Haitham Al-Hassanieh

For More Information

• http://haitham.ece.illinois.edu/

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2016
• MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2011
• BE in Computer and Communications Engineering, American University of Beirut, 2009

Biography

Haitham Hassanieh is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received his bachelor’s in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2009. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He works on wireless networks, sensing systems, and algorithms. He has won multiple awards including the 2017 MobiSys Best Paper Award, the 2011 SIGCOMM Best Paper Award, the SIGMobile Research Highlights, the Sprowls award for best thesis in computer science at MIT, the TR10 award for Technology Review Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies, the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the NSF Career Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, CSL, UIUC, 2016 - Present
• Affiliate Professor, CS, UIUC, 2016 - Present
• Assistant Professor, ECE, UIUC, 2016 - Present

Resident Instruction

• ECE/CS 439: Wireless Networks (Spring 2022)
• ECE/CS 439: Wireless Networks (Spring 2021)
• ECE 598HH: Advanced Wireless Networks and Sensing Systems (Fall 2020)
• CS/ECE 374: Algorithms and Models of Computation (Spring 2020)
• CS/ECE 438: Communication Networks (Fall 2019)
• CS/ECE 374: Algorithms and Models of Computation (Spring 2019)
• ECE 463: Digital Communications Lab (Fall 2018)
• ECE 598HH: Advanced Wireless Networks and Sensing Systems (Spring 2018)
• CS/ECE 438: Communication Networks (Fall 2017)
• ECE 598HH: Advanced Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (Fall 2016)

Research Interests

• Wireless Networks
• Computer Networks
• Algorithms
• Communications

Research Topics

• Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous vehicular technology, UAVs
• Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
• Data/Information Science and Systems
• Sensing systems
• Wearable and mobile computing

