Edge computing, wearable sensing and AI for the physical world.
The mc² Mobile Cloud Computing group at Aalto University, founded in 2016, conducts experimental systems research on edge computing and services for cognitive manufacturing, autonomous driving and digital healthcare. With members from technically diverse backgrounds, the group is active in multi-disciplinary research and industrial collaboration.
We also run the Wearable Systems Lab, a multidisciplinary group focused on future wearable devices and applications, with facilities for prototyping and testing smart textiles and XR applications.
- 2016
- Founded at Aalto University
- 10
- Researchers & doctoral students
- 140
- Publications and reports
- 17
- Funded research projects
- 10
- Doctoral dissertations
Research themes
Our work spans systems engineering and human-centred design. Each theme below links a body of published work — the number shows how many publications sit in that theme.
Computer vision & multimodal learning
Video understanding, vision-language retrieval and multimodal representation learning.
Edge, fog & vehicular computing
Capacity planning, resource scheduling and data-driven platforms for computation at the network edge.
Networking & mobile systems
Transport protocols, latency reduction, 5G connectivity and energy-efficient mobile devices.
XR, haptics & rehabilitation
Thermal and motion feedback, immersive experiences, and VR exergames for motor rehabilitation.
Smart textiles & wearable interfaces
Knitted strain sensors, triboelectric energy harvesting and eTextile interfaces.
Sensing & activity recognition
Wearable and IMU sensing, continual learning and datasets of everyday human movement.
Learning methods & theory
Quantum bandits, sparsity measures and knowledge-graph pipelines underpinning the applied work.
Contact
Prof. Yu Xiao
Associate Professor
yu.xiao(at)aalto.fi
Department of Information and Communications Engineering (DICE)
School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University
Konemiehentie 1 (KIDE building)
02150 Espoo, Finland
