{"id":6,"date":"2017-02-09T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:22:59","slug":"about-prof-striegel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/","title":{"rendered":"About Prof. Striegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Special Note (October 2025):<\/strong> There are several phishing e-mails sent around to various Notre Dame Alumni lists. \u00a0I am not offering any sort of internships or research opportunities. \u00a0Please make use of the following <a href=\"https:\/\/oit.nd.edu\/cybersecurity\/training-and-guides\/phishing\/\">resources on phishing that Notre Dame offers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Aaron Striegel is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/files\/2017\/02\/Aaron-Striegel-8688-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/files\/2017\/02\/Aaron-Striegel-8688-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/files\/2017\/02\/Aaron-Striegel-8688.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/> at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Notre Dame<\/a>. \u00a0He also serves on the Executive Committee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.nd.edu\">Wireless Institute<\/a> at the University of Notre Dame and has previously served as the inaugural Program Director for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bacs.nd.edu\/\">Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science <\/a>. \u00a0Prof. Striegel received his Ph.D in 2002 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Computer Engineering<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa State University<\/a>\u00a0under the direction of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecpe.ece.iastate.edu\/gmani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. G. Manimaran<\/a>. \u00a0Prof. Striegel&#8217;s research interests focus on instrumenting\u00a0the wireless networked ecosystem to gain insight with respect to user behavior and optimizing network performance. \u00a0Flagship projects of Prof. Striegel include the NetSense, <a href=\"http:\/\/nethealth.nd.edu\/\">NetHealth<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tesserae.nd.edu\/\">Tesserae<\/a> involving the instrumentation and analysis of data from hundreds of smartphones and wearables over a ten year period of continuous data streaming. Further research interests of Prof. Striegel include heterogeneous network optimization (cellular, WiFi), content distribution via edge device pre-staging, and network security dynamics. \u00a0Prof. Striegel has also successfully led undergraduate research utilizing low-cost gaming peripherals for education and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Striegel has published over <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=w88NouMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">one hundred peer-reviewed papers<\/a> in the literature with multiple best paper awards including USENIX LISA, IEEE Healthcom, and HotPlanet. \u00a0Throughout his career, Prof. Striegel has been able to fund his work with research and equipment funding from NSF, NIH, DARPA, IARPA, Keck Futures Institute, and numerous industrial entities (Google, Sprint, Nokia, Intel, HP, Sun). \u00a0He was recipient of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=0347392&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">NSF CAREER award in 2004<\/a> and has participated in several symposia as an invited participant with notable instances including the National Academy of Engineering symposium on the Frontiers of Engineering Education and the symposium on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keckfutures.org\/conferences\/informed-brain.html\">Informed Brain in the Digital World<\/a>. \u00a0Prof. Striegel has also served in various roles in the community including recently serving as one of the TPC Co-Chairs for INFOCOM 2025, previously as the general chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/icccn.org\/icccn16\/\">ICCCN 2016<\/a>, TPC chair of ICCN 2015, chair of HotPlanet 2016, and the publication co-chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/infocom2016.ieee-infocom.org\/\">INFOCOM 2016<\/a>. \u00a0He is also a member of the inaugural Editorial Board for IEEE Networking Letters and is a former Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.<\/p>\n<h2>Recent News<\/h2>\n\n<!-- NOTE: If you need to make changes to this file, copy it to your current theme's main\n\tdirectory so your changes won't be overwritten when the plugin is upgraded. -->\n\n<!-- Post Wrap Start-->\n<div class=\"post hentry ivycat-post\">\n\n\t<!-- \tThis outputs the post TITLE -->\n\t<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aaron-striegel\/2025\/07\/31\/wrapping-up-bacs-program-director\/\">Wrapping up as BACS Program Director<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t<!-- \tThis outputs the post EXCERPT.  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