MobiUK 2025 Conference Programme

Monday 7th July

Event Location: G.07, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

9:30 – 10:10

Registration and Coffee

10:10 – 10:20

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Mahesh Marina)

10:20 – 11:00

Invited Talk by Silvia Del Din, Newcastle University

11:00 – 12:00

Session 1: Earables and Wearables

Monitoring Walking Gait Parameters with Earables 

Jake Stuchbury-Wass (University of Cambridge), Yang Liu (University of Cambridge), Kayla-Jade Butkow (University of Cambridge), Josh Carter (University of Bath), Qiang Yang (University of Cambridge), Mathias Ciliberto (University of Cambridge), Ezio Preatoni (University of Bath), Dong

Ma (Singapore Management University) and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) 

Listening to Your Lungs: Continuous Respiration Volume Monitoring Using In-Ear Audio 

Yang Liu (University of Cambridge), Qiang Yang (University of Cambridge), Kayla-Jade Butkow (University of Cambridge), Jake Stuchbury-Wass (University of Cambridge), Dong Ma (Singapore Management University) and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) 

A Wearable ECG Pipeline for Free-Living VO2max Prediction and HRV Interpretation 

Aron Syversen (University of Leeds) 

Benchmarking Foundation Models on Out-of-Distribution Wearable Biosignals 

Andres Alvarez Olmo (University of Cambridge), Sotirios Vavaroutas (University of Cambridge), Yu Wu (University of Cambridge) and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) 

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 13:40

Invited Talk by Remy Pottier, Arm

13:40 – 14:10

Session 2: From Devices to Networks

MakeDevice: from prototype to manufacture of mobile devices 

Aron Eggens (Lancaster University), James Hahn (Lancaster University), Kobi Hartley (Lancaster University), Steve Hodges (Lancaster University) and Joe Finney (Lancaster University) 

On Deploying a Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed 

Andrew E. Ferguson (University of Edinburgh), Ujjwal Pawar (University of Edinburgh), Tianxin Wang (University of Edinburgh) and Mahesh K. Marina (University of Edinburgh) 

14:10 – 14:40

Coffee Break and Poster Setup

14:40 – 15:20

Invited Talk by Adrian Friday, Lancaster University

15:20 – 15:50

Session 3: HCI

Towards Capturing the Therapeutic Effects of Music in Everyday Life: Building The BEATS Dataset 

Benjamin Gutierrez Serafin (University of Glasgow), Tanaya Guha (University of Glasgow) and Fahim Kawsar (University of Glasgow & Nokia Bell Labs) 

CASES: A Cognition-Aware Smart Eyewear System for Understanding Reading 

Yingying Zhao (University of Strathclyde) and Mingzhi Dong (University of Bath) 

15:50 – 16:20

Lightning Talks for Posters

16:20 – 17:20

Poster Session

Assessing seasonal and weather effects on depression and physical activity using mobile health data 

Yuezhou Zhang (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London), Amos Folarin (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London) and Richard Dobson (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London) 

LungLDM: Prompt-Based Synthetic Lung Sound Generation Using Latent Diffusion Models for Respiratory Health Diagnostic 

Mohammed Mosuily (University of Southampton) and Jagmohan Chauhan (University College London) 

Developing a Mobile App to Self-Manage Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome 

Rosalind Thwaites (University of Southampton) and Adriana Wilde (University of Southampton) 

Identifying Folk Methods Employed with Fitness Applications by Users with Chronic Mobility Issues to Improve Application Design 

Myfanwy Fflur (University of Manchester), Markel Vigo (University of Manchester) and Sarah Clinch (University of Manchester) 

ActiNet: Improved Activity Recognition in Wrist-Worn Accelerometers 

Aidan Acquah (University of Oxford), Shing Chan (University of Oxford) and Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford) 

Bayesian based Long-Tailed Continual Learning 

Hao Dai (University of Southampton), Chong Tang (University of Southampton) and Jagmohan Chauhan (University College London) 

BoTTA: Benchmarking on-device Test Time Adaptation 

Michal Danilowski (University of Birmingham), Soumyajit Chatterjee (Nokia Bell Labs) and Abhirup Ghosh (University of Birmingham) 

Setting Up a MANET with Raspberry Pi 

Tomasz Grabowski (Heriot-Watt University), Jamie Lewis (Heriot-Watt University) and Idris Ibrahim (Heriot-Watt University) 

Adding a new dimension to Large Language Scaling Laws and its implications for the edge

Preslav Aleksandrov (University of Cambridge), Meghdad Kurmanji (University of Cambridge) and Nicholas Lane (University of Cambridge) 

