Hi, I’m Charlie Carver, a 2019 NSF GRFP Fellow and 6^th-year Computer Science PhD candidate at Columbia University. My research interests lie broadly in mobile systems design and networking. I currently study light communication and sensing within the Mobile X Lab.

Charles J. Carver, Hadleigh Schwartz, Qijia Shao, Nicholas Shade, Joseph Lazzaro, Xiaoxin Wang, Jifeng Liu, Eric Fossum, and Xia Zhou. “Catch Me If You Can: Laser Tethering with Highly Mobile Targets.” In Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). 2024. Artifacts: Demo. Best demo award at MobiCom ‘23 Second place winner at the 2023 MobiCom SRC

Alberto Quattrini Li, Charles J. Carver , Qijia Shao, Xia Zhou, and Srihari Nelakuditi. “Communication for Underwater Robots: Recent Trends.” In Current Robotics Reports (Springer-Nature Current Robotics Reports). 2023. DOI.

Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Samuel Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Hunter Gallant, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. “Sunflower: locating underwater robots from the air.” In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys). 2022. DOI. Press: 1, 2, 3, 4. Artifacts: Demo, Presentation. Grand prize winner at the 2022 Dartmouth Innovation and Technology Festival

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

Vimal Kakaraparthi/Qijia Shao, Charles J. Carver, Tien Pham, Nam Bui, Phuc Nguyen, Xia Zhou, and Tam Vu. “FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System.” In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp). 2021. DOI.

Charles J. Carver, Zhao Tian, Hongyong Zhang, Kofi M. Odame, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. “AmphiLight: Direct Air-Water Communication With Laser Light.” In GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communication (GetMobile). 2020. DOI.

Charles J. Carver, Zhao Tian, Hongyong Zhang, Kofi M. Odame, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. “AmphiLight: direct air-water communication with laser light.” In Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). 2020. DOI. Artifacts: Presentation. Best paper award at NSDI ‘20

Zhao Tian, Charles J. Carver, Qijia Shao, Monika Roznere, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Xia Zhou. “PolarTag: Invisible Data with Light Polarization.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile). 2020. DOI. Best demo award at HotMobile ‘20

Charles J. Carver, Tianxing Li, and Xia Zhou. “Lighting the way to wireless efficiency.” In XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students (XRDS). 2019. DOI.