News and Blog

• 28 March 2025

  If you’ve had a hard time following all of our recent publications on external libraries, our web page is now up to date with all recent papers and links. More information on our Publications page.

• 05 November 2024

  Mariya received the 2024 President’s Award for Exemplary Research and Creative Activities.

• 30 May 2024

  Join us at the Green Bank Observatory for a NSF-sponsored workshop on the National Radio Dynamic Zone. More information on how to participate is available here.

• 30 April 2024

  PhD student Karyn Doke received The 2024 College of Nanotechnology, Science and Engineering Best Dissertation Award. Congrats, Karyn!!

• 13 January 2022

  New code repositories made public. More information on our Code page.

• 12 January 2022

  A pre-print of our TCCN paper “Evolutionary Optimization of Residual Neural Network Architectures for Modulation Classification” is available for Early Access in IEEE Xplore. Congrats to collaborators from KU Leuven and Armasuisse: Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Sofie Pollin and Gerome Bovet.

• 20 November 2021

  The second workshop in the NRDZ series was a success. Video recordings of the tutorials and discussion can be found in the agenda page. The event summary is available here.

• 01 October 2021

  Our Spectrum Innovation Initiative proposal to form SpectrumX – An NSF Spectrum Innovation Center was funded by the National Science Foundation. Proud to be one of the founding members of the center and look forward to interdisciplinary work in the next 5 years to develop new and efficient ways for radio spectrum access with a particular outlook towards “social good” applications for science and defence. You can learn more about the center here.

• 20 September 2021

  Mariya will serve as the Track Chair for Computing Systems and IoT at ACM COMPASS'21. Please, consider submitting papers to the conference.

• 15 September 2021

  The second workshop in the National Dynamic Radio Zone series will be held on November 16-17, 2021. Look forward to co-orgaizing this with colleagues from the remote sensing, radio astronomy and active spectrum measurements communities. More information on the workshop website.

• 01 September 2021

  Mariya invited to present at the National Academy of Engineering EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Sympsium, November 15-17, 2021. Talk available here.

• 15 August 2021

  Two NRDZ Lean Coffee Tables coming up on August 31st and Septermber 13, 2021. The events will facilitate blue sky discussion on grand challenges and desired capabilities of NRDZs. Follow the executive summaries on our website for outcomes of the discussions.

• 01 June 2021

  E!App accepted to ACM COMPASS. Congratulations, Karyn!! In collaboration with Habib Affinnih and Petko Bogadanov from Computer Science and Qianli Yuan, Ramon Gil-Garcia and Mila Gasco from the Center for Technology in Government (link to paper).

• 19 April 2021

  Two papers accepted at IEEE SECON'21. “MODELESS” with Wei and Petko (link to paper) and “CORE” with Alex, Karyn, Lin and Petko (link to paper). MODELESS tackles modulation recognition with limited supervision. CORE provides connectivity optimization via reinforcement learning in WANETs.

• 15 April 2021

  Undergraduate student Habib Affinnih received the 2021 Situation Prize for Research – Community, Cause and Advocacy Award for his work on “Improving Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response”. You can learn about his work here.

• 18 March 2021

  Our first workshop in the National Radio Dynamic Zone series was a success. The workshop theme was “Passive/Active communities working together: Understanding each other’s needs, concerns, and capabilities”. You can find recordings and summaries on the workshop website.

• 26 February 2021

  Our paper “SYMMeTRy: Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition” was accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing. Link to paper

• 10 February 2021

  Mariya will serve as the registration chair for MobiSys'21.

• 05 December 2020

  Our paper “Learning the unknown: Improving modulation classification performance in unseen scenarios” was accepted at INFOCOM'21. Congrats to collaborators from KU Leuven and Armasuisse: Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Sofie Pollin and Gerome Bovet.

• 01 December 2020

  Mariya will participate in a panel on 5G AND BEYOND 5G: VISION AND RESEARCH CHALLENGES at the N2Women event at GLOBECOM'20.

• 01 October 2020

  New paper on our rural emergency preparedness work appeared in the GetMobile Magazine. Take a look at the paper here.

• 05 September 2020

  Mariya will co-lead the NSF Research Partnership on National Radio Dynamic Zones. More info about the partnership and upcoming events here.

• 01 September 2020

  Mariya gave a talk and participated in a panel on AI for Wireless at WoWMoM'20.

• 28 August 2020

  Mariya gave a talk and participated in a panel at the NSF Visionary Workshop on Wireless, Spectrum & Innovation.

• 10 July 2020

  SyMMeTRy received the IEEE INFOCOM'20 Best Poster Award. Watch the video here.

• 01 July 2020

  UbiNET’s first PhD graduate, Wei Xiong, received the University at Albany Best Dissertation Award. Congrats, Wei!

• 05 June 2020

  Mariya is organizing the NSF NeTS CAREER webinar for aspiring PIs. For more information and registration: https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/nsf-nets-resource-site/career-webinar.

• 20 May 2020

  Our paper entitled “Towards scalable zero-shot modulation recognition” was accepted to VTC-Fall'20. Congrats, Wei and Petko!

