February 25-26, 2026

The 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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  • Day 1

  • 8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks

  • SAPE: Demystifying Sub-band Aware Power-Equalization for Cellular Networks

    Dingyu Zhang (Johns Hopkins University); Ish Kumar Jain (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); Renjie Zhao (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Beyond Wi-Fi: Private 5G for Better Multi-User Quality-of-Experience

    Ushasi Ghosh (University of California San Diego); Shivang Aggarwal, Mohamed Ibrahim, Puneet Sharma (HPE Labs); Dinesh Bharadia (University of California San Diego)

  • Accelerating Emergency Location and Response in 5G and Beyond Networks

    Alessio Scalingi (UC3M); Domenico Giustiniano, Francesco Pigato (IMDEA Networks)

  • SCOUT: User Plane Telemetry for NextG Cellular Networks

    Sushila Seshasayee, Ushasi Ghosh, Qingyuan Zheng, Umesh Bellur (University of California San Diego); Dinesh Bharadia (UCSD)

  • 10:15 – 10:45 Break

  • EyeDAR: A Low-Power mmWave Tag that Senses and Communicates 3D Point Clouds to Enhance Radar Perception

    Kun Woo Cho (Rice University); Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University)

  • mmRidge: Revealing Emergent Crowd Flow Structures with mmWave MIMO Radar

    Anurag Pallaprolu, Winston Hurst, Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • MUFASA: Localized Flood Sensing and Alerting via Autonomous Millimeter-wave Wireless

    Tianyang Chen, Ahsan Waleed Nazar, Sennur Ulukus, Zhambyl Shaikhanov (University of Maryland)

  • Privacy-Aware Sharing of Raw Spatial Sensor Data for Cooperative Perception

    Yawen Liu, Swarun Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • 11:45 – 13:15 Lunch

  • Beyond-Voice: Leveraging Articulatory Motion for Next-gen AI-Assistants

    Tanmay Srivastava, Amartya Basu, Shubham Jain (Stony Brook University)

  • Neural Architecture Search for Latency Constrained DNNs

    Jinghua Yan, Sina Mahdipour Saravani (University of Utah); Xuecen Zhang, Vipin Chaudhary (Case Western Reserve University); Gerald Sabin (RNET Technologies); P. Sadayappan (University of Utah)

  • GazeSummary: Exploring Gaze as an Implicit Prompt for Personalization in text-based LLM Tasks

    Jiexin Ding, Yizhuo Zhang (University of Washington); Xinyun Liu (Google); Ke Chen (University of Washington); Yuntao Wang (Tsinghua University); Shwetak Patel, Akshay Gadre (University of Washington)

  • 14:00 – 14:15 Break

  • SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond

    Nazish Naeem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Peder Olsen, Vaishnavi Ranganathan (Microsoft Research)

  • Mirror in the Sky: Democratizing Continent-Scale IoT Connectivity via Amateur Satellites

    Jacqueline Schellberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Suraj Jog, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Krishna Chintalapudi, Bodhi Priyantha (Microsoft Research); Bhuvana Krishnaswamy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Predicting Connectivity and Link Performance in Dynamic LEO Satellite Networks

    Bin Hu, Feng Qian, Ahmad Hassan (University of Southern California); Morley Mao (University of Michigan); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities)

  • 15:00 – 15:15 Break

  • Governance at the Edge: Agent-Driven Privacy Mediation for Mobile and IoT Data

    Musfira Khan, Fatemeh Sarhaddi, Agustin Zuniga (University of Helsinki); Huber Flores (University of Tartu); Sasu Tarkoma, Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki)

  • No Guide, No Cheat: Detecting Smart Glasses via AR Optical Signatures

    Hanting Ye, Tianyi Hu, Maria Gorlatova (Duke University)

  • Seeking Trust in Resource-Constrained Edge Networks with Mobile Agents: Complications with ZTA

    Justin Henry, Derek Richins, Steven G. Weldon, Sumesh Kesavamoorthy Vijayalakshmi, Tim Price (Augusta University); Waylon Brunette (Augusta Univeristy)

  • 16:00 – 17:30 Poster Presentation

  • 17:30 – 18:30 Poster Wrap-up

  • 18:30 Banquet Dinner

  • Day 2

  • 8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote

  • 10:00 – 10:15 Break

  • EarCalo: Earable-Based Energy Expenditure Estimation While Running

    Yang Liu (Florida State University); Qiang Yang, Jake Stuchbury-Wass, Dong Ma, Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

  • AquaTera: Sub-Terahertz Wireless to Enable Air-Water Communication

    Abu Horaira Hridhon (University of Maryland); Sherif Badran, Josep M. Jornet (Northeastern University); Zhambyl Shaikhanov (University of Maryland)

  • SWAN: Spectrometry-based Wearable Biosensing for Monitoring Plastic Particles in the Human Body

    Kevin Post, Reo Kuchida, Zhigang Yin (University of Tartu); Pan Hui (University of Helsinki and HKUST); Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki); Huber Flores (University of Tartu)

  • 11:00 – 11:15 Break

  • Inferring Indoor Layouts using Audio

    Zhijian Yang (Amazon); Sattwik Basu, Chaitanya Amballa, Debottam Dutta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina); Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

  • DecodeX: Exploring and Benchmarking of LDPC Decoding across CPU, GPU, and ASIC Platforms

    Zhenzhou Qi, Yuncheng Yao, Yiming Li, Chung-Hsuan Tung, Junyao Zheng, Danyang Zhuo, Tingjun Chen (Duke University)

  • Towards Smart Wireless Power Transfer Through a Localizing and Beam-Focusing Magnetic Metasurface

    Yawen Liu, Swarun Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • 12:00 – 13:15 Lunch

  • Towards Automated RAN Configuration Tuning in Cellular Networks with Causal Learning

    Leyang Xue, Bolun Zhang, Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh); He Yan, Yu Zhou, Cheuk Yiu Ip, James Klosowski (AT&T Labs Research)

  • Saving Private Cellular: The Coordination Vaccum in CBRS

    Muhammad Taimoor Tariq, Radhika Mittal (UIUC)

  • Who Knows What? Semantic Negotiation for Human-Supervised RAN Agentic Coordination

    Eduardo Baena, Ankita Mandal, Abhiram Elango, Phuc Dinh, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University)

  • 14:00 Closing Remarks

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