Welcome to my homepage! My lab works on two broad exciting research areas of 1) RF Sensing (e.g., sensing with WiFi signals) and 2) Communication-Aware Robotics. In the area of RF Sensing, my lab showed it possible to sense with everyday WiFi signals, more than a decade ago, by successfully imaging still objects with WiFi. My lab further used the term Communication-Aware Motion Planning over a decade ago to jointly co-optimize motion and communication in realistic channel environments. Both these research areas have grown tremendously since then. See below for more details on current research thrusts:
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Sample Recent News:May 2022: Mostofi is honored to serve on SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award committee. Feb. 2022: A new method can enable high-quality imaging with WiFi via edge tracing using Keller cones. Check out our MobiCom 2022 paper for details. Nov. 2021: Congrats to Dr. Belal Korany for successfully defending his Ph.D. and joining Qualcomm. In the News (Sept.-Oct. 2021): Our MobiSys paper on WiFi counting a seated crowd, using their natural body fidgets, in the news! BBC Digital Planet (minute 14),ABC Australia (minute 10), Gizmodo, ACM TechNews, TechXplore, UCSB Current, and other outlets. [video] [project page] [MobiSys paper]
March 2021: Robust nocturnal seizure detection with WiFi. Check out our paper for details. Jan. 2021: Mostofi serves as program co-chair for MobiCom 2022. Dec. 2020: Congrats to Dr. Chitra Karanam for successfully defending her Ph.D. and joining Nuro. Dec. 2020: Training RF sensing systems with zero RF training data is possible. Check out our paper in ACM IMWUT to see how to use available online videos to train RF sensing systems. Nov. 2020: Mostofi gives invited talk at UIUC. Oct. 2020: Mostofi gives invited talk at Boston University. Oct. 2020:Check out our invited paper in Annual Reviews that reviews the area of communication-aware robotics. Sept. 2020: Congrats to Dr. Herbert Cai for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis and joining Qualcomm. July 2020:Check out our new paper on Exploiting Object Similarity in Robotic Operations, IEEE TRO. Jan. 2020: Mostofi is honored to become an IEEE fellow. July 2020:New Mathematical Model of Robotic Distance Traveled Till Connectivity. Check out paper in Autonomous Robots. In the News (Oct. 2019): First Demonstration of Through-Wall Person Identification from Video Footage in the News: BBC Digital Planet, Yahoo Finance, CNET Japan, Digital Trends, Science Daily, ACM News, New Atlas, IEEE Engineering360, Tech Xplore, UCSB Current, and other outlets [video][project page][paper] June 2019: Mostofi gives invited talk at UCI. April 2019: Mostofi gives invited talk at UCLA. Dec. 2018: Mostofi is honored to be a semi-plenary speaker at the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) . Dec. 2018: Congrats to Dr. Saandeep Depatla for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis and joining Uber. In the News (Sept. 2018): First Demonstration of Through-Wall Crowd Counting with Only WiFi in the News: Tech Crunch, Digit, New Atlas, The Register, Science Daily, UCSB Current, and other outlets [video][project page][paper] Sept. 2018: Congrats to Dr. Arjun Muralidharan for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis and joining Google. June 2018: Mostofi is honored to be a keynote speaker at the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED). June 2018: Check out our new paper on Crowd Speed Estimation and Counting with WiFi, IEEE Secon 2018. April 2018: Angle-of-Arrival Estimation with Only Signal Magnitude is possible. Check out our paper in IPSN 2018. March 2018: Congrats to Chitra for receiving the CCDC Fellowship, and to Arjun and Herbert for receiving the ECE Thesis Fellowship. Dec. 2017: Check out our new paper on Crowd Counting Through Walls, IEEE PerCom 2018. Dec. 2017: Check out Paper Repository on Human-Robot Collaborations. Dec. 2017: Congrats to Belal Salama for successfully defending his Ph.D. oral exam. Nov. 2017: Mostofi honored to give UCSB Library Fall Public Talk. Nov. 2017: Mostofi honored to talk at UCSB Parents and Family Weekend. October 2017: Mostofi gives invited talk at HotWireless. September 2017: Check out our new paper on Distributed Robotic Beam Forming, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. In the News (June 2017): First Demonstration of 3D Imaging Through Walls with WiFi and Drones (X-Ray Eyes in Sky) in the News: BBC Interview, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechRadar, Sputnik News, New York Post, PC Mag, Digital Trends, IFLScience, World News, Science Daily, Tecmundo, The Register, Phys.org, New Atlas, UCSB press release, IEEE Spectrum, ACM News, Yahoo News, MSN News, and other outlets [video][project page][paper] June 2017: Mostofi gives invited talk at IEEE Secon Workshop on Robotic Wireless Networks. April 2017: Mostofi gives invited talk at SoCal Robotics. March 2017: Mostofi gives invited talk at Panel on Future of WiFi, IEEE WCNC. Dec. 2016: Mostofi awarded the 2016 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), for "contributions to the fundamentals of communications and control co-optimization in mobile sensor networks". Check out the UCSB News Release, the ECE News Release, and Award ceremony photo Oct. 2016: Mostofi gives invited talk at CMU. Jun. 2016: Our paper on predicting human visual performance in visual tasks and incorporating it in robotic sensing and path planning in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 [project page]. May 2016: Mostofi gives invited talk at Stanford. April 2016: Mostofi gives invited talk at USC. January 2016: Mostofi gives invited talk at UC-Riverside. Apr. 2015: video on counting people with only WiFi in the news [project page][paper]. |
IEEE Fellow, since January 2020
Semi-plenary Speaker, the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami, December 2018
Keynote Speaker, the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Croatia, June 2018
Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), November 2016, UCSB News Release, ECE News Release, and Award ceremony photo.
