Moore Inventor Fellow
Thomas J. Cable Endowed Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
gshyam@cs.washington.edu
Co-leading the TUNE project
Co-founder of Wavely Diagnostics
Nov 2024: Awarded the Infosys Prize 2024 in Engineering & Computer Science
Nov 2024: Nature Electronics paper on hearable devices with sound bubbles (IEEE Spectrum)
Oct 2024: Check out our work on AI cameras for detecting clinical medication errors
Sep 2024: EMNLP paper on full-duplex dialogue agents
Jul 2024: Interspeech paper introduces the task of target conversation extraction
Jul 2024: Introducing knowledge boosting for model collaboration during low-latency inference
May 2024: Check out our work on target speech hearing that appeared at CHI (Popular science, Tech Review)
Apr 2024: Look once to hear for target speech hearing wins honorable mention award at CHI 2024
Nov 2023: Check out our exciting work on semantic hearing that appeared at UIST (Tech Review)
Sep 2023: Nature Communications paper on acoustic swarms to create speech zones
Sep 2023: Science Robotics paper on battery-free origami microfliers
July 2023: SIGCOMM paper on underwater GPS for smart devices
June 2023: Justin Chan to join CMU as an assistant professor
March 2023: Deep learning for low-power video streaming, NeuriCam
Jan 2023: Waveformer architecture to enable real-time target sound extraction
Nov 2022: Geekwire reports on Google acquisition of Sound Life Sciences
Nov 2022: TUNE project on helping create universal newborn hearing screening in Kenya (Nature Biomedical Engineering paper, Wired)
June 2022: Check out our work on AI-enabled wireless clearbuds (IEEE Spectrum, TechCrunch, Nvidia)
June 2022: Vikram Iyer awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE dissertation award
March 2022: AAAI paper on deep learning for on-device directional hearing
March 2022: Nature paper on computers and sensors that float in the wind like dandelion seeds
Feb 2022: Nature Communications paper on blood clot testing using smartphones
Maruchi Kim, PhD student
Bandhav Veluri, PhD student, Meta Fellowship
Tuochao Chen, PhD student, Meta Fellowship
Malek Itani, PhD student
Vidya Srinivas, PhD student
Justin Chan, PhD, assistant prof at CMU
Anran Wang, PhD, Sound Life Sciences → GoogleVikram Iyer, PhD, assistant prof at University of Washington, Marconi Young Scholar, SIGMOBILE Dissertation award
Mehrdad Hessar, PhD, OctoML
Ali Najafi, PhD, VMWare Research
Kelly Michaelsen, Mentee, assistant prof at UW Medicine
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, PhD, assistant prof at Cornell, Marconi Young Scholar, SIGMOBILE Dissertation award
Vamsi Talla, PhD, CTO of Jeeva Wireless, SIGMOBILE Dissertation award, SIGCOMM Dissertation award
Bryce Kellogg, MS, co-founder Jeeva Wireless
Vincent Liu, assistant prof at U. Penn
Aaron Parks, co-founder Jeeva Wireless
Collin Pernu, Undergraduate, Starfish space
Hans Gaensbauer, Undergraduate, MIT PhD student
Hao Zhang, Undergraduate, Wisconsin PhD student
Kyle Johnson, Undergraduate, UW PhD student
Vicente Arroyos, Undergraduate, UW PhD student
Jose Jaime, Undergraduate, Sound Life Sciences → Google
Ryan Feng, Undergraduate, Michigan PhD student
Qifan Pu, Undergraduate, Berkeley PhD
Infosys Prize, 2024
ACM CHI Honorable mention award, 2024
Moore Inventor Fellow, 2021
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2020
SenSys Best Paper Award, 2018
IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award, 2018
SIGMOBILE RockStar Award, 2017
Forbes 30 under 30 All-Star Alumni, 2017
Popular Science Brilliant Ten, 2016
SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2016
Visionaries 2020, CNN, 2016
NSDI Best Paper Award, 2016
10 Tech Breakthroughs, MIT Review, 2016
World Technology Award, 2015
CoMotion Presidential Fellow, 2015
NSF Career Award, 2015
Alfred Sloan Fellowship, 2015
Forbes 30 under 30 Energy, 2015
Technology Review TR35, 2014
ACM MOBICOM Best Paper Award, 2013
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2013
George M. Sprowls Award for Best Dissertation, MIT, 2013
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2012
ACM SIGCOMM Dissertation Award, 2012
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2011
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2008
William A. Martin SM Thesis Award, 2008
IIT Madras Institute Award in Computer Science, 2006
My lab has made multiple inventions including battery-free computers that float in the wind, origami microfliers, ambient backscatter, Wi-Fi sensing and imaging, acoustic swarms, battery-free phones, active sonar on smart devices and Internet of bio-inspired and biological things. We also created various computing tools for medical diagnostics like contactless breathing, cardiac arrest and irregular heart rhythm monitoring, blood clot and ear infection testing using smartphones and new-born hearing screening using earbuds.
We are currently working on augmenting the human auditory perception with artificial intelligence to create enhanced human capabilities like semantic hearing, target speech hearing, and, more recently, demonstrated the concept of sound bubbles that have until now been in the realm of science fiction.