Publications
Upcoming: Bringing All Modulations to Underwater Backscatter via PDM-Synthesis
Ocean IoT
ACM SenSys’26, Saint-Malo, France, May 2026
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib
Upcoming: Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots
Ocean IoT
ACM MobiCom’25, Hong Kong, China, November 2025
Sayed Saad Afzal, Jack Rademacher, Weitung Chen, Purui Wang, Fadel Adib
Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking
Ocean IoT
ACM SIGCOMM’25, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2025
Purui Wang, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib
Underwater Backscatter Networking for Subsea IoT: A Link-Budget Analysis in Practical Ocean Channels
Ocean IoT
IEEE Journal of Oceanographic Engineering, 2025
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
SeaScan: An Energy-Efficient Underwater Camera for Wireless 3D Color Imaging
Ocean IoT
ACM MobiCom’24, Washington, DC, November 2024
Nazish Naeem, Jack Rademacher, Ritik Patnaik, Tara Boroushaki, Fadel Adib
SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air
Ocean IoT
ACM MobiCom’24, Washington, DC, November 2024
Poorya Mollahosseini, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib, Yasaman Ghasempour
3D-BLUE: Backscatter Localization for Underwater Robotics
Ocean IoT
IEEE/RSJ IROS’24, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2024
Sayed Saad Afzal, Weitung Chen, Fadel Adib
The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation
ACM MobiCom’23 Madrid, Spain, October 2023
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks
ACM SIGCOMM’23, New York City, NY, September 2023
Aline Eid, John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
ACM WUWNet, 2022
John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Nazish Naeem, Purui Wang, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib
Battery-Free Wireless Imaging of Underwater Environments
Nature Communications, 2022
Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib
Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments
Yuchen Zhao, Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Fan Mo, David Boyle, Fadel Adib, Hamed Haddadi
Enabling Higher-Order Modulation for Underwater Backscatter Communication
Global OCEANS ’20
Sayed Saad Afzal, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Underwater Backscatter Localization: Toward a Battery-Free Underwater GPS
Ultra-Wideband Underwater Backscatter via Piezoelectric Metamaterials
ACM SigCOMM ’20
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Underwater Backscatter Networking
ACM SigCOMM ’19
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Networking across Boundaries: Enabling Wireless Communication through the Water-Air Interface
ACM SigCOMM ’18
Francesco Tonolini and Fadel Adib
