Lectures and Papers

The class schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Lec #1: Introduction: Wireless, Spatial AI, and Physical AI

Mon, Sep 14, 2026

• Required: S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, SIGCOMM CCR 2007.

Lec #2: Foundations of Wireless Positioning and Mobile Sensing

Mon, Sep 21, 2026

• Required: Intro to Localization, Wireless Sensing

• Optional: The Wireless Channel (up to and including section 2.2.1)

Lec #3: Multimodal Hearables, Sound Bubbles, and In-Ear AI

Mon, Sep 28, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Shyam Gollakota

• Required: Hearable devices with sound bubbles, Wireless Hearables With Programmable Speech AI Accelerators

• Optional: Fine-grained Soundscape Control for Augmented Hearing

Lec #4: RF Vision and 3D SLAM on Mobile Platforms

Mon, Oct 5, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Mingmin Zhao

• Required: 3D SLAM Rivaling Vision Approaches, Enabling Visual Recognition at Radio Frequency

• Optional: Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Reconstruction with Radar

Mon, Oct 12, 2026: No Class (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

Lec #5: Wireless Imaging and Generative AI

Tues, Oct 13, 2026:

• Required: mmNorm, Wave-Former

• Optional: RFlect, RFConstruct

Mon, Oct 19, 2026: No Class (Media Lab Member Event)

Lec #6: In-class project discussions

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 Meet with the instructor for feedback on projects.

Lec #7: Acoustic and Mobile Health Sensing

Mon, Nov 2, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Gummeson

• Required: Phonotonos, Acoustoscillogram

Lec #8: Underwater IoT

Mon, Nov 9, 2026

• Required: Underwater Backscatter

• Optional: Underwater-to-Air Communication

Lec #9: Cooperative Perception for Autonomous and Physical AI Systems

Mon, Nov 16, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Fawad Ahmad

• Required: RECAP, VRF

Lec #10: Next Gen mmWave Systems

Mon, Nov 23, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Akshay Gadre

• Required: MulDar, POLYSIGHT

Lec #11: In-class project discussions

Mon, Nov 30, 2026 Meet with the instructor for feedback on projects

Lec #12: Project Presentations and Demos

Mon, Dec 7, 2026