Sanjib Sur

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina

Office: 2259 Storey Innovation Center
550 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201
Email: sur@cse.sc.edu


Papers:

    (A note about author list: Underlined are my direct advisees. '*' marks co-primary authors.)
  • Argus: Predictable Millimeter-Wave Picocells with Vision and Learning Augmentation
    Hem Regmi, Sanjib Sur
    SIGMETRICS'22 Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, June 2022
    [ Paper ] [ Talk ]

  • SquiggleMilli: Approximating SAR Imaging on Mobile Millimeter-Wave Devices
    Hem Regmi, Moh Sabbir Saadat, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi
    IMWUT'21 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Virtual, September 2021
    [ Paper ] [ Talk ]

  • mmFlow: Facilitating At-Home Spirometry with 5G Smart Devices
    Aakriti Adhikari, Austin Hetherington, Sanjib Sur
    SECON'21 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, Virtual, July 2021
    [ Paper ] [ Talk ]

  • A Case for Temperature-Aware Scheduler for Millimeter-Wave Devices and Networks
    Moh Sabbir Saadat, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi
    ICNP'20 The 28th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Madrid, Spain, October 2020
    [ Paper ] [ 1-minute video ] [ Talk ]

  • MilliCam: Hand-held Millimeter-Wave Imaging
    Moh Sabbir Saadat, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi, Parmesh Ramanathan
    ICCCN'20 The 29th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Hawaii, USA, August 2020
    [ Paper ] [ Talk ]
    (Invited)

  • Practical Privacy Protection for Audio Sensing Against Multi-Microphone Adversaries
    Chuhan Gao, Kassem Fawaz, Sanjib Sur, Suman Banerjee
    PETS'19 The 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2019
    [ Paper ]

  • Towards Scalable and Ubiquitous Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim
    MobiCom'18 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New Delhi, India, Oct 2018
    [ Paper ] [ Talk (starts at 31:19) ]

  • WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim
    MobiCom'17 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Snow Bird, Utah, USA, Oct 2017
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ] [ 1-minute video ] [ Talk ]

  • Practical MU-MIMO User Selection on 802.11ac Commodity Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim
    MobiCom'16 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New York, USA, Oct 2016
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ]

  • Scoping Environment for Robust 60 GHz Link Deployment
    Sanjib Sur, Xinyu Zhang
    ITA'16 Information Theory and Applications, University of California San Diego, USA, Oct 2016
    [ Paper ]
    (Invited)

  • BeamSpy: Enabling Robust 60 GHz Links Under Blockage
    Sanjib Sur, Xinyu Zhang, Parmesh Ramanathan, Ranveer Chandra
    NSDI'16 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, USA, March 2016
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ] [ Talk (audio) ]

  • 60 GHz Indoor Networking through Flexible Beams: A Link-Level Profiling
    Sanjib Sur, Vignesh Venkateswaran, Xinyu Zhang, Parameswaran Ramanathan
    SIGMETRICS'15 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2015
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ]

  • Bringing Multi-Antenna Gain to Energy-Constrained Wireless Devices
    Sanjib Sur, Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang
    IPSN'15 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Seattle, WA, USA, April 2015
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ]

  • Bridging Link Power Asymmetry in Mobile Whitespace Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Xinyu Zhang
    INFOCOM'15 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Hong Kong, April 2015
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ]

  • Autodirective Audio Capturing Through a Synchronized Smartphone Array
    Sanjib Sur, Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang
    MobiSys'14 ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Bretton Woods, NH, June 2014
    [ Paper ] [ Slide ]

  • μSec: A Security Protocol for Unicast Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Amrita Ghosal, Sanjib Sur, Sipra Das Bit
    SETOP'12 International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, Pisa, Italy, Sep 2012
    [ Paper ]

  • Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition in Machine-Printed Forms Using Gradient Information and Haar Wavelet
    Sekhar Mandal, Sanjib Sur, Avishek Dan, Partha Bhowmick
    ICIIP'11 IEEE International Conference on Image Information Processing, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, Nov 2011
    [ Paper ]

  • Ensuring Basic Security and Preventing Replay Attack in a Query Processing Application Domain in WSN
    Amrita Ghosal, Subir Halder, Sanjib Sur, Avishek Dan and Sipra Das Bit
    ICCSA'10 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Fukuoka, Japan, March 2010
    [ Paper ]

  • A Lifetime Enhancing Node Deployment Strategy in WSN
    Subir Halder, Amrita Ghosal, Sanjib Sur, Avishek Dan and Sipra Das Bit
    FGIT'10 Future Generation Information Technology, Jeju Island, Korea, Dec 2009
    [ Paper ]


Posters/Demo:

  • MilliCloud: Beyond Vision PCD Generation using Millimeter-Wave
    Pingping Cai, Sanjib Sur
    HotMobile'22 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Tempe, Arizona, March 2022
    [ Paper ]

  • 🏆 MilliDrone: A Drone Platform to Facilitate Scalable Survey of Outdoor Millimeter-Wave Signal Propagation
    Ian C. McDowell, Rahul Bulusu, Sanjib Sur
    HotMobile'22 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Tempe, Arizona, March 2022
    [ Paper ]
    (Best Poster Runner-up Award)

  • AutoPCD: Learning-Augmented Indoor Point Cloud Completion
    Pingping Cai, Edward M Sitar, Sanjib Sur
    UbiComp-ISWC'21 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual, September 2021
    [ Paper ]

  • 🏆 ViSAR: A Mobile Platform for Vision-Integrated Millimeter-Wave Synthetic Aperture Radar
    Jacqueline M Schellberg, Sanjib Sur
    UbiComp-ISWC'21 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual, September 2021
    [ Paper ]
    (Best Poster Honorable Mention [Second Place])

