Fadel Adib
Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots
Sayed Saad Afzal, Jack Rademacher, Weitung Chen, Purui Wang, and Fadel Adib. 2025. Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MOBICOM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1145/3680207.3765265
MiNav: Autonomous Drone Navigation Indoors using Millimeter-Waves
Maisy Lam, Joshua Herrera, Sayed Saad Afzal, Kaichen Zhou, and Fadel Adib. 2025. MiNav: Autonomous Drone Navigation Indoors Using Millimeter-Waves. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 9, 3, Article 97 (September 2025), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3749464
Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking
Purui Wang, Sayed Saad Afzal, and Fadel Adib. 2025. Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference (SIGCOMM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1025–1039. https://doi.org/10.1145/3718958.3750507
Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation
Laura Dodds, Tara Boroushaki, Kaichen Zhou, and Fadel Adib. 2025. Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 445–458. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711875.3729138
Ceilbot: A Ceiling-Mounted Robot for Fast and Accurate Localization of Off-the-Shelf RFIDs via Wideband SAR-Based Reinforcement Learning
W. Chen, T. Boroushaki, I. Perper, J. Carrick and F. Adib, "Ceilbot: A Ceiling-Mounted Robot for Fast and Accurate Localization of Off-the-Shelf RFIDs via Wideband SAR-Based Reinforcement Learning," in IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, vol. 9, pp. 361-376, 2025, doi: 10.1109/JRFID.2025.3576481.
6D Self-Localization of Drones Using a Single Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Anchor
M. Lam, L. Dodds, A. Eid, J. Hester and F. Adib, "6D Self-Localization of Drones Using a Single Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Anchor," IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, London, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM55648.2025.11044655.
Underwater Backscatter Networking for Subsea IoT: A Link-Budget Analysis in Practical Ocean Channels
W. Akbar, A. Allam and F. Adib, "Underwater Backscatter Networking for Subsea IoT: A Link-Budget Analysis in Practical Ocean Channels," in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 1703-1717, July 2025, doi: 10.1109/JOE.2025.3538946.
SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air
Poorya Mollahosseini, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib, and Yasaman Ghasempour. 2024. SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 815–829. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636534.3690663
Reinforcement Learning for RFID Localization
W. Chen, T. Boroushaki, I. Perper and F. Adib, "Reinforcement Learning for RFID Localization," 2024 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RFID62091.2024.10582639.
The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 51, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3613265
Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks
Aline Eid, Jack Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’23), September 10, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages
A Handheld Fine-Grained RFID Localization System with Complex-Controlled Polarization
Laura Dodds, Isaac Perper, Aline Eid, and Fadel Adib. 2023. A Handheld Fine-Grained RFID Localization System with Complex-Controlled Polarization. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592504
Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization
L. Dodds, N. Naeem, A. Eid and F. Adib, "Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization," 2023 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Seattle, WA, USA, 2023, pp. 90-95, doi: 10.1109/RFID58307.2023.10178674.
Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval
T. Boroushaki, M. Lam, W. Chen, L. Dodds, A. Eid and F. Adib, "Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval," 2023 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Seattle, WA, USA, 2023, pp. 30-35, doi: 10.1109/RFID58307.2023.10178452.
Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception
Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Augmenting Augmented Reality with {Non-Line-of-Sight} Perception." 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23). 2023.
Batteryless, Wireless, and Secure SoC for Implantable Strain Sensing
M. R. Abdelhamid, U. Ha, U. Banerjee, F. Adib and A. P. Chandrakasan, "Batteryless, Wireless, and Secure SoC for Implantable Strain Sensing," in IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, vol. 3, pp. 41-51, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJSSCS.2022.3230000.
Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments
Afzal, S.S., Akbar, W., Rodriguez, O. et al. Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments. Nat Commun 13, 5546 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33223-x
FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search
Boroushaki, Tara, Dodds, Laura, Naeem, Nazish, and Adib, Fadel. FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10393541. Robotics: Science and Systems 2022 .
