News & Updates

Latest milestones, awards, and announcements from the UbiSys Lab

Urgent Hiring: SRF & Senior Research Associate Positions! Pinned
Multiple open positions (2 SRF + 1 Senior Research Associate) with immediate joining for a Systems & ML project. View details and apply.
Journal paper accepted at Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Elsevier)!
Apr
Congratulations to Osho on the acceptance of "SafePass" — a distributed framework for seamless emergency-vehicle passage in connected autonomous traffic.
ACM CHI 2026 Honorable Mention Award for MorsEar!
Apr
Congratulations to Garvit — MorsEar received an Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2026, recognizing it among the top-rated papers of the conference.
UbiSys @ ACM CHI 2026, Barcelona
Apr
Garvit represented UbiSys at ACM CHI 2026 — presented MorsEar at the Main Track and VectionSense at the SAXR Workshop.
UbiSys @ IEEE PerCom 2026, Pisa
Mar
Garvit presented the full paper and WiP posters; Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty co-organized the 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Radars (PerRad) and was invited as a speaker at N2Women.
Susmita invited to CASA Summer School at Ruhr-University Bochum!
Mar
Congratulations to Susmita on a fully-funded invitation to the CASA Summer School on Cryptography and Distributed Computing at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (22–25 June 2026).
Gary Marsden Travel Award for CHI 2026!
Feb
Garvit received the Gary Marsden Travel Award to attend CHI 2026.
Full paper accepted at CHI 2026 Main Track!
Feb
Congratulations to Garvit for a full paper acceptance at CHI 2026!
Workshop paper accepted at SAXR 2026 (co-located with CHI 2026)!
Feb
Congratulations to Kompal, Ashish and Garvit for their paper "VectionSense" on cybersickness detection in VR, accepted at the SAXR 2026 workshop co-located with ACM CHI 2026!
Full paper accepted at PerCom 2026 Main Track!
Feb
Congratulations to Garvit for a full paper at PerCom 2026!
2 papers accepted at PerCom 2026 WiP Track!
Feb
Two Work-in-Progress papers accepted at PerCom 2026.
ACM IARCS Grant Recipient for PerCom 2026!
Feb
Garvit received the ACM IARCS Grant for attending PerCom 2026.
IEEE CS TCCC and TCPP STG Travel Grant for PerCom 2026!
Feb
Garvit received the IEEE CS TCCC and TCPP STG Travel Grant for PerCom 2026.
LRNF International Student Travel Grant for SenSys 2026!
Jan
Garvit received the LRNF International Student Travel Grant for SenSys 2026.
Full paper acceptance at SenSys 2026!
Jan
Congratulations to Garvit for a full paper acceptance at ACM SenSys 2026!
Full paper acceptance at EICS 2026!
Jan
Congratulations to Garvit for a full paper acceptance at ACM EICS 2026!
Poster on BiteSense at ARCS 2026
Feb
Garvit was invited to present a poster on BiteSense at ARCS 2026, 11th Feb 2026, IIT Hyderabad.
UbiSys @ ICDCN 2026, Nara, Japan
Jan
Susmita, Osho, and Ananya presented their accepted papers at the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2026), held 6–9 January in Nara, Japan.
UbiSys @ COMSNETS 2026
Jan
Garvit presented the full paper on SensePod at COMSNETS 2026 [Main Track].
Triple acceptance at ICDCN 2026 in Nara, Japan!
Jan
UbiSys secured 3 paper acceptances (2 Full Papers and 1 Short Paper) at the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2026). Congratulations to Ananya, Susmita, Osho, and all co-authors!
Full paper accepted at COMSNETS 2026 Main Track!
Jan
Congratulations to Garvit, Ananya and Osho for a full paper acceptance at COMSNETS 2026!
COMSNETS 2026 Travel Grant Awardee!
Jan
Garvit received the COMSNETS 2026 Travel Grant.

Poster presented at IEEE HiPC 2025!
Dec
Sukitha K. presented a poster on "Lightweight Ensemble Framework for Reliable Multi-Fault Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems" at IEEE HiPC 2025, Hyderabad. Congratulations to Sukitha and Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty!
Garvit selected to receive OmniBuds earable platform
Jun
Garvit was selected from among global applicants to receive OmniBuds, a cutting-edge earable platform with integrated biosensors and on-device machine learning.
Garvit received multiple Travel Grants for PerCom 2025
Mar
ACM/IARCS Travel Grant and IEEE CS TCCC and TCPP STG Travel Grant awarded to Garvit for PerCom 2025.
Multiple Acceptances at PerCom 2025
Mar
Congratulations to Garvit for a full paper, 1 WiP and 1 Artefact, and to Sameeran for a WiP at PerCom 2025!
COMSNETS 2025 Presentations
Feb
Osho, Garvit and Susmita presented their posters at COMSNETS 2025.
New funded projects and open positions
Jan
Join our team! Open positions for BTP, MTP, PhD, Postdoc and intern roles available now.
Smart Home and Ambient Sensing Lab Completed
Jan
Our 3-D printed smart home and ambient sensing lab is now fully operational!

Paper Accepted at VTC Fall 2024
Oct
Congratulations to Osho for having a full paper accepted at VTC Fall 2024!
International Research Visit
Jul
Osho visited UNSW, Sydney as a Junior Research Fellow.
COMSNETS 2024 Poster Presentation
Jan
Monik presented a poster at COMSNETS 2024!

ACM BuildSys 2023 Attendance
Nov
Ananya attended ACM BuildSys 2023 to present her work.
Paper Accepted at IEEE/ACM BuildSys 2023
Oct
Congratulations to Ananya for having a full paper accepted at IEEE/ACM BuildSys 2023!
Research Internship at UMBC, USA
Sep
Garvit received a funded 6-month Research Internship at UMBC, USA (September 2023 - February 2024).
Stanford EPIC Data Challenge Finalist
Aug
Garvit was a finalist in the Stanford EPIC Data Challenge, USA, placing in the Top 5 out of 61 participants.
Paper Accepted at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023
Jul
Congratulations to Garvit for having a full paper accepted at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023!
SERB CRG Grant
Jun
Our lab received the Core Research Grant from SERB (2023-2026).
IRMG 2023
May
Successfully secured the IRMG 2023 grant.
Prestigious Fellowships
Jan
Garvit received the TCS Fellowship and Prime Minister Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
COMSNETS Service
Jan
Garvit served as Web Chair and Social Media Chair at COMSNETS.