Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.[1] Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.[2]

Yasamin Mostofi
Known forRF Sensing, Communication-Aware Robotics, Wireless Communications, Control/Robotics
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama, IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, IEEE Fellow, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Websiteweb.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/

Education and career edit

Yasamin got her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She is a major contributor to two research areas:

  • RF Sensing, such as sensing and learning about the environment with WiFi signals. In 2009, Yasamin Showed it possible to image details of objects with WiFi signals.[3] Since then her work has contributed to this area by showing how WiFi signals can be used for different through-wall sensing applications, such as occupancy analytics,[4] person identification,[5] activity recognition,[6] localization/tracking[7] and 3D Xray vision for drones.[8]
  • Communication-Aware, Path Planning, and Control[9]

Yasamin’s early work in these two areas won her the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer (PECASE) from President Obama in 2011.[10][11][12]

Selected honors/awards edit

Mostofi’s accomplishments are highlighted in the book “Daughters of Persia, Pioneering Women of the World”[17] by Mansoureh Pirnia, which is a historic account of high-impact Iranian women throughout history.

Selected news appearances edit

Sample press coverage of her research lab includes BBC Digital Planet 2019,[18] TechCrunch 2018,[19] BBC 2017,[20] Engadget 2017,[21] Huffington Post UK 2015,[22] BBC 2014,[23] Engadget 2014,[24] among others.

References edit

  1. ^ "Yasamin Mostofi | Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara". www.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Yasamin Mostofi's Homepage". web.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  3. ^ Mostofi, Y.; Sen, P. (5 June 2009). "Compressive cooperative sensing and mapping in mobile networks". 2009 American Control Conference. pp. 3397–3404. doi:10.1109/ACC.2009.5160306. ISBN 978-1-4244-4523-3 – via IEEE Xplore.
  4. ^ Depatla, Saandeep; Mostofi, Yasamin (2017). "Crowd Counting Through Walls Using WiFi, IEEE Percom 2018": 1–10. arXiv:1711.05837. doi:10.1109/PERCOM.2018.8444589. S2CID 11275010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ XModal-ID: Using WiFi for Through-Wall Person Identification from Candidate Video Footage," 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2019. 11 October 2019. pp. 1–15. doi:10.1145/3300061.3345437. ISBN 9781450361699. S2CID 203691615.
  6. ^ Cai, Hong; Korany, Belal; Karanam, Chitra R.; Mostofi, Yasamin (17 December 2020). "Teaching RF to Sense without RF Training Measurements, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 4, no. 4, article 120, 2020". Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 4 (4): 120:1–120:22. doi:10.1145/3432224. S2CID 228082261.
  7. ^ Tracking from One Side - Multi-Person Passive Tracking with WiFi Magnitude Measurements," in proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2019. 16 April 2019. pp. 181–192. doi:10.1145/3302506.3310399. ISBN 9781450362849. S2CID 102349409.
  8. ^ "3D Through-Wall Imaging with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using WiFi, 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2017". April 2017. pp. 131–142.
  9. ^ "Communication-Aware Robotics". web.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 26 September 2011.
  11. ^ "Photo". web.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Pecase Group Photo". Web.ece.ucsb.edu. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Photo". web.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  14. ^ "IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize | IEEE Control Systems Society". ieeecss.org.
  15. ^ "Photo". web.ece.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  16. ^ "About" (PDF). www.ieee.org. 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Pirnia, Daughters of Persia, Pioneering Women of the World". www.pirnia.com.
  18. ^ "Digital Planet - BBC News on the 'dark web' - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk.
  19. ^ "New tech uses Wi-Fi to count people through walls".
  20. ^ "Drones use wi-fi to 'see' through walls". BBC News.
  21. ^ "Researchers map a building in 3D using WiFi-enabled drones". Engadget.
  22. ^ "HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media". consent.yahoo.com.
  23. ^ "X-rays for Robots". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  24. ^ "These robots have x-ray vision, thanks to WiFi". Engadget.