Shaoyuan Yang

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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Shaoyuan Yang is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, wireless communications, and sensing, with a primary focus on millimeter-wave (mmWave) networking. His work addresses a critical challenge: the inherent fragility of high-frequency, directional mmWave links, which are easily disrupted by user motion and orientation changes. Yang’s major contribution is pioneering the integration of autonomous robots to actively map and stabilize these wireless environments. His seminal 2019 paper, "Autonomous Environment Mapping Using Commodity Millimeter-wave Network Device" (32 citations), demonstrated how to use standard mmWave hardware to reconstruct ambient reflectors, enabling smarter network optimization. He further advanced the field by introducing "Robot Navigation in Radio Beam Space" (16 citations) and "Robotic Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks" (15 citations), which propose using mobile robots to dynamically maintain robust multi-Gbps connections. By fusing robotic mobility with radio beam steering, Yang has laid the groundwork for a new class of self-healing, high-capacity wireless networks. His work is foundational for future applications in autonomous navigation, smart factories, and next-generation 5G/6G systems, earning him recognition as a key innovator in robotic wireless systems.