Bringing Scalable Millimeter-Wave Networks and Applications to the Masses

Wireless and mobile systems play an integral role in our daily lives, and we are currently witnessing an explosion of the wireless ecosystem, which includes not only smartphones but also smart, ubiquitous objects embedded with communication, computation, and sensing capabilities.  Emerging wireless and mobile systems, such as autonomous vehicles, immersive augmented and extended reality, and smart, connected buildings, promise to automate human lives at unprecedented scales.  But these systems rely on two core foundations: (a) Next-generation wireless networks that can serve 10s of billions of devices, with reliability and resiliency; and (b) Ubiquitous sensing techniques that enable devices and objects to be smarter by understanding and interpreting environments and humans with high precision.

My research team has been building these two foundations.  We design, develop, and deploy computational and deep learning models to extract intelligence from wireless signals, which, in turn, enable high-resilience and high-performance networks and ubiquitous sensing modalities.  In this talk, I will go through some of the design and prototyping of our current works that use extremely high-frequency millimeter-wave wireless to enable wire-like connectivity and reliability, and applications in healthcare and beyond traditional visions.