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 ’27
Electrical engineer interested in wireless, sensing, and machine learning.
RemoteRF · UCLA deployment
Research
2024–Present
Poster PDF ↗
remoterf.net ↗
1.
Major revision
2.
To appear
RemoteRF
Creator and lead engineer.
An open-source testbed that lets anyone, anywhere, run experiments on real radios, sensors, and lab equipment. Architected, shipped, and scaled from zero to production infrastructure that has run 24/7 since 2024. Built into every UCLA communications course and used by researchers and educators around the globe.
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
Deep learning for 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
2025–2026
Internet Research Initiative Prize, UCLA ↗
One of nine undergraduates; $7,000 stipend to pursue RemoteRF independently.
2023–2027
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.
2023–2027
ECE Fast Track to Success Program ↗
Selective honors program; how I found my way into Prof. Roberts's lab.
Past Experience
2023–2026Segment 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
- 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.