The DartNets Lab (Dartmouth Networking and Ubiquitous Systems Laboratory) is directed by Professor Andrew T. Campbell, Professor Temiloluwa O. Prioleau, and Professor Xia Zhou at Dartmouth College. Our research covers broadly applications, systems, and networking of smartphones and smart device systems. Lab members include PhD and Master students, undergraduate researchers, post-docs and visiting scholars.
We are actively looking for motivated students to join our lab. If you are interested in mobile systems research, please email us your CV.
Sensing blood glucose level noninvasively with polarized light.
Connecting aerial drones and underwater robots directly with laser light
Reconstructing joint angular motion with off-the-shelf stretchable and pressure fabrics.
An battery-free eye tracker on glasses that tracks both pupil position and size. Check the demo video
A gesture-recognition module self-powered by ambient light. Check out the demo video
A wearable tag tracking face-to-face interaction using near infrared light.
Placing a 3D-printed reflector behind your Wi-Fi AP to customize your wireless coverage shape.
LiGaze tracks your gaze in VR using only a few low-cost photodiodes!
Aili turns a table lamp into a gesture sensing device, which reconstructs hand skeleton poses without cameras.
DarkLight allows lights to transmit data even if they appears dark/off.
StarLight reuses ceiling LED panels and a few photodiodes to reconstruct your postures.
LiSense turns the ubiquitous light around us into sensors that recognize and respond to what we do.
Can your smartphone predict your GPA? Our SmartGPA app uses passive sensing data and self-reports to understand behavioral differences between high and low performers.
Let screens and cameras communicate without you knowing it! We no longer need coded images on the screen.
The StudentLife app can assess the mental-health and academic performance of students using passive sensor data from smartphones.
Jan. 2021:Mikio has successfully defended his Master thesis. Congratulations Mikio and all the best to your next chapter of life!
Oct. 2020:Congratulations to the team on publishing the work of using mixed reality to teach American Sign Language in IMWUT/UbiComp!
Jun. 2020:Our work on noninvasive glucose monitoring has been accepted by SenSys 2020. Here is the teaser video. Great job the team!
Mar. 2020:Huge congratulations to Tianxing on accepting a tenure-track faculty offer from Michigan State University! We are all proud of you, Prof. Li!
Feb. 2020:PolarTag won the best demo award at HotMobile'20. Great job Qijia!
Feb. 2020:Congratulations to newly-minted Dr. Tianxing Li on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
Feb. 2020:AmphiLight won the best paper award at NSDI! Charlie gave a nice talk presenting the work.
Jan. 2020:Our work (AmphiLight) on air-water laser communication was accepted by NSDI'20, and work (PolarTag) on polarization-based visual tags was accepted by HotMobile'20, cheers team!
Oct. 2019:Andrew and Emiliano accepted the SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award at MobiCom'19 for their seminal paper on smartphone sensing. Congratulations Andrew and the team!
Sep. 2019:Subigya and Qijia delivered their first-ever conference presentation at UbiComp'19!
Sep. 2019:Welcome Abigail Bartolome and Kang Gu joining as PhD students working with Prof. Prioleau! Also welcome Derek Bai and Pierre Desvallons joining us as undergraduate interns, both supported by Dartmouth undergraduate research scholarships!
Sep. 2019:Congratulations to our newly-minted Dr. Tian Zhao (our very own Dark Knight), who has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Lighting up Wireless Communication and Sensing". We are so blessed to have Zhao as a lab member over the past five years. He has been the role model junior students looking up to. Zhao is starting his next chapter at Google. We wish him all the best and will certainly be missing him dearly.
Jul. 2019:Xia has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Congratulations!
Jun. 2019:Andrew's team develop new mobile-sensing system to determine whether the wearer is a productive employee. It will appear in UbiComp'19 and is reported in the Washington Post. Congratulations, Shayan, Kizito, Weichen, and Andrew!
Jun. 2019:We are fortunate to have a group of motivated undergraduate and high-school students working with us over the summer! Welcome Themistoklis Haris, Samuel Morton, Ruoqi Dang, and Jackson Tolliday! Themistoklis and Samuel are both supported by the undergraduate research scholarships at Dartmouth.
Apr. 2019:Huge congratulations to Charlie on winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which "recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines". Proud of you, Charlie. Way to go!
Apr. 2019:Our fabric sensing project is featured in NSF's weekly "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week." Here are the social media links: Facebook, Twitter.
Apr. 2019:Congratulations to Shayan and Kizito on getting their work "Differentiating Higher and Lower Job Performers in the Workplace using Mobile Sensing" accepted by IMWUT/UbiComp'19!
Mar. 2019:Xia is this year's ACM SIGMobile Rockstar!
Mar. 2019:Andrew will participate in a panel on The Future of Wellbeing with Ubiquitous Sensing at this years South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences in Austin, Texas.
