The Mobile and Sensing Systems Group (MASS) at Microsoft Research Asia is investigating some of the most exciting research problems arising from mobile and sensing systems and applications. Given the ubiquity of networked sensors and actuators, proliferation of smartphones, and ever-increasing urgency to address societal scale challenges, we believe future mobile and sensing systems will have a significant impact on our everyday lives, from environment, to health, energy, productivity, and entertainment.

We are currently working on a number of topics, including mobile systems, sensor networks, localization, energy efficiency, participatory sensing, activity recognition, and smart buildings. More information about our research can be found by checking individual projects, reading our publications, or by contacting our group members.

Job Opportunities:

We are looking for exceptional full-time researcher and research interns to join our team. For more information, please refer to our job description. To apply, please send your CV to msrajobs@microsoft.com, and copy one of our group members. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate high quality research taste, deep analytical skills, and strong first-hand system building experience.

News:

• Nic Lane received the Best Paper Award for his paper “Can Your Smartphone Infer Your Mood?” at PhoneSense 2011 (with Yunxin Liu and people from Rice University)
• Fred Jiang, Mike Liang, and Feng Zhao received the Best Demo Award at ACM SenSys 2011 (with K.-F. Chen, J. Hsu, B. Zhang, and J. Liu)
• Thomas Moscibroda and David Chu (MSR Redmond) received the Runners-Up Best Demo Award at ACM SenSys 2011 (with Zengbin Zhang from UC Santa Barbara)
• Thomas Moscibroda gave a Keynote Speech at ACM CoRoNet 2011 (co-located with ACM MobiCom). He will also give a keynote at the 13th Int. Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) in January 2012.

• We recently had Papers accepted at ACM SenSys 2011 (pdf), ACM CoNext 2011 (pdf), IEEE/ACM MICRO 2011 (pdf), and PhoneWeb 2011 (pdf), and other conferences and workshops.