Letters, v. 22, (1), January 2018, article number 8086206, p. 89-92
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian

Nonlinear processing for correlation detection in symmetric alpha-stable noise

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, v. 25, (1), January 2018, article number 8118160, p. 120-124
Zhang, Guoyong; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian

Conference paper 2

Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithms for Energy Efficiency Maximization in Ultra-Dense Network

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254196, p. 1-6
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian

Performance Analysis and Algorithm Design for Synchronization in Alpha-Stable Impulsive Noise

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254477, p. 1-6
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian

2019 1

Reconstructing human joint motion with computational fabrics

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, v. 3, (1), March 2019, p. 1-26
Liu, Ruibo; Shao, Qijia; Wang, Siqi; Ru, Christina; Balkcom, Devin; Zhou, Xia
Article

2018 3

Energy efficiency maximization oriented resource allocation in 5G ultra-dense network: Centralized and distributed algorithms

Computer Communications, v. 130, October 2018, p. 10-19
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Zuo, Yue; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

Joint Estimation of Timing and Carrier Phase Offsets for MSK Signals in Alpha-Stable Noise

IEEE Communications Letters, v. 22, (1), January 2018, article number 8086206, p. 89-92
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

Nonlinear processing for correlation detection in symmetric alpha-stable noise

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, v. 25, (1), January 2018, article number 8118160, p. 120-124
Zhang, Guoyong; Wang, Jun; Yang, Guosheng; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Article

2017 2

Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithms for Energy Efficiency Maximization in Ultra-Dense Network

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254196, p. 1-6
Li, Wei; Wang, Jun; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Conference paper

Performance Analysis and Algorithm Design for Synchronization in Alpha-Stable Impulsive Noise

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, v. 2018-January, January 2018, article number 8254477, p. 1-6
Yang, Guosheng; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guoyong; Shao, Qijia; Li, Shaoqian
Conference paper

Teaching Assignment

ISDN1001	Introduction to Integrative Systems and Design
ISDN5230	Artificial Intelligence of Things for Healthcare

UROP1100P

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

ISDN6830D

Artificial Intelligence + Internet of Things for Healthcare

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 04 September 2025)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LIU, Jiting
Integrative Systems and Design
WEN, Jinhe
Integrative Systems and Design
WENG, Yuxuan
Integrative Systems and Design
ZHANG, Yujing
Integrative Systems and Design

Master of Philosophy

LIU, Ziqi
Integrative Systems and Design

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

No Projects.
Continuous User State Monitoring via Ubiquitous Sensing

基于普適計算的用戶狀態感知 Leading

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Project Team (HKUST)
SHAO Qijia (Lead)
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2024 4

2023 5

2022 3

2021 1

2020 3

2019 1

2018 3

2017 2

Article 1

Conference paper 1

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Article 2

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 3

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Article 1

Article 3

Conference paper 2

2019 1

2018 3

2017 2

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 04 September 2025)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

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