Federated LLM Training with Heterogeneous Mobile Clients 

Andrzej Szablewski (University of Cambridge), Lorenzo Sani (University of Cambridge) and Nicholas D. Lane (University of Cambridge) 

Resource-Efficient Knowledge Editing for Mobile LLMs 

Zhenyan Lu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Dongqi Cai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Chen Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Zexi Li (University of Cambridge), Shanggua

Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Nicholas D. Lane (University of Cambridge) and Mengwei Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) 

Reimagining Databox with User-Facing Agents 

Josh Millar (Imperial College London), Amir Al Sadi (Imperial College London), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London), Ryan Gibb (University of Cambridge) and Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge) 

Exploring Privacy and Security Perceptions and Practices of Migrant Domestic Workers in Multi-User Smart Homes 

Shijing He (King’s College London), Ruba Abu-Salma (King’s College London) and Jose Such (King’s College London) 

Bringing UX To The Table: Using Context To Turn The Art of UX Into a Science 

John N. A. Brown (School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, Robert Gordon University) 

19:30 – 22:30

Conference Dinner at South Hall Complex, Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 8th July

Event Location: G.07, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

9:00 – 9:40

Invited Talk, Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research

9:40 – 10:25

Session 4: Security & Privacy

Ubiquitous Metadata Private Communication 

Alexandre Pauwels (University of Cambridge)

De-anonymising data in Wi-Fi positioning systems 

Michael Christian Fink Amores (University of Cambridge) and Alastair R. Beresford (University of Cambridge) 

Sideloading in iOS before, during and after the EU regulation 

Luis A. Saavedra (University of Cambridge), Alastair R. Beresford (University of Cambridge), Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge) and Hridoy S. Dutta (University of Cambridge) 

10:25 – 10:55

Coffee Break

10:55 – 11:35

Invited Talk by Roeland Nusselder, Plumerai

11:35 – 12:50

Session 5: Edge AI

On Harnessing Idle Compute at the Edge for Foundation Model Training 

Leyang Xue (University of Edinburgh), Eren Mendi (University of Edinburgh), Ismaeel Bashir (University of Edinburgh) and Mahesh K. Marina (University of Edinburgh) 

Junkyard Pre-Training: Federated LLM Pre-Training on Decentralized Edges 

Dongqi Cai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Shangguang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Nicholas Lane (University of Cambridge) and Mengwei Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) 

FedTMOS: Efficient One-Shot Federated Learning with Tsetlin Machine 

Shannon How (University of Southampton), Jagmohan Chauhan (University College London), Geoff V Merrett (University of Southampton) and Jonathan Hare (University of Southampton) 

FedGuCci: Making Local Models More Connected in Landscape for Federated Learning at Edge 

Zexi Li (University of Cambridge), Dongqi Cai (University of Cambridge) and Nicholas Lane (University of Cambridge) 

EdgeAI Models for Human Activity Recognition on Low-Power Devices 

Vinamra Sharma University of Glasgow), Danilo Pau (STMicroelectronics) and José Cano (University of Glasgow) 

12:50 – 13:50

Lunch

13:50 – 14:30

Invited Talk by Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

14:30 – 15:15

Session 6: Edge Computing

A Distributed Framework for Matrix Multiplication on a Cluster Raspberry Pis 

Rachel Somerset (University of Edinburgh) and Yuvraj Patel (University of Edinburgh) 

RAPID-ASR: Runtime ASR Parallelization and Isolation on Mobile Devices 

Chong Tang (University of Southampton), Hao Dai (University of Southampton) and Jagmohan Chauhan (University College London) 

Edge-Based Anomaly Detection in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure with Continual Learning 

Loic Lorente Lemoine (Cardiff University), Amanjot Kaur (Cardiff University), Nhat Pham (Cardiff University) and Omer Rana (Cardiff University) 

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:45

Session 7: Sensing

MicroData: Mobile and distributed sensing with the micro:bit 

Kier Palin (Lancaster University), Steve Hodges (Lancaster University), Joe Finney (Lancaster University) and Thomas Ball (University of Washington) 

Where Has All The Smartphone Sensing Gone? 

Veljko Pejović (University of Ljubljana) 

Whatever happened to SenseCam? 

Andrea Baumann (Lancaster University), Steve Hodges (Lancaster University) and Nigel Davies (Lancaster University) 

HAQSS: High-precision Adaptive Quantization Based on Sensor's Specification 

Pei Mu (University of Edinburgh, Yufeng Xia (University of Edinburgh) and Antonio Barbalace (University of Edinburgh) 

16:45 – 17:00

Closing and MobiUK 2026 Announcement