Fadel Adib

For more information about my ongoing projects, visit the Signal Kinetics website.

Theory

New: The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib  
ACM MobiCom'23, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
[PAPER]     [OPEN SOURCE TOOL]        
Best Paper Award

POLAR

New: A Handheld Fine-Grained RFID Localization System with Complex-Controlled Polarization
Laura Dodds, Isaac Perper, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib  
ACM MobiCom'23, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
[PAPER]        

VAB

New: Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks
Aline Eid, John Clayton Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'23, New York City, NY, September 2023
[PAPER]     [OPEN SOURCE DATASET & CODE]        

Batteryless ML

FuseBot: mechanical search of rigid and deformable objects via multi-modal perception
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib  
Autonomous Robots, September 2023
[PAPER]    

RF-AR

Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval
Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Weitung Chen, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib  
IEEE RFID'23, Seattle, WA, June 2023
[PAPER]        
Best Paper Award

RF-Boost

Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization
Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib  
IEEE RFID'23, Seattle, WA, June 2023
[PAPER]        
Best Paper Runner-Up

XAR

Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception
Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib  
Usenix NSDI'23, Boston, MA, April 2023
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    

PZSense

Batteryless, Wireless, and Secure SoC for Implantable Strain Sensing
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Unsoo Ha, Ustav Banerjee, Fadel Adib, Anantha Chandrakasan  
IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, January 2023
[PAPER]        

Batteryless Cam

Demo: Enabling Battery-Free Wireless Underwater Imaging
John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Nazish Naeem, Purui Wang, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib  
ACM WUWNet, November 2022
[PAPER]    
Best Demo Award [Link]

Batteryless Cam

Battery-Free Wireless Imaging of Underwater Environments
Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib  
Nature Communications, September 2022
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
Nature Electronics Research Highlights [Editorial]

Batteryless ML

FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib  
Robotics: Science and Systems'22, June 2022
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    


Batteryless ML

Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments
Yuchen Zhao, Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Fan Mo, David Boyle, Fadel Adib, Hamed Haddadi  
ACM HotMobile'22, March 2022
[PAPER]    

RF-Grasp

RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning
Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Mergen Nachin, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib  
ACM SenSys'21, November 2021
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
Best Paper Finalist
103 Ways MIT is Making a Better World

WiStress

WiStress: Contactless Stress Monitoring using Wireless Signals
Unsoo Ha, Sohrab Madani, Fadel Adib  
ACM IMWUT'21, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2021
[PAPER]    

RF-Grasp

Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception
Tara Boroushaki, Junshan Leng, Ian Clester, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib  
IEEE ICRA'21, June 2021
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
AI Trends to Watch (WSJ)

saving-face
A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens
Camilo Rojas, Niels Poulsen, Mileva Van Tuyl, Daniel Vargas, Zipporah Cohen, Joseph A. Paradiso, Pattie Maes, Kevin M Esvelt, Fadel Adib  
ACM IMWUT'21, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2021
[PAPER]    
NSF RAPID Award

battery-free

Underwater Backscatter Localization: Toward a Battery-Free Underwater GPS
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Fadel Adib  
ACM HotNets'20, November 2020
[PAPER]    

backscatter-node

Enabling Higher-Order Modulation for Underwater Backscatter Communication
Sayed Saad Afzal, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Fadel Adib  
IEEE/MTS OCEANS'20, October 2020
[PAPER]    

umedic

Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for Cross-Tissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Joonhyuk Cho, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib  
ACM MobiCom'20, September 2020
[PAPER]    

RF-SCG

Contactless Seismocardiography via Deep Learning Radars
Unsoo Ha, Salah Assana, Fadel Adib  
ACM MobiCom'20, September 2020
[PAPER]    

PAB

Ultra-Wideband Underwater Backscatter via Piezoelectric Metamaterials
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'20, August 2020
[PAPER]    
Ocean Explorer Prize (US Department of Energy & NOAA)

TurboTrack

Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs
Unsoo Ha, Junshan Leng, Alaa Khaddaj, Fadel Adib  
Usenix NSDI'20, Santa Clara, CA, February 2020
[PAPER]    
J-WAFS Seed Grant

