Video Highlight

Publications

• Pneumatically-Actuated Liquid Metal-Based Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna, Yiwen Song, Aditya Bharambe, Dinesh K Patel, Barbara Zhuo, Mason Zadan, Carmel Majidi and Swarun Kumar, Advanced Science 2026 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• SonicSieve: Bringing Directional Speech Extraction to Smartphones Using Acoustic Microstructures, Kuang Yuan, Yifeng Wang, Xiyuxing Zhang, Chengyi Shen, Swarun Kumar, and Justin Chan, CHI 2026 [WEBSITE]
  
  
• GigaFlex: Contactless Monitoring of Muscle Vibrations During Exercise with a Chaos-Inspired Radar, Jiangyifei Zhu, Yuzhe Wang, Tao Qiang, Vu Phan, Zhixiong Li, Evy Meinders, Eni Halilaj, Justin Chan and Swarun Kumar, SenSys 2026 [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Surface Material and Roughness Sensing using mmWave via Surface Scattering and Ambient Vibrations, Yawen Liu, Bert Shan and Swarun Kumar, SenSys 2026 [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Towards Smart Wireless Power Transfer Through a Localizing and Beam-Focusing Magnetic Metasurface, Yawen Liu and Swarun Kumar, HotMobile 2026 [WEBSITE]
  
  
• PolarVisor: Clutter-free, Electronics-free Fiducial Markers for mmWave Radars Printed on Paper, Junbo Zhang, Yiwen Song and Swarun Kumar, MobiCom 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• RFBridge: Ultra Wideband Reconfigurable Metamaterial Surface Enabling Frequency Conversion, Yawen Liu, Shivang Aggarwal, Mohamed Ibrahim, Puneet Sharma, and Swarun Kumar, HotMobile 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Can we make FCC Experts out of LLMs?, Atul Bansal, Veronica Muriga, Jason Li, Lucy Duan and Swarun Kumar, HotMobile 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• WindDancer: Understanding Acoustic Sensing under Ambient Airflow, Kuang Yuan, Dong Li, Hao Zhou, Zhehao Li, Lili Qiu, Swarun Kumar and Jie Xiong, IMWUT 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• DeWinder: Single-Channel Wind Noise Reduction using Ultrasound Sensing, Kuang Yuan, Shuo Han, Swarun Kumar and Bhiksha Raj, InterSpeech 2024 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Shape-programming Robotic Reflectors for Wireless Networks, Yawen Liu, Akarsh Prabhakara, Jiangyifei Zhu, Shenyi Qiao, Swarun Kumar, ICRA 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Frequency-selective actuation of liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with radio-frequency, Yiwen Song, Zefang Li, Mason Zadan, Jingxian Wang, Swarun Kumar, Carmel Majidi, Nature Communications 2025 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Thermo-Mechanically Stable, Liquid Metal Embedded Soft Materials for High-Temperature Applications, Robert Herbert, Piotr Mocny, Yuqi Zhao, Ting-Chih Lin, Junbo Zhang, Michael Vinciguerra, Sunny Surprenant, Wui Yarn Daphne Chan, Swarun Kumar, Michael R. Bockstaller, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carmel Majidi, Advanced Functional Materials 2024 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Hydra: Exploiting Multi-Bounce Scattering for Beyond-Field-of-View mmWave Radar, Nishant Mehrotra, Divyanshu Pandey, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Akarsh Prabhakara, Yawen Liu and Swarun Kumar, MobiCom 2024 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Guiding Energy Distribution inside Microwave Oven, Yiwen Song, Swarun Kumar, Hao Pan, Longyuan Ge, Yi-Chao Chen, and Lili Qiu, MobiCom 2024 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• ToMoBrush: Exploring Dental Health Sensing using a Sonic Toothbrush, Kuang Yuan, Mohamed Ibrahim, Yiwen Song, Guoxiang Deng, Robert A. Nerone, Suvendra Vijayan, Akshay Gadre, and Swarun Kumar, UbiComp 2024 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Wireless Actuation for Soft Electronics-free Robots, Jingxian Wang, Yiwen Song, Mason Zadan, Yuyi Shen, Vanessa Chen, Carmel Majidi and Swarun Kumar, MobiCom 2023 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating, Yiwen Song, Mason Zadan, Kushaan Misra, Zefang Li, Jingxian Wang, Carmel Majidi and Swarun Kumar, ICRA 2023 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Software Defined Cooking using a Microwave Oven , Haojian Jin, Jingxian Wang, Swarun Kumar and Jason Hong, MobiCom 2019 (ACM GetMobile Research Hightlight) [PAPER] [SLIDES] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• On the Feasibility of Wi-Fi Based Material Sensing , Diana Zhang, Jingxian Wang, Junsu Jang, Junbo Zhang, Swarun Kumar, MobiCom 2019 [PAPER] [SLIDES] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi , Access Point, Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar and Dina Katabi, NSDI 2016 [PAPER]
  
  
• Accurate Indoor Localization with Zero Startup Cost, Swarun Kumar, Stephanie Gil, Dina Katabi and Daniela Rus, ACM MOBICOM 2014 (Best Presentation Runner-up) [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  
• LTE Radio Analytics Made Easy and Accessible, Ezzeldin Hamed, Dina Katabi, and Li Erran Li, ACM SIGCOMM 2014 [PAPER] [WEBSITE]
  
  

Project Participants

• PI: Swarun Kumar
• Students: Diana Zhang, Haojian Jin and Junbo Zhang
• Collaborators: Prof. Stephanie Gil and Prof. Dina Katabi