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
Upcoming: MiNav: Autonomous Drone Navigation Indoors using Millimeter-Waves
Robotics RFID
ACM IMWUT’25, Espoo, Finland, October 2025
Maisy Lam, Joshua Herrera, Sayed Saad Afzal, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib
Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking
Ocean IoT
ACM SIGCOMM’25, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2025
Purui Wang, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib
Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation
Robotics RFID
ACM MobiSys’25, Anaheim, CA, June 2025
Laura Dodds, Tara Boroushaki, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib
Best Paper Runner-Up
Best Poster Award
Robotics RFID
IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 2025
Weitung Chen, Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, John Carrick, Fadel Adib
6D Self-Localization of Drones using a Single Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Anchor
Robotics RFID
IEEE INFOCOM’25, London, UK, May 2025
Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, 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
Reinforcement Learning for RFID Localization
Robotics RFID
IEEE RFID’24, Cambridge, MA, June 2024
Weitung Chen, Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Fadel Adib
The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation
Ocean IoT
ACM MobiCom’23 Madrid, Spain, October 2023
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
A Handheld Fine-Grained RFID Localization System with Complex-Controlled Polarization
Robotics RFID
ACM MobiCom’23, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib
Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks
Ocean IoT
ACM SIGCOMM’23, New York City, NY, September 2023
Aline Eid, John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, Fadel Adib
FuseBot: mechanical search of rigid and deformable objects via multi-modal perception
Robotics RFID
Autonomous Robots, September 2023
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib
Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval
Robotics RFID
IEEE RFID’23, Seattle, WA, June 2023
Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Weitung Chen, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib
Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization
Robotics RFID
IEEE RFID’23, Seattle, WA, June 2023
Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib
Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception
Robotics RFID
Usenix NSDI’23, Boston, MA, April 2023
Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib
Batteryless, Wireless, and Secure SoC for Implantable Strain Sensing
Digital Health
IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, 2022
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Unsoo Ha, Ustav Banerjee, Fadel Adib, Anantha Chandrakasan
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
Ocean IoT
Nature Communications, 2022
Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib
FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search
Robotics RFID
Robotics: Science and Systems’22, June 2022
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib
Wireless, Batteryless, and Secure Implantable System-on-a-Chip for 1.37mmHg Strain Sensing with Bandwidth Reconfigurability for Cross-Tissue Adaptation
Digital Health
IEEE CICC’22, April 2022
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Unsoo Ha, Ustav Banerjee, Fadel Adib, Anantha Chandrakasan
Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments
Ocean IoTYuchen Zhao, Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Fan Mo, David Boyle, Fadel Adib, Hamed Haddadi
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RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning
WiStress: Contactless Stress Monitoring using Wireless Signals
ACM IMWUT’21
Unsoo Ha, Sohrab Madani, Fadel Adib
Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception
IEEE ICRA ’21
Tara Boroushaki, Junshan Leng, Ian Clester, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib
A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens
ACM IMWUT’21
Camilo Rojas, Niels Poulsen, Mileva Van Tuyl, Daniel Vargas, Zipporah Cohen, Joseph A. Paradiso, Pattie Maes, Kevin M Esvelt, Fadel Adib
Underwater Backscatter Localization: Toward a Battery-Free Underwater GPS
Enabling Higher-Order Modulation for Underwater Backscatter Communication
Global OCEANS ’20
Sayed Saad Afzal, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for Cross-Tissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity
ACM MobiCom ’20
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Joonhyuk Cho, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib
Contactless Seismocardiography via Deep Learning Radars
ACM MobiCom ’20
Ha, Unsoo, Salah Assana, and Fadel Adib
Ultra-Wideband Underwater Backscatter via Piezoelectric Metamaterials
ACM SigCOMM ’20
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs
Usenix NSDI ’20
Unsoo Ha, Junshan Leng, Alaa Khaddaj and Fadel Adib
Underwater Backscatter Networking
ACM SigCOMM ’19
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics
Learning Food Quality and Safety from Wireless Stickers
ACM HotNets ’18
Unsoo Ha, Yunfei Ma, Zexuan Zhong, Tzu-Ming Hsu, Fadel Adib.
Networking across Boundaries: Enabling Wireless Communication through the Water-Air Interface
ACM SigCOMM ’18
Francesco Tonolini and Fadel Adib
Enabling Deep-Tissue Networking for Miniature Medical Devices
Minding the Billions: Ultra-Wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags
Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses
Ph.D. Dissertation, EECS MIT, October 2016
Fadel Adib
Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks
ACM SiggComm ’17
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Joonhyuk Cho, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib
Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals
ACM MobiCom ’16
Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi.
Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall
Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections
Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate
CHI ’15
Fadel Adib, Hongzi Mao, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller
3D Tracking via Body Radio Reflections
Usenix NSDI’14
Fadel Adib, Zachary Kabelac Dina Katabi Robert C. Miller
Interference Alignment by Motion
MobiCom ’13
Fadel Adib, Swarun Kumar, Omid Aryan, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Dina Katabi
RF-Compass: Robot Object Manipulation Using RFID
ACM MobiCom ’13
Jue Wang, Fadel Adib, Ross Knepper, Dina Katabi, and Daniela Rus.
Faster GPS via the Sparse Fourier Transform
Mobicom ’12
Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Piotr Indyk
Clearing the RF Smog: Making 802.11n Robust to Cross-Technology Interference
ACM SIGCOMM ’11
Shyamnath Gollakota, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Srinivasan Seshan
