Fadel Adib

5.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
55 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Fadel Adib is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Fadel Adib has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 19 papers in Ocean Engineering and 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Fadel Adib's work include Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (22 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (19 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (14 papers). Fadel Adib is often cited by papers focused on Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (22 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (19 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (14 papers). Fadel Adib collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Switzerland. Fadel Adib's co-authors include Dina Katabi, Zachary Kabelac, Robert C. Miller, Hongzi Mao, Yunfei Ma, M. Zhao, Nicholas Selby, Unsoo Ha, Frédo Durand and Chen-Yu Hsu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Fadel Adib

48 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate 2013 2026 2017 2021 2015 2013 2014 2015 2016 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate
    2015 627 citations Fadel Adib, Zachary Kabelac et al. profile →
  2. See through walls with WiFi!
    2013 527 citations Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi profile →
  3. 3D tracking via body radio reflections
    2014 423 citations Fadel Adib, Zachary Kabelac et al. Networked Systems Design and Implementation profile →
  4. Capturing the human figure through a wall
    2015 326 citations Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi et al. profile →
  5. Emotion recognition using wireless signals
    2016 313 citations Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fadel Adib United States 26 2.8k 1.3k 924 657 652 55 4.2k
Jie Xiong United States 40 4.6k 1.6× 952 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 762 1.2× 1.1k 1.7× 179 6.0k
Chenshu Wu China 43 5.1k 1.8× 1.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.9× 1.1k 1.7× 1.5k 2.3× 125 6.5k
Shyamnath Gollakota United States 43 7.6k 2.7× 1.3k 1.0× 4.0k 4.3× 725 1.1× 564 0.9× 102 9.9k
Aiguo Song China 37 904 0.3× 1.9k 1.5× 627 0.7× 1.2k 1.9× 205 0.3× 549 6.2k
Zachary Kabelac United States 14 1.3k 0.4× 805 0.6× 375 0.4× 436 0.7× 194 0.3× 18 2.0k
Kun Qian China 22 2.0k 0.7× 425 0.3× 793 0.9× 534 0.8× 322 0.5× 81 2.7k
Leopoldo Angrisani Italy 27 1.8k 0.6× 611 0.5× 880 1.0× 381 0.6× 127 0.2× 271 3.3k
Mohammad Ghavami United Kingdom 28 2.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 369 0.4× 241 0.4× 278 0.4× 179 3.3k
Zengshan Tian China 21 1.2k 0.4× 434 0.3× 372 0.4× 236 0.4× 367 0.6× 175 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Fadel Adib

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fadel Adib

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fadel Adib

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fadel Adib. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fadel Adib based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fadel Adib. Fadel Adib is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2025). Ceilbot: A Ceiling-Mounted Robot for Fast and Accurate Localization of Off-the-Shelf RFIDs via Wideband SAR-Based Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification. 9. 361–376.
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2024). Reinforcement Learning for RFID Localization. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2024). Snooping Underwater Communications via Low-Cost mmWave Radars. 1638–1640. 1 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2024). SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air. 815–829. 1 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2024). 3D-BLUE: Backscatter Localization for Underwater Robotics. 11040–11047.
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Eid, Aline, et al.. (2023). Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization. 90–95. 2 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, et al.. (2023). FuseBot: mechanical search of rigid and deformable objects via multi-modal perception. Autonomous Robots. 47(8). 1137–1154. 2 indexed citations
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Ha, Unsoo, et al.. (2022). Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5546–5546. 50 indexed citations
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Ha, Unsoo, et al.. (2021). WiStress. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 5(3). 1–37. 32 indexed citations
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Ha, Unsoo, et al.. (2020). Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1083–1100. 21 indexed citations
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Luo, Zhihong, et al.. (2019). 3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 765–782. 47 indexed citations
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Ha, Unsoo, et al.. (2018). Learning Food Quality and Safety from Wireless Stickers. 106–112. 57 indexed citations
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Ma, Yunfei, Nicholas Selby, & Fadel Adib. (2017). Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks. 335–347. 113 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel. (2016). Seeing through walls with wireless signals. SPIE Newsroom. 1 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, Zachary Kabelac, & Dina Katabi. (2015). Multi-person localization via RF body reflections. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 279–292. 217 indexed citations
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Adib, Fadel, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, & Robert C. Miller. (2014). 3D tracking via body radio reflections. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 317–329. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adib, Fadel & Dina Katabi. (2013). See through walls with WiFi!. 75–86. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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