About Me

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

In my work, I explore how wireless signals can be used to sense and perceive 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 received broad recognition, including the IEEE RFID Best Paper award, ACM MobiSys Best Paper Finalist and Best Poster awards, Best MEng Thesis in AI and Decision-Making at MIT, Amazon Robotics Thriving Stars Fellowship, and MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship.

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 received my bachelors of science and my masters of engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2021.

Awards

• Selected as participant in 2025 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop
• Amazon-MIT Science Hub PhD Communication Competition Winner (2025)
• 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

	MITO: A Millimeter-Wave Dataset and Simulator for Non-Line-of-Sight Perception Tara Boroushaki*, Laura Dodds*, Cusuh Ham, Fadel Adib Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluation & Dataset Track, Dec. 2026. Paper
	WiP: Super-Resolution mmWave Normal Estimation Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Jizheng He, Matthew Reynolds, Fadel Adib ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Work-in-Progress Paper, Oct. 2026. Paper
	Remote Detection of Cardiac Implantable Electrical Devices Daniel Kramer, Hui Zhuang, Maisy Lam, Rohan Menon, Laura Dodds, Weitung Chen, Fadel Adib, I. Glenn Cohen, Kevin Fu Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology, Sept. 2026. Paper
	Wave-Former: Through-Occlusion 3D Reconstruction via Wireless Shape Completion Laura Dodds, Maisy Lam, Waleed Akbar, Yibo Cheng, Fadel Adib IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2026. Paper
	RISE: Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding Kaichen Zhou, Laura Dodds, Sayed Saad Afzal, Fadel Adib IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2026. Paper
	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 Video 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 Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2025. Paper Video
	Around the Corner mmWave Imaging in Practical Environments Laura Dodds, Hailan Shanbhag, Junfeng (Jayden) Guan, Saurabh Gupta, and Haitham Al Hassanieh ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Nov. 2024. 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
	Demo: Real-time X-Ray Vision via Augmented Reality with RF Sensing Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Weitung Chen, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Sept. 2023. 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, Sept. 2023 Paper Video
	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
	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), April 2023. Paper Video
	FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June 2022. Paper Video

Talks

• Extending CV to Hidden Objects: A Tutorial on Millimeter-Wave Imaging and Reconstruction of Occluded Scenes, CVPR 2026
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• Seeing Beyond What's Visible: Next-Generation mmWave Imaging, Department Seminar, KAIST, 2025.
• Building Robotics with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception via Wireless 3D Reconstruction, Amazon-MIT Science Hub 2025.
• Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation, Mobisys 2025.
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• Around the Corner mmWave Imaging in Practical Environments, Mobicom 2024.
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• New Ways for Sensing the Physical World, Co-Presented with Sayed Saad Afzal, MIT Media Lab Member Event 2024.
• X-AR: Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision, Co-Presented with Maisy Lam, Presentation & Live Demo, RFID Journal Live 2024.
• Fine-Grained RFID Localization with a Handheld Device, Mobicom 2023.
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• Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer Range RFID Reading and Localization, IEEE RFID 2023.
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Teaching

• Guest Lecture: Wireless Imaging and Generative AI, Wireless & Physical AI, MIT, Fall 2026
• Co-Organizer & Speaker: CVPR 2026 Tutorial, Extending Computer Vision to Hidden Objects: A Tutorial on Millimeter-Wave Imaging and Reconstruction of Occluded Scenes
• Teaching Assistant, Mobile and Sensor Computing, MIT, Spring 2026
• Guest Lecture: Self-Driving Cars, Mobile and Sensor Computing, MIT, Spring 2026
• Guest Lecture: Batteryless Connectivity & Smart Cities, Mobile and Sensor Computing, MIT, Spring 2026
• Guest Lecture: Next-Generation Wireless Imaging & 3D Reconstruction, Special Topics in Communication: Space and mmWave Networked Systems, University of Washington, Fall 2025
• Guest Lecture: 3D Reconstruction in Non-Line-of-Sight, Wireless & Mobile Sensing, MIT, Fall 2025

Service

• Panelist on "Graduate Student Panel": Seminar in Undergraduate Advanced Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2026
• Co-Organizer CVPR 2026 Tutorial: Extending Computer Vision to Hidden Objects: A Tutorial on Millimeter-Wave Imaging and Reconstruction of Occluded Scenes, Co-Organized with Mingmin Zhao
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• Reviewer: ICCV, TMC, TNET, IEEE Network Magazine, JSAC, JRFID
• "Maximizing Your PhD Journey" Panelist: ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students (S3) Workshop, Mobicom 2024
• Workshop TPC Member: ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students (S3) Workshop, Mobicom 2023