Conferences, Workshops and Journals

2024

TunnelSense: Low-Power, Non-Contact Sensing using Tunnel Diodes
Thaddeus Lim Chang Quan, Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani, Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria, Dhairya Jigar Shah, Manoj Gulati, Ambuj Varshney
IEEE RFID 2024
LiFi for Low-Power and Long-Range RF Backscatter
Muhammad Sarmad, Borja Genoves, Ambuj Varshney, Domenico Giustiniano
IEEE Transactions on Networking 2024

2023

TunnelLiFi: Bringing LiFi to Commodity Internet of Things Devices
Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Wenqing Yan, Prabal Dutta, Domenico Giustiniano, Ambuj Varshney
ACM HotMobile 2023
Beyond Broadcasting: Revisiting FM Frequency-band for Providing Connectivity to Next Billion Devices
Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani, Manoj Gulati, Ambuj Varshney
ACM ENSsys 2023 (Co-located with ACM SenSys)

2022

Making Low-power and Long-range Wireless Backscatter Transmitters
Ambuj Varshney
GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications (Maker Edition) 2022
Also featured in editorial written by Landon Cox (Microsoft Research)
Judo: Addressing the Energy Asymmetry of WES through Tunnel Diode based Wireless Transmitters
Ambuj Varshney, Wenqing Yan, Prabal Dutta
ACM MobiSys 2022
PassiveLiFi: Rethinking LiFi for Low-Power and Long Range RF Backscatter
Muhammad Sarmad, Borja Genoves, Ambuj Varshney, Domenico Giustiniano
ACM MobiCom 2021/2022

2021

Securing Battery-free Backscatter Tags through Fingerprinting
Revathy Narayanan, Ambuj Varshney, et al.
ACM HotNets 2021
Radio frequency communication device for low power communication
Ambuj Varshney (Only inventor)
[PCT/Patent Application] [WO2021040594A1]

2020

TunnelEmitter: Tunnel Diode based Low-Power Carrier Emitters for Backscatter Tags
Ambuj Varshney, Lorenzo Corneo
ACM MobiCom 2020
Two to Tango: Hybrid Light and Backscatter Networks for Next Billion Devices
Ambuj Varshney, Ander Galiesto, Domenico Giustiniano
Co-primary author that contributed equally to the work
ACM MobiSys 2020
Presentation video: Youtube

2019

TunnelScatter: Low Power Communication for Sensor Tags using Tunnel Diodes
Ambuj Varshney, Andreas Soleiman, Thiemo Voigt
ACM MobiCom 2019

2018

Connecting Battery-free IoT Tags Using LED Bulbs
Domenico Giustiniano, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt
ACM HotNets 2018
Battery-free 802.15.4 Receiver
Carlos Perez Penichet, Claro Noda, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2018

2017

LoRea: A Backscatter Architecture that Achieves a Long Communication Range
Ambuj Varshney, Oliver Harms, Carlos Penichet, Christian Rohner, Frederik Hermans, Thiemo Voigt
ACM SENSYS 2017
Battery-free Visible Light Sensing
Best Paper Award
Ambuj Varshney, Andreas Soleiman, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt
ACM VLCS 2017 (Co-located with ACM MobiCom)
Towards wide-area backscatter networks
Ambuj Varshney, Carlos Perez Penichet, Christian Rohner, Thiemo Voigt
ACM HotWireless 2017 (Co-located with ACM MobiCom)

2016

modBulb: A Modular Light Bulb for Visible Light Communication
Kasun Hewage, Ambuj Varshney, Abdalah Hilamia, Thiemo Voigt
ACM VLCS 2016 (Co-located with ACM MobiCom)
Augmenting IoT Networks with Backscatter-Enabled Passive Sensor Tags
Carlos Perez Penichet, Frederik Hermans, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt
ACM HotWireless 2016 (Co-located with ACM MobiCom)

2015

Directional Transmissions and Receptions for High-throughput Bulk Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ambuj Varshney, Luca Mottola, Mats Carlsson, Thiemo Voigt
ACM SENSYS 2015
dRTI: Directional Radio Tomographic Imaging
Bo Wei, Ambuj Varshney, Wen Hu, Neal Patwari, Thiemo Voigt, Chun Tung Chou
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2015

Other Peer-reviewed Publications (Short papers, Demonstrations, Posters)

