Deepak Vasisht

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
• S.M., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
• B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, 2013

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Support is All You Need for Certified VAE Training. Changming Xu, Debangshu Banerjee, Deepak Vasisht, Gagandeep Singh. ICLR, eprint: 2504.11831, 2025. (Acceptance rate: 31%)
• Fed-EC: Bandwidth-Efficient Clustering-Based Federated Learning For Autonomous Visual Robot Navigation. Shreya Gummadi, Mateus V Gasparino, Deepak Vasisht, Girish Chowdhary. IEEE ICRA 2025.
• CosMAC: Constellation-Aware Medium Access and Scheduling for IoT Satellites. Jayanth Shenoy, Om Chabra, Tusher Chakraborty, Suraj Jog, Deepak Vasisht, Ranveer Chandra. ACM MobiCom, pp. 724-739, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
• Radarize: Enhancing Radar SLAM with Generalizable Doppler-Based Odometry. Emerson Sie, Xinyu Wu, Heyu Guo, Deepak Vasisht. ACM MobiSys, pp.331-344, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 16%)
• A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks. Seoyul Oh, Deepak Vasisht. ACM HotNets, pp. 25-33, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 28%).
• Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things. Vaibhav Singh, Tusher Chakraborty, Suraj Jog, Om Chabra, Deepak Vasisht, Ranveer Chandra. USENIX NSDI, pp. 825-840, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 19%)
• Known Knowns and Unknowns: Near-realtime Earth Observation Via Query Bifurcation in Serval. Bill Tao, Om Chabra, Ishani Janveja, Indranil Gupta, Deepak Vasisht. USENIX NSDI, pp. 809-824, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 19%)
• Magnetic Backscatter for In-body Communication and Localization. Bill Tao, Emerson Sie, Jayanth Shenoy, Deepak Vasisht. ACM MobiCom, Article 87, pp. 1-15, 2023. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
• Transmitting, Fast and Slow: Scheduling Satellite Traffic through Space and Time. Bill Tao, Maleeha Masood, Indranil Gupta, Deepak Vasisht. ACM MobiCom, Article 24, pp. 1-15, 2023. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
• BatMobility: Flying Without Seeing for Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Emerson Sie, Zikun Liu, Deepak Vasisht. ACM Mobicom, Article 31, pp. 1-16, 2023. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
• Exploring Practical Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning-based Wireless Systems. Zikun Liu, Chanming Xu, Emerson Sie, Gagandeep Singh, Deepak Vasisht. USENIX NSDI, pp. 1801-1817, 2023. (Acceptance rate: 16%)
• Non-Cooperative Wi-Fi Localization & its Privacy Implications. Ali Abedi, Deepak Vasisht. ACM Mobicom, pp. 570-582, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
• RF-Protect: Privacy against Device-Free Human Tracking. Jayanth Shenoy, Zikun Liu, Bill Tao, Zachary Kabelac, Deepak Vasisht. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 588-600, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
• RF-Annotate: Automatic RFID-Supervised Image Annotation of Common Objects in Context. Emerson Sie, Deepak Vasisht. IEEE ICRA, pp. 2590-2596, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 43%)
• MiLTOn: Sensing Product Integrity without Opening the Box using Non-Invasive Acoustic Vibrometry. Akshay Gadre, Deepak Vasisht, Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Bodhi Priyantha, Manikanta Kotaru, Swarun Kumar, Ranveer Chandra. ACM IPSN, pp. 390-402, 2022 (Acceptance rate: 30%)
• Enabling IoT Self-Localization Using Ambient 5G Signals. Suraj Jog, Junfeng Guan, Sohrab Madani, Ruochen Lu, Songbin Gong, Deepak Vasisht, Haitham Hassanieh. USENIX NSDI, pp. 1011-1026, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• Whisper: IoT in the TV White Space Spectrum. Tusher Chakraborty, Heping Shi, Zerina Kapetanovic, Bodhi Priyantha, Deepak Vasisht, Andrew Nelson, Parag Pandit, Prasad Pillai, Yaswant Chabria, Binh Vu, Ranveer Chandra. USENIX NSDI, pp. 401-418, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• FIRE: Enabling Reciprocity for FDD MIMO Systems. Zikun Liu, Gagandeep Singh, Deepak Vasisht. ACM MobiCom, pp. 628-641, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
