Towards Foundational Models for Single-Chip Radar
Tianshu Huang, Akarsh Prabhakara, Chuhan Chen, Jay Karhade, Deva Ramanan, Matthew O Toole, Anthony Rowe
IEEE ICCV 2025
ICCV Oral (64 orals / 2702 accepted papers = 2.4%)

Shape-programming Robotic Reflectors for Wireless Networks
Yawen Liu, Akarsh Prabhakara, Jiangyifei Zhu, Shenyi Qiao, Swarun Kumar
IEEE ICRA 2025

Reinforcement learning–based framework for whale rendezvous via autonomous sensing robots
Ninad Jadhav, Sushmita Bhattacharya, Daniel Vogt, Yaniv Aluma, Pernille Tonessen, Akarsh Prabhakara, Swarun Kumar, Shane Gero, Robert J. Wood, Stephanie Gil
Science Robotics 2024

Hydra: Exploiting Multi-Bounce Scattering for Beyond-Field-of-View mmWave Radar
Nishant Mehrotra, Divyanshu Pandey, Akarsh Prabhakara, Yawen Liu, Swarun Kumar, Ashutosh Sabharwal
ACM MobiCom 2024

DART: Implicit Doppler Tomography for Radar Novel View Synthesis
Tianshu Huang*, John Miller*, Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Tarana Laroia, Zico Kolter, Anthony Rowe
IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024
CVPR Oral (90 orals / 2719 accepted papers = 3.3%)

High Resolution Point Clouds from mmWave Radar
Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Arnav Das, Gantavya Bhatt, Lilly Kumari, Elahe Soltanaghai, Jeff Bilmes, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
IEEE ICRA 2023

Platypus: Sub-mm Micro-Displacement Sensing with Passive Millimeter-wave Tags As "Phase Carriers"
Thomas Horton King, Jizheng He, Chun-Kai Yao, Akarsh Prabhakara, Mohamad Alipour, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe, Elahe Soltanaghai
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023

Exploring mmWave Radar and Camera Fusion for High-Resolution and Long-Range Depth Imaging
Akarsh Prabhakara*, Diana Zhang*, Chao Li, Sirajum Munir, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Anthony Rowe, Swarun Kumar
IEEE/RSJ IROS 2022

Millimetro: mmWave Retro-Reflective Tags for Accurate, Long Range Localization
Elahe Soltanaghaei*, Akarsh Prabhakara*, Artur Balanuta*, Matthew Anderson, Jan Rabaey, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM MobiCom 2021
Press: UIUC, Pioneering Minds

A community-driven approach to democratize access to satellite ground stations
Vaibhav Singh, Akarsh Prabhakara, Diana Zhang, Osman Yağan, Swarun Kumar
ACM MobiCom 2021
GetMobile Research Highlight

TagFi: Locating Ultra-Low Power WiFi Tags Using Unmodified WiFi Infrastructures
Elahe Soltanaghaei, Adwait Dongare, Akarsh Prabhakara, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe, Kamin Whitehouse
Ubicomp 2021

Osprey: A mmWave Approach to Tire Wear Sensing
Akarsh Prabhakara, Vaibhav Singh, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM MobiSys 2020
Press: CMU, Gizmodo, Hackster.io, Thats Cool News - Podcast, Weibold, Interesting Engineering, Wonderful Engineering, Tyrepress.com
Best Paper Honorable Mention, GetMobile Research Highlight

Underwater acoustic source localization by vector sensor array using compressive sampling
P.V. Nagesha, G. V. Anand, Sanjeev Gurugopinath, Akarsh Prabhakara
MTS/IEEE Oceans 2016

RadarHD: Demonstrating Lidar-like Point Clouds from mmWave Radar
Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Arnav Das, Gantavya Bhatt, Lilly Kumari, Elahe Soltanaghai, Jeff Bilmes, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM MobiCom Demo 2023
Top 5 Best Demos

Platypus Demo: Sub-mm Micro-Displacement Sensing with Passive Millimeter-wave Tags As "Phase Carriers"
Jizheng He, Thomas Horton King, Chun-Kai Yao, Akarsh Prabhakara, Mohamad Alipour, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe, Elahe Soltanaghai
ACM/IEEE IPSN Demos 2023
Best Demo Runner Up

A community-driven approach to democratize access to satellite ground stations"
Vaibhav Singh, Akarsh Prabhakara, Diana Zhang, Osman Yağan, Swarun Kumar
ACM GetMobile Magazine 2022

Long-range accurate ranging of millimeter-wave retro-reflective tags in high mobility"
Thomas Horton King, Elahe Soltanaghei, Akarsh Prabhakara, Artur Balanuta, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM MobiCom Demo 2021

OSPREY: A mmWave Approach to Tire Wear Sensing
Akarsh Prabhakara, Vaibhav Singh, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM GetMobile Magazine 2021

Osprey Demo: A mmWave Approach to Tire Wear Sensing"
Akarsh Prabhakara, Vaibhav Singh, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM MobiSys Demo 2020
Best Demo