Shyam Gollakota is a Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington. His research spans Artificial Intelligence, Human-Centered Computing, and Wireless Systems , with interdisciplinary collaborations in Biology and Medicine. He leads the Mobile Intelligence Lab , co-founded Sound Life Sciences (acquired by Google), and developed battery-free computing technologies. Education: Ph.D. from MIT (2013), B.Tech from IIT Madras Awards: Infosys Prize 2024, Moore Inventor Fellow, NSF CAREER, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award His research focuses on machine learning for mobile systems, battery-free sensing, and human auditory augmentation . Recent work includes proactive in-ear assistants (ACL 2025), spatial speech translation (CHI 2025), and sound bubbles for personalized audio (Nature Electronics 2024) . Publications span Human-Computer Interaction, Wireless Networking, and Medical AI . Scientific achievements include: Best Paper Awards: MOBICOM, SIGCOMM, UbiComp, SenSys, NSDI, CHI Breakthroughs: Battery-free phones, ambient backscatter, smartphone-based medical diagnostics His team co-developed underwater GPS (SIGCOMM 2023), AI-enabled ClearBuds (MobiSys 2022), and wireless blood clot testing (Nature Communications 2022) . Collaborations include the Washington Department of Agriculture for monitoring invasive hornets.