Wireless, Batteryless, and Secure Implantable System-on-a-Chip for 1.37mmHg Strain Sensing with Bandwidth Reconfigurability for Cross-Tissue
M. R. Abdelhamid, U. Ha, U. Banerjee, F. Adib and A. Chandrakasan, "Wireless, Batteryless, and Secure Implantable System-on-a-Chip for 1.37mmHg Strain Sensing with Bandwidth Reconfigurability for Cross-Tissue Adaptation," 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Newport Beach, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/CICC53496.2022.9772815.
WiStress: Contactless Stress Monitoring Using Wireless Signals
Ha, Unsoo, Sohrab Madani, and Fadel Adib. "WiStress: Contactless Stress Monitoring Using Wireless Signals." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 5.3 (2021): 1-37.
Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception
Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
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, Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, Kevin Esvelt, and Fadel Adib. 2021. A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens.. Proc. ACM IMWUT
Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for Cross-Tissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Joonhyuk Cho, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib . 2020. Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for CrossTissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity. In The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’20), September 21–25, 2020, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372224.3419216
Contactless Seismocardiography via Deep Learning Radars
Ha, Unsoo, Salah Assana, and Fadel Adib. "Contactless seismocardiography via deep learning radars." Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2020.
Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs
Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs. Unsoo Ha, Junshan Leng, Alaa Khaddaj and Fadel Adib. Usenix NSDI 2020
Underwater Backscatter Networking
Underwater Backscatter Networking. JunSu Jang and Fadel Adib. ACM SIGCOMM 2019
Minding the Billions: Ultra-wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags
Minding the Billions: Ultra-wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags, Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, and Fadel Adib. ACM MobiCom '17
Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks
Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks. Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, and Fadel Adib. ACM SIGCOMM 2017
Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals
Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals. Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi. International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom’16)
Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall
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
Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections
WiTrack: Through-Wall 3D Tracking Using Body Radio Reflections. Fadel Adib, Zach Kabelac, Dina Katabi. Usenix NSDI'15, Oakland, California, May 2015
Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate
Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate. Fadel Adib, Hongzi Mao, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller. Proceeding CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
3D tracking via body radio reflections
Fadel Adib, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller. Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Pages 317-329.
Interference Alignment by Motion
Fadel Adib, Swarun Kumar, Omid Aryan, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Dina Katabi. 2013. Interference alignment by motion. In Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking (MobiCom '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 279-290.
RF-compass: robot object manipulation using RFIDs
Jue Wang, Fadel Adib, Ross Knepper, Dina Katabi, and Daniela Rus. 2013. RF-compass: robot object manipulation using RFIDs. In Procs of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking (MobiCom '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3-14.
See through walls with WiFi!
Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi. 2013. See through walls with WiFi!. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 43, 4 (August 2013), 75-86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2534169.2486039
Faster GPS via the sparse fourier transform
Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Piotr Indyk. 2012. Faster GPS via the sparse fourier transform. In Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking (Mobicom '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 353-364.
Clearing the RF smog: making 802.11n robust to cross-technology interference
Shyamnath Gollakota, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Srinivasan Seshan. 2011. Clearing the RF smog: making 802.11n robust to cross-technology interference. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference (SIGCOMM '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 170-181.
It's Time to Scale: Face Recognition Beyond the Precision
Fadel Adib and Jad Kabbara. FEASC'11, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2011
VSpyware: Spyware in VANETs
Fadel M. Adib and Hazem Hajj. 2010. VSpyware: Spyware in VANETs. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 35th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN '10). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 621-624.
Efficient time and frequency methods for sampling filter functions
Fadel M. Adib and Hazem M. Hajj. 2010. Efficient time and frequency methods for sampling filter functions. Procs of the 4th intl conf on Image and signal processing (ICISP'10), Elmoataz, Lezoray, Nouboud, Mammass, Meunier (Eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Empirical, Analytical, and Programmable Methods for Computing Sampling Rates of Filter Functions
Eighth AUB FEA Student Conference 2009
3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics
Zhihong Luo, Qiping Zhang, Yunfei Ma, Manish Singh, and Fadel Adib. 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 19).