Swarun Kumar

Super proud of Freddy Liu and Kuang Yuan for winning Best Demo Runner-up at ACM MobiCom 2026 (out of a record 61 demos at the conference)! This work demonstrates Active Noise Cancellation on open-ear wearables for the very first time. Link to demo here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

Excited to report our new National Science Foundation FutureCore award on “smart food” – embedding digestive tract sensing capabilities into the form factor of everyday food. Smart Food remains completely digestible while wirelessly sensing health. Link: ece.cmu.edu/news-and-event…

Congratulations to Yiwen Song for being named 2026 Young Scholar by the Marconi Society, setup by the family of Guglielmo Marconi, who invented the radio in the 1800s. It annually recognizes top young wireless researchers worldwide. Proud advisor moment! ece.cmu.edu/news-and-event…

This year at MobiSys'26, we present OssiSense, an RF system (at 5-6 GHz) that images bones at a sub-cm resolution for the very first time! While X-ray CT remains the gold standard, OssiSense paves a path to low-cost and radiation-free tissue monitoring.
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Thrilled to share our brand new Nature communications paper on sensing and visualizing the heart's blood flow to map arterial stiffness. Joint work with: Jiangyifei Zhu, Kuang Yuan, Akarsh Prabhakara, Yunzhi Li, Gongwei Wang, Kelly Michaelsen, Justin Chan. ece.cmu.edu/news-and-event…