Sijie Ji

Schmidt Science Fellow | Caltech

Building sensing-driven physical AI systems to decode real-world human states and drive proactive interventions.

I develop Physical AI for human-centered cyber-physical systems, focusing on how intelligent systems can reliably infer latent human states from imperfect real-world observations and act under uncertainty and resource constraints.

My work spans mobile, wearable, and wireless sensing and integrates learning with system-level design for dependable real-world operation. I work with Prof. Wei Gao and Prof. Mani Srivastava.

By bridging the gap between hardware limits and algorithmic robustness, I aim to move healthcare beyond episodic clinical visits toward in daily life.

Physical AI Cyber-Physical Systems Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing Sensing + X AI + Health
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Sensing Interfaces

Decoding Human States

Wireless & RF Sensing
Wearable Bioelectronics
Mobile Acoustics

Physics-Aware AI

Inference with Priors

Physical Inductive Biases
Biomechanical Constraints
Robust OOD Generalization

Closed-loop CPS

Actionable Intelligence

Edge LLM Interventions
Resource-Efficient Design
Dependable Feedback Control

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Selected Publications

* denotes co-first/corresponding author. ^ denotes mentored students.

Under Revision
Science Project
Science

Decoding Non-Invasive Molecular Signatures of Pain via Nanophotonic Mass Spectrometry

Moon-Ju Kim*,Sijie Ji,…, Wei Gao

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MuSAC
TMC 2026 ICDCS 2024

MuSAC: Toward Communication-Free Sensory Data Acquisition

Sijie Ji, Yiwei Wang,Lixiang Lixiang

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ProMind
Tech Report ACL 2025 SenSys 2025

Mindguard: Towards Accessible and Sitgma-free Mental Health First Aid via Edge LLM

Sijie Ji, Xinzhe Zheng*^, Jiawei Sun^, Renqi Chen^, Wei Gao, Mani Srivastava

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HandFi
SenSys 2023

Construct 3D Hand Skeleton with Commercial WiFi

Sijie Ji, Xuanye Zhang^, Yuanqing Zheng, Mo Li

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SiFall
SenSys 2022

SiFall: Practical Online Fall Detection with RF Sensing

Sijie Ji, Yaxiong Xie, Mo Li

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Highly Cited
CLNet
WCL 2021

CLNet: Complex Input Lightweight Neural Network for CSI Feedback

Sijie Ji,Mo Li

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Academic Services

Organizer

  • General Co-Chair of HumanSys (CPS-IoT Week), 2025
  • PhD Forum Co-Chair of BuildSys 2025
  • PhD Forum Co-Chair of SenSys/BuildSys 2024
  • N2Women@SenSys 2023

Session Chair / TPC

  • VTC Fall'23, ICDCS'24, MobiSys'25
  • TPC: SenSys'26, MobiSys'25, BuildSys'24/25, MobiCom'24 (AEC), EMSOFT'25/26

Invited Reviewer

IEEE TON, TMC, TWC, TCOM, WCL, CL, TVT, IOTJ, ACM IMWUT, TIOT, CVPR, ACL, GlobeCom, ICC, INFOCOM, Science Advances

Editorship

Electronics(SI) - Ubiquitous Computing and Applications in Digital Healthcare Systems

Awards & Honors

  • Schmidt Science Fellow, 2024
  • CPS Rising Star, 2024
  • N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship, SenSys 2023
  • 1st runner-up in the Masked Face Recognition Challenge, ICCV 2021.
  • 2nd runner-up in the AI Meets Beauty Challenge, ACM MM 2020
  • 2nd runner-up in the EmotioNet Challenge, CVPR 2020.

Lifestyle

I am a dancer and trader. Dance and the community it fosters have shaped me as a person.

PULSE Scholar (National Arts Council, Singapore)
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