About: Vikram Iyer is an Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Vikram’s research takes an interdisciplinary approach to connect ideas between different engineering domains and biology to build end-to-end wireless systems that push the boundaries of technology with particular focus on size, weight, and power. This includes insect-scale wireless robots, cameras and sensors small enough to ride on the back of live insects like beetles and bumblebees, and biodegradable circuits. He has also worked closely with the Washington Department of Agriculture to wirelessly track and study the invasive “murder” hornets (Vespa mandarinia), which resulted in the destruction of the first nest in the US. He has also worked with Microsoft Research on Project Eclipse, a real-time cloud connected air quality monitoring platform for cities with ongoing sensor deployments in Seattle, Miami, and Chicago. Vikram’s work has been recognized by a Microsoft Research Fellowship, the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar award, and the Sigmobile Dissertation Award. He has authored publications in journals including Nature, Science Robotics as well as computing venues (MobiCom, SIGCOMM, SenSys, CHI, SIGGRAPH Asia, UIST). His publications have received multiple awards including the SIGCOMM 2016 best paper award, SenSys 2018 best paper award, CHI 2016 Honorable mention award and MobiCom 2019 best paper nominee.