Dinesh Bharadia

Dinesh Bharadia

Associate Professor

I am Associate Professor in the ECE department with an affiliate appointment with the CSE department at UC San Diego. Our group WCSNG designs systems for Wireless Communication, Computing, Sensing, and Networking at UC San Diego.

The vision for our research is to design and prototype performant systems for communicating, sensing, computing, and securing information in our connected world, solving real-world problems. Our research has aimed to solve fundamental questions, which has often led to new areas of research and commercialization.

Our broad impact areas are vision/perception systems, sensing systems, wireless communications, computing systems, and wireless networking. WCSNG group has curated and created various open-source datasets and tools that enable reproducible research and eases barriers to entry for researchers in computing, communication, and sensing.

The WCSNG (Wireless Communications Sensing and Networking Group) is a diverse research team that brings together experts from various engineering disciplines to tackle complex real-world challenges. Our group comprises electrical engineers, data scientists, computer scientists, and mechanical engineers, working collaboratively at the intersection of networking, computing, signal processing, circuits, computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Our unique combination of theoretical innovation, practical application and prototyping allows us to address complex problems in fields such as robotics, autonomous systems, and everyday devices.

Office hours : Monday 2-3 pm (except Holidays), otherwise by appointment only.

Office Address :FAH 2303

Apply to WCSNG Group

If you are an exceptional student, researcher, or postdoc and interested in working with the group, drop me an email (dineshb at ucsd dot edu) and/or reach out to the existing PhD students or postdocs. You can choose to email me with your resume and specific interest in the lab.

I have multiple openings for the Fall 2025 Ph.D. program. For Ph.D. applications, apply to the ECE Ph.D. program and CSE Ph.D. program (our application process allows the application to both ECE and CSE without additional fees). For the ECE Ph.D. program, choose communication theory and systems, and for the CSE Ph.D. program choose systems and networking and mention my name for both of your applications. In addition to that, please submit this form – only for PhD applicants.

For 2025 Summer Internships, please submit this form. We typically start reviewing early Janurary. For all UCSD students, please apply to the SRIP program as mark as first priority.

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Projects

A more detailed list of projects and ongoing research can be found at WCSNG publications. I strongly recommend checking out WCSNG.

Selected Awards & Honors

News

  • Oct 2024: EdgeRIC demos and tutorial presented at srsRAN Workshop 2024. Congratulations Ish, Ushasi, Ali, Sushila, and Archana! EdgeRIC demos and tutorial presented at srsRAN Workshop 2024

  • Sep 2024: WCSNG welcomes 3 new PhD students - Ali, Golnaz and Pushkal! WCSNG welcomes 3 new PhD students - Ali, Golnaz and Pushkal!

  • Jul 2024: Dinesh and Ish co-charing Mobicom Open-AI-RAN 2024 workshop.

  • Jun 2024: WCSNG has 5 PhD Graduates in 2024. Congrats Ish, Aditya, Raghav, Manideep, and Kshitiz! WCSNG has 5 PhD Graduates in 2024

  • Mar 2024: BeamArmor published in Hotmobile’24 with a live demo! Check it out here. Congrats Ish and Frederik!

  • Mar 2024: EdgeRIC is presented at NSDI’24 by Ushasi. Check out the paper here. Congrats Ushasi and team!

  • Nov 2023: Dinesh is co-charing Mobicom mmNets 2023 workshop at Madrid, Spain, with Ish and Roshan as publicity co-chairs.

  • July 2023: Crescendo - a sweep spectrum sensor that guarantees high signal fidelity will be presented at MobiCom’23. Congratulations Raghav and Kevin!
  • May 2023: Ish and Rohith presented two papers at Infocom’23 in New York and IEEE SnP’23 in San Francisco. Read news articles on mmFlexible and mmSpoof.
  • Apr 2023: Roshan has successfully defended his Final Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Roshan, starting a position as Assistant Professor at Suny Buffalo, NY.
  • Mar 2023: Ish is chairing Mobicom S3 2023 workshop
  • Mar 2023: Best Poster Runner-up - Hotmobile 2023 goes to Towards Flexible Frequency-dependent mmWave Multi-Beamforming. Congrats Ish and Rohith!
  • Jan 2023: “Mobicom’23 accepted GreenMO and IMWUT’23 accepted WiFoceSticker. Congrats Agrim and team!”
  • Jan 2023: “Hotmobile’23 accepted paper on MIRAGE - privacy fo user location. Congrats Roshan, Aditya, and Wei!”
  • Dec 2022: Infocom’23 paper on Delay Phased array (DPA) - an innovative antenna array design for flexible, sustainable, and frequency-dependent multi-beam operations. Congrats Ish, Rohith, and Raghav!
  • Dec 2022: “IEEE SnP’23 paper on mmSpoof- spoofing automotive radars using mmWave reflect array. Congrats Rohith, Ish, and Kshitiz!”
  • Nov 2022: “Dinesh announced his tenureship: I received a formal letter that I am tenured with acceleration. In large part, it is less of my success, but it is our shared success. I am delighted to have an opportunity to work with everyone here!”
  • Oct 2022: Raghav Subbaraman presented BSMA at MobiCom 2022 in Sydney!

