• BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 2010
• MS, Computer Science, Duke University, 2013
• Ph D, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017

Journal Articles

Runze Liu, Taiting Lu, Shengming Yuan, Hao Zhou and Mahanth Gowda, 2024, "SmartDampener: An Open Source Platform for Sport Analytics in Tennis", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 8, (3), pp. 1-30

Shijia Zhang, Yilin Liu, Taiting Lu, Hao Zhou, Runze Liu and Mahanth Gowda, 2023, "I am an Earphone and I can Hear my Users Face: Facial Landmark Tracking using Smart Earphones", ACM Transactions of Internet of Things

Shijia Zhang, Yilin Liu and Mahanth Gowda, 2023, "I Spy You: Eavesdropping Continuous Speech on Smartphones via Motion Sensors", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6, (4), pp. 1--31

Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang and Mahanth Gowda, 2022, "Learning on the Rings: Self-Supervised 3D Finger Motion Tracking Using Wearable Sensors", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6, (2), pp. 1--31

Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang and Mahanth Gowda, 2022, "A Practical System for 3D Hand Pose Tracking using EMG Wearables with Applications to Prosthetics and User Interfaces", IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Mahanth Gowda and Srihari Nelakuditi, 2022, "Leveraging the Properties of mmWave Signals for 3D Finger Motion Tracking for Interactive IoT Applications", Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 6, (3), pp. 1--28

Yilin Liu, Fengyang Jiang and Mahanth Gowda, 2020, "Finger Gesture Tracking for Interactive Applications: A Pilot Study with Sign Languages", Proceedings of ACM Interactive Mobile Wearable Ubiquitous Technology

Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury and Srihari Nelakuditi, 2018, "If WiFi APs Could Move: A Measurement Study", Transactions of Mobile Computing (TMC) 2018, 17, (10), pp. 2293--2306

Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Sharon Xue Yang, Lei Yang, Suresh Golwalkar and Alexander Essanian, 2018, "IoT Platform for Sports Analytics", GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 21, (4), pp. 8--14

Apurv Bhartia, Mahanth Gowda, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Lili Qiu and Romit Roy Chowdhury, 2014, "WiFi-XL: Extending WiFi to Wide Areas in White Spaces", Microsoft Research TechReport TR-2014-132

Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic and Dimitrios Vytiniotis, 2013, "Ziria: Wireless programming for hardware dummies", Microsoft Research Tech Report MSR-TR-2013-135

Conference Proceedings

Hao Zhou, Kuang Yuan, Mahanth Gowda, Lili Qiu and Jie Xiong, 2024, "Rethinking Orientation Estimation with Smartphone-equipped Ultra-wideband Chips", Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM, pp. 1045-1059

Sandeepa Bhuyan, Ziyu Ying, Mahmut T Kandemir, Mahanth Gowda and Chita R. Das, 2024, "GameStreamSR: Enabling Neural-Augmented Game Streaming on Commodity Mobile Platforms", 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), IEEE, pp. 1309-1322

Xi Li, Songhe Wang, Ruiquan Huang, Mahanth Gowda and George Kesidis, 2024, "Temporal-distributed backdoor attack against video based action recognition", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38, (4), pp. 3199--3207

Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Kenneth DeHaan and Mahanth Gowda, 2024, "ASLRing: American Sign Language Recognition with Meta-Learning on WearablesSiri", 2024 IEEE/ACM Ninth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), pp. 203--214

Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Kristina Mckinnie, Joseph Palagano, Kenneth Dehaan and Mahanth Gowda, 2023, "SignQuery: A Natural User Interface and Search Engine for Sign Languages with Wearable Sensors", Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), pp. 1--16

Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Runze Liu and Mahanth Gowda, 2023, "One Ring to Rule Them All: An Open Source Smartring Platform for Finger Motion Analytics and Healthcare Applications", Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation, pp. 27--38

Suryoday Basak and Mahanth Gowda, 2022, "mmSpy: Spying Phone Calls using mmWave Radars", 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), pp. 1211--1228

