I am currently a Senior Research Scientist at Google working on consumer health sensing using various signals. Prior to that, I was an Applied Scientist in Amazon Lab126 Audio Technology Team. I obtained Ph.D in the Paul G. Allen School of CSE at University of Washington adviced by Professor Shyam Gollakota.
Previously, I did my undergraduate in Beihang University and obtained my bachelor's degree in 2014. Before starting PhD, I also interned at Baidu (2012), Microsoft Research Asia (2013-2014) and Yuantiku (2016). During the PhD, I interned at Magic Leap (2017) working on wireless controller tracking and sensor fusion, Sound Life Science (2019) working on full-stack smart speaker implementation, and Amazon Lab126 (2020) mainly working on sound source localization improvement.
My research focuses on building real-time and theoretically-sound sensing and human-device interaction systems on mobile devices.
My research draws on tools from wireless communication, acoustic/speech signal processing and computer vision. Besides, I have a broad interest in networked/mobile system as well.
Email: anranw at uw.edu
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Recent Highlights
Publications
Conference papers:
Hybrid Neural Networks for On-device Directional Hearing
Anran Wang, Maruchi Kim, Hao Zhang, Shyamnath Gollakota
AAAI 2022
Using Smart Speakers to Contactlessly Monitor Heart Rhythms
Anran Wang, Dan Nguyen, Arun Sridhar and Shyam Gollakota
Nature Communications Biology 2021
Airdropping Sensor Networks from Drones and Insects
Vikram Iyer, Maruchi Kim, Shirley Xue, Anran Wang and Shyamnath Gollakota
MobiCom 2020
Contactless Infant Monitoring using White Noise
Anran Wang, Jacob Sunshine and Shyamnath Gollakota
MOBICOM 2019
DeepSense: Enabling Carrier Sense in Low-Power Wide Area Networks Using Deep Learning
Anran Wang*, Justin Chan*, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Shyamnath Gollakota
Arxiv preprint, 2019
MilliSonic: Pushing the Limit of Acoustic Motion Tracking
Anran Wang and Shyamnath Gollakota
CHI 2019
Living IoT: A Flying Wireless Platform on Live Insects
Anran Wang*, Vikram Iyer*, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar*, Sawyer Fuller and Shyamnath Gollakota
MOBICOM 2019
Surface MIMO: Using Conductive Surfaces for MIMO Between Small Devices
Justin Chan, Anran Wang, Vikram Iyer and Shyamnath Gollakota
MOBICOM 2018
FM Backscatter: Enabling Connected Cities and Smart Fabrics
Anran Wang*, Vikram Iyer*, Vamsi Talla, Joshua R. Smith and Shyamnath Gollakota
NSDI 2017
INFRAME++: Achieve Simultaneous Screen-Human Viewing and Hidden Screen-Camera Communication
Anran Wang, Zhuoran Li, Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen, Gan Fang, Bing Zheng
MobiSys 2015
INFRAME: Multiflexing Full-Frame Visible Communication Channel for Humans and Devices
Anran Wang, Chunyi Peng, Ouyang Zhang, Guobin Shen, Bing Zheng
HotNets 2014
Enhancing Reliability to Boost the Throughput over Screen-Camera Links
Anran Wang, Shuai Ma, Chunming Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen
MOBICOM 2014
Demos and Posters:
Poster: Contactless Infant Monitoring using White Noise
Anran Wang, Jacob Sunshine and Shyamnath Gollakota
MOBICOM 2019
Demo: Achieve Simultaneous Screen-Human Viewing and Hidden Screen-Camera Communication
Anran Wang, Zhuoran Li, Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen, Gan Fang, Bing Zheng
MobiSys 2015
Demo: Enhancing Reliability to Boost the Throughput over Screen-Camera Links
Anran Wang, Shuai Ma, Chunming Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen
MOBICOM 2014
Miscellaneous
My three lifetime favorite: programming, listen and play music, watch and play soccer.
Some other hobbies that I pretend to enjoy: cooking, driving, fitness, reading.
What I really enjoy: eating, sleeping, playing silly games (like this).
Last update: Nov 6, 2022