Guohao Lan

Assistant Professor
  • Email: g.lan AT tudelft.nl
  • Office: 2.W.720, Building 28
  • Address: Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6, 2628 XE Delft, The Netherlands

About

I am a tenured Assistant Professor in the Embedded Systems Group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. My research explores how to augment the environment and the human body with smart cyber-physical systems that can sense, communicate, and learn, to enhance our capabilities in comprehension, perception, and problem-solving — a vision I refer to as Pervasive Augmented Intelligence.

Before joining TU Delft, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, working with Maria Gorlatova. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in November 2018, under the supervision of Mahbub Hassan and Wen Hu. I was also a member of the Networks Research Group at Data61-CSIRO. Prior to my Ph.D., I obtained my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from KAIST, Korea, in February 2015 under the supervision of Myungchul Kim. I obtained my Bachelor degree in Software Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2012, and completed my thesis research at the Institute of Information Engineering, CAS and Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China.

Updates and Openings

After five years in the Netherlands, I will be leaving TU Delft in Fall 2026 to begin a new chapter at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. My new group will be affiliated with the Department of Computer and Information Science and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. A new website is coming soon.

In the meantime, my group has multiple openings immediately available (2026 Fall and 2027 Spring/Fall intakes) at all levels (Research Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ph.D., M.Sc., and Research Assistant). Strong and highly motivated candidates with interests in systems research, pervasive computing, machine learning, and a passion for building next-generation AI-enhanced human-centric systems are encouraged to apply.

Members in my group will have opportunities to collaborate and exchange with world-leading universities and research institutes. I also support internship at leading technology companies in the Greater Bay Area and at major industrial research labs worldwide.

Please read the notes to prospective students and get a sense of our research before reaching out.

Recent News

  • [2025/12/25] Recognized as a Distinguished TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
  • [2025/7/7] Our paper entitled “Through the Eyes of Emotion”, led by two fantastic Master’s students, Tongyun Yang and Bishwas Regmi, has been accepted to appear in ACM UbiComp 2025. The work presents a first-of-its-kind eye-tracking dataset in VR, combining high-frame-rate periocular videos and high-frequency gaze data to enable accurate, multimodal emotion recognition. The dataset and software will be available soon at the project repository.
  • [2025/6/18] Invited to serve on the TPC of SenSys 2026.
  • [2025/5/15] Invited to serve on the TPC of INFOCOM 2026.
  • [2025/3/31] Invited to serve on the TPC of NDSS 2026.
  • [2025/2/25] Our paper entitled “SecureGaze: Defending Gaze Estimation Against Backdoor Attacks” has been accepted to appear in ACM SenSys 2025. This is the first work that demonstrates and mitigates the backdoor vulnerability of gaze estimation models. A physical-world demonstration and implementation are available in the project repository.
  • [2024/11/8] Invited to serve on the TPC of SenSys 2025 and MobiSys 2025.
  • [2024/11/1] Starting to serve as an Associate Editor of the PACM IMWUT.
  • [2024/9/30] Our paper entitled “SEESys: Online Pose Error Estimation System for Visual SLAM” has been accepted to appear in ACM SenSys 2024.
  • [2024/8/5] Our paper entitled “PrivateGaze: Preserving User Privacy in Black-box Mobile Gaze Tracking Services” has been accepted to appear in ACM IMWUT 2024.
  • [2024/8/5] Our paper entitled “REHSense: Towards Battery-Free Wireless Sensing via Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting” has been accepted to appear in ACM MobiHoc 2024.
  • [2024/8/5] Our paper entitled “Leveraging Foundation Models for Zero-Shot IoT Sensing” has been accepted to appear in ECAI 2024.
  • [2023/9/23] Our paper entitled “EV-Eye: Rethinking High-frequency Eye Tracking through the Lenses of Event Cameras” has been accepted to appear in NeurIPS 2023.
  • [2023/3/20] Our EMGSense paper received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2023.
  • [2021/9/30] Received the Facebook Research Award with Xucong Zhang to design privacy-preserving eye tracking for AR/VR and beyond.
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Selected Publications

  1. UbiComp'25 Through the eyes of emotion: A multi-faceted eye tracking dataset for emotion recognition in VR
    Tongyun Yang, Bishwas Regmi, Lingyu Du, Andreas Bulling, Xucong Zhang, and Guohao Lan
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2025.
  2. SenSys'25 SecureGaze: Defending gaze estimation against backdoor attacks
    Lingyu Du, Yupei Liu, Jinyuan Jia, and Guohao Lan
    Proceedings of the 23nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2025.
  3. UbiComp'24 PrivateGaze: Preserving user privacy in black-box mobile gaze tracking services
    Lingyu Du, Jinyuan Jia, Xucong Zhang, and Guohao Lan
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024.
  4. SenSys'24 SEESys: Online pose error estimation system for visual SLAM
    Tianyi Hu, Tim Scargill, Ying Chen, Fan Yang, Guohao Lan, and Maria Gorlatova
    Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2024.
  5. NeurIPS'23 EV-Eye: Rethinking high-frequency eye tracking through the lenses of event cameras
    Guangrong Zhao, Yurun Yang, Jingwei Liu, Ning Chen, Yiran Shen, Hongkai Wen, and Guohao Lan
    Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023.
  6. MobiCom'23 Screen perturbation: Adversarial attack and defense on under-screen camera
    Hanting Ye, Guohao Lan, Jinyuan Jia, and Qing Wang
    Proceedings of the 29th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2023.
  7. Security'23 Eavesdropping mobile app activity via radio-frequency energy harvesting
    Tao Ni, Guohao Lan, Jia Wang, Qingchuan Zhao, and Weitao Xu
    Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.
  8. IPSN'22 EyeSyn: Psychology-inspired eye movement synthesis for gaze-based activity recognition
    Guohao Lan, Tim Scargill, and Maria Gorlatova
    Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2022.
  9. SenSys'20 GazeGraph: Graph-based few-shot cognitive context sensing from human visual behavior
    Guohao Lan, Bailey Heit, Tim Scargill, and Maria Gorlatova
    Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020.
  10. IPSN'20 CollabAR: Edge-assisted collaborative image recognition for mobile augmented reality
    Zida Liu, Guohao Lan, Jovan Stojkovic, Yunfan Zhang, Carlee Joe-Wong, and Maria Gorlatova
    Proceedings of the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2020.