  • MilliPose: Facilitating Full Body Silhouette Imaging from Millimeter-Wave Device
    Aakriti Adhikari, Sanjib Sur
    UbiComp-ISWC'21 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual, September 2021
    [ Paper ]

  • 🏆 VisualMM: Visual Data & Learning Aided 5G Picocell Placement
    Timothy Dayne Hooks, Hem Regmi, Sanjib Sur
    HotMobile'21 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Virtual, February 2021
    [ Paper ]
    (Best Poster Award)

  • 🏆 ZigZagCam: Pushing the Limits of Hand-held Millimeter-Wave Imaging
    Hem Regmi, Moh Sabbir Saadat, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi
    HotMobile'21 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Virtual, February 2021
    [ Paper ]
    (Best Poster Runner-up Award)

  • SpiroMilli: Bringing Ad-hoc Spirometry to 5G Devices
    Aakriti Adhikari, Austin Hetherington, Sanjib Sur
    HotMobile'21 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Virtual, February 2021
    [ Paper ]

  • Bringing Temperature-Awareness to Millimeter-Wave Networks
    Moh Sabbir Saadat, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi
    MobiCom'20 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, London, UK, September 2020
    [ Paper ]

  • Demo: WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim
    MobiCom'17 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Snow Bird, Utah, USA, Oct 2017

  • Towards WiFi-Assisted Millimeter-Wave Enterprise Wireless Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Kyu-Han Kim
    HPE TechOn'17 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Technical Conference, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2017

  • 🏆 MU-MIMO User Selection and Rate Adaptation for 802.11ac-based Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis
    HPE TechOn'16 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Technical Conference, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2016
    (Honorable Mention)

  • Scoping Environment to Assist 60 GHz Link Deployment
    Sanjib Sur, Xinyu Zhang
    MobiCom'15 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Paris, France, Oct 2015


Patents:

    Granted
  • US Patent 10,972,155, Access Point Selection,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Apr. 2021

  • US Patent 10,820,242, Reroute Network Traffic From Millimeter-Wave Link to WLAN Transmission,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Oct. 2020

  • US Patent 10,587,353, MU-MIMO Group Assignment,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Souvik Sen, Granted on Mar. 2020

  • US Patent 10,548,147, Access Point Beam Strength Rankings,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Jan. 2020

  • US Patent 10,505,619, Selecting Beams Based on Channel Measurements,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Dec. 2019

  • US Patent 10,171,140, MU-MIMO Group Selection,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Jan. 2019

  • US Patent 10,051,685, Adapting Radios of Millimeter-Wave Devices,
    Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Granted on Aug. 2018

  • US Patent 9,577,731, Radio Frequency Communication with Antenna Index Coding,
    Xinyu Zhang, Sanjib Sur, Teng Wei, Granted on Feb. 2017

    Pending
  • US Patent Application 63/192,345, Human-Perceptible and Machine-Readable Shape Generation and Classification of Hidden Objects,
    Sanjib Sur, Hem Regmi, Filed on May 2021

  • US Utility Patent Application 17/327,881, Heat Dissipation for Millimeter-Wave Devices with Antenna Switching,
    Sanjib Sur, Moh Sabbir Saadat, Srihari Nelakuditi, Filed on May 2021

  • US Patent Application 63/182,257, Transforming Cheap Spirometers to Estimate Flow-Volume Graph by Deep Learning,
    Sanjib Sur, Aakriti Adhikari, Filed on April 2021

  • US Patent Application 63/176,514, Facilitating At-Home Spirometry with Millimeter-Wave Devices,
    Sanjib Sur, Aakriti Adhikari, Filed on April 2021

  • US Patent Application 63/055,386, Heat Dissipation for Millimeter-Wave Devices with Antenna Switching,
    Sanjib Sur, Moh Sabbir Saadat, Srihari Nelakuditi, Filed on July 2020

  • US Patent Application 63/025,333, Methods and Integrated Structures of Heat Dissipation for Microwave Antennas,
    Guoan Wang, Jinqun Ge, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi, Filed on May 2020

  • US Patent Application 62/924,436, A Reconfigurable Antenna Design for Centimeter-Wave and Millimeter-Wave,
    Sanjib Sur, Guoan Wang, Srihari Nelakuditi, Filed on Oct. 2019

  • US Patent Application 62/753,293, In-field Gait Parameters Estimation,
    Sanjib Sur, Filed on Oct. 2018


Trademarks:

    Pending
  • US Trademark Application Serial Number 90085316, AQUILO: Heat Dissipation Systems for Antennae
    Sanjib Sur, Filed on Jul. 2020


Talks:

  • MilliCam: Hand-held Millimeter-Wave Imaging
    ICCCN'20 The 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Hawaii, USA, August 2020

  • UbiG: Towards Scalable and Ubiquitous Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks
    MobiCom'18 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New Delhi, India, Oct 2018

  • MUST: WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks
    MobiCom'17 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Snow Bird, Utah, USA, Oct 2017

  • MUSE: Practical MU-MIMO User Selection on 802.11ac Commodity Networks
    MobiCom'16 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New York, USA, Oct 2016

  • BeamSpy: Enabling Robust 60 GHz Links Under Blockage
    NSDI'16 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, March 2016

  • Ubiquitous mmWave Imaging
    WARF Discovery'16 WARF Discovery Challenge, Madison, WI, April 2016

  • Bridging Link Power Asymmetry in Mobile Whitespace Networks
    INFOCOM'15 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Hong Kong, April 2015

  • Dia: Autodirective Audio Capturing Through a Synchronized Smartphone Array
    MobiSys'14 ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Bretton Woods, NH, June 2014

  • Autodirective Audio Capturing Through a Synchronized Smartphone Array
    QWIP'14 Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Competition, Madison, WI, April 2014