Shyam Gollakota
Professor
Combines deep learning and signal processing for mobile and wearable systems, including AI-powered hearables that isolate target sounds.
Shyam Gollakota's lab at UW works on music, audio & sound, speech enhancement & signal processing and signal processing & information theory. 26 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly CHI and EMNLP. 4 PhD students. 21 alumni, most often to Google and co-founder Jeeva Wireless. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 69%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 4
- 7 papers2024 · T1 5
- 8 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, EMNLP, Interspeech, MobiCom, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech enhancement & signal processing7 papers
- Music, audio & sound3 papers
- hearables3 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- wearable systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- ACL (T1)AV-Dialog: Spoken Dialogue Models with Audio-Visual Input (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MobiSysFine-grained Soundscape Control for Augmented Hearing (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Micro Language Models Enable Instant Responses (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLReading Between the Lines: The One-Sided Conversation Problem (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)VueBuds: Visual Intelligence with Wireless Earbuds (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational LinguisticsLlamaPIE: Proactive in-ear conversation assistants (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Neural Speech Extraction with Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Proactive Hearing Assistants that Isolate Egocentric Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Spatial speech translation: Translating across space with binaural hearables (opens in a new tab)
- Clarity Challenge, InterSpeechTF-MLPNet: Tiny Real-Time Neural Speech Separation (opens in a new tab)
- MobiCom (T1)Wireless Hearables With Programmable Speech AI Accelerators (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- EMNLP (T1)Beyond Turn-Based Interfaces: Synchronous LLMs as Full-Duplex Dialogue Agents (opens in a new tab)
- npj Digital MedicineDetecting clinical medication errors with AI enabled wearable cameras (opens in a new tab)
- Nature ElectronicsHearable devices with sound bubbles (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)IRIS: Wireless ring for vision-based smart home interaction (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Knowledge boosting during low-latency inference (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Look once to hear: Target speech hearing with noisy examples (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Target conversation extraction: Source separation using turn-taking dynamics (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- Communications MedicineA Low-power wearable acoustic device for accurate invasive arterial pressure monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)Creating speech zones with self-distributing acoustic swarms (opens in a new tab)
- MobiCom (T1)NeuriCam: Key-Frame Video Super-Resolution and Colorization for IoT Cameras (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Real-time target sound extraction (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Semantic hearing: Programming acoustic scenes with binaural hearables (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers (opens in a new tab)
- SIGCOMM (T1)Underwater 3D positioning on smart devices (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MobiSysWireless earbuds for low-cost hearing screening (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went21 listed, 47% to industry
Industry 8Academia 9
Most often to
- co-founder Jeeva Wireless
- Meta
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
- MIT
Apply to UWFall 2027
UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- not required
- English
- See program page
- Fee
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Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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