Yasamin Mostofi's Homepage

Yasamin Mostofi

Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

Office: Harold Frank Hall 5121
Email: ymostofi [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu
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Welcome to my homepage! My lab works on two broad exciting research areas of RF Sensing (e.g., sensing with WiFi) and Communication-Aware Robotics. Current research thrusts include:

RF Sensing, Through-wall person identification with WiFi, X-ray vision with WiFi, drones imaging through walls, Tracking and localization [sample video on person identification][sample video on drones imaging through walls][project page][related papers][sample data]

Estimating occupancy attributes (e.g., head counting, through wall counting, crowd speed estimation) with WiFi [sample video][project page][related papers]

Communication-aware robotics, Co-optimization of navigation & communication, Mobility to enable connectivity, Multi-agent systems [project page][related papers][sample data]

Human-robot collaboration, Human visual performance prediction, When to query human, Human vision [project page][related papers][data]

Sample Recent News:

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].


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Mostofi's lab is currently supported by NSF NeTS award # 1816931 (website), NSF CCSS award # 1611254, and NSF RI award # 1619376.

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