Past Funded Researchers
Fadel Adib is an associate professor at MIT and the founding director of the Signal Kinetics research group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group develops innovative technologies and algorithms for wireless perception, networking, and sensing. Professor Adib received his PhD in 2016 from MIT and Bachelor’s in 2011 from the American University of Beirut. His doctoral research on seeing through walls was named as one of the 50 ways MIT has transformed computer science, and itis currently being commercialized and utilized in medical studies at major US hospitals. Professor Adib has had the honor to demo his research to President Obama in the White House and in the UK House of Lords. His awards include the NSF CAREER Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and being named as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under 35.
J-WAFS-funded projects
Publications
- RFusion: robotic grasping via RF-visual sensing and learning
- Robotic grasping of fully-occluded objects using RF perception
- Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs
News
- J-WAFS PI Fadel Adib receives Great Arab Minds award
- J-WAFS PI Fadel Adib and colleagues develop underwater networking and communication device
- Fadel Adib and team create robot that retrieves buried objects
- J-WAFS PI Fadel Adib wins ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award
- Researchers at MIT including J-WAFS PI Fadel Adib developed robot that finds lost items
- J-WAFS PI develops a robot that senses hidden objects using penetrative radio frequency
- J-WAFS PIs Fadel Adib and Karthish Manthiram named Sloan Research Fellows
- The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
- J-WAFS PI Fadel Adib and his research were featured on CBS News