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About me

Welcome to my webpage!
I am PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I work in Prof. Mostofi's lab on sensing with everyday communication signals such as WiFi. Before coming to UCSB, I spent two years at DRDO, India where I worked on antenna design for radars. Prior to that I worked on LTE testbed at IIT, Madras for a brief period.

Education

Research Interests

• Wireless Sensing
• Data analytics using low power wireless sensors
• Signal processing
• Applied Electromagnetics

Publications

• B. Korany, S. Depatla, and Y. Mostofi, "Subspace-Based Imaging Using Only Power Measurements," to appear in the proceedings of the 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, July 2018.
• S. Depatla and Y. Mostofi, "Passive Crowd Speed Estimation in Adjacent Regions With Minimal WiFi Sensing", Preprint [pdf]
• S. Depatla and Y. Mostofi, "Passive Crowd Speed Estimation and Head Counting Using WiFi", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 23 % ) [pdf]
• S. Depatla and Y. Mostofi, "Crowd Counting Through Walls Using WiFi", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19 %) [pdf]
• S. Depatla, C.R. Karanam, and Y. Mostofi, "Robotic Through-Wall Imaging: Radio-Frequency Imaging Possibilities with Unmanned Vehicles", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 59, no. 5 : 47-60, Oct. 2017. [pdf]
• S. Depatla, A. Muralidharan, and Y. Mostofi, "Occupancy Estimation Using Only WiFi Power Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Location-Awareness for Radios and Networks, volume 33, issue 7, July 2015. [pdf]

• S. Depatla, L. Buckland, and Y. Mostofi, "X-Ray Vision with Only WiFi Power Measurements Using Rytov Wave Models", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, special issue on Indoor Localization, Tracking, and Mapping, volume 64, issue 4, pp. 1376-1387, April 2015. [pdf]

Patent

• S. Depatla, A. Muralidharan, and Y. Mostofi, "System and method of occupancy estimation utilizing transmitted signals", patent # 20160294492, 2017.