WiTech Lab

The WiTech Lab at CMU headed by Dr. Swarun Kumar, seeks to develop and apply nascent wireless technologies to improve daily life. URL:

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

Can radars sense the texture of surfaces? Our work mmTextora models subtle radar phase vibrations to tease apart surface textures for robotic grasping. A cool paper by my students Bert Shan & Yawen Liu presented today at ACM SenSys 2026. Learn more here: https://t.co/7k9MnBLVbv

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

Today Jiangyifei presented our work GigaFlex on muscle health sensing using mmWave radar to detect fatigue at ACM SenSys 2026. An exciting work that uses chaos theory to model subtle body vibrations perceived during exercise. Check out the work here: https://t.co/19guRoeAGl

[Amphenol Broadband @AmphenolBB]

Professor Swarun Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, discusses redefining wireless protocols & merging academic research with real-world solutions to drive the future of hyperconnectivity in this episode of Wavelengths.
View the ABS Podcast here: https://t.co/ra1C7IsMky

[CMU College of Engineering @CMUEngineering]

.@cmu_ece's Swarun Kumar talks about his work on all things wireless, ranging from new ways to connect wirelessly to new sensing modalities using wireless.

https://t.co/A4WWJO3IVH

[Akshay Gadre @AkshayGadre1]

The era of small satellite constellations is coming! Yet, the infrastructure to connect them from the ground remains limited. Our new publication, Vista, in @TheOfficialACM TOSN, shows how we can instead use existing ground infrastructure to bootstrap the connectivity bottleneck!

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

Super excited that my PhD student @AkarshPrabhakar (co-advised with Anthony Rowe) will join @UWMadison CSD as a tenure-track assistant professor! We are very proud of you, Akarsh! 🎉

[Carnegie Mellon ECE @CMU_ECE]

Congratulations to @swarunk for receiving the @ACMSIGMOBILE Rockstar Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the design of novel techniques to extend the range of low-power networks and the development of the area of programmable targeted wireless energy delivery.

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

Super thrilled that Jingxian Wang (@wang_wireless) receives the @ACMSIGMOBILE doctoral dissertation award "for advancing the science and interdisciplinary applications of wireless energy transfer." Jingxian is currently at MSR & NUS. Proud Advisor Moment! https://t.co/NOlFYYQqh5

[Akarsh Prabhakara @AkarshPrabhakar]

📢 We are releasing code and dataset for RadarHD (ICRA 2023) - a solution to obtain high resolution, lidar-like point clouds from just a cheap, millimeter wave (mmWave) radar.

Code and Dataset: https://t.co/w28Sp9bUg4
Paper: https://t.co/UrG8jaTxTp
Demo: https://t.co/uh9AzNBSkX

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

@mosharaf & I are co-chairing the virtual @NSF NeTS PI meeting on Feb 23-24. We have exciting keynotes by Dr. Jim Kurose & Dr. Margaret Martonosi, a panel on the "Future of Networking" + exciting breakouts planned! If you're a current/aspiring PI join us! https://t.co/BoXxx9g59U

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

This year, we have several funded 2-year post-doctoral positions under the Carnegie-Bosch Institute fellowship program (starting F23). Interested in wireless/mobile systems, AI/ML and/or health? Please shoot me an email! Deadline: Feb 28, 2023 https://t.co/9GeATenTGA

[Haojian Jin @haojian_jin]

The chapter of my Ph.D. life @cmuhcii is coming to a wistful close. I am excited to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor @HDSIUCSD this Fall (F2022). My lab will focus on building sensor-based, data-driven applications and studying their privacy implications.

[jingxian wang @wang_wireless]

I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore’s CS Dept @NUSComputing in F2023, where my lab will focus on wireless system, robotics, and materials♻️📡📶🪫🤖

Until then I'll be at @MSFTResearch working with the amazing Networking Research Group!

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

This summer 3 of my PhD students are graduating to join Assistant Professorships! Akshay Gadre (@AkshayGadre1) at @UW, Jingxian Wang (@wang_wireless) at @NUSingapore (after a stint at MSR) & Haojian Jin (coadvised w. Prof. Jason Hong) at @UCSanDiego. Super proud! We'll miss them!

[Carnegie Mellon ECE @CMU_ECE]

Dubbed the "SelfieStick," ECE Associate Professor Swarun Kumar (@swarunk) has developed a novel, affordable handheld antenna device that combines several weak transmission signals to capture weather antenna quality images of earth. https://t.co/s2PiXLDeP4

[CyLab @CyLab]

In the latest ep of The Internet of Things Podcast 🎧, @gigastacey and @KevinCTofel chat about @CyLab's latest research, "Peekaboo!"

"We see a lot of stuff from @CarnegieMellon @CyLab," @gigastacey says in the ep. "We love those guys."

❤️

https://t.co/fPOuPBc8U4 #IoT #privacy

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

At Oakland S&P'22 (@IEEESSP) this week, @haojian_jin presents Peekaboo, a software pattern for IoT platforms that minimizes private data collection by design. Joint work with Gram Liu, David Hwang, Prof. Yuvraj Agarwal, Prof. Jason Hong. Link to teaser: https://t.co/oYfIwagRnV

[Akshay Gadre @AkshayGadre1]

📢I will be joining as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering @uw_ece at University of Washington @uwengineering in Fall 2022. My lab will explore new avenues in wireless, mobile and cyber-physical systems with emphasis on space communication and sensing.

[Swarun Kumar @swarunk]

Congrats to my PhD student Diana Zhang for receiving the 2022 A.G. Jordan Award for her outstanding PhD thesis work & service at @CarnegieMellon's commencement along with her degree & hood. Diana is my first PhD from @CMU_ECE and is now at @JHUAPL imaging Saturn's moons! #CMUgrad

[nic lane @niclane7]

Congrats to the winners of the ACM/IEEE IPSN (@ipsn20, @22CPSIoT ) best paper award for 2022: "SelfieStick: Towards Earth Imaging from a Low-Cost Ground Module using LEO Satellites" -- Vaibhav Singh (@Singh9Vaibhav), Osman Yaga, Swarun Kumar (@swarunk) CMU! 👏