I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Dept. at George Mason University. Before joining Mason, I was a postdoc at University of California, Davis where I worked with Dr. Prasant Mohapatra. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2012. I received the UC Davis award for excellence in postdoctoral research for 2015.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The focus of my research is to make wireless networks and mobile systems more efficient, accessible, robust and truly pervasive. I am currently interested in the following topics -

Next-generation wireless networks, especially 60 GHz millimeter wave networks, visible light communications
RF sensing, mobile/wearable sensing for applications like healthcare and mobile interaction, drone sensing and networking
Cyber-physical systems, smart indoor spaces, Internet-of-Things and low-power networking

I am looking to recruit PhD, MS and undergraduate students who are interested in wireless networking and mobile computing related research. Interested students can contact me at phpathak@gmu.edu.

Office: ENGR 5318

Phone: (703) 993-6232

Email: phpathak@gmu.edu

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NEWS

Mar. '17: Our SECON '17 paper proposes acoustic communication for proximity sensing on wearable devices.
Nov. '16: Our MotionSync work was a best paper award finalist at ACM BuildSys '16.
Oct. '16: Paper accepted in ACM BuildSys '16 proposing the use of wearables and IoTs for personal energy analytics.
Jul. '16: Our VLCS (MobiCom '16 workshop) paper proposes a hybrid WiFi-VLC network architecture using power lines.
Apr. '16: Our work on contact-free vital sign monitoring using 60 GHz millimeter wave signals will appear in ACM MobiHoc 2016.
Jan. '16: WiFi gait-based person identification research to appear in IEEE/ACM IPSN 2016.
Dec. '15: Our ACM HotMobile 2016 paper uncovers privacy leakage in BLE traffic of wearable fitness trackers.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

PCASA: Proximity based Continuous and Secure Authentication of Personal Wearable Devices [PDF],
Pengfei Hu, Parth H. Pathak, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin and Prasant Mohapatra,
IEEE SECON 2017.
Monitoring Vital Signs Using Millimeter Wave [PDF],
Zhicheng Yang, Parth H. Pathak, Yunze Zeng, Xixi Liran and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM MobiHoc 2016.
MotionSync: Personal Energy Analytics through Motion Tags and Wearable Sensing [PDF],
Josiah Jee, Aveek Das, Parth H. Pathak, and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM BuildSys 2016. [Best Paper Finalist]
PLiFi: Hybrid WiFi-VLC Networking using Power Lines [PDF],
Pengfei Hu, Parth H. Pathak, Aveek Das, Zhicheng Yang and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM VLCS 2016 (held with MobiCom 2016).
WiWho: WiFi-based Person Identification in Smart Spaces [PDF],
Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2016.
Uncovering Privacy Leakage in BLE Network Traffic of Wearable Fitness Trackers [PDF],
Aveek Das, Parth H. Pathak, Chen-Nee Chuah and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM HotMobile 2016.
ColorBars: Increasing Data Rate of LED-to-Camera Communication using Color Shift Keying [PDF],
Pengfei Hu, Parth H. Pathak, Xiaotao Feng, Hao Fu and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM CoNEXT 2015.
Visible Light Communication, Networking and Sensing: A Survey, Potential and Challenges [PDF],
Parth H. Pathak, Xiaotao Feng, Pengfei Hu and Prasant Mohapatra,
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (35 pages).
Sensor-assisted Codebook-based Beamforming for Mobility Management in 60 GHz WLANs [PDF],
Zhicheng Yang, Parth H. Pathak, Yunze Zeng and Prasant Mohapatra,
IEEE MASS 2015.
Monitoring Building Door Events using Barometer Sensor in Smartphones [PDF],
Muchen Wu, Parth H. Pathak and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM UbiComp 2015.
AccelWord: Energy Efficient Hotword Detection through Accelerometer [PDF],
Li Zhang, Parth H. Pathak, Muchen Wu, Yixin Zhao and Prasant Mohapatra,
ACM Mobisys 2015.
Finger-writing with Smartwatch: A Case for Finger and Hand Gesture Recognition using Smartwatch,
Chao Xu, Parth H. Pathak and Prasant Mohapatra,
Paper in ACM HotMobile 2015 [PDF],
Demo in ACM Mobisys 2015 [PDF] [Video].

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