About Me

I am a fourth year PhD student at MIT, advised by Prof. Fadel Adib.

In my work, I explore how wireless signals can be used to sense and percieve the physical world in novel ways. Specifically, my current work focuses on building advanced non-line-of-sight perception using millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals, with applications spanning robotics, augmented reality, shipping and logistics, and smart homes. My work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship, Amazon Robotics Thriving Stars Fellowship, Best Masters of Engineering Thesis Award at MIT, ACM Mobisys Best Paper Finalist and IEEE RFID Best Paper award.

I have also had the pleasure of working with Prof. Haitham Al Hassenieh as a visiting PhD student in 2023. Before starting my PhD, I recieved my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2021.

Awards

ACM Mobisys Best Paper Finalist (2025)
ACM Mobisys Best Poster (2025)
Amazon Robotics Thriving Stars Fellowship (2025)
IEEE Conference on RFID Best Paper Award (2023)
IEEE Conference on RFID Best Paper Finalist (2023)
MIT Charles & Jennifer Johnson MEng in AI and Decision-Making Thesis Award (2023)
MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship (2022)
MIT George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Award (2020)

Publications

* indicates equal contribution

	Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation Laura Dodds, Tara Boroushaki, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2025. Best Paper Finalist, Best Poster Paper Poster Codebase
	6D Self-Localization of Drones using a Single Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Anchor Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Fadel Adib IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (InfoCom), May 2025. Paper
	Around the Corner mmWave Imaging in Practical Environments Laura Dodds, Hailan Shanbhag, Junfeng (Jayden) Guan, and Haitham Al Hassanieh ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Oct. 2024. Paper
	Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib IEEE International Conference on RFID, June 2023. Best Paper Finalist Paper
	Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Weitung Chen, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib IEEE International Conference on RFID, June 2023. Best Paper Paper
	FuseBot: Mechanical Search of Rigid and Deformable Objects via Multi-Modal Perception Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib RSS'22 Special Issue in Autonomous Robots - Invited Paper Paper
	A Handheld Fine-Grained RFID Localization System with Complex-Controlled Polarization Laura Dodds, Isaac Perper, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib ACM Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom), Oct. 2023. Paper
	Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), June 2022. Paper
	FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June 2022. Paper