ESR 5
Talia Xu
Project: Passive Communication and Sensing
Host: TU Delft (Netherlands)
PhD: TU Delft (Netherlands)
Supervisor: Dr. M. Zúñiga
I was born and raised in Guangzhou, China. I obtained my bachelor degree in computer and electrical engineering at University of Toronto, Canada. I obtained my master degree in the same university, with a focus on reconfigurable antenna design for satellite communication. Currently I am pursuing my PhD study at TU Delft, Netherlands in the area of passive light communication.
Outside of academia, I have a completely normal obsession with horror movies.
Visible light communication has been primarily exploited to communicate actively: control over the light source is required. My project focuses on the area of passive visible light communication. Modulating a lot of light sources, like the sunlight, is impossible, instead we will use smart surfaces to modulate the incident light signals by altering their properties between reflective and absorbing states (e.g. with materials such as eInk, LCD shutters or smart glass) or different reflective states (e.g. with digital micromirror devices).
My project aims to improve the performance of passive visible light communication systems on metrics such as modulation speed, range and capacity. This will be achieved through a combination of hardware prototyping with different devices, as well as developing analytical models to optimize the placement and configuration of transmitters and receivers in the system.
De Groot, Lucan; Xu, Talia; Zúñiga, Marco (March 2023)
“DroneVLC: Exploiting Drones and VLC to Gather Data from Batteryless Sensors“
The 21st International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2023), Atlanta, United States, 13-17 March
Osterlee, Oxana; Xu, Talia; Zúñiga, Marco (October 2022)
“Inti: Indoor Tracking with Solar Cells”
The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2022), Linz, Austria, 3-5 October
Chavez Tapia, Miguel; Xu, Talia; Wu, Zehang; Zuñiga Zamalloa, Marco (June 2022)
"SunBox: Screen-to-Camera Communication with Ambient Light"
ACM Proceedings on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, June 2022
Xu, Talia; Chávez Tapia, Miguel; Zúñiga, Marco (Apr 2022)
“Exploiting Digital Micro-Mirror Devices for Ambient Light Communication”
19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI22), Renton, USA, 4-6 April 2022
Blokker, Roy; Xu, Talia; Zúñiga Zamalloa, Marco A. (February 2021)
"Communication with Ambient Light using Digital Micromirror Devices"
Workshop on Computer Human Interaction in IoT Applications (CHIIoT 1) - Co-located with EWSN21, 17 February 2021.