• L2D2: Low Latency Distributed Downlink for Low Earth Orbit Satellites. Deepak Vasisht, Jayanth Shenoy, Ranveer Chandra. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 151-164, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
• A Distributed Hybrid Ground Station Design for Low Earth Orbit Satellites. Deepak Vasisht, Ranveer Chandra. ACM HotNets, pp. 190-196, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Deep Learning based Wireless Localization for Indoor Navigation. Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Aditya Arun, Chenfeng Wu, Sanatan Sharma, Abhishek Sethi, Deepak Vasisht, Dinesh Bharadia. ACM MobiCom, Article 17, pp. 1-14, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 16%)
• Low-Cost Aerial Imaging for Small Holder Farmers. Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Akshit Kumar, Rohit Patil, Aditya Jain, Zerina Kapetanovic, Rahul Sharma, Deepak Vasisht, Manohar Swaminathan, Ranveer Chandra, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta Sinha, Akshay Uttama Nambi SN. ACM Compass, pp. 41-51, 2019. (Acceptance rate: N/A)
• In-body Backscatter Communication and Localization. Deepak Vasisht, Guo Zhang, Omid Abari, Jay Flanz, Hsiao Ming-Lu, Dina Katabi. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 132-146, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
• Duet: Estimating User Position and Identity in Smart Homes using Intermittent and Incomplete RF-Data. Deepak Vasisht, Anubhav Jain, Chen-Yu Hsu, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi. ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, Article 84, pp. 1-21, 2018. (Acceptance rate: N/A)
• BLoc: CSI-based Accurate Localization for BLE Tags. Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Deepak Vasisht, Dinesh Bharadia. ACM CoNext, pp.126-138, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• Farmbeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture. Deepak Vasisht, Zerina Kapetanovic, Jongho Won, Xinxin Jin, Ranveer Chandra, Ashish Kapoor, Sudipta Sinha, Madhusudhan Sudarshan, Sean Stratman. USENIX NSDI, pp. 515-529, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
• Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks. Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 398-411, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point. Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Dina Katabi. USENIX NSDI, pp. 165-178, 2016 (Acceptance rate: 20%).
• Caraoke: An E-Toll Transponder Network for Smart Cities. Omid Abari, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi, Anantha Chandrakasan. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 297-310, 2015 (Acceptance rate: 17%).
• Exploiting Sparsity and Co-occurrence Structure for Action Unit Recognition. Yale Song, Daniel McDuff, Deepak Vasisht, Ashish Kapoor. IEEE Face & Gestures (FG), pp. 1-8, 2015. (Acceptance rate: N/A)
• Active Learning for Sparse Bayesian Multilabel Classification. Deepak Vasisht, Andreas Domianou, Manik Varma, Ashish Kapoor. ACM SIGKDD, pp. 472-481, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 15%)
• RF-IDraw: Virtual Touch Screen in the Air Using RF Signals. Jue Wang, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi. ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 235-246, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 19%)

Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024)
• Best Community Contribution Paper Award (Awarded to 1 out of 103 accepted papers), ACM MobiCom (2024)
• Systems Research Award, VMWare (2023)
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2023)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023)
• Outstanding Advisor Award, Engineering Council, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022)
• Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award, Indiana Institute of Technology-Delhi (2021)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021)
• Doctoral Dissertation Award, Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM) (2020)
• Research Fellow, Microsoft Inaugural Industry (2020)
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM COMPASS) (2019)
• Best Paper Award, Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM) (2016)
• Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2016)
• Highest GPA of Graduating Students, President of India Gold Medal, Indiana Institute of Technology-Delhi (2013)