Keynote Speaker and Honorarium Receipt, HP annual Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2015
IEEE 2012 Outstanding Engineer Award of Region 6, Sept. 22, 2012 article
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Group Photo with President Obama, Award Photo, October 2011
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, 2009
IEEE 2012 Outstanding Engineer Award of Albuquerque
2008-2009 ECE Distinguished Researcher Award, Univ. of New Mexico
Recipient of Bellcore fellow-advisor award, Stanford University, 1999
Our work on WiFi Counting a Stationary Seated Crowd Using their Natural Body Fidgets, in the news (Sept-Oct 2021):
BBC Digital Planet (minute 14), ABC Australia (minute 10), Gizmodo, ACM TechNews, TechXplore, UCSB Current, and other outlets. [video] [project page] [paper]
Our Work on the First Demonstration of Through-Wall Person Identification from Candidate Video Footage, Using only WiFi, in the News (Oct. 2019):
BBC Digital Planet, Yahoo Finance, CNET Japan, Digital Trends, Science Daily, ACM News, New Atlas, IEEE Engineering360, Tech Xplore, UCSB Current, and other outlets [video][project page][paper]
Our Work on the First Demonstration of Through-Wall Crowd Counting with Only WiFi in the News (Sept. 2018):
Tech Crunch, Digit, New Atlas, The Register, Science Daily, UCSB Current, and other outlets [video][project page][paper]
Our work on 3D Imaging Through Walls with WiFi and Drones in the news (June 2017):
BBC Interview, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechRadar, Sputnik News, New York Post, PC Mag, Digital Trends, IFLScience, World News, Science Daily, Tecmundo, The Register, Phys.org, New Atlas, UCSB press release, IEEE Spectrum, ACM News, Yahoo News, MSN News, and other outlets [video][project page][paper]
Dr. Mostofi is awarded the 2016 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), UCSB News Release, the ECE News Release, and Award ceremony photo.
Huffington Post's interview with Dr. Mostofi, March 2016
Our work on Counting People with WiFi (without relying on personal devices) in the news:
Gizmag, Huffington Post UK, PC World, ACM Tech News, Gizmodo, Science Daily, International Business Times UK, Tech Radar, Tech Times, Popular Mechanics, Phys.org, RT, UCSB press release, and other outlets, June 2015
Our work on Seeing Through Walls with only WiFi in the news:
Science360 Radio (Jan 2016), BBC Interview, Engadget, Gizmag, Daily Mail, IDG (PC World, IT World, Computer World) , International Business Times (Yahoo News), Headline and Global News, Gizmodo, SD Times, I-Programmer, Investors Business Daily, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Outer Places, UCSB press release, and other outlets, Aug. 2014
UCSB Professor Yasamin Mostofi receives the 2012 IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award, Sept. 22, 2012, article
President Obama names the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Sept. 26, 2011 Press Release
Dr. Mostofi's accomplishments become the number one UNM news of 2011 according to UNM's Communications and Marketing Department article
President Schmidly, the President of UNM, recognizes Professor Mostofi for her research accomplishments in the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, 2011
IEEE Control Systems Magazine's interview with Dr. Mostofi, June 2010 article
Research group highlighted in the UNM Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 article
Mostofi's lab is currently supported by NSF NeTS award # 1816931 (website), NSF CCSS award # 1611254, and NSF RI award # 1619376.