Mahanth Gowda

Papers

• ICLAgent: Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Labeling via LMM-empowered Multi-Agent Framework
  Yida Wang, Yixin Liu, Taiting Lu, Lanqing Yang, Dian Ding, Juntao Zhou, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Mahanth Gowda.
  ECCV, 2026. Conditional Accept.
  

• OmniSch: A Multimodal PCB Schematic Benchmark For Structured Diagram Visual Reasoning
  Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Yuxin Tian, Yubo Wang, Muchuan Wang, Sharique Khatri, Akshit Kartik, Yixi Wang, Amey Santosh Rane, Yida Wang, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.
  ECCV, 2026. Conditional Accept.
  

• LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding
  Yida Wang, Taiting Lu, Runze Liu, Lanqing Yang, Zhe Chen, Yuehai Wang, Yixin Liu, Kaiyuan Lin, XiaoMeng Chen, Dian Ding, Yijie Li, Yifan Yang, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda.
  ICML, 2026.
  

• Exploring the Feasibility of Full-Body Muscle Activation Sensing with Insole Pressure Sensors
  Hao Zhou and Mahanth Gowda.
  MobiCom, 2026.
  

• EgoSSA: Egocentric Stereo Structure-Aware 3D Hand Reconstruction for American Sign Language Gesture Modeling
  Yongxiang Cai, Yanjun Zhu, Zhenghao Li, Taiting Lu, Kenneth DeHaan, Patrick Chen, Xuhai Xu, Zhanpeng Jin, Mahanth Gowda, Yincheng Jin.
  IEEE FG, 2026.
  

• Toward Scalable ASL Education: Egocentric Stereo Sensing with LLM Feedback for Error-Aware Learning
  Yongxiang Cai, Zhenghao Li, Taiting Lu, Yanjun Zhu, Yi-Shan Wu, Qingsen Zhang, Xuhai Xu, Zhanpeng Jin, Mahanth Gowda, Yincheng Jin.
  ACM CHI, 2026.
  

• FuSenseRing: An Open-Source Platform for Robust Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring via Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Temperature-Adaptive Attention
  Zhenghao Li, Taiting Lu, Runze Liu, Shengming Yuan, Jigar Gosalia, Christine Bowlus, David N. Proctor, James A. Pawelczyk, Yincheng Jin, Mahanth Gowda
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp , 2025.

• VisRing: A Display-Extended Smartring for Nano Visualizations
  Taiting Lu, Christian Krauter, Runze Liu, Mara Schulte, Alexander Achberger,
  Tanja Blascheck, Michael Sedlmair, Mahanth Gowda
  ACM UIST 2025
  

• SignGlass: First-Person View Comprehensive and Generalizable ASL Translation Using Wearable Glass
  Yongxiang Cai, Taiting Lu, Zhenghao Li, Hao Zhou, Kenneth DeHaan, Xuhai Xu, Mahanth Gowda, Yincheng Jin
  ACM UIST 2025
  

• Wireless-Tap: Automatic Transcription of Phone Calls Using Millimeter-Wave Radar Sensing
  Suryoday Basak, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM WiSec, 2025.
  

• mmWave-Whisper: Phone Call Eavesdropping and Transcription Using Millimeter-Wave Radar
  Suryoday Basak, Abhijeeth Padarthi, Mahanth Gowda.
  IEEE ICASSP, 2025.

• 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.
  

• GameStreamSR: Enabling Neural-Augmented Game Streaming on Commodity Mobile Platforms
  Sandeepa Bhuyan, Ziyu Ying, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mahanth Gowda, Chita R. Das.
  ISCA, 2024.
  

• ASLRing: American Sign Language Recognition with Meta-Learning on Wearables
  Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Kenneth DeHaan, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 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
  

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

• Learning on the Rings: Self-Supervised 3D Finger Motion Tracking using Wearable Sensors
  Hao Zhou, Taiting Lu, Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2022
  

• 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.
  

