Romit Roy Choudhury
- Professor & Jerry Sanders AMD Scholar
- Amazon Scholar
- Dept. of ECE and CS, UIUC
- Email: croy@illinois.edu
- Office: 263 CSL, Phone: 217.300.7577
Past:
- Ph.D. from CS/UIUC in 2006
- Assistant Professor at Duke, 2006
- Associate Professor at Duke, 2011
- Visitor: MSR Redmond, Intel, Samsung AI
- Joined UIUC, Fall 2013
- Professor at UIUC, 2017
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Research Interests and Research Group
- Applied signal processing, acoustics, sensing, machine learning, IoT
- Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG)
- Earable Computing website launched, a research area to think about

Teaching
ECE 101: Computing for Non-Engineers |
ECE/CS 438 Comm. Networks
ECE/CS 434: Real-world Algorithms for IoT and Data Science
(old version)
Selected Publications
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ICRA 23
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Rotation-induced Aliasing for Source Separation
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ICML 22
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Learning to Separate Voices by Spatial Regions
[ pdf ]
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ICASSP 21
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Angle of Arrival (AoA) factorization under multipath [ pdf ]
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SIGCOMM 21
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Personalizing HRTFs for Earables [ pdf ]
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MobiCom 20
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Voice Localization using Nearby Wall Reflections [ pdf ]
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SIGCOMM 18
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MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation [ pdf ]
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NSDI 18
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Inaudible Voice Commands: Long Range Attack [ pdf ]
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Students (Present and Past)
Recent Talks
Tweets
Amazon Scholar, 2022
Dean's list of excellent teachers (2021, 20, 19, 18, 17, 15)
IEEE Fellow, 2019
2017 MobiSys Best Paper Award
2015 ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award
2014 UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, Google, IBM Award [Show More]
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More Publications
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2021:
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ICASSP
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Angle of Arrival (AoA) factorization under multipath [ pdf ]
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SIGCOMM
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Spatial Acoustics for Earables [
pdf ]
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HotMobile
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Earable Computing: A New Area to Think About [ pdf ]
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2020:
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MobiCom
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Voice Localization using Nearby Wall Reflections [ pdf ]
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MobiCom
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Ear-AR: Indoor Acoustic Augmented Reality on Earphones [ pdf ]
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MobiCom
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EarSense: Earphones as a Teeth Activity Sensor [ pdf ]
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2019:
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NSDI
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Many-to-Many Beam Alignment in mm Wave Networks [ pdf ]
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2018:
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SIGCOMM
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MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation [ pdf ]
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MobiCom
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Ghostbuster: Detecting Presence of Eavesdroppers [ pdf ]
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MobiCom
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Closing the Gaps in Inertial Motion Tracking [ pdf ]
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MobiSys
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LiquID: A Wireless Liquid IDentifier [ pdf ]
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NSDI
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Inaudible Voice Commands: The Long-Range Attack [ pdf ]
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IEEE TMC
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If WiFi APs Could Move: A Measurement Study [ pdf ]
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Prior 2017:
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MobiSys
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BackDoor: Making Microphones Hear Inaudible Sounds [ pdf ]
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NSDI
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Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics [ pdf ]
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HotMobile
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Extending Cell Tower Coverage through Drones [ pdf ]
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NSDI
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Ripple II: Faster Communications via Physical Vibrations [ pdf ]
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MobiCom
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Tracking Drone Orientation with Multiple GPS Receivers [ pdf ]
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MobiSys
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I am a Smartwatch and I can Track my User’s Arm [ pdf ]
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MobiSys
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Listening through a Vibration Motor [ pdf ]
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CoNext
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Low Bandwidth Offload for Mobile AR [ pdf ]
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WWW
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The Case for Robotic Wireless Networks [ pdf ]
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ICNP
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Compressing Backoff in CSMA Networks [ pdf ]
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UbiComp
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AutoLabel: Labeling Places from Pictures and Websites [ pdf ]
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Present PhD Students
Present MS Students
Past PhD Students
- Sheng Shen
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2021, Researcher, Facebook Reality Labs
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- Ashutosh Dhekne
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2019, Asst. Professor, CS, Georgia Tech.
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- Nirupam Roy
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2018, Asst. Professor, CS, Maryland, College Park
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- Mahanth Gowda
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2017, Asst. Professor, EECS, Penn State University
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- He Wang
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2016, Asst. Professor, CS, Purdue University
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- Puneet Jain
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2015, Google
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- Justin Manweiler
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2012, Google
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- Souvik Sen
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2012, Google
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- Ionut Constandache
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2011, LinkedIn
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Past MS Students
- Ziyue (Liz) Li
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2020 - present, MS student
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- Amod Agrawal
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2019, Amazon Lab 126
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- Daguan Chen
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2019, Mercedez Benz, R&D
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- Umberto Ravaioli
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2018, Toyon Research
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- Songchun Fan
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2013, Google (PhD 2016, Duke University)
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- Rahul Ghosh
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2009, American Express AI Labs
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- Jie Xiong
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2009, Asst. Professor, UMAss Amherst (PhD, UCL)
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More Talks and Seminars
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- Invited speaker, NUS Computer Science Week, Singapore, 2020
- Keynote at ACM EarComp Workshop (with UbiComp), London, 2019
- Keynote at MobiUK Symposium, Oxford University, 2019
- Invited Plenary Speaker, NSF Career Workshop, 2017
- Invited talk at UC Berkeley Robotics Communication Workshop, 2014
- Keynote at ACM Pervasive Urban Crowd Sensing Workshop, 2013
- Keynote at ACM MobiArch Workshop (with MobiCom), 2012
- Invited talk at Google, 2012
- Keynote at ACM Mobile Cloud Computing Workshop (with MobiSys), 2011
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Bio
Romit Roy Choudhury is a Jerry Sanders Scholar and Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Illinois
at Urbana Champaign (UIUC).
His research interests are in wireless networking, embedded sensing, and applied signal processing.
Along with his students, he received a few research awards, including the ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award, the
UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2017 MobiSys Best Paper Award, etc.
He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2018.
Visit Romit's Systems Networking Research Group (SyNRG) at http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu
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