Hi, I’m Charlie Carver, a 5^th-year CS PhD student at Columbia and a 2019 NSF GRFP Fellow. My research interests lie broadly in mobile systems design and networking. I currently study light communication and sensing within the Mobile X Lab.

Grand Prize at Dartmouth Innovation and Technology Festival Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Samuel Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Hunter Gallant, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2022. Sunflower: locating underwater robots from the air. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 14–27. DOI. Press: 1, 2, 3, 4

Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Samuel Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Hunter Gallant, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2022. Sunflower: locating underwater robots from the air: video. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 607–608. DOI.

Carver, Charles J., Zhao Tian, Qijia Shao, Hongyong Zhang, Kofi M. Odame, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. Air-Water Communication and Sensing with Light. In 2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), pp. 371-374. IEEE, 2022. DOI.

Vimal Kakaraparthi, Qijia Shao, Charles J. Carver, Tien Pham, Nam Bui, Phuc Nguyen, Xia Zhou, and Tam Vu. 2021. FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 110 (Sept 2021), 27 pages. DOI.

Charles J. Carver, Zhao Tian, Hongyong Zhang, Kofi M. Odame, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2021. AmphiLight: Direct Air-Water Communication With Laser Light. GetMobile: Mobile Comp. and Comm. 24, 3 (September 2020), 26–29. DOI.

Best Paper Carver, Charles J., Zhao Tian, Hongyong Zhang, Kofi M. Odame, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2020. AmphiLight: direct air-water communication with laser light. In Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'20). USENIX Association, USA, 373–388. DOI.

Zhao Tian, Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Monika Roznere, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2020. PolarTag: Invisible Data with Light Polarization. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 74–79. DOI.

Best Demo Zhao Tian, Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Monika Roznere, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. 2020. Demo: PolarTag – Invisible Data with Light Polarization. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 107. DOI.

Carver, Charles J., Tianxing Li, and Xia Zhou. 2019. Lighting the way to wireless efficiency. XRDS 26, 1 (Fall 2019), 28–31. DOI.

Carver, Charles, Shela Wu, Adriana Rogers, Matthew Stafford, N. Sertac Artan, and Ziqian Dong. Indoor Localization Through Visible Light Characterization Using Front-Facing Smartphone Camera. In 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pp. 575-579. IEEE, 2017. DOI.

Stafford, Matthew, Adriana Rogers, Shela Wu, Charles Carver, N. Sertac Artan, and Ziqian Dong. TETRIS: Smartphone-to-Smartphone Screen-Based Visible Light Communication. In 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pp. 570-574. IEEE, 2017. DOI.

Best Poster Runner-Up Charles Carver, Shela Wu. TETRIS: Smartphone-to-Smartphone Screen-Based Visible Light Communication. NYIT 8th Annual Cyber-security Conference Poster Session, September 28, 2017, New York, NY. Available upon request.

Carver, Charles. Rutherford Scattering with Adaptive Runge-Kutta. Fordham University. 2016. Unpublished. Available upon request.

Carver, Charles. Efficiencies of Linear-System-Solution Algorithms in Finding Equilibrium Positions of a 2D Mass-Spring System. Fordham University. 2016. Available upon request.