I work in two research areas: Wireless and Health.

Wireless: My research interests span both theory and experimental designs for next-generation wireless. My current research focus are as follows.

• Joint Communications and Imaging: See 4D100 and OneDegree for recent and ongoing work on developing foundations for high-resolution RF imaging at the city-scale. We are working on theoretical bounds, practical algorithms, novel hardware designs, and experimental validation.
• Learning-based Wireless Design: See ETHOS, RFDataFactory, LARA and 3DML for ongoing projects that cover algorithm design, open-source datasets, and deployed validation frameworks.
• Open-source Research Platforms: See RENEW for recent work and WARP for our past work. We just started a major new project – Houdini.

Health: My interest in health is at the intersection of machine learning, behavioral sciences, and medicine. We commonly use modern machine learning methods with a focused effort to improve healthcare outcomes. I founded and lead the Rice Digital Health Initiative. Rice is located across the world’s biggest medical center, Texas Medical Center, and it gives us a major advantage to conduct high-impact research. In my Scalable Health Labs. we are developing methods to uncover behavior-biology causal pathways, speech and vision AI for health and conducting many novel prospective trials.

• 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 and 2021 ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time Awards, 2019 ACM MobiCom Community Contributions Award, and 2023 ICC Best Paper Award.

Publications: Google Scholar page