Dina Katabi
Papers
9
Total Citations
517
H-Index
8
About
Dina Katabi is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of wireless communications, robotics, and autonomous systems, whose work has fundamentally advanced how robots and vehicles perceive, communicate, and navigate their environments. Her most celebrated contribution, RF-Compass (2013, 191 citations), demonstrated that radio frequency signals could enable centimeter-scale object localization and orientation detection, offering robots a practical and cost-effective alternative to expensive existing technologies. Building on this foundation, Katabi has consistently explored how wireless sensing can make autonomous systems safer and smarter — from CornerRadar, which detects people hidden around blind corners to prevent collisions, to CarSpeak (2012, 71 citations), a content-centric communication framework allowing autonomous vehicles to share sensory data as seamlessly as accessing local sensors. Her work on multi-robot network security (2017, 90 citations) addressed critical vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks, establishing spoof-resilient communication protocols. Further broadening her scope, Katabi has explored machine learning approaches to robotic control through Koopman operator theory, enabling more efficient modeling of complex nonlinear systems. With hundreds of citations across disciplines, her research continues to shape the future of intelligent, resilient autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1RF-compass191 citations · 2013
- 2Guaranteeing spoof-resilient multi-robot networks90 citations · 2017
- 3CarSpeak71 citations · 2012
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- 5CornerRadar35 citations · 2022
- 6Learning Compositional Koopman Operators for Model-Based Control32 citations · 2019
- 7Learning Compositional Koopman Operators for Model-Based Control22 citations · 2020
- 8Guaranteeing Spoof-Resilient Multi-Robot Networks15 citations · 2015
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