TurboTrack

Underwater Backscatter Networking
JunSu Jang and Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'19, Beijing, China, August 2019
[PAPER]     [SLIDES]     [DEMO VIDEO]     [PRESENTATION VIDEO]     [OPEN SOURCE DESIGN]    
Best Paper Award
ONR Early Career Grant


TurboTrack

3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics
Zhihong Luo, Qiping Zhang, Yunfei Ma, Manish Singh, Fadel Adib  
Usenix NSDI'19, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2019
[PAPER]    
Google Faculty Research Award

RFIQ

Learning Food Quality and Safety from Wireless Stickers
Unsoo Ha, Yunfei Ma, Zexuan Zhong, Tzu-Ming Hsu, Fadel Adib  
ACM HotNets'18, Redmond, Washington, November 2018
[PAPER]    

TARF

Networking Across Boundaries: Enabling Wireless Communications through the Water-Air Interface
Francesco Tonolini and Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'18, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
ONR Young Investigator Award

IVN

Enabling Deep-Tissue Networking for Miniature Medical Devices
Yunfei Ma, Zhihong Luo, Christoph Steiger, Giovanni Traverso, Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'18, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
NSF CAREER Award

RFind

Minding the Billions: Ultra-wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags
Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, Fadel Adib  
ACM MobiCom'17, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2017
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    

RFly

Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks
Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, Fadel Adib  
ACM SIGCOMM'17, Los Angeles, California, August 2017
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    

Thesis

Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses
Fadel Adib  
Ph.D. Dissertation, EECS MIT, October 2016
[THESIS]    
Sprowls Award for Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science at MIT
ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award

EQ-Radio

Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals
Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi  
ACM MobiCom'16, New York, New York, October 2016
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
CACM Research Highlights

RF-Capture

Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall
Fadel Adib, Chen-Yu Hsu, Hongzi Mao, Dina Katabi, Fredo Durand  
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia'15, Kobe, Japan, November 2015
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    

WiTrack2.0

Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections
Fadel Adib, Zach Kabelac, Dina Katabi  
Usenix NSDI'15, Oakland, California, May 2015
[PAPER]    

VitalRadio
Smart Homes That Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate
Fadel Adib, Hongzi Mao, Zach Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller  
CHI'15, Seoul, South Korea, April 2015
[PAPER]     [DEMO1 VIDEO]     [DEMO2 VIDEO]    
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

BreathingRadio

Demo: Real-time Breath Monitoring Using Wireless Signals
Fadel Adib, Zach Kabelac, Hongzi Mao, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller  
ACM MobiCom'14, Maui, Hawaii, September 2014
Best Demo Award

WiTrack

3D Tracking via Body Radio Reflections
Fadel Adib, Zach Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller  
Usenix NSDI'14, Seattle, Washington, April 2014
[PAPER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    

MoMIMO

Interference Alignment by Motion
Fadel Adib (Co-Primary), Swarun Kumar (Co-Primary), Omid Aryan, Shyamnath Gollakota, Dina Katabi.  
ACM MobiCom'13, Miami, Florida, October 2013
[PAPER]    

RFCompass

RF-Compass: Robot Object Manipulation using RFIDs
Jue Wang, Fadel Adib, Ross Knepper, Dina Katabi, Daniela Rus.  
ACM MobiCom'13, Miami, Florida, October 2013
[PAPER]    

WiVi
See Through Walls with Wi-Fi!
Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi.  
ACM SIGCOMM'13, Hong Kong, August 2013
[PAPER]     [POSTER]     [DEMO VIDEO]    
ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award [Link]

See Through Walls with Wi-Fi
Fadel Adib.   [PDF]    
Master's Thesis, EECS MIT, June 2013
William A. Martin Award for Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science at MIT

QuickSync

Faster GPS Via the Sparse Fourier Transform
Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, Piotr Indyk.  
ACM MobiCom'12, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012
[PAPER]    

QuickSync

Clearing the RF Smog: Making 802.11 Robust to Cross-Technology Interference
Shyamnath Gollakota, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, Srini Seshan.  
ACM SIGCOMM'11, Toronto, Canada, August 2011
[PAPER]    

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