Student Seminar

Student-led seminars are a critical component of the course, with attendance and active participation serving as key metrics for course evaluation. They require students to present a recent research paper (published within the last ten years) from prominent conferences in the field of embedded systems, such as ACM MobiSys, SenSys, MobiCom, Sigcomm, IMWUT, and NSDI.

Seminar Schedule

March 18th 2024

Sooriya Patabandige Pramuka MedarangaExploring and Characterizing Large Language Models For Embedded System Development and Debugging
Viswanadh K (Guest Presenter)Language Model at the Edge

March 25th 2024

Sun ChenTensorFlow Lite Micro: Embedded Machine Learning on TinyML Systems
Kevin Foong Wei TongPenetrative AI: Making LLMs Comprehend the Physical World
Dr. Manoj Gulati (Guest Presenter)Demonstration of classification tasks for TinyML
Chinthalapani Rajashekar ReddyNebula: A Privacy-First Platform for Data Backhaul and TagAlong: Free, Wide-Area Data-Muling and Services

April 1st 2024

Zhang ChenBattery-Free Eye Tracker on Glasses
Maulana Insan KamilCardioCam: Leveraging Camera on Mobile Devices to Verify Users While Their Heart is Pumping
Shao YuruiA Wearable, Patient-Adaptive Freezing of Gait Detection System for Biofeedback Cueing in Parkinson’s Disease
Wang YihanBioScatter: Low-Power Sweat Sensing with Backscatter

April 8th 2024

Swaminathan VarunClearBuds: wireless binaural earbuds for learning-based speech enhancement
Guo QiFarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture

April 15th 2024

Huang NanxiBattery-free Cellphone
Hu JialunVronicle: verifiable provenance for videos from mobile devices

Selected Papers

Zhang ChenTianxing Li and Xia Zhou. 2018. Battery-Free Eye Tracker on Glasses. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ‘18)
Maulana Insan KamilCardioCam: Leveraging Camera on Mobile Devices to Verify Users While Their Heart is Pumping - MobiSys 2019
Sooriya Patabandige Pramuka MedarangaExploring and Characterizing Large Language Models For Embedded System Development and Debugging - Arxiv]
Chinthalapani Rajashekar Reddy“Nebula: A Privacy-First Platform for Data Backhaul” and “TagAlong: Free, Wide-Area Data-Muling and Services”]
Sun ChenTensorFlow Lite Micro: Embedded Machine Learning on TinyML Systems
Kevin Foong Wei TongPenetrative AI: Making LLMs Comprehend the Physical World
Shao YuruiA Wearable, Patient-Adaptive Freezing of Gait Detection System for Biofeedback Cueing in Parkinson’s Disease
Swaminathan VarunClearBuds: wireless binaural earbuds for learning-based speech enhancement
Huang NanxiBattery-free Cellphone
Wang YihanBioScatter: Low-Power Sweat Sensing with Backscatter
Hu JialunVronicle: verifiable provenance for videos from mobile devices
Guo QiFarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture

Suggested List of Papers

You are welcome to also select papers outside the mentioned list.

Battery-free Applications

Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Joshua R. Smith. 2017. Battery-Free Cellphone. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Saman Naderiparizi, Mehrdad Hessar, Vamsi Talla, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Joshua R. Smith. 2018. Towards battery-free HD video streaming. In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’18)
Tianxing Li and Xia Zhou. 2018. Battery-Free Eye Tracker on Glasses. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ‘18)

