*[09/2024] Harshvardhan Takawale is going to present Scribe at UbiComp 2024.
*[08/2024] Finished my second internship at Apple Inc, working on LLM-powered multi-modal perception.
*[04/2023] SPiDR got ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight.
*[03/2023] I will join Apple Inc as a Software Dev Eng Intern during Summer 2023.
*[02/2023] I co-organized a panel “Diversity and Inclusion: What? Why? How?” at ACM HotMobile 2023.
*[07/2022] SPiDR got Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys 2022.
*[07/2021] Owlet got Best Demo Award at ACM MobiSys 2021.

Conference and journal papers

• Scribe: Simultaneous Voice and Handwriting Interface
  Y. Bai, I. Shahid, H. Takawale, N. Roy
  IMWUT/UbiComp 2024

• Structure Assisted Spectrum Sensing for Low-power Acoustic Event Detection
  N. Garg, H. Takawale, Y. Bai, I. Shahid, N. Roy IASA workshop co-located with CPS IoT Week 2023

• SPiDR: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Spatial Sensing for Micro-robot Navigation
  Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Garg (Co-primary author), N. Roy
  ACM MobiSys 2022
  ⭐Best paper award ⭐SIGMOBILE Research Highlight ⭐C-ACM Research Highlight

• VoiceFind: Noise-Resilient Speech Recovery in Commodity Headphones
  I. Shahid, Y. Bai, N. Garg, N. Roy
  IASA workshop co-located with ACM MobiSys 2022

• Owlet: Enabling Spatial Information in Ubiquitous Acoustic Devices
  N. Garg (Co-primary author), Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Roy
  ACM MobiSys 2021

• BatComm: Enabling Inaudible Acoustic Communication with High-throughpput for Mobile Devices
  Y. Bai, J. Liu, L. Lu, Y. Yang, Y. Chen, J. Yu
  ACM SenSys 2020

• Acoustic-based Sensing and Applications: A Survey
  Y. Bai, Li Lu, J. Cheng, J. Liu, Y. Chen, J. Yu
  Computer Networks

Posters and demos

• Poster: Natural Voice Interface for the Next Generation of Smart Spaces
  Y. Bai, N. Garg, H. Takawale, A. Das, N. Roy ACM HotMobile 2023

• Poster: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Imaging
  Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Garg (Co-primary author), N. Roy
  ACM MobiSys 2022

• Demo: Microstructure-guided Spatial Sensing for Low-power IoT
  N. Garg, Y. Bai (Co-primary author), N. Roy
  ACM MobiSys 2021
  ⭐Best demo award

• Poster: Inaudible High-throughput Communication Through Acoustic Signals
  Y. Bai, J. Liu, Y. Chen, L. Lu, J. Yu
  ACM MobiCom 2019
  ⭐Best poster runner-up award, student research competition winner

• Demo: Monitoring Movement Dynamics of Robot Cars and Drones Using Smartphone’s Built-in Sensors
  Y. Bai, X. Yang, C. Liu, J. Wain, R. Wang, J. Cheng, C. Wang, J. Liu, Y. Chen
  IEEE DySPAN 2019

*Organized panel: Diversity and Inclusion: What? Why? How? at HotMobile 2023
*Organized panel: How to Prepare for Academia and Industry Career? at MobiSys 2021
*Technical Program Committee at ALLSENSORS 2024
*Technical Program Committee at IoTAI 2024
*Shadow Technical Program Committee of ACM SenSys 2022
*Reviewer of AIChallenge IoT 2022
*Artifact Evaluation Committee at MobiSys 2022
*Reviewer of The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
*Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
*Reviewer of Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
*Reviewer of IEEE Signal Processing Letters

*[07/2022] Presented SPiDR at ACM MobiSys 2022.
*[07/2021] Presented Owlet at ACM MobiSys 2021.
*[10/2020] Presented BatComm at ACM SenSys 2020.

Undergraduate-level Courses
*(UMD) Computer Networks, TA, Fall 2024
*(UMD) Web Application Development with Javascript, TA, Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
*(UMD) Object-Oriented Programming I, TA, Fall 2021
*(Rutgers) Fish Bowl Tutor, Fall 2020
*(Rutgers) Intro to Computer Systems, TA, Spring 2019 & Spring 2020
*(Rutgers) Computing Principles of Mobile Embedded Systems, TA, Fall 2019
*(Rutgers) Digital System Design, TA, Fall 2018

Graduate-level Courses
*(Stevens) Data Structures & Algorithms, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
*(Stevens) Engineering Programming: Java, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
*(Stevens) Engineering Programming: C++, Peer Tutor, Fall 2017 & Spring 2018

Undergraduate Mentoring
*Mentored 6 undergraduate students in UMD CS Bitcamp 2021
*Worked as a Fish Bowl Tutor at Rutgers ECE department in Fall 2020