Mar. 2019:A newly-released Science Nation video "Using light to move wireless data faster" features the NSF-funded research by Xia and her team. It is also promoted on NSF social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, tumblr and soon on Instagram.
Jan. 2019:Temi officially joins us! Welcome Temi!
Nov. 2018:Looking forward to having Anna Matusewicz joining our research project in the winter. She was selected to be a Junior Research Scholar!
Nov. 2018:Tianxing presented his eye-tracking work at MobiCom'18 in New Delhi, India. Our work is also covered in the press: Yahoo! News, The Dartmouth, engineering.com.
Oct. 2018:Congratulations to Sung Jun Park on winning the Anna Thompson Burnap Undergraduate Student Research Award!
Oct. 2018:Weichen and Andrew have presented their UbiComp papers at UbiComp'18 in Singapore.
Sept. 2018:Check out the demo video of our upcoming paper in MobiCom'18. Special thanks to Anca Balaceanu from DALI for the help in video production!
Aug. 2018:August 8 is Rui's last day in the lab :( It has been our great privilege to have had the opportunity to work with Rui. We are proud of what Rui has achieved during his PhD and wish him all the best at Facebook!
Jul. 2018:We have papers newly accepted by UbiComp'18, UIST'18, and MobiCom'18! Cheers!
Jul. 2018:We are happy to have a few undergraduate interns helping on the projects over the summer. Welcome Sung Jun Park, Babacar Gadiaga, Siqi Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Yaning Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)!
Apr. 2018:LiGaze is selected as SIGMOBILE Research Highlights. Cheers!
Apr. 2018:Three new PhD students (Charles, Mikio, and Qijia) will join us in the fall!
Mar. 2018:Our paper is conditionally accepted by MobiSys'18. MobiSys_DartNets++!
Feb. 2018:Two papers were accepted by IMWUT and will appear in UbiComp'18. Go DartNets!
Jan. 2018:We are excited to have Christina Ru '21 and Shiyao Peng '20 joining our lab for two terms to participate in our projects. They are supported by the WISP program -- a big thank you!
Jan. 2018:A warm welcome to Mikio Obuchi from Keio University in this cold new year! He will be visiting our lab for three months working on mobile sensing.
Nov. 2017:Thanks to the research work led by Andrew, we are on the cover of Valley News!
Nov. 2017:LiGaze is one of the Best Paper Candidates at SenSys'17. Cheers!
Nov. 2017:WiPrint went viral in the press: Newsweek, New Scientist, Popular Science, Techcrunch, Engadget, Daily Express, just to name a few.
Nov. 2017:Check out the demo video of our upcoming paper in SenSys'17. Special thanks to Jenny Hyun Ji Seong and Anne Muller from DALI for the help in video production!
Oct. 2017:We enjoyed attending MobiCom'17 in Snowbird. Zhao gave a talk on our current project in VLCS'17. Tianxing demonstrated our gaze-tracking system for VR in the demo session of the main conference -- people waiting in a queue to try our system, it was popular!
Sept. 2017:Great time at Maui, meeting friends and watching turtles ;-) Rui and Tianxing gave nice presentations at UbiComp'17.
July 2017:Our work on 3D-printed Wi-Fi reflectors is accepted by BuildSys'17. It is a very challenging project. Congratulations team!
July 2017:Xia is on this year’s list of "N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communications".
July 2017:LiGaze is accepted by SenSys'17. Cheers!
July 2017:Two papers will appear in UbiComp'17! Maui we come!
July 2017:Welcome Dr. Yichen Li joining our lab as a post-doc researcher!
June 2017:Check the demo video of Aili, a table lamp that reconstructs hand poses.
June 2017:We had a great time at MobiSys'17. Andrew co-chaired the technical program. Check out the Dartmouth crowd at MobiSys. Dartmouth is for sure well represented -- MobiSys should give us group discount, no? :-)
Apr. 2017:We are thrilled to have four new PhD students (Kizito, Ruibo, Shayan, Weichen) joining us this fall!
Nov. 2016:DarkLight appeared in the Atlantic!
Nov. 2016:StarLight has been selected as one of the winners of the SIGMOBILE Research Highlights. Cheers team!
Oct. 2016:DarkLight won the Best Video Award in MobiCom'16. Cheers!
Sept. 2016:A big welcome to Alessandro Montanari from Cambridge visiting us!
Aug. 2016:Check out our DarkLight video! Many thanks to Abby Starr and DALI Lab for the help!
June 2016:CrossCheck is accepted by UbiComp'16! Congratulations Rui!
June 2016:DarkLight is accepted by MobiCom'16! Great job Zhao!
June 2016:StarLight video is out! Special thanks to Yifei Xie '16 and George Hito '18! Check out the project website for details.
