RemoteRF: An Open-Source Platform to Democratize Access to Software-Defined Radios in Wireless Research and Education
Ethan Y. Ge, Ian P. Roberts. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2026.
Making sense
of the unseen.
Undergraduate @ UCLA
Electrical engineer interested in wireless, sensing, and machine learning.
RemoteRF · UCLA deployment
Research
2021–2026
Poster PDF ↗
remoterf.net ↗
1.
Major revision
2.
To appear
RemoteRF
Run your own code, on your own machine, against a real radio across campus, as if it were plugged into your laptop. Built from a few radios on a USB hub into infrastructure that has run continuously for two years and is now part of every offering of UCLA's undergraduate and graduate communications courses.
250+users
7,200+reservations
3,800+hours
RemoteRF: An Open-Source, Shared Global Testbed for Wireless Sensing and Communication
Ethan Y. Ge, Ian P. Roberts. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2026.
Poster PDF ↗
WirelessLab@UCLA · 2024–
3.
To appear
Beam refinement
Full-duplex base stations must pick a beam pair while self-interference and cross-link interference keep shifting. Probing every pair is too expensive, and prior methods like STEER+ spend airtime on local searches that repeat as users move. We model self-interference across all candidate pairs with a transformer neural process, probe the pair with the highest plausible performance, and stop once the best pair so far is likely near-optimal. On measured 28 GHz data, it probes about 10 of 625 candidate pairs on average and outperforms STEER+ and Bayesian optimization at the same airtime.
Limited Budget Beam Refinement for Full-Duplex Wireless Communication Systems
Ethan Y. Ge, Ian P. Roberts. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2026.
Recognition
2025–26
Internet Research Initiative Prize, UCLA
One of nine undergraduates; $7,000 stipend to pursue RemoteRF independently.
2023–27
Anita and Julius L. Zelman Scholar
Four-year, $40,000 scholarship; up to four recipients annually.
2025
UCLA Educational Innovation Grants
$20,000 across two grants to scale RemoteRF, including one of only three awarded to engineering in the inaugural round.
2025
Marconi Society Academic Forum
Selected poster presenter.
2023–27
ECE Fast Track to Success Program ↗
Selective honors program; how I found my way into Prof. Roberts's lab.
Past Experience
2021–2026Segment Games
Co-founder and lead graphics/systems engineer.
Contributed heavily to Iron Inc. (Steam) and Pocket Panzers (iOS, Android).
- Graphics
- Real-time rendering, shaders, terrain, 3D modeling, iconography
- Performance
- Advanced graphics optimization for PC and mobile platforms
- Marketing
- Trailer production and marketing asset design
- Tools
- Unity, Blender, Figma, Adobe Premiere Pro
Stepped away in Sep 2026 to focus fully on research.
About
I tend to let the things that interest me draw me in, sometimes a little too far. Research is where that went. What keeps me there is being wrong, rethinking what I know, and arriving at an answer whose simplicity is obvious only in retrospect.
- Now
- Electrical engineering at UCLA, expected 2027; undergraduate researcher in WirelessLab@UCLA with Prof. Ian Roberts
- Next
- Wireless and sensing systems that learn from real experiments rather than simulations, and making the AI systems that run those experiments more trustworthy
- Teaching
- Taught wireless labs to 28 high-school students in UCLA's COSMOS program. Several bought radios of their own afterward and kept sending me results.