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
• Taiting Lu
• Runze Liu
• Shawn Li
• Kaiyuan Lin

Alumni

• Hao Zhou, Ph.D. 2026 --> University of Texas at Dallas
• Shijia Zhang, Ph.D. 2024 --> Google
• Yilin Liu, Ph.D. 2023 --> 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

• ICLAgent: Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Labeling via LMM-empowered Multi-Agent Framework
  ECCV, 2026. Conditional Accept.

• OmniSch: A Multimodal PCB Schematic Benchmark For Structured Diagram Visual Reasoning
  ECCV, 2026. Conditional Accept.
  

• LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding
  ICML, 2026.
  

• Exploring the Feasibility of Full-Body Muscle Activation Sensing with Insole Pressure Sensors
  MobiCom, 2026.
  

• FuSenseRing: An Open-Source Platform for Robust Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring via Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Temperature-Adaptive Attention
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp , 2025.

• VisRing: A Display-Extended Smartring for Nano Visualizations
  ACM UIST 2025
  

• SmartDampener: An Open Source Platform for Sport Analytics in Tennis
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2024
  

• Temporal-Distributed Backdoor Attack Against Video Based Action Recognition
  AAAI, 2024.
  

• SignQuery: A Natural User Interface and Search Engine for Sign Languages with Wearable Sensors
  ACM MobiCom, 2023.
  

• I am an Earphone and I can Hear my Users Face: Facial Landmark Tracking using Smart Earphones
  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
  ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2023. Best Paper Award for Edge IoT AI
  

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

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

• Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics. [Slides]
  NSDI, 2017.
  

• Tracking Drone Orientation with Multiple GPS Receivers [Slides]
  ACM MOBICOM, 2016.
  

• The Case for Robotic Wireless Networks.
  WWW, 2016.
  

Full List here