Yasamin Mostofi Explained

Yasamin Mostofi
Field:	Electrical engineering
Work Institution:	University of California, Santa Barbara
Known For:	RF Sensing, Communication-Aware Robotics, Wireless Communications, Control/Robotics
Prizes:	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama, IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, IEEE Fellow, National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.^[1] Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.^[2]

Education and career

Yasamin got her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She is a major contributor to two research areas:

• RF Sensing, such as sensing and learning about the environment with WiFi signals. In 2009, Yasamin Showed it possible to image details of objects with WiFi signals.^[3] Since then her work has contributed to this area by showing how WiFi signals can be used for different through-wall sensing applications, such as occupancy analytics,^[4] person identification,^[5] activity recognition,^[6] localization/tracking^[7] and 3D Xray vision for drones.^[8]
• Communication-Aware, Path Planning, and Control^[9]

Yasamin’s early work in these two areas won her the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer (PECASE) from President Obama in 2011.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Selected honors/awards

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer (PECASE) from President Obama, 2011.^{[10] [13] [12]}
• IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, 2016^{[14] [15]} Yasamin is the first woman to receive this award.
• IEEE Fellow, 2020^[16]
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, 2009

Mostofi’s accomplishments are highlighted in the book “Daughters of Persia, Pioneering Women of the World”^[17] by Mansoureh Pirnia, which is a historic account of high-impact Iranian women throughout history.

Selected news appearances

Sample press coverage of her research lab includes BBC Digital Planet 2019,^[18] TechCrunch 2018,^[19] BBC 2017,^[20] Engadget 2017,^[21] Huffington Post UK 2015,^[22] BBC 2014,^[23] Engadget 2014,^[24] among others.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yasamin Mostofi Electrical and Computer Engineering UC Santa Barbara. 2021-02-06. www.ece.ucsb.edu.
2. Web site: Yasamin Mostofi's Homepage. 2021-02-05. web.ece.ucsb.edu.
3. Book: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5160306. Compressive cooperative sensing and mapping in mobile networks. Y.. Mostofi. P.. Sen. 2009 American Control Conference. June 5, 2009. 3397–3404. IEEE Xplore. 10.1109/ACC.2009.5160306. 978-1-4244-4523-3.
4. Crowd Counting Through Walls Using WiFi, IEEE Percom 2018. 10.1109/PERCOM.2018.8444589. 1711.05837. 11275010. Depatla. Saandeep. Mostofi. Yasamin. 2017. 1–10.
5. Book: XModal-ID: Using WiFi for Through-Wall Person Identification from Candidate Video Footage," 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2019. 11 October 2019. 1–15. 10.1145/3300061.3345437. 9781450361699. 203691615.
6. Teaching RF to Sense without RF Training Measurements, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 4, no. 4, article 120, 2020. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 17 December 2020. 4. 4. 120:1–120:22. 10.1145/3432224. 228082261. Cai. Hong. Korany. Belal. Karanam. Chitra R.. Mostofi. Yasamin. free.
7. Book: Tracking from One Side - Multi-Person Passive Tracking with WiFi Magnitude Measurements," in proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2019 . 16 April 2019 . 181–192 . 10.1145/3302506.3310399 . 9781450362849 . 102349409 .
8. Web site: 3D Through-Wall Imaging with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using WiFi, 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2017. April 2017. 131–142.
9. Web site: Communication-Aware Robotics. 2021-02-05. web.ece.ucsb.edu.
10. Web site: President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists. September 26, 2011. whitehouse.gov.
11. Web site: Photo . web.ece.ucsb.edu . 2021-02-07.
12. Web site: Pecase Group Photo . Web.ece.ucsb.edu . 2011-10-14 . 2021-02-07.
13. Web site: Photo . web.ece.ucsb.edu . 2021-02-07.
14. Web site: IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize | IEEE Control Systems Society. ieeecss.org.
15. Web site: Photo . web.ece.ucsb.edu . 2021-02-07.
16. Web site: About . . 2020 . 2021-02-07.
17. Web site: Pirnia, Daughters of Persia, Pioneering Women of the World. www.pirnia.com.
18. Web site: Digital Planet - BBC News on the 'dark web' - BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk.
19. Web site: New tech uses Wi-Fi to count people through walls.
20. News: Drones use wi-fi to 'see' through walls. BBC News .
21. Web site: Researchers map a building in 3D using WiFi-enabled drones. Engadget.
22. Web site: HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media. consent.yahoo.com.
23. Web site: X-rays for Robots. 2021-02-05. www.bbc.co.uk.
24. Web site: These robots have x-ray vision, thanks to WiFi. Engadget.