Awards

Best Paper Award

RF-Tactrix: Fingerprint-Inspired Battery-Free, Wireless Force Sensing and Localization on 2D Surfaces

Yuzheng Dong, Yan Liang, Xuan Li, Xiaojiang Chen, Ju Wang

Best Paper Runner-Up

TAP3D: Thermal-Assisted 3D Human Point Clouds

Xie Zhang, Chengxiao Li, Liu Xuan, Chenshu Wu

Best Community Paper Award

RF-LEGO: Modularized Signal Processing-Deep Learning Co-Design for RF Sensing via Deep Unrolling

Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chenshu Wu

Best Community Paper Runner-Up Awards

Golden Sniffer: Low-Complexity 5G New Radio Signal Interception Exploiting Gold Sequences

Ivan Palamà, Stefano Mangione, Alessandra Dino, Giulia Focarelli, Giuseppe Bianchi

Experience: Unveiling GNSS-RTK in the Wild: A 2.5-Year Nationwide Study via Last-Mile Delivery

Anlan Yu, Zhiqing Hong, Jinkun Li, Shuting Pan, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Daqing Zhang

Best Artifact Award

“Take Me Home, Wi-Fi Drone”: A Drone-based Wireless System for Wilderness Search and Rescue

Weiying Hou, Luca Jiang-Tao Yu, Chenshu Wu

Best Artifact Runner-Up Award

Detecting Liquid Food Adulteration with Mobile Hyperspectral Analysis based on RGB Camera

Zimo Liao, Qianyi Huang, Lei Yang

Best Demo Award

Demo: Can Water Carry Your ECG? An Interactive Demonstration of SwimHR

Jiting Liu, Yue Gong, Zeyu Luo, Qijia Shao

Best Demo Runner-Up Awards

Demo: Seeing Through Smoke with GRADE – Live Single-Frame Generative Radar Depth Estimation

Bin Zhao, Patrick Chiou, Nakul Garg

Demo: Active Noise Cancellation on Open-Ear Wearable Devices

Freddy Yifei Liu, Kuang Yuan, Justin Chan, Swarun Kumar

SRC Awards

Graduate

First Winner

Demo: Phonotonos: Through-Skin Ultrasonic Blood Flow Sensing Using Smartphones

Rishav Gupta (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

Second Winner

Demo: When Butterfly Meets Photoacoustic Effect

Lupeng Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)

Third Winner

Demo: Frequency-Shifting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Multi-User mmWave OFDMA

Aadesh Madnaik (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Undergraduate

First Winner

Demo: Towards Fine-Grained Deformation Sensing through Naturally Occurring Moiré Patterns in Everyday Woven Surfaces

Zuchen Li (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)

Second Winner

Demo: mRehab: A Clinically Grounded Smartphone System for Home Rehabilitation

Tanmay Anishkumar Master (University at Buffalo)

Third Winner

Demo: Can AI Agents Adapt to Your Daily Life? Horae, a Behavior-Aware Scheduler Grounded in Mobile Sensing

Sanskriti Aripineni (University of Texas at Dallas)

Distinguished TPC Members

For their exceptional service to ACM MobiCom 2026.

Ajay Mahimkar

AT&T

Andres Garcia-Saavedra

NEC Laboratories Europe

Chenren Xu

Peking University

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Northeastern University

Falko Dressler

TU Berlin

Jie Xiong

Nanyang Technological University

Jiliang Wang

Tsinghua University

Joerg Widmer

IMDEA Networks

Kate Ching-Ju Lin

National Taiwan University

Ljiljana Simić

RWTH Aachen University

Longfei Shangguan

University of Pittsburgh & Google

Mirco Musolesi

UCL and University of Bologna

Renjie Zhao

Johns Hopkins University

RR Venkatesha Prasad

Delft University of Technology

Stefanos Laskaridis

Amazon Science

Stylianos Venieris

Samsung AI

Tara Boroushaki

Yale University

Xinyu Zhang

University of California San Diego

Y. Charlie Hu

Purdue University

Yan Wang

Temple University

Yaxiong Xie

University at Buffalo SUNY

Yi-Chao Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yu-Lin Wei

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Zhenjiang Li

City University of Hong Kong

Zhichao Cao

Michigan State University