Hi, I am Nakul Garg, a fifth year Ph.D student at the University of Maryland College Park working at iCoSMoS Lab with Prof. Nirupam Roy.
Research interests: Ultra-low-power Sensing, Ambient Sensing, Embedded AI, Ubiquitous Perception.
Lab : IRB 3245
Office : IRB 2116
Research interests: Ultra-low-power Sensing, Ambient Sensing, Embedded AI, Ubiquitous Perception.
Lab : IRB 3245
Office : IRB 2116
Publications
- Sirius: A Self-Localization System for Resource-Constrained IoT Sensors
Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2023
Best Poster Award
[paper] [slides] [video] [code] - SPiDR: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Spatial Sensing for Micro-robot Navigation
Yang Bai, Nakul Garg (co-primary), Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2022
Best Paper Award
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight
[paper] [slides] [video] - Owlet: Enabling Spatial Information in Ubiquitous Acoustic Devices
Nakul Garg, Yang Bai (co-primary), Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2021
Best Demo Award
ACM GetMobile Cover Story
[paper] [slides] [video] [talk] [code] - Enabling Self-defense in Small Drones
Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy
ACM HotMobile 2020
[paper] [slides] [talk] - Structure Assisted Spectrum Sensing for Low-power Acoustic Event Detection
Nakul Garg, Harshvardhan Takawale, Yang Bai, Irtaza Shahid, Nirupam Roy
ACM IASA CPS IoT Week 2023
[paper] [slides] - ThermWare: Towards Side-channel Defense for Tiny IoT Devices
Nakul Garg, Irtaza Shahid, Erin Avllazagaj, Jennie Hill, Jun Han, Nirupam Roy
ACM HotMobile 2023
[paper] [slides] - VoiceFind: Noise-Resilient Speech Recovery in Commodity Headphones
Irtaza Shahid, Yang Bai, Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy
ACM IASA Mobisys 2022
[paper]
Posters and Demos
- Poster: Ultra-low-power Angle-of-Arrival estimation Using a Single Antenna
Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2023
[paper] - Poster: Bringing AR/VR to Everyday Life- A Wireless Localization perspective
Nakul Garg, Irtaza Shahid, Karthik Sankar, Mallesham Dasari, Ram Sheshadri, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Nirupam Roy
ACM HotMobile 2023
[paper] - Poster: Natural Voice Interface for the Next Generation of Smart Spaces
Yang Bai, Nakul Garg, Harshvardhan Takawale, Anupam das, Nirupam Roy
ACM HotMobile 2023
[paper] - Poster: Ultra-low-power Acoustic Imaging
Yang Bai, Nakul Garg (co-primary), Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2022
[paper] - Demo: Microstructure-guided Spatial Sensing for Low-power IoT
Nakul Garg, Yang Bai (co-primary), Nirupam Roy
ACM Mobisys 2021 Best Demo Award
[paper] [demo] - Poster: Acoustic Sensing for Detecting Projectile Attacks on Small Drones
Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy
ACM HotMobile 2020
[paper] - Poster: DRIZY- Collaborative Driver Assistance Over Wireless Networks
Nakul Garg, Ishani Janveja, Divyansh Malhotra, Chetan Chawla, Pulkit Gupta, Harshil Bansal, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Prerana Mukherjee, Brejesh Lall
ACM MobiCom 2017
[paper] [poster]
Awards and Honors
- Selected as a Cyber Physical Systems Rising Star, 2024
- SPiDR featured in ACM GetMobile Dec edition, 2023
- Best poster award at ACM MobiSys, 2023
- SPiDR is the ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2023
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, 2023
- Future Faculty Fellowship, 2023
- Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award, 2023
- Best paper award at ACM MobiSys, 2022
- Three minute Thesis (3MT) Award, 2022
- Owlet featured on cover of ACM GetMobile June edition, 2021
- Best demo award at ACM MobiSys, 2021
- University of Maryland CS summer research fellowship, 2021
- University of Maryland graduate school dean’s fellowship, 2019
- President of India award at World food hackathon, 2017
- Winning team, Celestini project India, 2017
- Winning team, eYantra - national robotics competition, IIT Bombay, 2017
- Second prize, eYantra - national robotics competition, IIT Bombay, 2016