Shyam Gollakota Last updated December 22, 2025 Career Gollakota joined the University of Washington as a professor of computer science in 2012, [ 8] and heads the university's Mobile Intelligence Lab. [ 1] [ 9] His research areas include machine learning ,mobile health,and battery-free computing. [ 10] [ 11]
His work has led to technological applications licensed by ResMed ,and the acquisition of his company,Sound Life Sciences,by Google. [ 10]
Awards and recognition Gollakota has received the National Science Foundation Career Award,Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship,and the 2021 Moore Inventor Fellowship. [ 10] He is listed in MIT Technology Review' s 35 Innovators Under 35. [ 12] [ 13]
Gollakota was awarded the 2020 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions to novel applications of wireless systems,including research on ambient backscattering . [ 14] He received the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science ,whose citation referenced his "impactful research and technology translation spanning multiple engineering domains in societally relevant areas." [ 6]
References 1 2 3 Greenwood, Veronique; Willyard, Cassandra (October 2016). "The Brilliant 10" . Popular Science . Vol. 288, no. 5. pp. 47– 53. ISSN 0161-7370 . Retrieved December 21, 2025 – via ProQuest. 1 2 Simonite, Tom (2014). "Innovators Under 35: Shyam Gollakota" . MIT Technology Review . Archived from the original on August 21, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ "Shyamnath Gollakota" . The Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ Hoffmann, Leah (February 23, 2022). "Mining energy from 'empty' air" . Communications of the ACM . 65 (3): 112– 113. doi : 10.1145/3510556 . ISSN 0001-0782 . ↑ Choudhary, Puran (March 2, 2025). "Tech to let you hear the future: AI-driven sound innovation" . The Economic Times . Retrieved December 21, 2025 . 1 2 3 "Infosys Prize Laureates 2024: Shyam Gollakota" . Infosys Prize . Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ "Gollakota Wins ACM Award for Converting Wireless Interference into a Beneficial Phenomenon in Practice" . Association for Computing Machinery . May 7, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ "Shyam Gollakota joins UW CSE" . University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering . May 30, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ Greenwood, Veronique; Willyard, Cassandra (August 11, 2016). "The Man Who Powers Devices With Wi-Fi" . Popular Science . Retrieved December 21, 2025 . 1 2 3 "Faculty: Shyam Gollakota" . Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering . Retrieved December 21, 2025 . ↑ "Meet the hacker professor who's saving lives with smart devices and sonar – GeekWire" . Retrieved August 13, 2023 . ↑ "UW computer science professor Shyam Gollakota named top innovator under 35 by MIT – GeekWire" . Retrieved August 13, 2023 . ↑ "Geek of the Week: Shyam Gollakota of Jeeva Wireless and UW is a pioneer in preserving power – GeekWire" . Retrieved August 13, 2023 . ↑ "ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award: Shyamnath Gollakota" . Association for Computing Machinery . 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2025 . External links
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