Lectures and Papers

The class schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Lec #1: Introduction and Course Overview

Mon, Sep 8, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

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

Lec #2: Localization

Mon, Sep 15, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Intro to Localization

• Optional: Cricket, RADAR, Wikipedia:GPS

Lec #3: Sensing

Mon, Sep 22, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Wireless Sensing

• Optional: Contactless Vital Sign Sensing

Lec #4: Communications

Mon, Sep 29, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Underwater-to-Air Communications, The Wireless Channel (up to and including section 2.2.1)

Lec #5: 3D Reconstruction in Non-Line-of-Sight

Mon, Oct 6, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required (3 papers): mmNorm, RFConstruct, RFlect

Mon, Oct 13, 2025: No Class (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

Mon, Oct 20, 2025: No Class (Media Lab Member Event)

Lec #6: Ocean IoT

Mon, Oct 27, 2025

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required (2 papers): Underwater Backscatter, Whale Tags

Lec #7: Wireless + AI

Mon, Nov 3, 2025

• Required (2 papers): Wireless NeRFs, multi-modal LLMs

• Optional (1 paper): LLM FCC Experts

Mon, Nov 10, 2025: No Class (Student Holiday)

Lec #8: RF-based SLAM

Mon, Nov 17, 2025

• Required (2 papers): PanoRadar, Wireless NeRFs

Lec #9: Sensing from Multipath

Mon, Nov 24, 2025

• Required (3 papers):

  • SeRadar: Embracing Secondary Reflections for Human Sensing with mmWave Radar (upcoming MobiCom’25)

  • Hydra: Exploiting Multi-Bounce Scattering for Beyond-Field-of-View mmWave Radar

  • TBD

Lec #10: Mobile Health Sensing

Mon, Dec 1, 2025

• Required (2 papers):

  • GlucoSense: Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring using Mobile Devices (upcoming MobiCom’25)

  • TBD

Lec #11: Project Presentation & Demos

Mon, Dec 8, 2025