Shyamnath Gollakota

Early life and education Gollakota was born in Hyderabad and completed a Bachelor of Technology degree at IIT Madras in 2006. He studied under wireless communications researcher Dina Katabi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing an MS degree and later a PhD in 2013. He received the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis, titled Embracing interference in wireless systems.

Career Gollakota joined the University of Washington as a professor of computer science in 2012, and heads the university's Mobile Intelligence Lab. His research areas include machine learning, mobile health, and battery-free computing.

His work has led to technological applications licensed by ResMed, and the acquisition of his company, Sound Life Sciences, by Google.

Gollakota was awarded the 2020 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions to novel applications of wireless systems, including research on ambient backscattering. He received the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, whose citation referenced his "impactful research and technology translation spanning multiple engineering domains in societally relevant areas."