Shyam Gollakota ( Also go by as Shyamnath Gollakota )
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Networks and Wireless Lab
Room 550, Paul G. Allen Center
University of Washington
Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98195
gshyam@cs.washington.edu

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I lead the Networks and Wireless Lab at UW. I earned my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my B.Tech. degree from IIT Madras. My primary research interest is in the area of wireless systems. Specifically, I design wireless systems that improve both wireless performance and security.

News

• My thesis won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2012
• Our exciting invention: Ambient Backscatter, that enables networking without batteries (to appear in SIGCOMM, 2013)
• OpenRF, an SDN approach to cross-layer MIMO (to appear in SIGCOMM, 2013)
• Check out the newly created Networks and Wireless Group webpage.

Research Projects

• Ambient Backscatter: Designing communication devices that are powered by ambient radio signals [SIGCOMM'13]
• Embracing Interference for Wireless Performance: ZigZag Decoding, TIMO, 802.11n+, Practical Interference Alignment, Analog Network Coding, TurboRate, OpenRF
• Embracing Interference for Wireless Security: Password-Free Wireless Security, Securing Medical Implants

Students

• Vincent Liu (Ambient Backscatter)

Awards

• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2012
• ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2011
• Second AT&T Best Practical Paper Award, 2011
• ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2008
• William A. Martin SM Thesis Award, 2008
• IIT Madras Institute Award in Computer Science, 2006

Publications

• Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems (ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
  Shyam Gollakota.
  MIT Ph.D. Thesis, September 2012.
  
  
• Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Multiuser MIMO Networks (Best Paper Nomination)
  Wei-Liang Shen, Yu-Chih Tung, Kuang-Che Lee, Kate Lin, Shyam Gollakota, Dina Katabi, and Ming-Syan Chen.
  ACM MOBICOM, 2012
  
  
• A Cloud-Assisted Design for Autonomous Driving
  Swarun Kumar, Shyam Gollakota, and Dina Katabi.
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing, 2012
  
  
• They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices (Best Paper Award)
  Shyam Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Ben Ransford, Dina Katabi, and Kevin Fu. Slides
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2011
  
  
• Clearing the RF Smog: Making 802.11 Robust to Cross-Technology Interference
  Shyam Gollakota, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Srinivasan Seshan. Slides
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2011
  
  
• Random Access Heterogeneous MIMO networks
  Kate Lin, Shyam Gollakota, and Dina Katabi. Code
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2011
  
  
• Secure In-Band Wireless Pairing (Second AT&T Best Applied Security Paper)
  Shyam Gollakota, Nabeel Ahmed, Nickolai Zeldovich, and Dina Katabi. Slides
  USENIX SECURITY, 2011
  
  
• Physical layer Wireless Security Made Fast and Channel-Independent
  Shyam Gollakota and Dina Katabi. Slides
  INFOCOM, 2011
  
  
• Interference Alignment and Cancellation
  Shyam Gollakota, Samuel Perli, and Dina Katabi. Slides
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2009
  
  
• Masters Thesis (William A. Martin SM Thesis Award)
  EECS MIT, 2008
  
  
• ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks (Best Paper Award)
  Shyam Gollakota and Dina Katabi. Slides
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2008
  
  
• Embracing Wireless Interference: Analog Network Coding
  Sachin Katti, Shyam Gollakota, and Dina Katabi.
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2007
  
  
• Round-Optimal and Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing
  Matthias Fitzi, Juan Garay, Shyam Gollakota, Pandu Rangan, and K. Srinathan.
  TCC, 2006
  

Press Coverage

• Tamper-evident pairing: MIT news, Network World, Slashdot, Engadget
• Securing medical Implants: MIT news, Healthcare Info Security, MSNBC, Forbes, Engadget, Network World, Tech Review, Gizmodo, Medgadget, Health Tech

Program Committees

• 2014: NSDI, HotMobile
• 2013: SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, Mobisys
• 2012: MEDCOMM, PhoneSense