Runze Liu

刘润泽

I am Runze (Michael) Liu, a PhD student and graduate researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Prof. Mahanth Gowda. My research spans wearable sensing, smart sports, IoT, embedded systems, sensor systems, and computer vision.

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Wearable Sensing Smart Sports IoT Embedded Systems Sensor Systems Computer Vision
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News

AquaTag was accepted to ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2026.

iRing was accepted to ACM UIST 2026.

OmniMech was released on arXiv in 2026.

OmniLayout was accepted to EMNLP Findings 2026.

OmniRouting was released on arXiv in 2026.

OmniCAD was released on arXiv in 2026.

LMM4-IC4K was accepted to ICML 2026.

Education

PhD, Computer Science and Engineering

Pennsylvania State University, 2022–

M.S., Computer Engineering

Case Western Reserve University, 2020–2022

B.S., Computer Science

University of California Irvine, 2016–2020

Selected publications

OmniMech: All-in-one Multimodal Mechanical Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction

Taiting Lu*, Runze Liu*, Ziwei Dong, Sisong Bei, Jingying Zeng, Mingjia Wang, Zhenghao Li, Kaiyuan Lin, Yi-Shan Wu, Yangshoudu Zheng, Hongxing Pan, Kai Zhang, Guoliang Shi, Ling Ma, Yifan Yang, Jiaying Lu, Qi He, Sung-Liang Chen, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

arXiv, 2026

OmniRouting: A Semantic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Constraint-Aware Spatial Reasoning in PCB Routing

Taiting Lu*, Kaiyuan Lin*, Ziwei Dong, Sisong Bei, Haolin Ye, Yuxin Tian, Runze Liu, Mingjia Wang, Jingying Zeng, Hongxing Pan, Kai Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Guoliang Shi, Ling Ma, Yifan Yang, Jiaying Lu, Qi He, Yi-Chao Chen, Sung-Liang Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

arXiv, 2026

OmniCAD: A Large-Scale Benchmark for 3D Spatial Reasoning in Robotics Assemblies

Mingjia Wang*, Taiting Lu*, Ziwei Dong, Sisong Bei, Jingying Zeng, Runze Liu, Kaiyuan Lin, Hongxing Pan, Kai Zhang, Yizheng Hou, Yangshoudu Zheng, Chenchen Guo, Weiyuan Meng, Shubin Lyu, Zhijun Zheng, Dexu Wang, Xinyu Bai, Shurui Qian, Zhangzixin, Mengyu Pan, Guoliang Shi, Ling Ma, Yifan Yang, Qi He, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Sung-Liang Chen, Mahanth Gowda.

arXiv, 2026

OmniLayout: A Schematic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Constraint-Aware Geometric Reasoning in PCB Layout

Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Mingjia Wang, Haolin Ye, Runze Liu, Yuxin Tian, Vahe Melkonyan, Haoyu Wang, Muchuan Wang, Chufan Hong, Yifan Yang, Sung-Liang Chen, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

EMNLP Findings, 2026

iRing: Rich Interaction on Smart Ring with Multi-point Capacitive Touch Screen

Runze Liu*, Taiting Lu*, Zhenghao Li, Yixi Wang, Shengming Yuan, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM UIST, 2026

LMM4-IC4K: A Large Language Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding

Taiting Lu*, Yida Wang*, Runze Liu, Lanqing Yang, Zhe Chen, Yuehai Wang, Yixin Liu, Kaiyuan Lin, Xiaomeng Chen, Dian Ding, Yijie Li, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

ICML, 2026

AquaTag: An Open-Source Wearable Platform Enabling Flexible Sensor Placement for Aquatic Sensing

Zhenghao Li, Runze Liu, Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Yuxin Tian, Yijie Li, Hsueh-Hung Cheng, Akshit Kartik, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM IMWUT / UbiComp, 2026

FuSenseRing: An Open-Source Platform for Robust Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring via Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Temperature-Adaptive Attention

Zhenghao Li, Taiting Lu, Runze Liu, Shengming Yuan, Jigar Gosalia, Christine Bowlus, David N. Proctor, James A. Pawelczyk, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM IMWUT / UbiComp, 2025

Demonstration of VisRing: A Display-Extended Smartring for Nano Visualizations

Runze Liu, Christian Krauter, Taiting Lu, Mara Schulte, Alexander Achberger, Tanja Blascheck, Michael Sedlmair, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM UIST Adjunct, 2025

VisRing: A Display-Extended Smartring for Nano Visualizations

Taiting Lu, Christian Krauter, Runze Liu, Mara Schulte, Alexander Achberger, Tanja Blascheck, Michael Sedlmair, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM UIST, 2025

SmartDampener: An Open Source Platform for Sport Analytics in Tennis

Runze Liu, Taiting Lu, Shengming Yuan, Hao Zhou, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM IMWUT / UbiComp, 2024

One Ring to Rule Them All: An Open Source Smartring Platform for Finger Motion Analytics and Healthcare Applications

Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Runze Liu, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2023

I am an Earphone and I can Hear my Users Face: Facial Landmark Tracking using Smart Earphones

Shijia Zhang, Taiting Lu, Hao Zhou, Yilin Liu, Runze Liu, Mahanth Gowda.

ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2023

Teaching

Spring 2026

Teaching Assistant — CS 462, Wireless Security

Fall 2025

Teaching Assistant — CSE/EE 559, Wireless and Mobile Sensing in the Age of IoT

Spring 2023

Teaching Assistant — CS 131, Programming and Computation I: Fundamentals

Mentored students

Yixi Wang

Undergraduate, Pennsylvania State University · 2025

Hsueh-hung Cheng

Undergraduate, Pennsylvania State University · 2025

Shengming Yuan

Undergraduate, Pennsylvania State University · 2023–2024

Awards

SmartDampener Awarded NSF National I-Corps Program

$50,000

Mar. 2026

UbiComp/ISWC Student Travel Grant 2026

Student travel grant

Aug. 2026

Entrepreneurial Lead, NSF Regional I-Corps Program

National Science Foundation I-Corps

Mar. 2026

OmniRing Best Paper Award for IoT Edge AI, IoTDI 2023

Best Paper Award for IoT Edge AI

May 2023

Other activities

Co-founder

OmniLab LLC. (佛山市遨梦玄智有限公司), Foshan, Guangdong Province.

Co-founder

Karpos Cultivation LLC., Irvine, California.

Community building

Co-Founder of Computer Hardware Club @ UCI.

Contact

I am happy to discuss research, collaboration, and student projects related to wearable sensing, embedded devices, and sports technology.

Email: RML6043@psu.edu University Park, PA W362 Westgate Building
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