Hailan Z. Shanbhag
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Bio
Hello! I joined UIUC as a graduate student in 2021, working with Professor Haitham Hassanieh in the SENS lab and moved to EPFL in January of 2023 to continue my PhD. I grew up in the Champaign-Urbana cornfields in central Illinois, but have lived in Taipei and Palo Alto for brief periods of time in the past. Currently, I am located in Lausanne, Switzerland. I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from UIUC in May 2021 and my M.S. in ECE from UIUC in December 2022.
Research
During my undergraduate career, I explored research and coursework in the field of image sensors, circuits, power electronics, machine learning and wireless communications. Currently, I work in the area of wireless sensing and networkin and my recent work has been in wireless imaging and 3D reconstruction. I also attended an internship at Intuitive Surgical where I worked in computer vision for surgical imaging.
Teaching (EPFL)
COM 304: Communications Project (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
COM 405: Mobile Networks (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
Personal Interests
In my time not spent on research I enjoy dancing ballet, knitting/crocheting, sewing, and have begun to dabble in rock climbing.
I speak English, Chinese and have been learning French.
Some News :)
July - October 2026: I was a R&D Intern at Intuitive's Aubonne office!
March 2026: Our paper was accepted to CVPR 2026!
September 2025: Our paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
July 2024: Our paper was accepted to MobiCom 2024!
May 2023: Our paper was accepted to MobiSys 2023! I will be presenting in Helsinki in June.
January 2023: I joined EPFL as a Ph.D. student.
December 2022: I graduated from UIUC with a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering!
August 2021: I joined UIUC as a graduate student.
Contact Information
Office: BC 116 or INR 118
Email: hailan.shanbhag@epfl.ch
Linkedin, Github