PixelGen: Rethinking Embedded Camera Systems for Mixed-Reality
K. Li, M. Gulati, D. Shah, S. Waskito, S. Chakrabarty, A. Varshney
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2024
Best Demonstration Award Runner-up
Enabling Non-contact, Low-Power Sensing using Tunnel Diodes
Y. Bhadauria, L. Thaddeus, C. Reddy, M. Gulati, D. Shah, A. Varshney
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2024
Otter: Simplifying Embedded Sensor Data Collection and Analysis using Large Language Models
Steven Waskito, Kai Jie Leow, Pramuka Medaranga, Tejas Gupta, Shantanu Chakrabarty, Manoj Gulati, Ambuj Varshney
ACM MobiCom 2023
Student Research Competition (Third Winner) (Undergraduate)
Going Beyond Backscatter: Rethinking Low-Power Wireless Transmitters using Tunnel Diodes
Moteen Amin Shah, Adithya Bijoy, Manoj Gulati, Wenqing Yan, Ambuj Varshney
ACM MobiCom 2023
Student Research Competition (Winner) (Undergraduate)
Rethinking Embedded Sensor Data Processing and Analysis with Large Language Models
Pramuka Medaranga, Steven Waskito, Li Kunjun, Leow Kai Jie, Shantanu Chakrabarty, Ambuj Varshney
ACM MobiSys 2023
An Educational Platform to Learn Radio Frequency Wireless Communication
Best Demonstration Award (Featured on National University of Singapore website)
Tobias Mages, Wenqing Yan, Ambuj Varshney, Christian Rohner
ACM MobiSys 2023
Enabling L3: low cost, low complexity and low power radio frequency sensing using tunnel diodes
Wenqing Yan, Ambuj Varshney
ACM MobiCom 2022
Towards Battery-free Radio Tomographic Imaging
Best Demonstration Award
Abdullah Hylamia, Ambuj Varshney, Andreas Soleiman, et al.
ACM WiSec 2018
Battery-free Visible Light Sensing
WINNER (First place, Graduate) at Student Research Competition
Andreas Soleiman, Ambuj Varshney, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt
ACM MobiCom 2017 and ACM VLCS 2017
LoRea: A Backscatter Architecture that Achieves a Long Communication Range
Ambuj Varshney, Carlos M. Pérez-Penichet, Christian Rohner, T.Voigt
ACM SenSys 2017
Augmenting WSNs with Interoperable 802.15.4 Sensor Tags
Carlos M. Pérez-Penichet, Claro Noda, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt
ACM SenSys 2017
BouKey: Location-Based Key Sharing Using Visible Light Communication
Abdalah Hilmia, Kasun Hewage, Ambuj Varshney, Christian Rohner, Thiemo Voigt
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016
LocaLight - A Battery-Free Passive Localization System Using Visible Light
Elena Di Lascio, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt, Carlos M. Pérez-Penichet
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016
modBulb: a modular light bulb for visible light communication
Kasun Hewage, Ambuj Varshney, Abdalah Hilmia, Thiemo Voigt
ACM VLCS 2016
Passive sensor tags
Carlos M. Pérez-Penichet, Frederik Hermans, Ambuj Varshney, T. Voigt:
ACM MobiCom 2016
Coordination of Wireless Sensor Networks using Visible Light
Ambuj Varshney, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt
ACM SenSys 2015
Directional transmissions and receptions for burst forwarding using disjoint paths
Ambuj Varshney, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2014
Directional transmissions and receptions for high throughput burst forwarding
Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt, Luca Mottola
ACM SenSys 2013

Dissertation

Enabling Sustainable Networked Embedded Systems
Ambuj Varshney, Doctoral dissertation
Awarded the 2019 ABB Research Award in Honour of HvG
Selection rate: 1/60+ (across disciplines)

The award included an endowment worth 300,000 USD hosted at the University of California, Berkeley (EECS). This is highest endowment offered by a commercial organization to support early-career researchers.

Selection jury consisted of following:
  • Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg (Chair of Board of Directors of ABB)
  • Prof. Nina Thornhill (Imperial College London)
  • Prof. M. Granger Morgan (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Prof. Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)
  • Prof. C.L. Philip Chen (University of Macau, Taipa, Macau)
  • Bazmi Husain, CTO of ABB
Press release from Uppsala University
Press release from ABB