Publications

Conference and Journal Papers

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

Zoom Out: Abstractions for Efficient Radar Algorithms on COTS architecture Tze Meng Low, Yuejie Chi, James Hoe, Swarun Kumar, Akarsh Prabhakara, Laixi Shi, Upasana Sridhar, Nicholai Tukanov, Chengyue Wang, Yuchen Wu IEEE Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST) 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 Infrastructure 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

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