Shijia Zhang, Yilin Liu and Mahanth Gowda, 2022, "Let's Grab a Drink: Teacher-Student Learning for Fluid Intake Monitoring using Smart Earphones", 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), pp. 55--66

Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang and Mahanth Gowda, 2021, "NeuroPose: 3D Hand Pose Tracking using EMG Wearables", The Web Conference (WWW)

Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang and Mahanth Gowda, 2021, "When Video meets Inertial Sensors: Zero-shot Domain Adaptation for Finger Motion Analytics with Inertial Sensors", 2021 IEEE/ACM Sixth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI)

Yilin Liu, Fengyang Jiang and Mahanth Gowda, 2020, "Application Informed Motion Signal Processing for Finger Motion Tracking using Wearable Sensors", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Sheng Shen, Mahanth Gowda and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2018, "Closing the Gaps in Inertial Motion Tracking", Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), pp. 429--444

Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Yixuan Zhao, Haitham Hassanieh and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2018, "LiquID: A Wireless Liquid IDentifier", Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)

Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Lei Yang, Suresh Golwalkar and Alexander Essanian, 2017, "Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics.", 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 17), pp. 499--513

Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2017, "Extending cell tower coverage through drones", pp. 7--12

Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury and Justin D Weisz, 2017, "Integrating GLONASS with GPS for Drone Orientation Tracking", pp. 77--92

Mahanth Gowda, 2016, "Bringing differential GPS to drones", pp. 1--1

Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2016, "Cell tower extension through drones: poster", pp. 456--457

Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury and Srihari Nelakuditi, 2016, "Compressing backoff in csma networks", 2016 IEEE 24th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 1--10

Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2016, "The Case for Robotic Wireless Networks", Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), pp. 1317--1327

Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury and Justin D Weisz, 2016, "Tracking drone orientation with multiple GPS receivers", Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), pp. 280--293

Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Radunovi\'c, Bo\vzidar and Dimitrios Vytiniotis, 2015, "Implementation of Real-time WiFi Receiver in Ziria, Language for Rapid Prototyping of Wireless PHY", pp. 210--211

Nirupam Roy, Mahanth Gowda and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2015, "Ripple: Communicating through Physical Vibration.", 2th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 15), pp. 265--278

Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Agull\'o and Cristina Luengo, 2015, "Ziria: A DSL for wireless systems programming", Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 415--428

Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic and Dimitrios Vytiniotis, 2014, "802.11 a/g PHY implementation in ziria, domain-specific language for wireless programming", pp. 27--30

Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury and Srihari Nelakuditi, 2014, "Backing out of linear backoff in wireless networks", pp. 7--12

Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2014, "Infrastructure Mobility: A What-if Analysis", pp. 19

Mahanth Gowda, Gordon Stewart, Geoffrey Mainland, Radunovi\'c, Bozidar, Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Doug Patterson, 2014, "Poster: Ziria: language for rapid prototyping of wireless PHY", pp. 359--362

Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic, Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Doug Patterson, 2014, "Ziria: language for rapid prototyping of wireless PHY", pp. 357--358

Mahanth Gowda, Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury and Sung-Ju Lee, 2013, "Cooperative packet recovery in enterprise wlans", INFOCOM, 2013 Proceedings IEEE, pp. 1348--1356

Xuan Bao, Mahanth Gowda, Ratul Mahajan and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2013, "The case for psychological computing", pp. 6

Songchun Fan, Mahanth Gowda and Romit Roy Choudhury, 2012, "Poster: saving power for mobile phones with partial Wi-Fi scans", pp. 509--510

Animesh Pathak and Mahanth Gowda, 2009, "Srijan: a graphical toolkit for sensor network macroprogramming", pp. 301--302

Mahanth Gowda and Animesh Pathak, 2009, "Supporting Heterogeneity in Data Driven Sensor Network Macroprogramming"

• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, March 2021 - March 2026

• Wormley Family Early Career Professorship, August 2022 - August 2025

• Best Paper Award for IoT Edge AI, ACM/IEEE, May 2023

• Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE, May 2021

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