Publications

• ClearBuds: Wireless binaural earbuds for learning-based speech enhancement (Project page)
  Ishan Chatterjee, Maurchi Kim, Vivek Jayaram, Shyam Gollakota, Ira Kemelmacher, Shwetak Patel, Steve Seitz
  ACM MobiSys 2022
  
  
• Performing tympanometry using smartphones
  Justin Chan, Ali Najafi, Mallory Baker, Julie Kinsman, Lisa Mancl, Susan Norton, Randall Bly, Shyam Gollakota
  Communications Medicine 2022
  
  
• Wind-dispersal of battery-free wireless devices
  Vikram Iyer, Hans Gaensbauer, Tom Daniel, Shyam Gollakota
  Nature 2022
  
  
• Testing a drop of liquid using smartphone liDAR
  Justin Chan, Ananditha Raghunath, Kelly Michaelsen, Shyam Gollakota
  ACM IMWUT 2022
  
  
• Micro-mechanical blood clot testing using smartphones (Project page)
  Justin Chan, Kelly Michaelsen, Joanne Estergreen, Daniel Sabath, Shyam Gollakota.
  Nature Communications 2022
  
  
• Hybrid Neural Networks for On-device Directional Hearing
  Anran Wang, Maruchi Kim, Hao Zhang, Shyam Gollakota.
  AAAI 2022
  
  
• Closed-loop wearable naloxone injector system
  Justin Chan, Vikram Iyer, Anran Wang, Alex Lyness, Preetma Kooner, Jake Sunshine and Shyam Gollakota.
  Scientific Reports 2021
  
  
• Using Smart Speakers to Contactless Monitor Heart Rhythms
  Anran Wang, Dan Nguyen, Arun Sridhar and Shyam Gollakota.
  Communications Biology 2021
  
  
• Advances and Open Problems in Backscatter Networking
  Vamsi Talla, Joshua Smith and Shyam Gollakota.
  GetMobile 2020
  
  
• Airdropping Sensor Networks from Drones and Insects
  Vikram Iyer, Maruchi Kim, Shirley Xue, Anran Wang and Shyam Gollakota.
  MobiCom 2020
  
  
• Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots
  Vikram Iyer, Ali Najafi, Johannes James, Sawyer Fuller and Shyam Gollakota.
  Science Robotics 2020
  
  
• TinySDR: Low-Power SDR Platform for Over-the-Air Programmable IoT Testbeds
  Mehrdard Hessar, Ali Najafi, Vikram Iyer and Shyam Gollakota.
  NSDI 2020
  
  
• Identifying Pediatric Vascular Anomalies With Deep Learning
  Justin Chan, Sharat Raju, Randall Bly, Jonathan Perkins and Shyam Gollakota.
  Arxiv 2019
  
  
• Contactless Infant Monitoring using White Noise
  Anran Wang, Jacob Sunshine and Shyam Gollakota.
  MobiCom 2019
  
  
• Contactless cardiac arrest detection using smart devices (pdf)
  Justin Chan, Thomas Rea, Shyam Gollakota and Jacob Sunshine.
  npj Digital Medicine, 2019
  
  
• Detecting middle ear fluid using smartphones (pdf)
  Justin Chan, Sharat Raju, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Randall Bly and Shyam Gollakota.
  Science Translational Medicine, 2019
  
  
• MilliSonic: Pushing the Limits of Acoustic Motion Tracking
  Anran Wang and Shyam Gollakota.
  CHI 2019
  
  
• Opioid Overdose Detection Using Smartphones (pdf)
  Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Shyam Gollakota and Jacob Sunshine.
  Science Translational Medicine, 2019
  
  
• Living IoT: A Flying Wireless Platform on Live Insects
  Vikram Iyer, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Anran Wang, Sawyer Fuller and Shyam Gollakota.
  MobiCom 2019
  
  
• NetScatter: Enabling Large-Scale Backscatter Networks
  Mehrdad Hessar, Ali Najafi and Shyam Gollakota.
  NSDI 2019
  
  
• 3D Localization for Sub-Centimeter Sized Devices (Best Paper Award)
  Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Vikram Iyer and Shyam Gollakota.
  Sensys 2018
  
  
• Wireless Analytics for 3D Printed Objects (Most amazing things 3D printed in 2018)
  Vikram Iyer, Justin Chan, Ian Culhane, Jennifer Mankoff and Shyam Gollakota.
  UIST 2018
  
  
• Surface MIMO: Using Conductive Surfaces for MIMO Between Small Devices
  Justin Chan, Anran Wang, Vikram Iyer and Shyam Gollakota.
  MobiCom 2018
  
  
• Liftoff of a 190 mg Laser-Powered Aerial Vehicle: The Lightest Wireless Robot to Fly
  Johannes James, Vikram Iyer, Yogesh Chukewad, Shyam Gollakota, Sawyer Fuller.
  ICRA 2018
  
  
• Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming
  Saman Naderiparizi, Mehrdad Hessar, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota and Josh Smith.
  NSDI 2018
  
  
• Charging a Smartphone Across a Room Using Lasers
  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 (Distinguished Paper Award)
  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
  
  
• Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals (Best Paper Award)
  Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel.
  MOBICOM 2013
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems (ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
  Shyam Gollakota.
  MIT Ph.D. Thesis, September 2012.
  
  
• Pre-UW Publications