Gao-Sheng Liu (刘高生)

Battery-free IoT | Low power inference network

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Hobbies: hiking, jogging, badminton, and outdoor activities

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” — Albert Einstein

Gaosheng Liu is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the CReWMaN Lab at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), USA, while also a visiting researcher in ENT-LAB at the University of Trento, Italy; his current contract ends in early June. He was a postdoctoral researcher in ENT-LAB from June 2025 to June 2026.

His research focuses on communication in batteryless IoT sensing networks, including protocol design, hardware design, and system development. He is also interested in applying machine learning to IoT sensing networks. He is striving to build a more sustainable world.

He earned his PhD from VU Amsterdam in April 2025, where he was a member of the HPDC group. Before that, he received his Master’s degree from Tianjin University in 2019 and his Bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University of Technology and Education in 2015. He also has two years of industry experience at the Huawei Beijing R&D Institute (2019–2021).

I am on the job market for faculty positions focusing on battery-free sensing systems and affordable inference on devices.

News

Oct 21, 2026 I was invited to serve as a mentor in the N2Women program at ACM MobiCom 2026 in Austin, Texas, USA.
Aug 21, 2026 I am happy to receive a travel grant for ACM SIGCOMM 2026.
Jun 20, 2026 Paper Architecture Adaptation for Pretrained Models on Constrained Edge AI Accelerators accepted by EdgeSys 2026.
Sep 22, 2025 Paper FreeBeacon: Efficient Communication and Data Aggregation in Battery-Free IoT accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
May 28, 2025 I joined Prof. Kasım Sinan Yıldırım’s group (ENT-LAB, University of Trento) as a postdoctoral researcher!
Apr 2, 2025 🎉 I successfully defended my PhD thesis, Efficient Communication and Data Aggregation in Battery-Free IoT. Thanks, all!
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Mar 1, 2025 I am honored to serve on the program committee of the MobiSys 2025 Artifact Evaluation.
Oct 17, 2024 I received a student travel grant for ACM SenSys 2024.
Jul 7, 2024 Paper Data on the Go: Seamless Data Routing for Intermittently-Powered Battery-Free Sensing accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
May 7, 2024 Paper A Little Certainty is All We Need: Discovery and Synchronization Acceleration in Battery-Free IoT accepted by ACM APNet 2024, the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking.
Nov 1, 2023 I am honored to receive the Best Paper Award at IPCCC 2023.
Jul 7, 2023 Paper Routing for Intermittently-Powered Sensing Systems accepted by the 2023 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC).
Mar 1, 2023 I am honored to serve on the program committee of the MobiSys 2023 Artifact Evaluation.
May 7, 2021 Paper Self-Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems with Collaborative Intermittent Computing accepted by ACM e-Energy 2021, the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems.

Selected publications

  1. FreeBeacon: Efficient Communication and Data Aggregation in Battery-Free IoT
    Gaosheng Liu, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Lin Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2025
    arXiv
  2. Data on the Go: Seamless Data Routing for Intermittently-Powered Battery-Free Sensing
    Gaosheng Liu, Lin Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2024
    DOI
  3. A Little Certainty is All We Need: Discovery and Synchronization Acceleration in Battery-Free IoT
    Gaosheng Liu, Vinod Nigade, Henri E. Bal, Lin Wang
    Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (ACM APNet), 2024
    DOI
  4. Routing for Intermittently-Powered Sensing Systems
    Gaosheng Liu, Lin Wang
    IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2023
    Best Paper Award DOIarXiv
  5. Self-Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems with Collaborative Intermittent Computing
    Gaosheng Liu, Lin Wang
    e-Energy '21: The Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), 2021
    DOI

Full list on Google Scholar.