Mahanth Gowda

I am an Associate Professor in the school of EECS at Pennsylvania State University. I am looking for strongly-motivated PhD students.

My areas of interest include Wireless Networking, Mobile and Wearable Computing, Machine Learning with applications to Cyber Physical Systems, IoT and human behavioral sensing.

PhD Students

• Suryoday Basak
• Hao Zhou
• Taiting Lu
• Runze Liu
• Shawn Li

Alumni

• Yilin Liu, Ph.D. 2023 --> Google
• Shijia Zhang, Ph.D. 2024 --> Google

Grants

• PI: NSF-2046972: CAREER: Sign-to-Speech: An Edge-IoT Platform and Software Library for Real Time Sign Language Recognition
  
• PI: NSF-2333583: I-Corps: A smart ring for finger motion analytics and healthcare applications
  
• PI: NSF-1909479: CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: A Motion Tracking Library for Sports Analytics using Wireless Sensors
  
• PI: NSF-2008384: CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: IoTScope: Sensing Physical Materials via Inexpensive IoT Radios
  
• Co-PI: NSF-1956276: CNS Core: Medium: When Next Generation Wireless Networks Meet Machine Learning
  
• Co-PI: NSF-2211018: SHF: Medium: Exploring an Edge Platform Design Trajectory for Next Generation XR Applications
  

Selected Papers

• SmartDampener: An Open Source Platform for Sport Analytics in Tennis
  Runze Liu, Taiting Lu, Shengming Yuan, Hao Zhou, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2024
  

• Rethinking Orientation Estimation with Smartphone-equipped Ultra-wideband Chips
  Hao Zhou, Kuang Yuan, Mahanth Gowda, Lili Qiu, Jie Xiong.
  ACM MobiCom, 2024.
  

• Temporal-Distributed Backdoor Attack Against Video Based Action Recognition
  Xi Li, Songhe Wang, Ruiquan Huang, Mahanth Gowda, George Kesidis.
  AAAI, 2024.
  

• SignQuery: A Natural User Interface and Search Engine for Sign Languages with Wearable Sensors
  Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Kristina McKinnie, Joseph Palagano, Kenneth DeHaan, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM MobiCom, 2023.
  

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

• One Ring to Rule Them All: An Open Source Smartring Platform for Finger Motion Analytics and Healthcare Applications
  Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Runze Liu, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2023. Best Paper Award for Edge IoT AI
  

• I Spy You: Eavesdropping Continuous Speech on Smartphones via Motion Sensors
  Shijia Zhang, Yilin Liu, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2023
  

• Leveraging the Properties of mmWave Signals for 3D Finger Motion Tracking for Interactive IoT Applications
  Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Mahanth Gowda, Srihari Nelakuditi.
  ACM Sigmetrics, 2023
  

• Let’s Grab a Drink: Teacher-Student Learning for Fluid Intake Monitoring using Smart Earphones
  Shijia Zhang, Yilin Liu, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2022.
  

• mmSpy: Spying Phone Calls using mmWave Radars
  Suryoday Basak, Mahanth Gowda.
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) , 2022.
  

• LiquID: A Wireless Liquid IDentifier
  Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Yixuan Zhao, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  ACM MOBISYS, 2018.
  

• Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics. [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang et al.,
  NSDI, 2017.
  

• Tracking Drone Orientation with Multiple GPS Receivers [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury, Justin Weisz.
  ACM MOBICOM, 2016.
  

• The Case for Robotic Wireless Networks.
  Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  WWW, 2016.
  

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