I am an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where I lead Intelligent Connectivity (ICON) research group. I received my PhD from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Professor Dina Katabi and Professor Anantha Chandrakasan. I received my Master's degree from MIT and my Bachelor's degree from Carleton University, Canada.

My research group focuses on developing smart Internet of Things (IoT) systems across the full stack—from energy-efficient hardware to adaptive, AI-driven software and applications. We design and build integrated software–hardware systems that enable ubiquitous sensing, intelligent computation, and seamless connectivity to support emerging data-driven applications.

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ICML 2024: NeWRF: A Deep Learning Framework for Wireless Radiation Field Reconstruction and Channel Prediction [PAPER]
ACM MobiCom 2024: Enabling On-Demand Low-Power mmWave Repeaters via Passive Beamforming [PAPER]
ACM MobiCom 2023: Bringing Millimeter Wave Technology to Any IoT Device [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2023: A Millimeter Wave Backscatter Network for Two-Way Communication and Localization [PAPER]
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023: Turning Processors to Low Overhead Radios Using Side-Channels [PAPER]
USENIX NSDI 2023: A Steerable, Transflective Metamaterial Surface for NextG mmWave Networks [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2021: mmTag: a Millimeter Wave Backscatter Network [PAPER]
ACM MobiCom 2021: Can WiFi Backscatter Replace RFID? [PAPER]
ACM UIST 2021: PocketView: Through-Fabric Information Displays [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2020: WiTAG: Seamless WiFi Backscatter Communication [PAPER]
ACM MobiSys 2020: GreenTag: Soil Moisture Sensing with Commodity RFID Systems [PAPER]
ACM SenSys 2020: Sensing Finger Input Using An RFID Transmission Line [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2019: mmX: A Millimeter Wave Network for Billions of Things [PAPER]
ACM MobiSys 2019: Are RFID Sensing Systems Ready for the Real World? [PAPER]
ACM UIST 2019: Tip-Tap: Battery-free Discrete 2D Fingertip Input [PAPER]
ACM MobiCom 2018: RFID Hacking for Fun and Profit [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2018: ReMix: In-body Backscatter Communication and Localization [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2018: Agile-Link: Fast Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment [PAPER]
MIT PhD Thesis: Software-hardware Systems for the Internet-of-Things [THESIS]
USENIX NSDI 2017: MoVR: Enabling High-Quality Untethered Virtual Reality [PAPER]
ACM SIGCOMM 2015: Caraoke: An E-Toll Transponder Network for Smart Cities [PAPER]
IEEE INFOCOM 2015: AirShare: Distributed Coherent Transmission Made Seamless [PAPER]
IEEE INFOCOM 2014: BigBand: GHz-Wide Sensing and Decoding Using the Sparse Fourier Transform [PAPER]
IEEE ISSCC 2014: A 0.75 Million-Point Fourier Transform Chip for Frequency-Sparse Signals [PAPER]
MIT MS Thesis: Building Compressed Sensing Systems : Sensors and Analog-to-Information Converters [THESIS]
IEEE TCAS 2013: Why Analog-to-Information Converters Suffer in High-Bandwidth Sparse Signal Applications [PAPER]
IEEE TCAS 2013: Energy Aware Design of Compressed Sensing Systems for Wireless Sensors [PAPER]
IEEE ICASSP 2012: Performance Trade-offs and Design Limitations of Analog-To-Information Converter Front-Ends [PAPER]

2023: NSF CAREER Award
2022: UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
2017: ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals Winner
2016: ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition Winner, Gold Medal
2016: Boston Is The Smartest City (BITS) Competition Winner
2015: ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals Winner
2014: ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition Winner, Gold Medal
2013: NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
2011: Merrill Lynch Fellowship
2010: Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement

Haofan Lu
Haochen Zhao
Christopher Vattheuer
Jian-Tiang Ko
Shanmu Wang

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Antony Irudayaraj
Mohammad Mazaheri
Ju Wang
Ali Abedi