For more information about my ongoing projects, visit the Signal Kinetics website.
Upcoming: RISE: Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding
Kaichen Zhou, Laura Dodds, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib
CVPR'26, Denver, CO, June 2026
Upcoming: Wave-Former: Through-Occlusion 3D Reconstruction via Wireless Shape Completion
Laura Dodds, Maisy Lam, Waleed Akbar, Yibo Yang, Fadel Adib
CVPR'26, Denver, CO, June 2026
Upcoming: Piezo-Ultrasonic Backscatter: Low-power high throughput underwater networking
Purui Wang, Weitung Chen, Waleed Akbar, Fadel Adib
ACM SenSys'26, Saint-Malo, France, May 2026
Upcoming: Bringing All Modulations to Underwater Backscatter via PDM-Synthesis
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib
ACM SenSys'26, Saint-Malo, France, May 2026
Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots
Sayed Saad Afzal, Jack Rademacher, Weitung Chen, Purui Wang, Fadel Adib
ACM MobiCom'25, Hong Kong, China, November 2025
MiNav: Autonomous Drone Navigation Indoors using Millimeter-Waves
Maisy Lam, Joshua Herrera, Sayed Saad Afzal, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib
ACM IMWUT'25, Espoo, Finland, October 2025
Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking
Purui Wang, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib
ACM SIGCOMM'25, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2025
[PAPER]
Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation
Laura Dodds, Tara Boroushaki, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib
ACM MobiSys'25, Anaheim, CA, June 2025
[PAPER]
Best Paper Runner-Up
Best Poster Award
Ceilbot: A Ceiling-mounted Robot for Fast and Accurate Localization of off-the-shelf RFIDs via Wideband SAR-based Reinforcement Learning
Weitung Chen, Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, John Carrick, Fadel Adib
IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 2025
6D Self-Localization of Drones using a Single Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Anchor
Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Fadel Adib
IEEE INFOCOM'25, London, UK, May 2025
Underwater Backscatter Networking for Subsea IoT: A Link-Budget Analysis in Practical Ocean Channels
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
IEEE Journal of Oceanographic Engineering, 2025
SeaScan: An Energy-Efficient Underwater Camera for Wireless 3D Color Imaging
Nazish Naeem, Jack Rademacher, Ritik Patnaik, Tara Boroushaki, Fadel Adib
ACM MobiCom'24, Washington, DC, November 2024
[PAPER]
SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air
Poorya Mollahosseini, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib, Yasaman Ghasempour
ACM MobiCom'24, Washington, DC, November 2024
[PAPER]
3D-BLUE: Backscatter Localization for Underwater Robotics
Sayed Saad Afzal, Weitung Chen, Fadel Adib
IEEE/RSJ IROS'24, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2024
[PAPER]
Reinforcement Learning for RFID Localization
Weitung Chen, Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Fadel Adib
IEEE RFID'24, Cambridge, MA, June 2024
[PAPER]
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
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
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]
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]
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]
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
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib
Robotics: Science and Systems'22, June 2022
[PAPER] [DEMO VIDEO]
Wireless, Batteryless, and Secure Implantable System-on-a-Chip for 1.37mmHg Strain Sensing with Bandwidth Reconfigurability for Cross-Tissue Adaptation
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Unsoo Ha, Ustav Banerjee, Fadel Adib, Anantha Chandrakasan
IEEE CICC'22, April 2022
[PAPER]
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]
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: Contactless Stress Monitoring using Wireless Signals
Unsoo Ha, Sohrab Madani, Fadel Adib
ACM IMWUT'21, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2021
[PAPER]
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)
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
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
Underwater Backscatter Localization: Toward a Battery-Free Underwater GPS
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Fadel Adib
ACM HotNets'20, November 2020
[PAPER]
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]
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]
Contactless Seismocardiography via Deep Learning Radars
Unsoo Ha, Salah Assana, Fadel Adib
ACM MobiCom'20, September 2020
[PAPER]
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)
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
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
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
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]
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
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
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]
Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks
Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, Fadel Adib
ACM SIGCOMM'17, Los Angeles, California, August 2017
[PAPER] [DEMO VIDEO]
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
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
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]
Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections
Fadel Adib, Zach Kabelac, Dina Katabi
Usenix NSDI'15, Oakland, California, May 2015
[PAPER]
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
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
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
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]
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]
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]
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
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
Faster GPS Via the Sparse Fourier Transform
Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, Piotr Indyk.
ACM MobiCom'12, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012
[PAPER]
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]