• NeuroPose: 3D Hand Pose Tracking using EMG Wearables
  Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Mahanth Gowda.
  WWW, 2021
  

• When Video meets Inertial Sensors: Zero-shot Domain Adaptation for Finger Motion Analytics with Inertial Sensors
  Yilin Liu, Shijia Zhang, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2021, Best Paper Award
  

• Finger Gesture Tracking for Interactive Applications: A Pilot Study with Sign Languages
  Yilin Liu, Fengyang Jiang, Mahanth Gowda.
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, 2020
  

• Application Informed Motion Signal Processing for Finger Motion Tracking using Wearable Sensors
  Yilin Liu, Fengyang Jiang, Mahanth Gowda.
  IEEE ICASSP, 2020.
  

• Closing the Gaps in Inertial Motion Tracking
  Sheng Shen, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  ACM MOBICOM, 2018.
  

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

• If WiFi APs Could Move: A Measurement Study.
  Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi.
  Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2018.
  

• IoT Platform for Sports Analytics
  Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Lei Yang, Alex Essanian, Suresh Golwalkar.
  ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 2017.
  

• Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics. [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Sheng Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Lei Yang, Alex Essanian, Suresh Golwalkar.
  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. [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  WWW, 2016.
  

• Compressing Backoff in CSMA Networks
  Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi.
  IEEE ICNP, 2016.
  

• Ripple: Communicating through Physical Vibrations.
  Nirupam Roy, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  NSDI, 2015.
  

• Ziria: An optimizing compiler for wireless PHY programming.
  Mahanth Gowda, Gordon Stewart (Co-primary), Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Cristina Luengo Agulló
  ASPLOS, 2015.
  

• Cooperative Packet Recovery in Enterprise WLANs [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Sung-Ju Lee.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
  

• Extending Cell Tower Coverage through Drones.
  Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  ACM HOTMOBILE, 2017.
  

• Infrastructure Mobility: A What-if Analysis. [Slides]
  Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  ACM HOTNETS, 2014.
  

• Backing out of Linear Backoff in Wireless Networks.
  Mahanth Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi.
  ACM HOTWIRELESS, 2014.
  

• The Case for Psychological Computing
  Xuan Bao, Mahanth Gowda, Ratul Mahajan, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  ACM HOTMOBILE, February 2013

Technical Reports/Other Papers

• Integrating GLONASS with GPS for drone orientation tracking.
  Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury, Justin Weisz.
  COMSNETS, 2017. (Invited Paper)
  

• WiFi-XL: Extending WiFi to Wide Areas in White Spaces.
  Apurv Bhartia, Mahanth Gowda, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee,
  Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Lili Qiu, Romit Roy Choudhury.
  MSR-TR-2014-132, 2014.
  

• 802.11 a/g PHY implementation in Blink, domain-specific language for wireless programming
  Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Bozidar Radunovic, Dimitrios Vytiniotis
  ACM SIGCOMM SRIF , 2014

Posters/Demos

• Poster: Cell Tower Extension through Drones.
  Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury
  Poster Session, ACM MOBICOM (SRC Runners Up), 2016
  

• Ziria -- Language for Rapid Prototyping of Wireless PHY
  Mahanth Gowda, Gordon Stewart, Geoffrey Mainland, Božidar Radunovic, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Doug Patterson
  Poster Session, ACM MOBICOM (SRC Poster), 2014

Professional Activities

• TPC Member: ACM Mobicom 2020, 2023, 2024, IEEE Infocom 2020-23, IEEE Mass 2019, ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2019-2022,
  IEEE Secon 2019, WoWMoM 2021, IEEE ICCCN 2018, ACM MobiCom mmNets 2017, ACM MobiCom S3 2015
• General Chair: EAI Mobiquitous 2022
• Track Chair: IEEE ICPADS, IoT & CPS Track 2022
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
  ACM HotNets, 2014, Infocom, 2015