Systems and Networking Research Group - SYNRG

Congrats to Nirupam for winning the CSL PhD Thesis Award at UIUC! The award is presented annually to a researcher whose PhD thesis makes high impact contributions in interdisciplinary research areas.

Congrats to Sheng for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled "Actively Exploiting Propagation Delays for Acoustic Systems". Sheng will join the Facebook VR/AR team in Jan 2020.

Ashutosh will join the CS Department of Georgia Tech as a tenure track professor from Fall 2019. Congratulations to Ashutosh!

~Haitham wins 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship
~Romit elected IEEE Fellow

Congrats to Haitham and Romit!

~TrackIO accepted to NSDI'19. TrackIO presents accurate and real-time localization and tracking for first responders in large indoor environments. Check out the work here:
https://tinyurl.com/y5mwtl8s

~Check out our work, BounceNet, at NSDI 2019, that enables many-to-many beam alignment for highly directional millimeter wave links:
https://tinyurl.com/y5q8g8ms

~BounceNet provides ~7x gain in client throughput over current mmWave standards, enabling new applications like multi-user wireless VR for professional training

~Check out our work, MUSE, at MobiCom 2018 that designs a magnetometer-centric orientation tracking algorithm: https://tinyurl.com/ycqoz6y4
~MUSE shows consistent improvement in orientation and location accuracy in numerous uncontrolled scenarios, especially when the object is in continuous fast motion

~Check out our work at MobiCom 2018 on detecting the presence of passive wireless eavesdroppers in the environment: https://tinyurl.com/y86xxnz4

Congratulations to Suraj for winning the ACM SIGCOMM'18 Student Research Competition (SRC). Check out his work at : https://bit.ly/2MHEgKG

~ AgileLink enables fast beam alignment for highly directional millimeter wave links without scanning the entire 3D space.
~ Check out our SIGCOMM 2018 paper at: https://bit.ly/2NciRZs

~ Check out our recent work in SIGCOMM'18 on improving noise cancellation with wireless and Internet-of-Things: https://bit.ly/2ND9sXz

MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation For more details please visit: https://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/anc Publication: MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation Sheng Shen, Nirupam Roy, Junfeng Guan...