[May 16, 2019] Congrats to Dr. Lixing Song on leading the first patent coming out of our lab. Patent 15/967,532 entitled “Systems and Methods for Rapidly Estimating Available Bandwidth on a WiFi Link,” was awarded on May 16, 2019.
Category: Research
Papers at CHI 2019
[May 14, 2019] We had two papers appear at CHI in the Case Studies track. One paper was a general overview of the Tesserae study and the other was an overview of our publicly accessible social media corpus related to Tesserae (all participants opted in who agreed to share data). Both papers are accessible via the CHI website.
PCAD Site is Operational
[March 26, 2019] Kudos to the team for having an outstanding site visit for PAWR. While it is still to be determined with respect to us being chosen as a site, the team put together some really top notch work. The overview video and general site for PCAD (PAWR in Collaborative and Autonomous Drones) can be found at: https://sites.google.com/nd.edu/pcad
Congrats to Dr. Rachael Purta!
[March 19, 2019] Congratulations to Dr. Rachael Purta from our group on passing her Ph. D defense this afternoon!
Mobile Insight Visualization
[March 14, 2019] For our upcoming site visit related to PAWR, our team wrote a visualization tool for RSRP / RSRQ from MobileInsight. Kudos to my student Gonzalo Martinez who wrote an Android app to export Mobile Insight files, ship them over MQTT, parse them, and then re-package them as JSON via MQTT, for the C# visualization app that I crafted together for a demo. We will package up the source code and share it for anyone who might be interested.
Panel on Cyber Security / Microgrids
[March 14, 2019] I gave a small talk at the monthly luncheon for our Energy Center on cyber security, micro grids, and the Internet of Things. Nothing too intense as it was a fairly quick talk but I have attached my slides here if anyone is particularly interested. Most importantly, I would strongly recommend pinging my adviser, Manimaran Govindarasu, who is the one who really works on this topic.
[PDF of talk -> MicroGrid-Security-Striegel]
Upcoming Talk – University of Iowa
[January 25, 2018] I will be traveling to the University of Iowa to give a talk on our Tesserae work entitled “Project Tesserae: Understanding Job Performance through Low-Cost Sensing Fusion.”
WiFi is Hot!
[September 1, 2018] For each home game at Notre Dame, our group provides WiFi for the University Relations tent on Irish Green. For a high profile game such as the Michigan game, there are a few more challenges with the crowd density as well as nearby other tests. Our WiFi gear has been newly re-racked in our WiFi “cart” as you can see below.
The WiFi seemed to fare OK though there are certainly some nice improvements that we can make for the next home game both to the cart as well as how we mount gear to the side of the tent. More to come over the next few weeks with respect to the WiFi service and general performance estimates as we start to deploy our Fast Mobile Network Characterization app across the tent and various scattered Raspberry Pis in the tent.
Congratulations to Dr. Lixing Song
[August 17th, 2018] A hearty congratulations to Dr. Lixing Song who is freshly starting his new job at Rose Hulman in the Department of Computer Science as a newly minted faculty member.
Welcome to Shangyue Zhu and Alamin Mohammed
[August 17th, 2018] A welcome to Shangyue Zhu and Alamin Mohammed who are joining our research group this fall. Both will be helping out with Project Tesserae in the short term and then branching out into their respective research areas.