Research Interests

 

I work in two research areas: Wireless and Health.

Wireless: My research interests span both theory and experimental designs for next-generation wireless. Some of my past projects include WARP and Full-duplex Wireless. Currently,

  • I am leading RENEW, an NSF PAWR project, that is developing open-source massive MIMO platform for a deployed city-scale national wireless testbed.
  • I am co-leading the new ARL-Rice Center for advanced materials and networks, that is developing foundations for extremely high bandwidth autonomous and secure wireless networks.
  • Several recently-funded projects are in the works, please write to me to learn more.

Health: My interest in health are at the intersection of engineering, behavioral sciences and medicine. I founded the Scalable Health Labs. Scalable Health Labs’ is mission to develop methods to uncover behavior-biology causal pathways, with a specific focus in three areas: bio-behavioral sensing, mobile bio-imaging, and data science methodologies. Currently,

  • I am leading  “See below the skin” for non-invasive bio-imaging, an NSF Expeditions in Computing project.
  • I am the Rice lead on NSF Engineering Research Center, PATHS-UP that is developing cost-effective personalized technologies for under-served populations.
  • Several recently-funded projects are in the startup phase, please write to me to learn more.

Translation: My research has led to four commercial spinoffs – one in wireless and three in healthcare. Most recently, two of our patents were licensed to develop a new medical device.

Graduate Students: We have several openings for graduate students. Please apply to Rice ECE. There is no application fee and GRE is optional.

Undergraduate Students: Undergraduate researchers are welcome in our labs. You can either for VIP credit in the ECE department – ELEC 491, Wearables Section 905 or RENEW Wireless, Section 907. Independent research is also welcome. We will also have many openings for summer internships.

Awards: Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and National Academy of Inventors, 2017 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2018 IEEE Advances in Communications Award, 2019 ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time Award, 2019 ACM MobiCom Community Contributions Award and 2021 ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time Award.

Publications: Google Scholar page