May 2016:We presented two talks and three posters in this year's Computer Science Research Symposium (CSRS)! Congratulations to Tianxing on winning the best talk prize!
Feb. 2016:StarLight is accepted by MobiSys'16! Congratulations Tianxing and Qiang!
Feb. 2016:DarkVLC made a great presence at both the technical and demo sessions of HotMobile'16! Nicely done Zhao -- our newly-minted Dark Knight ;-)
Feb. 2016:A very warm welcome to Prof. Javier Bajo visiting us for three months!
Jan. 2016:Welcome our new WISP intern Yichen Ke '19!
Dec. 2015:DarkVLC got in HotMobile'16! May the force be with you DartNets!
Oct. 2015:We did live demo of LiSense to the undergraduates from neighboring colleges in our departmental workshop on Exploring Graduate Study in Computer Science.
Sept. 2015:DartNets made presences in both UbiComp'15 and MobiCom'15. A few awards in MobiCom: LiSense won the Best Video Award; Justin and Zhao won the gold and bronze medal in the ACM Student Research Competition; WiPrint won the Hot Paper Award in the HotWireless workshop!
Aug. 2015:SmartGPA receives the UbiComp 2015 Honorable Mention Award!
Aug. 2015:We're thrilled to have three new PhD students joining us: Varun Mishra, Xi Xiong, and Xing Meng. Welcome!
July 2015:Check out our LiSense video! Special thanks to Amy Y. Zhang and Lorie Loeb!
July 2015:We have two papers in this year's MCSS workshop, co-located with UbiComp'15. Cheers!
July 2015:Check out the video made by Justin on his WiPrint work. Nicely done!
June 2015:Best of luck to Fanglin starting his new chapter in CMU.
June 2015:Congratulations to Tianxing and Justin for winning the Neukom Prize in the Graduate and Undergraduate Research category, respectively! Good job!
June 2015: We have released the source code of HiLight at GitHub. Feel free to check it out.
June 2015: SmartGPA is on Public Radio International.
June 2015: LiSense is accepted by MobiCom'15! Congratulations!
May 2015: SmartGPA and WiScan are both accepted by UbiComp'15! Cheers!
May 2015: HiLight won the Best Demo Award at MobiSys'15! Tianxing did a great job presenting and demoing the HiLight system.
May 2015: HiLight demo is live now: http://dartnets.cs.dartmouth.edu/hilight. Special thanks to Jacob A. Gaba '16 for helping prepare the video.
Feb. 2015: HiLight is accepted by MobiSys'15! Well done team!!
Jan. 2015: We're thrilled to have a few talented undergrads and Master students joining our projects. Welcome Alma, Caleb, Dan, Justin, Saisi, Xinran, Arvind, Haomin, and Shiying!
Nov. 2014: Our iVLC vision is in the news! CACM, Phys.Org, and FierceWireless!
Oct. 2014: DartNets Lab station is up as part of the Microsoft Spectrum observatory.
Oct. 2014: HiLight wins the Best Paper Award in ACM VLCS'14! Way to go team!
Sept. 2014: More media coverage on StudentLife: Engadget, CNET, MIT Tech Review, CBS News, New Republic, Wired, Forbes, Huff Post, Dartmouth Now, Valley News Editorial, BBC World News. Cheers team!
Sept. 2014: We enjoyed ACM UbiComp'14 very much. Rui rocked in his StudentLife talk. Good job Rui!
Sept. 2014: We had a great (and busy) time at Maui for ACM MobiCom'14. Congratulations to Tianxing for winning the Bronze Medal in the Student Research Competition!
Sept. 2014: StudentLife is featured in the New Scientist.
Sept. 2014: Our StudentLife paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at ACM UbiComp'14! Well done team!
Sept. 2014: We have publicly released the StudentLife dataset.
Aug. 2014: Welcome to our newest lab member Zhao Tian!
Aug. 2014: The spectrum monitoring project in collaboration with UCSB got funded by NSF EARS program!
Jul. 2014: Our proposal on advancing visible light communication and sensing got funded by NSF NeTS program!
Jul. 2014: HiLight is accepted by ACM VLCS'14!
Jun. 2014: We all enjoyed attending ACm MobiSys'14. Rui delivered his first ever conference talk, and it was a good talk. Congratulations Rui!
Jun. 2014: Tianxing has successfully defended his Master thesis and will continue as a PhD student. Congratulations Tianxing!
Apr. 2014: StudentLife is accepted by UbiComp'14! Congratulations team!
Feb. 2014: Our research proposal on Wi-Fi energy efficiency got funded by Google Faculty Research Award Program!
Dec. 2013: Chuankai An joined our lab. We are glad to have you Chuankai!
Sept. 2013: DartNets Lab is founded!
Our research is generously supported by the following sources. We sincerely thank you for the support!
