Rahul Sidramappa Hoskeri

PhD candidate, EECS @ UC Merced — sensing, embedded systems, edge ML

About

I'm a 5th year PhD candidate in EECS at UC Merced, researching magnetic-induction sensing for monitoring AI inference in safety-critical systems. My work sits at the intersection of embedded sensing and machine learning — building hardware-software systems that can observe what a device is actually doing, not just what it reports. Outside the lab, I build and ship applied software, most recently an Android app for workout tracking.

Publications

MagTach: Non-Intrusive Long-Range Magnetic Tachometry via Harmonic-Aware Inductive Sensing
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (SenSys 2026) · PDF
SSC: Simultaneous Signal Separation and Classification for Concurrent Activities
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2025 · PDF
PULSE: Power Usage Monitoring Leveraging Sensing of Electromagnetic Field
Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2025 · PDF
Power Sensing Without Wires: Monitoring Usage via Electromagnetic Fields
Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2025 · PDF
Motor Rotation Speed Estimation based on Magnetic Inductive Sensing
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10885, 2025 · PDF
Driving Behavior Monitoring with Unobtrusive Smart-glasses
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2023 · PDF

Projects

Log It
Android · workout tracking app with a commitment-contract mechanic
CBIR-System
Python · content-based image retrieval — matches bird-call spectrograms by Gabor texture features (~65% accuracy) · GitHub
Facility Location Problem
Python · 1-swap k-median heuristic and linear programming to optimize facility placement across 500 US city coordinates · GitHub
Vibrations
Java · Android app that triggers the phone's vibration motor · GitHub
Open-source contribution — TheAlgorithms/Python
Merged PR adding a stock-quote fetch utility · GitHub
WhatsApp Chat Word Cloud
Python · text-mines a WhatsApp chat export for word frequency, surfacing the topics and tone that actually define a conversation · GitHub