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• The Sparse Fourier Transform: Theory and Practice Haitham Hassanieh, ACM Books and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Accelerating Mobile Applications With Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels, William Sentosa, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Haitham Hassanieh, Bruce Maggs, and Ankit Singla. 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2021.
• Efficient Wideband Spectrum Sensing Using MEMS Acoustic Resonators, Junfeng Guan, Jitian Zhang, Ruochen Lu, Seo Hyungjoo, Jin Zhou, Songbin Gong, Haitham Hassanieh, NSDI'21, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, February 2021
• One Protocol to Rule Them All: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network-on-Chip, Suraj Jog, Zikun Liu, Antonio Franques, Vimuth Fernando, Sergi Abadal, Josep Torrellas, Haitham Hassanieh, NSDI'21, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, February 2021
• Practical Null Steering in Millimeter Wave Networks, Sohrab Madani, Suraj Jog, Jesus O. Lacruz, Joerg Widmer, Haitham Hassanieh, NSDI'21, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, February 2021
• Through Fog High-Resolution Imaging Using Millimeter Wave Radar, Junfeng Guan, Sohrab Madani, Suraj Jog, Haitham Hassanieh, Saurabh Gupta, CVPR'20, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2020.
• Understanding and Embracing the Complexities of the Molecular Communication Channel in Liquids, Jiaming Wang, Dongyin Hu, Chirag Shetty, Haitham Hassanieh, MOBICOM'20, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, September 2020
• EarSense: Earphones as a Teeth Activity Sensor, Jay Prakash, Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury, MOBICOM'20, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, September 2020
• Many-to-Many Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Networks, Suraj Jog, Jiaming Wang, Junfeng Guan, Thomas Moon, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury, NSDI'19, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, February 2019
• Online Millimeter Wave Phased Array Calibration Based on Channel State Information, Thomas Moon, Junfeng Guan, and Haitham Hassanieh, VTS'19, IEEE VLSI Testing Symposium, April 2019
• Fast Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment, Haitham Hassanieh, Omid Abari, Michael Rodriguez, Mohammed Abdelghany, Dina Katabi, Piotr Indyk, SIGCOMM'18, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication August 2018
• MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation, Sheng Shen, Nirupam Roy, Junfeng Guan, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury, SIGCOMM'18, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication August 2018
• Ghostbuster: Detecting the Presence of Hidden Eavesdroppers, Anadi Chaman, Jiaming Wang, Jiachen Sun, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury, MOBICOM'18, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, October 2018
• LiquID: A Wireless Liquid IDentifier Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Yixuan Zhao, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury MobiSys'18, ACM Conference on Mobile Systems Applications, and Services, June 2018
• Inaudible Voice Commands: The Long-Range Attack and Defense Nirupam Roy, Sheng Shen, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury NSDI'18, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2018
• BackDoor: Making Microphones Hear Inaudible Sounds Nirupam Roy, Haitham Hassanieh, Romit Roy Choudhury MobiSys'17, ACM Conference on Mobile Systems Applications, and Services, June 2017
• Millimeter Wave Communications: from Point-to-Point Links to Agile Network Connections, Omid Abari (Co-primary), Haitham Hassanieh (Co-primary), Michael Rodriguez, and Dina Katabi, HotNets'16, ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Network, November 2016
• A Millimeter Wave Software Defined Radio Platform with Phased Arrays, Omid Abari, Haitham Hassanieh, Michael Rodriguez, and Dina Katabi, MOBICOM'16, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, October 2016
• Securing RFIDs by Randomizing the Modulation and Channel, Haitham Hassanieh, Jue Wang, Dina Katabi, and Tadayoshi Kohno, NSDI'15, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2015
• Light Field Reconstruction Using Sparsity in the Continuous Fourier Domain, Lixin Shi, Haitham Hassanieh, Abe Davis, Dina Katabi and Fredo Durand, SIGGRAPH'15, ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume: 34, No: 1, November 2014
• High-Throughput Implementation of a Million-Point Sparse Fourier Transform, Abhinav Agarwal, Haitham Hassanieh, Omid Abari, Ezz Hamed, Dina Katabi, and Arvind, FPL'14, International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Munich Germany, September 2014
• GHz-Wide Sensing and Decoding Using the Sparse Fourier Transform, Haitham Hassanieh, Lixin Shi, Omid Abari, Ezzeldin Hamed, Dina Katabi, INFOCOM'14, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Toronto Canada, April 2014
• Correlation Chemical Shift Imaging with Sparse-FFT and Real-time Motion and Shim Correction, Ovidiu Andronesi, Lixin Shi, Haitham Hassanieh, Wolfgang Bogner, Borjan Gagoski, Aaron Hess, Dylan Tisdall, Andre van der Kouwe, Dina Katabi, and Elfar Adalsteinsson. ENC’14, 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Boston USA,March 2014
• A 0.75 Million-Point Fourier Transform Chip for Frequency-Sparse Signals Omid Abari, Ezz Hamed, Haitham Hassanieh, Abhinav Agarwal, Dina Katabi, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Vladimir Stojanovic. ISSCC’14, International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco USA, February 2014
• Sample-Optimal Average-Case Sparse Fourier Transform in Two Dimensions Badih Ghazi, Haitham Hassanieh, Piotr Indyk, Dina Katabi, Eric Price, Lixin Shi, Allerton'13, 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2013
• MRS Sparse-FFT: Reducing Acquisition Time and Artifacts for In Vivo 2D Correlation Spectroscopy Lixin Shi, Ovidiu Andronesi, Haitham Hassanieh, Badih Ghazi, Dina Katabi, and Elfar Adalsteinsson ISMRM'13, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting & Exhibition , Salt Lake City USA, April 2013
• Shift Finding in Sublinear Time, Alexander Andoni, Haitham Hassanieh, Piotr Indyk, and Dina Katabi. SODA'13, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, New Orleans USA, January 2013
• Faster GPS Via the Sparse Fourier Transform Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, and Piotr Indyk. MOBICOM'12, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking , Istanbul Turkey, August 2012
• Efficient and Reliable Low-Power Backscatter Networks, Jue Wang, Haitham Hassanieh, Dina Katabi, and Piotr Indyk. SIGCOMM'12, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, Helsinki Finland, August 2012
• Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform, Haitham Hassanieh, Piotr Indyk, Dina Katabi, and Eric Price. STOC'12, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New York USA, May 2012.
• Simple and Practical Algorithm for Sparse Fourier Transform, Haitham Hassanieh, Piotr Indyk, Dina Katabi, and Eric Price. SODA'12, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Kyoto Japan, January 2012
• They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices Shyamnath Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Ben Ransford, Dina Katabi and Kevin Fu. SIGCOMM'11, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, Toronto Canada, August 2011
• SourceSync: A Distributed Wireless Architecture for Exploiting Sender Diversity Hariharan Rahul, Haitham Hassanieh, and Dina Katabi. SIGCOMM'10, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, Delhi India, September 2010

Honors

• Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung Fellow in ECE (2021)
• Students Awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2020)
• Technology Review 10 Innovators Under 35 MENA (2020)
• Alfred Sloan Fellowship (2019)
• Google Faculty Research Award (2018)
• Faculty Ranked Excellent by Their Students (Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2020,)
• SIGMobile Research Highlights (2018)
• NSF Career Award (2018)
• MobiSys Conference Best Paper Award (2017)
• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016)
• George Sprowls Award for Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science at MIT (2016)
• TR10 Award for 10 Breakthrough Technologies. (2012)
• SIGCOMM Best Paper Award (2010)