Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Elahé Soltanaghai in the iSENS group.
I work on wireless sensing: what low-power radio hardware can reveal about the physical world, and the signal processing and machine learning that turn faint signals into reliable measurements.
Outside the lab I photograph the night sky — deep-sky astrophotography.
Our paper “Physics Unrolled Neural Operator for Wireless Field Modeling” was accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
Our paper “‘My Credentials, Please’: Detecting Filesystem Capability Laundering in MCP Servers at Scale” is now on arXiv.
Our team (with Ishan Bansal and David Alcantara) won 🥇 1st place at the ARAthon hackathon at AgWireless ’26 for our rural coverage planner, plus a signed copy of Dennis Roberson’s book as a special prize!
Can a low-power tag detect a nearby FMCW radar and work out its configuration with no prior knowledge of it?
A passive tag uses delay lines to turn GHz radar chirps into kHz beat tones, detecting radars with 99% accuracy up to 15 m and estimating their chirp slope and direction.
Can a single mmWave radar find a child left in a car, including in a rear-facing seat it cannot see directly?
Passive reflectors cover the radar’s blind spots, and a multi-task model detects child presence and estimates breathing rate, with over 97% detection accuracy and under 6 breaths per minute of error.