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MIT Media Lab's Fadel Adib promoted to full Professor. His Signal Kinetics group leads wireless sensing and AI research deployed worldwide.
MIT Media Lab celebrates four faculty promotions, July 2026: Dagdeviren, Esvelt, and Wood granted tenure; Fadel Adib to Full Professor
Cartesian, an MIT Media Lab startup, uses RFID to track retail inventory in real-time, now deployed in 700+ stores across 55 countries.
With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.
Laura Dodds and Fangzheng Liu were recognized among the finalists at the MIT–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Day, earning first and thi
Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.
This award recognizes and celebrates innovative research conducted by young scientists and engineers.
Fadel Adib has been named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The Forum announced the 2024 YGL cohort today, reco…
Great Arab Minds (GAM) is a new initiative launched this year to honor and recognize Arab intellectuals in six different categories.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology.
On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.
The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder discusses X-AR, the new research from the Media Lab’s Signal Kinetics group.
Using augmented reality, the X-AR system developed by the Signal Kinetics research group can guide users to find hidden objects.
MIT professors Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi receive the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award for their paper, “See Through Walls with WiFi!”
Two papers from the Signal Kinetics research group were honored at the IEEE RFID conference in Seattle, WA this year. Tara Boroushaki,…
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The Signal Kinetics group invented the world's first battery-free wireless underwater camera.
The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.
Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change
Professor Adib holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Battery-free wireless underwater camera wins the Best Demo Award at ACM WUWNet'22
The Signal Kinetics lab's underwater camera project was chosen as a research highlight in the current issue of Nature Electronics
Maggie Hughes is a student in the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, and Tara Boroushaki is a student in the Signal Kinetics group.
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.
The Misties recognize leaders who have made profound impacts in the field of intelligent and connected devices.
MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take
He was recognized for his innovative contributions to wireless sensing and for networking advances in challenging environments.
Multiple UROP for Indoor IoT spanning Cloud, Visualization, Mobile UI/UX, Visualization, and SLAMWe are working on deploying cutting-edge M…
Software Architect/Engineer for Indoor IoT TechnologyWe are working on commercializing cutting-edge MIT technology invented by professor Fa…
Hardware Engineer for Indoor IoT TechnologyWe are working on commercializing cutting-edge MIT technology invented by professor Fadel Adib a…
Full-Stack Software Researcher & Developer for Indoor IoT (internship)We are working on commercializing cutting-edge MIT technology inv…
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.
The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.
These awards recognize students who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers.
System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
Signal Kinetics head Fadel Adib and other junior faculty members talk about the ways the J-WAFS’ seed grant program has catalyzed their work
Awards honor young professors in the Media Lab and departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, EECS, + Math
Congratulations to Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib, who has received a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science.
The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a postdoc opening in ultra-low-power ASICs for emerging Internet-of…
Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT as a Cuban refugee in the US.
New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
The Fall 2020 MIT IoT Seminar Series features world class visionaries presenting their latest work and vision for the future of IoT.
MIT received two Convergence Accelerator grants from the NSF—one of which is for the Smart Oceans 2020 conference co-hosted by the Media Lab
The Signal Kinetics team presents two publications on next-generation digital medicine at ACM MobiCom 2020
The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a program coordinator opening. Applicants are expected to have experienc…
To date, two Media Lab projects have received RAPID grants for work related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Micro-location for the Internet-of-ThingsMicro-location is one of the most important building blocks for the IoT (Internet-of-Things)…
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.
A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
Underwater Backscatter Networking wins Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2019
Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.
Nine MIT principal investigators will receive grants totaling over $1 million for research focused on global food and water challenges.