Congratulations!

Over the last five years, I have been proud to curate and lead a fantastic group of Ph.D. students from six different countries, including US. I believed that USA was the only country where this was possible. It is a shame that we are losing that special status with each day.

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ACM MobiCom 2025 solicits proposals for specialised workshops on emerging topics in mobile/wireless networking/computing! Deadline: 18 April 2025. Call: www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2025...

Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity!
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study

One of the most important skills I teach my students&postdocs is how to communicate their research. Last week at NSF, I gave a keynote to (mostly) junior faculty on how to pitch their work. The talk resonated with many folks, so I'm sharing it publicly: www.mit.edu/~fadel/paper...

Shreya Gummadi, Mateus V. Gasparino, Deepak Vasisht, Girish Chowdhary
Fed-EC: Bandwidth-Efficient Clustering-Based Federated Learning For Autonomous Visual Robot Navigation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04112

Jayanth Shenoy, Xingjian Davis Zhang, Shlok Mehrotra, Bill Tao, Rem Yang, Han Zhao, Deepak Vasisht
S4: Self-Supervised Sensing Across the Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01656

Took an acting class during my Ph.D. Learnt about using the stage, understanding audience reactions, etc. Super useful skill for talks and lectures!

Excited that this paper won the "Best Community Contribution award" at ACMMobiCom. Check out the paper at: deepakv.web.illinois.edu/assets/paper... and our satellite-IoT simulator at: github.com/microsoft/Co...
(work led by Jay Shenoy and Om Chabra, with Tusher, Ranveer, and Suraj)

Do you feel stressed?
Is it one thing or a combination?

Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!

Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...

A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks | Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

Links to paper:
HotNets: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
MobiCom: deepakv.web.illinois.edu/assets/paper...
CosmicBeats Simulator: github.com/microsoft/Co...

An image of a pico satellite fitting in the hands of a person. The satellite has a small camera and small antennas.

Jay Shenoy presented "CosMAC: Constellation-Aware Medium Access and Scheduling for IoT Satellites" at
ACM MobiCom on Tuesday, focusing on direct IoT to satellite connectivity (w/ Om, Ranveer, Tusher, and Suraj). We actually launched a satellite for this one.

My group is presenting two papers on LEO satellite networking this week. Seoyul Oh presented "A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks" at
#HotNets on Monday, proposing collaborative multi-party constellations that improve efficiency and quality of service.