The Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yu-Lin Wei

Yu-Lin Wei
Yu-Lin Wei he/him/his
Teaching Assistant Professor
228 Coordinated Science Laboratory

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Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
  • M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2016
  • B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2014      

Research Areas

  • Audio, speech, music and auditory processing

Research Topics

  • AI Algorithms
  • Vision, Audio

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • Rollinglight: Enabling line-of-sight light-to-camera communications. Hui-Yu Lee, Hao-Min Lin, Yu-Lin Wei, Hsin-I Wu, Hsin-Mu Tsai, and Kate Ching-Ju Lin. In ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys '15, pages 167-180. ACM, 2015.
  • Celli: Indoor positioning using polarized sweeping light beams. Yu-Lin Wei, Chang-Jung Huang, Hsin-Mu Tsai, and Kate Ching-Ju Lin. In ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys'17, pages 136-147, 2017.
  • Ear-AR: Indoor acoustic augmented reality on earphones. Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Sheng Shen, and Romit Roy Choudhury. In ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom'20. ACM, 2020.
  • Angle-of-arrival (AOA) factorization in multipath channels. Yu-Lin Wei and Romit Roy Choudhury. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'21. IEEE, 2021.
  • Selfsupervised speech enhancement using multi-modal data. Yu-Lin Wei, Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Bashima Islam, and Romit Roy Choudhury. In NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Audio, ML for Audio'23, 2023.
  • Estimating multichirp parameters using curvature-guided langevin monte carlo. Sattwik Basu, Debottam Dutta, Yu-Lin Wei, and Romit Roy Choudhury. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'25, 2025.
  • Kernel learning for sample constrained black-box optimization. Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Yu-Lin Wei, and Romit Roy Choudhury. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'25, 2025.

Invited Lectures

Honors

  • Young Researcher at Heidelberg Laureate Forum (Sep, 2019)
  • ECE Rambus Fellowship, UIUC (2020-2021)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 438 (ECE 438) - Communication Networks
  • ECE 313 (MATH 362) - Probability with Engrg Applic
  • ECE 434 (CS 434) - Real World Algorithms - IoT/DS