  • Sep 2022: Ish Jain and Raghav Subbaraman won Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022.

  • June 2022: 1st International Workshop on AI Perception at CVPR 2022 is live. See more details here.

  • May 2022: BLE security paper is out. See more details here. Congrats Hadi!

  • Apr 2022: WiFi localization and mapping paper P2SLAM accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation’22. P2SLAM dataset is also released. Congrats Aditya Arun!
  • Dec 2021: Agrim got an invite from GetMobile’22 on his NSDI’21 paper on Sensing and localizing contact forces with signal reflections. Congrats Agrim!
  • Dec 2021: SCISRS $6M IARPA grant to secure wireless data communication (partner with JASR systems and Noise lab, UCSD). See news.
  • Sep 2021: Scott Zhao, undergraduate researcher at WCSNG, presented his paper ULoc at IMWUT’21. Watch a demo ULoc- a cm-accurate, low-latency, and power-efficient UWB tag localization system.
  • June 2021: Ish was awarded winner of the 3MT competition at student workshop SMS, Mobisys’21. Congratulations Ish!
  • May 2021 Congratulations Ish! paper accepted at Siggcomm’21 on mmReliable (enabling reliable mmWave links).
  • Mar 2021 Manideep presented SyncScatter- Enabling WiFi like synchronization and range for WiFi backscatter Communication at NSDI’21
  • Mar 2021: Agrim presented WiForce- Wireless Sensing and Localization of Contact Forces on a Space Continuum at NSDI’21
  • Dec 2020: Two papers on backscatter communication and backscatter Force sensing got accepted at NSDI’21. Congrats Manideep and Agrim!
  • Sept 2020: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) accepted A Low-Power Backscatter Modulation System Communicating Across Tens of Meters with Standards-Compliant Wi-Fi Transceivers. Congrats Mani, Chi and team!
  • Sept 2020: Two papers got accepted at Sensys’20. Congrats Kshitiz and Yeswanth!
  • Sept 2020: IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC) accepted: A Low-Power Backscatter Modulation System Communicating Across Tens of Meters with Standards-Compliant Wi-Fi Transceivers. Congrats Mani, Chi and team!
  • July 2020: mmNets workshop (Mobicom’20) paper accepted mMobile- Building a mmWave testbed to evaluate and address mobility effects. Congrats Ish and team!
  • June 2020: WCSNG is opensourcing largest available, real-world indoor Location labelled WiFi CSI dataset, WILD for non-profit research purposes.
  • June 2020: ECCV’20 paper got accepted on S3Net- Semantic-Aware Self-Supervised Depth Estimation with Monocular Videos and Synthetic Data. Congrats Inderjot and team!
  • June 2020: WCSNG is opensourcing largest available, real-world indoor Location labelled WiFi CSI dataset, WILD for non-profit research purposes.
  • June 2020: BluBLE, our Covid-19 app is in news here.
  • June 2020: ScatterMIMO- our smart reflecting surface that can double the WiFi throughput is in UCSD news and Hackster.io
  • Apr 2020: WCSNG developed BluBLE, a smartphone app that provides personal risk indicator with Covid-19. It monitors the surrounding using Bluetooth signal while preserving privacy. In news at Techxplore. … See all News

Selected Press and Media Coverage

Short Bio

I have been at UC San Diego as a faculty since January 2018. My group has diverse focus from computer vision, deep learning to wireless communication, sensing and networking. We build from theory to practice technologies which have impact on robotics, autonomous systems and day-to-day life.

Previously, I worked as postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL, focusing on data-center networking and wireless sensing. I received my Ph.D. at Stanford University for my work on full-duplex radios, which were considered near impossible to build, basically enabling radios to transmit and receive simultaneously on the same frequency. From 2013 to 2015, I took a leave of absence from my Ph.D. to commercialize research on the practical full-duplex radio at Kumu Networks, which underwent successful field trials with tier 1 network providers worldwide – Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom and is now being commercially deployed.

Before joining Stanford, I received my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2010. I was awarded a gold medal at IIT Kanpur for graduating at the top of the class of 2010 in Electrical Engineering.

Broader Industry Impact

  • Full Duplex Our research on full-duplex radios has translated into a commercial venture Kumu Networks. I worked as a Principal Scientist at Kumu Networks for nearly two years to commercialize this research and bring it to the rest of the world.

At Kumu Networks, I led the technology (both architecture and algorithm design) for in-band full duplex radios to build a commercial product. The product completed successful field trials with major Tier 1 network providers – Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom and is now being commercially deployed. To this date, it is the only successful commercial demonstration of full duplex radios.

Due to its proven commercial viability and promise, full duplex is now actively being designed into next-generation wireless standards. Both 5G cellular and next-generation WiFi standards are incorporating full duplex or self-interference cancellation technology in various forms.