Low-Power Communication through Backscatter Mechanism

Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, Vamsi Talla, Shyamnath Gollakota, David Wetherall, and Joshua R. Smith. 2013. Ambient backscatter: wireless communication out of thin air. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM ‘13)
Vikram Iyer, Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Joshua Smith. 2016. Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM ‘16)
Vamsi Talla, Mehrdad Hessar, Bryce Kellogg, Ali Najafi, Joshua R. Smith, and Shyamnath Gollakota. 2017. LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Zerina Kapetanovic, Shanti Garman, Dara Stotland, and Joshua R. Smith. 2023. Cosmic Backscatter: New Ways to Communicate via Modulated Noise. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets ‘23)
Wenli Jiao, Yanlin Li, Xiangdong Xi, Ju Wang, Dingyi Fang, and Xiaojiang Chen. 2023. BioScatter: Low-Power Sweat Sensing with Backscatter. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘23)
Mohamad Katanbaf, Ali Saffari, and Joshua R. Smith. 2021. MultiScatter: Multistatic Backscatter Networking for Battery-Free Sensors. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ‘21)
Zhanghao Yu, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Wei Wang, Matthew Parker, Xinyu Chen, Frank Y. Chen, Joshua Woods, Zhiyu Chen, Jacob T. Robinson, and Kaiyuan Yang. 2022. Magnetoelectric backscatter communication for millimeter-sized wireless biomedical implants. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ‘22)

Emerging Networks

Alex Bellon, Alex Yen, and Pat Pannuto. 2023. TagAlong: Free, Wide-Area Data-Muling and Services. In Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile ‘23)
Dhananjay Jagtap, Alex Yen, Huanlei Wu, Aaron Schulman, and Pat Pannuto. 2021. Federated infrastructure: usage, patterns, and insights from “the people’s network”. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ‘21)
Hoyoung Kim, Junghun Park, Seonghoon Park, and Jihoon Ryoo. 2022. UGPS: design and field-tested seamless GNSS infrastructure in metro city. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ‘22)

Embedded Applications and Security

Andrea Ferlini, Dong Ma, Robert Harle, and Cecilia Mascolo. 2021. EarGate: gait-based user identification with in-ear microphones. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ‘21)
Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Nurani Saoda, Ruchir Shah, Wenpeng Wang, and Bradford Campbell. 2022. RetroIoT: retrofitting internet of things deployments by hiding data in battery readings. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ‘22)
Usman Mahmood Khan and Muhammad Shahzad. 2022. Estimating soil moisture using RF signals. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ‘22)
Simon Erni, Martin Kotuliak, Patrick Leu, Marc Roeschlin, and Srdjan Capkun. 2022. AdaptOver: adaptive overshadowing attacks in cellular networks. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ‘22)
Yang Bai, Nakul Garg, and Nirupam Roy. 2022. SPiDR: ultra-low-power acoustic spatial sensing for micro-robot navigation. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘22)
Yuxin (Myles) Liu, Yoshimichi Nakatsuka, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Sharad Agarwal, and Gene Tsudik. 2022. Vronicle: verifiable provenance for videos from mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘22)
Ishan Chatterjee, Maruchi Kim, Vivek Jayaram, Shyamnath Gollakota, Ira Kemelmacher, Shwetak Patel, and Steven M. Seitz. 2022. ClearBuds: wireless binaural earbuds for learning-based speech enhancement. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘22)

Language and Image Models

Huatao Xu, Liying Han, Qirui Yang, Mo Li, and Mani Srivastava. 2024. Penetrative AI: Making LLMs Comprehend the Physical World. In Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HOTMOBILE ‘24)
Zachary Englhardt, Richard Li, Dilini Nissanka, Zhihan Zhang, Girish Narayanswamy, Joseph Breda, Xin Liu, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer. Exploring and Characterizing Large Language Models For Embedded System Development and Debugging. Arxiv

TinyML and Machine Learning at the Edge

Abu Bakar, Tousif Rahman, Rishad Shafik, Fahim Kawsar, and Alessandro Montanari. 2023. Adaptive Intelligence for Batteryless Sensors Using Software-Accelerated Tsetlin Machines. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ‘22)
Robert David, Jared Duke, Advait Jain, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Nat Jeffries, Jian Li, Nick Kreeger, Ian Nappier, Meghna Natraj, Shlomi Regev, Rocky Rhodes, Tiezhen Wang, Pete Warden: TensorFlow Lite Micro: Embedded Machine Learning on TinyML Systems