Lab 11 (Led by Prof. Prabal Dutta )
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Email address: ambujv@berkeley.edu
You can find my resume and research statement here
About
I am a postdoctoral scholar working under the mentorship of Prof. Prabal Dutta at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.
I plan to start as an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science at National University of Singapore in 2022.
Prospective students: feel free to reach out to me!
Research Interests:
My research interests centers around designing and tackling challenges of embedded -- sensing, communication and computation -- systems. I take an interdisciplinary approach of combining the concepts in communication, computer science and electronics to design embedded systems and applications. I enjoy working at their intersection.
In the recent few years, the focus of my research has been around designing sensing and communication systems that can operate at very low power which makes it possible to operate these systems on tiny batteries, or even without batteries on minuscle amounts ofenergy harvested from the ambient environment. E.g., As part of my postdoctoral work, I am working on designing low-power sensors to enable large scale data collection for future factores. The low-power may even enable these sensors to operate without batteries! Check this video (ABB produced video). You can also read more about me here , and in swedish here .
Prior Background:
Before joining UC Berkeley, I spent several years at Uppsala University, Sweden, where I also obtained my Ph.D degree. During my time at Uppsala University, I shephereded the move of the research group from classical wireless sensor networks towards emerging communication areas (Backscatter, LiFi, Tunnel Diodes).
Before joining Uppsala University, I worked at NXP Semiconductors, where I was responsible to design low-power wireless networking stack. Some of my work conducted at NXP was also shipped to the customers. I obtained a Bachelors degree in Information and Communication Technology, and during my studies, I primarily worked with Prof. Prabhat Ranjan, and I studied and developed interest in electronics, computer science, and communications, and designed wireless cameras to take images of tigers!
Projects
News
- [October 2021] IMDEA Networks did a press release for our upcoming work to appear at ACM MOBICOM 2021. This system demonstrates ability to transmit to hundreds of meters at only few microwatts of power consumption. A world record of its own. You can find the work here. It was covered by several media outlets such as TechXplore, EureakAlert, AzoSensors, ElectronicsForu and many others
- [September 2021] Due to the pandemic, I was on-leave from UCB, and visiting NSS@KTH in the early part of this year. We were exploring potential for collaboration on security issues with backscatter communication. The outcome from the collaboration (with Revathy) has been accepted at ACM HOTNETS 2021
- [August 2021] Very excited that our joint work with long-term collaborators at IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain has been accepted at MobiCom 2021! Bean counting :-) - Hatrick of MobiCom acceptance in as many years.
- [June 2021] I have started writing about Internet of Things, Automation, and other related topics on Medium. Find my Medium homepage here, and follow my thoughts in the area.
- [April 2021] I have accepted an offer to join as an Assistant Professor at School of Computer Science at National University of Singapore. I am very excited to establish research group in the area of embedded systems and networking, and I plan to start early 2022. Please reach out if you are interested.
- [April 2021] I am serving on the program committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2022. Please consider submitting your work!
- [April 2021] I am excited to serve on the editoral board of the "Wireless Embedded Systems" track of the exciting new open-access journal "Journal of Systems Research"
- [April 2021] I am serving on the program committee of the exciting new workshop "No Power and Low Power Internet-of-Things (LP-IoT 2021)" to be held together with ACM MobiCom 2021. Please consider submitting your work!
- [March 2021] I have invited talks regarding tackling the energy asymmetry in wireless embedded systems at several universities and institutions including: IMDEA Network Institute, Imperial College London, National University of Singapore,ETH Zurich,Aalto University
- [December 2020] I am serving on the Program Committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2021 , IEEE ICDCS 2021 and IEEE DCOSS 2021. Please consider submitting your work!
- [November 2020] Together with colleagues at IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain we presented work to design battery-free platforms that use hybrid communication medium (RF-backscatter and LiFi) at European Researchers' Night 2020 and Science and Innovation Week 2020. Watch more about our exciting project in this video.
- [October 2020] I gave an invited talk ACM SIGMOBILE India Chapter regarding enabling widespread sustainable sensing. The announcement was distributed through official ACM handles.
- [September 2020] Our work to design low-power carrier emitters was accepted and presented at ACM MOBICOM 2020. This work was jointly done together with Lorenzo Corneo (Uppsala University). Find presentation video here .
- [August 2020] Excited to start new chapter in my career and start working as a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Prof. Prabal Dutta.
- [July 2020] I presented our to design hybrid light and RF backscatter systems at ACM MOBISYS 2020. This work done together with fantastic colleagues at IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain. You can find video presentation here .
- [June 2020] Extremely proud that Andreas Soleiman whom I have been mentoring for past several years has received Ph.D. admits from University of California@Berkeley, MIT (accepted), University of Washington@Seattle, Dartmouth and others!!
- [December 2019] Uppsala University Innovation appreciated our battery-free sensing work with Attractive Innovation Award and selected it among Top 15 projects from the University! Find the press release here
- [November 2019] I received the prestigious ABB Research Award 2019 for my doctoral dissertation and ongoing work to enable large-scale data collection in inudstries using battery-free sensors. You can read about the project here. This award includes the highest endowment offered by any company with value being 300,000 USD.
- [October 2019] I presented our work on using tunnel diodes for enhancing backscatter systems at ACM MOBICOM 2019@Mexico! Please find the presentation here.
