Deepak Vasisht

deepakv@illinois.edu

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  • deepakv@illinois.edu
  • 32-G934, Stata Center

I recently graduated with a Ph.D. from MIT, advised by Prof. Dina Katabi. My research interests are in the area of wireless networks and IoT systems.


I am starting as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UIUC in Fall 2020. I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students to join my lab. Please apply to the UIUC graduate program if you are interested. To know more about my research, please read my Research Statement.

Selected Conference Publications

  • Deep Learning based Wireless Localization for Indoor Navigation
    Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Aditya Arun, Chenfeng Wu, Sanatan Sharma, Abhishek Sethi, Deepak Vasisht, Dinesh Bharadia
    ACM MobiCom, 2020

  • Low-Cost Aerial Imaging for Small Holder Farmers
    Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Akshit Kumar, Rohit Patil, Aditya Jain, Zerina Kapetanovic, Rahul Sharma, Deepak Vasisht, Manohar Swaminathan, Ranveer Chandra, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta Sinha, Akshay Uttama Nambi SN
    ACM Compass, 2019
    Best Paper Award

  • BLoc: CSI-based Accurate Localization for BLE Tags
    Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Deepak Vasisht, Dinesh Bharadia
    ACM CoNext, 2018

  • In-body Backscatter Communication and Localization
    Deepak Vasisht, Guo Zhang, Omid Abari, Jay Flanz, Hsiao Ming-Lu, Dina Katabi
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2018
    [paper][talk-pptx-pdf-video]

  • Duet: Estimating User Position and Identity in Smart Homes using Intermittent and Incomplete RF-Data
    Deepak Vasisht, Anubhav Jain, Chen-Yu Hsu, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi
    ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2018
    [paper][talk-pptx-pdf]

  • Farmbeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture
    Deepak Vasisht, Zerina Kapetanovic, Jongho Won, Xinxin Jin, Ranveer Chandra, Ashish Kapoor, Sudipta Sinha, Madhusudhan Sudarshan, Sean Stratman
    USENIX NSDI, 2017
    [paper][talk-pptx-pdf-video][project video][project webpage]
    Featured (cover) in GetMobile
    Highlighted by Satya Nadella as one of 10 projects that inspired him in 2017
    Released in public preview as Azure FarmBeats

  • Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks
    Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2016
    [paper][talk-pptx-pdf-video]
    Best Paper Award

  • Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point
    Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Dina Katabi
    USENIX NSDI, 2016
    [paper][talk-pptx-pdf]
    An earlier version of this paper is on arxiv:
    Sub-Nanosecond Time of Flight on Commercial Wi-Fi Cards. [arxiv pdf]

  • Caraoke: An E-Toll Transponder Network for Smart Cities
    Omid Abari, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi, Anantha Chandrakasan
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2015
    [paper]

  • Exploiting Sparsity and Co-occurrence Structure for Action Unit Recognition
    Yale Song, Daniel McDuff, Deepak Vasisht, Ashish Kapoor
    IEEE Face & Gestures (FG), 2015
    [paper]

  • RF-IDraw: Virtual Touch Screen in the Air Using RF Signals
    Jue Wang, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2014
    [paper] [talk-pptx-pdf]

  • Active Learning for Sparse Bayesian Multilabel Classification
    Deepak Vasisht, Andreas Domianou, Manik Varma, Ashish Kapoor
    ACM SIGKDD, 2014
    [paper] [poster] [talk-pdf-video]

Other Papers and Articles

  • Research for Practice: Towards a Network of Connected Things
    Deepak Vasisht
    ACM Queue, 2017
    [link]

  • Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next Generation Cellular Networks
    Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi
    ACM GetMobile, 2017
    [link]

  • Experiences Deploying an Always-on Farm Network
    Zerina Kapetanovic, Deepak Vasisht, Jongho Won, Ranveer Chandra, Mark Kimball
    ACM GetMobile, 2017
    [link]

Selected Awards

  • ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, 2016
  • Winning team, Microsoft Oneweek Hackathon (Industries Category), 2016
  • Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, 2016-18
  • President of India Gold Medal, 2013 for highest CGPA across all departments at IIT Delhi
  • MIT EECS Great Educators Fund Fellowship for academic year 2013-14
  • Had the honor to witness Republic Day of India, 2008 and 2010 from the Prime Minister's box for being among the top 25 students in Class X and Class XII exams respectively

Miscellaneous

  • Bill Gates visited a FarmBeats deployment and posted a blog and video about it on GatesNotes.
  • We integrated our indoor positioning work into the MIT Local Warming project which was deployed at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014.