Aman Kansal
RESEARCHER
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RESEARCHER, Networked Embedded Computing Group.
address: Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
ph: 425-707-6931
email: kansal (at) microsoft com
Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Energy Efficient Computing, Internet-scale Sensor Networks, Mobile and Wireless Systems, Flash Storage, Computer Networks.
Publications
2009
- Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, Abhishek Singh, Ripal Nathuji, and Tarek Abdelzaher, Semantic-less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance, in Hotpower 2009 (co-located with SOSP 2009), USENIX, 10 October 2009
- Leonardo B Oliveira, Aman Kansal, Bodhi Priyantha, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Secure-TWS: Authenticating Node to Multi-user Communication in Shared Sensor Networks, in The 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 13 April 2009
- Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, and Yongluan Zhou, Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration), in 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
2008
- Shekhar Srikantaiah, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing, in USENIX HotPower'08: Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems at OSDI, USENIX, 7 December 2008
- Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces, in 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 5 November 2008
- Aman Kansal, SenseWeb: Wikipedia of Sensors, in (Invited Keynote) Collaborative R&D for Distributed Sensors Workshop, Microsoft, 3 November 2008
- Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Tiny Web Services: Design and Implementation on Interoperable and Evolvable Sensor Networks, in ACM/IEEE Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), Raleigh, NC, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2008
- Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, Fine-Grained Energy Profiling for Power-Aware Application Design, in First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics08) at ACM Sigmetrics. (Archived in SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev.), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Annapolis, MD, USA, June 2008
- Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, Towards Community Sensing, in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 22 April 2008
- Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Tiny Web Services for Sensor Device Interoperability, in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2008
- Ameesh Pandya, Aman Kansal, and Gregory J Pottie, Goodput and Delay in Networks with Controlled Mobility, in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1 March 2008
Professional Contributions
- TPC member: ACM/IEEE ICDSC 2009, ACM SIGMETRICS 2008, OSDI HotPower 2008, Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE) 2008, 11th Intl Symposium on Wireless Personal Mobile Communication (WPMC) 2008, WSAN 2008, WPMC 2007, Intl' Conf. Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) 2007, Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) 2007, Intl' Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS) 2007, Basenets 2006.
- Organizer/Co-organizer:
Workshop on Applications, Systems, and Algorithms for Image Sensing (ImageSense) 2008 at ACM Sensys, Second International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN) 2008 at 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-08),
Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (WAMES 2004) at ACM/USENIX Mobisys 2004. - Reviewer:
- Proposals: National Science Foundation (NSF) review panels, Microsoft External Research Programs review committees.
- Journals: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Computer, IEEE Wireless Communications, Simulation Journal, and others.
- Conferences: IPSN, Sensys, WCNC, ISLPED, MobiHoc, SECON, HiPC, VTC, and others.
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding PhD Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles.
- ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED) 2005 Low Power Design Contest Award.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor, UCLA-NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing 2003 Undergraduate Research Experience.
- First Prize, BzzWings - Entrepreneurship Competition, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, 2002.
- Innovation Award, at IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition 2001, Washington DC.