• 24 April 2020

  Our paper entitled “Protecting location privacy from untrusted wireless service providers” was accepted to WiSec'20. This is joint work with Keen Sung and Brian Levine from UMass Amherst.

• 31 March 2020

  UbiNET’s first PhD student, Wei Xiong, defended his dissertation today! Congratulations, Wei! His dissertation is entitled “Towards Practical Modulation Recognition for Future Spectrum-Sharing Applications”.

• 12 December 2019

  Our paper “Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition” was accepted in INFOCOM 2020.

• 10 November 2019

  Mariya will serve on the MobiSys'20 and ICTD'20 TPCs.

• 20 June 2019

  The UbiNET Lab received the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance 2019 Award for University Research on New Opportunities for Dynamic Spectrum Access.

• 06 May 2019

  Mariya received the NSF CAREER award. The goal of the project is to automate the measurement and management of radio spectrum for future spectrum-sharing applications. Award abstract.

• 17 April 2019

  Mariya was awarded the 2019 President’s Award for Exemplary Public Engagement. List of awardees.

• 10 March 2019

  Mariya will be the N2Women Dinner Chair for ACM MobiCom 2019.

• 24 January 2019

  Poster on spectrum measurement at NSDI'19: “Building a foundation for heterogeneous sensors in spectrum measurement infrastructures”. Congrats, Karyn!

• 19 January 2019

  Mariya participated in a panel during the Processing Community Day at Emma Willard School.

• 03 December 2018

  Mariya talked about radio spectrum on the Academic Minute, a national production by NPR member station WAMC. Listen to podcast

• 30 November 2018

  Our paper “Robust and Efficient Modulation Recognition Based on Local Sequential IQ Features” was accepted to INFOCOM'19. Congrats, Wei!

• 16 November 2018

  I gave a talk at Arizona State University titled “Spectrum Management and Measurement for Future Spectrum-Sharing Networks”.

• 14 November 2018

  I gave a talk at Skidmore College titled “Mobile Wireless Networks of the Future”.

• 15 September 2018

  We received a $1.5M award through the NSF Smart and Connected Communities program to develop a communication and information dissemination framework for rural emergency preparedness and response. Award abstract

• 15 September 2018

  Mariya will be the faculty mentor for the DySPAN 2018 N2Women meeting

• 21 July 2018

  AirPRESS: Efficient Spectrum Summarization Using Compressed Spectrum Scans, accepted at DySPAN'18.

• 09 July 2018

  Eman Shah and Jason Viviano join the UbiNET Lab as NSF REU fellows. Thanks, NSF!

• 11 June 2018

  Mariya will serve on the IEEE INFOCOM'19 technical program committee.

• 23 May 2018

  AirVIEW won best in-session presentation at INFOCOM'18.

• 15 May 2018

  UbiNET Lab received a NSF REU award to support undergraduate students’ research on spectrum measurement.

• 10 May 2018

  A book chapter on “Cellular and Internet Connectivity for Displaced Populations” published in “Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons” MIT Press, 2018. Web

• 10 April 2018

  “Third-Party Cellular Congestion Detection and Augmentation” to appear in TMC.

• 01 April 2018

  Mariya will serve on the IEEE DySPAN'18 technical program committee.

• 27 November 2017

  AirVIEW accepted at INFOCOM 2018. Link to paper

• 10 August 2017

  Mariya appointed as the Publications Director of SIGMOBILE.

• 01 June 2017

  Our paper “Enabling a Nationwide Radio Frequency Inventory Using the Spectrum Observatory” will appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Link to paper

• 15 May 2017

  PhD student Wei Xiong to present a poster on “Camera Images Offloading in Low-resource Wireless Networks” at MobiSys'17

• 03 May 2017

  UbiNet Lab is hosting undergraduate student Rashan Smith from Skidmore College for summer research.

• 19 April 2017

  Our paper “Smallholder Agriculture in the Information Age: Limits and Opportunities” was accepted to ACM LIMITS'17. Link to paper

• 01 February 2017

  Mariya received the NSF CRII award to research “Next Generation Spectrum Measurement Algorithms and Infrastructures”. Award abstract

• 01 February 2017

  PhD student Wei Xiong to present a poster on “Visualizing Wireless Coverage Through Drone and Augmented Reality” at NSDI'17

• 20 January 2017

  Mariya received an award through University at Albany’s Faculty Research Award Program. More info at our Grants page.

• 01 December 2016

  Our ITID paper was featured in press

• 01 June 2016

  Mariya will participate in NSF Broadband 2021

• 10 May 2016

  Our paper “PhoneHome: Robust Extension of Cellular Coverage” to appear in ICCCN16. Link to paper

• 01 April 2016

  Mariya will participate in the NSF Workshop on Spectrum Measurement Infrastructures

• 01 December 2015

  Our paper “HybridCell: Cellular connectivity on the fringes with demand-driven local cells” was accepted to INFOCOM'16. Link to paper

• 01 June 2015

  Our paper “TxMiner: Identifying Transmitters in Real-World Spectrum Measurements” was accepted to DySpan'15. Link to paper

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