About me
Hi, my name is Nazish, and I am a final-year PhD student at MIT, advised by Fadel Adib. I develop sensing and imaging systems for diverse environments by rethinking how physical signals are captured and interpreted. I combine signal processing grounded in first principles with system-aware machine learning and practical system design for applications in industry, smart homes, and climate monitoring.
I have also had the privilege of conducting research as a summer intern at Microsoft Research and Samsung Research America. Prior to my PhD, I received an SM from MIT and a BS in Electrical Engineering from LUMS.
Publications
Bringing All Modulations to Underwater Backscatter via PDM-Synthesis
Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib Best paper Runner up Proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems, 2026. Paper |
PerFuSe: Personalized Full-Image Restoration via Modular Fusion
Nazish Naeem, Zeeshan Nadir, Hamid R Sheikh, Seok-Jun Lee Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - P13N, 2026. Paper |
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Seascan: An energy-efficient underwater camera for wireless 3D color imaging
Nazish Naeem, Jack Rademacher, Ritik Patnaik, Tara Boroushaki, Fadel Adib Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024. Paper Project Page |
Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization
Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), 2023. Best paper Finalist Paper |
FuseBot: mechanical search of rigid and deformable objects via multi-modal perception
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib RSS Special Issue in Autonomous Robots - Invited Paper, 2022. Paper |
Fusebot: Rf-visual mechanical search
Tara Boroushaki, Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Fadel Adib Robotics: Science and Systems , 2022. Paper Video Project Page |
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Awards & Honors
- MITEI Energy Scholar2026–2027
- ACM SenSys’26 Best Paper Runner-up Award2026
- IEEE RFID’23 Best Paper Runner-up Award2023
- ACM WUWNet’22 Best Demo Award2022
- High Distinction AwardLahore University of Management Sciences, 2021
- Dean’s Honor List AwardLahore University of Management Sciences, 2017–2020
Invited Talks
- Enabling Wireless Sensing and Imaging in Diverse Environments Arabian Lab, Stanford Fall 2026
- Revealing Hidden World Beneath the Waves MIT Abstracts Spring 2026 Video Slides
- SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond ACM HotMobile 2026 Slides
- SeaScan: An Energy-Efficient Underwater Camera for Wireless 3D Color Imaging ACM MobiCom 2024 Slides
- Imaging of the Underwater World MSR Summer 2024
Teaching
- Underwater IoT Guest Lecture - Wireless and Physical AI, MIT Fall 2026 Slides
- Foundations of Wireless Positioning and Mobile Sensing Guest Lecture - Wireless and Physical AI, MIT Fall 2026
- OceanIoT Guest Lecture - Mobile and Sensor Computing, MIT Spring 2026 Slides
- How to Wirelessly Sense Ocean? Guest Lecture - How to Wirelessly Sense Almost Anything?, Yale Fall 2025
- Teaching Assistant Wireless and Physical AI (MIT Fall 2026), Devices and Electronics (LUMS Fall 2020), Signals and Systems (LUMS Spring 2020), Calculus 1 (LUMS Fall 2019).
Academic Service and Outreach
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Student Panelist: MIT Media Lab MOSAIC (MAS Outreach for Students Advancing Inclusion & Community), Fall 2026.
- “Maximizing Your PhD Journey” Panelist: ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students (S3) Workshop, MobiCom 2024.
- Educational Outreach and STEM Mentoring: STEM Instructor at LUMS National Outreach Program and Harsukh School Summer Sessions; Career Counseling Team Coordinator at SOCH, an independent nonprofit supporting out-of-school children and at-risk youth in Pakistan.