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Citations
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World Ranking
576
National Ranking
259

Joshua R. Smith publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua R. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 305 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Joshua R. Smith D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua R. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to far- and near-field wireless power, backscatter communication, and electric field sensing
  • 1991 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics

Overview

Joshua R. Smith is a researcher affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, control and systems engineering, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research interests cover several key topics, including:

  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies

Joshua R. Smith has contributed to a range of journals and venues, frequently publishing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • "Proximity Perception in Human-Centered Robotics: A Survey on Sensing Systems and Applications" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Robotics)
  • "Brain-Computer-Spinal Interface Restores Upper Limb Function After Spinal Cord Injury" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering)
  • "Benchmarking Robot Manipulation With the Rubik's Cube" (2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)
  • "Relacks" (2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)
  • "Acoustic Balance: Weighing in Ultrasonic Non-Contact Manipulators" (2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)

Throughout their career, Joshua R. Smith has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Boling Yang
  • Patrick Lancaster
  • Jared Nakahara
  • Dominic M. Sivitilli
  • David H. Gire

Joshua R. Smith has received recognition for their contributions to the field, notably being named an IEEE Fellow in 2020 for achievements in far- and near-field wireless power, backscatter communication, and electric field sensing. Additionally, they received the David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Analysis, Experimental Results, and Range Adaptation of Magnetically Coupled Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer

    Alanson P Sample;D A Meyer;J R Smith

  • Ambient backscatter: wireless communication out of thin air

    Vincent Liu;Aaron Parks;Vamsi Talla;Shyamnath Gollakota

  • Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform

    A.P. Sample;D.J. Yeager;P.S. Powledge;A.V. Mamishev

  • Inertially controlled switch and RFID tag

    Joshua R. Smith;Matthai Philipose

  • Wi-fi backscatter: internet connectivity for RF-powered devices

    Bryce Kellogg;Aaron Parks;Shyamnath Gollakota;Joshua R. Smith

  • Vision transformer adapter for dense predictions

    Unknown

  • LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity

    Vamsi Talla;Mehrdad Hessar;Bryce Kellogg;Ali Najafi

  • A wireless sensing platform utilizing ambient RF energy

    A. N. Parks;A. P. Sample;Yi Zhao;J. R. Smith

  • Modulation and Information Hiding in Images

    Joshua R. Smith;Barrett O. Comiskey

  • Wireless power transfer apparatus and method thereof

    Emily B. Cooper;Alanson P. Sample;Joshua R. Smith

  • Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices

    Vikram Iyer;Vamsi Talla;Bryce Kellogg;Shyamnath Gollakota

  • Turbocharging ambient backscatter communication

    Aaron N. Parks;Angli Liu;Shyamnath Gollakota;Joshua R. Smith

  • Power consumption analysis of Bluetooth Low Energy, ZigBee and ANT sensor nodes in a cyclic sleep scenario

    Artem Dementyev;Steve Hodges;Stuart Taylor;Joshua Smith

  • Wireless power transfer apparatus and method thereof

    Unknown

  • Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions

    Bryce Kellogg;Vamsi Talla;Shyamnath Gollakota;Joshua R. Smith

  • Battery-free wireless identification and sensing

    M. Philipose;J.R. Smith;B. Jiang;A. Mamishev

  • Carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide (CNTs/TiO2) nanocomposites prepared by conventional and novel surfactant wrapping sol–gel methods exhibiting enhanced photocatalytic activity

    Unknown

  • Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    Unknown

  • Energy Scavenging for Inductively Coupled Passive RFID Systems

    Bing Jiang;J.R. Smith;M. Philipose;S. Roy

  • Applying electric field sensing to human-computer interfaces

    Thomas G. Zimmerman;Joshua R. Smith;Joseph A. Paradiso;David Allport

  • Experimental results with two wireless power transfer systems

    Alanson Sample;Joshua R. Smith

  • Uniformer: Unified transformer for efficient spatiotemporal representation learning

    Unknown

  • Electrically active textiles and articles made therefrom

    Unknown

  • Enabling Seamless Wireless Power Delivery in Dynamic Environments

    A. P. Sample;B. H. Waters;S. T. Wisdom;J. R. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Alanson P. Sample
Alanson P. Sample University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shyamnath Gollakota
Shyamnath Gollakota University of Washington
David Wetherall
David Wetherall Google (United States)
Sumit Roy
Sumit Roy University of Washington
Matthai Philipose
Matthai Philipose Microsoft (United States)
Matthew S. Reynolds
Matthew S. Reynolds University of Washington
Brian Otis
Brian Otis University of Washington
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington
Shwetak N. Patel
Shwetak N. Patel University of Washington

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