The results of the 2025 Asilomar Best Student Paper Award were:

1st place:

  • Nomaan Kherani, University of Southern California, United States
  • Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, United States

ModShift: Model Privacy via Designed Shifts (Paper #1247)

2nd place:

  • Michael Marinaccio, Clemson University, United States
  • Fatemeh Afghah, Clemson University, United States

Seeing Heat with Color - RGB-Only Wildfire Temperature Inference from SAM-Guided Multimodal Distillation using Radiometric Ground Truth (Paper #1397)

3rd place:

  • Andrea Cavallo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Ayushman Raghuvanshi, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Elvin Isufi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Robust Covariance Neural Networks (Paper #1308)

The organizing committee congratulates the winners and all finalists for their outstanding work and extends heartfelt thanks to the judging committee for their invaluable help. We look forward to seeing you all at Asilomar 2026!

Track A ▸

Learning Ray-Tracing for Radio Propagation via Cross-Attention-Based Diffusion Models

  • Juseong Park
  • Taekyun Lee
  • Yunchou Xing
  • Jie Chen
  • Amitava Ghosh
  • Jeffrey Andrews

Coordinated Decentralized Resource Optimization for Cell-Free ISAC Systems

  • Mehdi Zafari
  • Rang Liu
  • A. Lee Swindlehurst
Track B ▸

Low-Complexity Detection of Signals under Unknown Bandwidth Constraints

  • Ali Rasteh
  • Sundeep Rangan
Track C ▸

Robust Covariance Neural Networks

  • Andrea Cavallo
  • Ayushman Raghuvanshi
  • Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri
  • Elvin Isufi
Track D ▸

ModShift: Model Privacy via Designed Shifts

  • Nomaan Kherani
  • Urbashi Mitra

Adaptive Attention-Based Model for 5G Radio-based Outdoor Localization

  • Ilayda Yaman
  • Guoda Tian
  • Dino Pjanić
  • Fredrik Tufvesson
  • Ove Edfors
  • Zhengya Zhang
  • Liang Liu
Track E ▸

Crowd Size Estimation for Non-Uniform Spatial Distributions with mmWave Radar

  • Anurag Pallaprolu
  • Aaditya Prakash Kattekola
  • Winston Hurst
  • Upamanyu Madhow
  • Ashutosh Sabharwal
  • Yasamin Mostofi
Track F ▸

Peak Delta Frequency Regulates the Timing of Decisions

  • Logan Peters
  • Greg Bales
  • Vincent Tran
  • Ariana Moghbel
  • Zhaodan Kong
  • Karen Moxon
Track G ▸

Finite Word-Length Effects for Symmetric Matrix Inversion with Vector-Based Algorithms

  • Olle Hansson
  • Jose Nunez-Yanez
  • Oscar Gustafsson
Track H ▸

Seeing Heat with Color - RGB-Only Wildfire Temperature Inference from SAM-Guided Multimodal Distillation using Radiometric Ground Truth

  • Michael Marinaccio
  • Fatemeh Afghah