Columbia Electrical Engineering Student Jingping Nie was selected to attend the 2025 CPS Rising Stars Workshop!
Jingping Nie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, advised by Professor Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang and Professor Matthias Preindl. Her research transforms everyday devices into intelligent healthcare solutions by co-designing hardware form factors and software for human-centric smart devices in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) systems. Her recent projects include creating wearable devices and AIoT systems for wellness, fitness, and health, as well as human-in-the-loop EV-interfaced microgrid optimizations. Her work has been published in various top-tier journals and conferences and received multiple distinctions, including the Best Paper and People’s Choice Demo at ACM MobiSys’24, Best Paper at IEEE ITEC’21, Best Demo at ACM/IEEE IPSN’20, and Best Demo Runner-up at ACM SenSys ’22. She is also the recipient of the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship, the 2023 EECS Rising Stars, and the 2025 CPS Rising Stars.