Shyam Gollakota ( Also go by as Shyamnath Gollakota )
President, Jeeva Wireless
Associate Professor, Paul Allen School of CSE
Director of UW Networks & Mobile Systems Lab
Room 550, Paul G. Allen Center
University of Washington
Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98195
gshyam@cs.washington.edu
I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I lead the Networks and Mobile Systems Lab and work on various topics including computer networks, user interfaces and mobile health. I earned my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my B.Tech. degree from IIT Madras.
News
Graduate Students
Alumni
Vamsi Talla (co-founder Jeeva Wireless)
Bryce Kellogg (co-founder Jeeva Wireless)
I also worked closely with Vincent Liu (now ass. Prof at U. Penn) and Aaron Parks (co-founder Jeeva Wireless)
Awards
- 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 Tech Review, 2016
- World Technology Award, Communication Technology, 2015
- CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow, 2015
- NSF Career Award, 2015
- Alfred Sloan Fellowship, 2015
- Forbes 30 under 30 Energy, 2015
- Technology Review TR35, Innovators Under the Age of 35, 2014
- ACM MOBICOM Best Paper Award, 2013
- ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2013
- George M. Sprowls Award for Best Dissertation in CS, MIT, 2013
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2012
- ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral 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
Publications
- Charging a Smartphone Across a Room
Vikram Iyer, Elyas Bayati, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Arka Majumdar and Shyam Gollakota.
UbiComp, 2018
- 3D Printing Wireless Connected Objects
Vikram Iyer, Justin Chan and Shyam Gollakota.
SIGGRAPH, 2017
- Data Storage and Interaction using Magnetized Fabric
Justin Chan and Shyam Gollakota.
UIST, 2017
- Covertband: Activity Information Leakage using Music
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Alex Takakuwa, Yoshi Kohno and Shyam Gollakota.
Ubicomp, 2017 
- LoRa Backscatter: Enabling the Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity
Vamsi Talla, Mehrdad Hassar, Bryce Kellogg, Ali Najafi, Josh Smith and Shyam Gollakota.
Ubicomp, 2017
- Battery-free Cellphone
Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Shyam Gollakota and Josh Smith.
Ubicomp 2017
- FM Backscatter: Enabling Connected Cities and Smart Fabrics
Anran Wang, Vikram Iyer, Vamsi Talla, Josh Smith and Shyam Gollakota.
NSDI 2017
- Enabling On-Body Transmissions with Commodity Devices
Mehrdad Hessar, Vikram Iyer and Shyam Gollakota.
UbiComp 2016
- Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices (Best Paper Award)
Vikram Iyer, Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Shyam Gollakota and Josh Smith.
SIGCOMM 2016
- FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking (Honorable Mention Award)
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Vikram Iyer, Shyam Gollakota, and Desney Tan.
CHI 2016
- Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions (Best Paper Award)
Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, and Josh Smith.
NSDI 2016
- Leveraging Dual-Observable Input
for Fine-Grained Thumb Interaction Using Forearm EMG
Donny Huang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Scott Saponas, James Fogarty, and Shyam Gollakota.
UIST 2015
- Powering the Next Billion Devices With Wi-Fi (Best Paper Nominee)
Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Ben Ransford, Saman Naderiparizi, Shyam Gollakota, and Josh Smith.
ACM CoNext 2015
- Contactless Sleep Apnea Detection on Smartphones (Best Paper Nominee)
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Shyam Gollakota, and Nathaniel Watson.
ACM MobiSys, 2015
- A Contactless System for Respiratory
Event Identification
(Abstract)
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Shyam Gollakota, and Nathaniel Watson.
Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, 2015 (Oral Presentation)
- Feasibility and Limits of Wi-Fi Imaging
Donny Huang, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, and Shyam Gollakota.
ACM SenSys, 2014
- Enabling Instantaneous Feedback with Full-Duplex Backscatter
Vincent Liu, Vamsi Talla, and Shyam Gollakota.
ACM MOBICOM, 2014
- Wi-Fi Backscatter: Internet Connectivity for RF-Powered Devices
Bryce Kellogg, Aaron Parks, Shyam Gollakota, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall.
SIGCOMM 2014
- Turbocharging Ambient Backscatter Communication
Angli Liu, Aaron Parks, Shyam Gollakota, and Josh Smith.
ACM SIGCOMM, 2014
- Non-Invasive Tongue Machine Interface
Qiao Zhang, Shyam Gollakota, Ben Taskar, and Raj Rao.
CHI, 2014
- Bringing Gesture Recognition to All Devices
Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla, and Shyam Gollakota.
NSDI, 2014
- The Emergence of RF-Powered Computing
Shyam Gollakota, Matt Reynolds, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall.
IEEE Computer Magazine, 2014
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Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals (Best Paper Award)
Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel.
MOBICOM 2013
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Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication out of Thin Air (Best Paper Award)
Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, David Wetherall, and Josh Smith.
SIGCOMM 2013
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Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems (ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
Shyam Gollakota.
MIT Ph.D. Thesis, September 2012.
- Pre-UW Publications
