Aman Kansal
RESEARCHER
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RESEARCHER, Sensing and Energy Research Group [The group was earlier known as the Networked Embedded Computing group.]
address: Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
ph: 425-707-6931, fax: 425-936-7329
email: kansal (at) microsoft com
Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Energy Efficient Computing, Virtualization, Mobile Computing, Wireless Systems, Internet-scale Sensor Networks, Server Engineering, Flash Storage, Computer Networks.
Projects: Energy
Projects: Mobile Computing
Publications
2012
- Xuan Bao, Aman Kansal, Victor Bahl, David Chu, Romit Roy Choudhury, and Alec Wolman, Helping Mobile Apps Bootstrap with Fewer Users, in The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012), ACM, 8 September 2012
- Moo-Ryong Ra, Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Improving Energy Efficiency of Personal Sensing Applications with Heterogeneous Multi-Processors, in The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012), ACM, 5 September 2012
- Tingxin Yan, David Chu, Deepak Ganesan, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context, in ACM Mobisys, ACM, 25 June 2012
- Arka Bhattacharya, Aman Kansal, David Culler, Sriram Sankar, and Sriram Govindan, The Need for Speed and Stability in Data Center Power Capping, in Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12), 5 June 2012
2011
- Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines, in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), ACM, 27 October 2011
- Heitor S. Ramos, Tao Zhang, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Aman Kansal, LEAP: A Low Energy Assisted GPS for Trajectory-Based Services, in 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), ACM, 17 September 2011
- Hong Lung Chu, Vijay Raman, Jeffrey Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Aman Kansal, and Victor Bahl, Poster: You Driving? Talk to You Later, in Mobisys 2011: The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. (BEST POSTER AWARD), ACM, 28 June 2011
- Harold Lim, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Power Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers, in 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '11), USENIX, 15 June 2011
- David Chu, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, Mobile Apps: It’s Time to Move Up to CondOS, in 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII), USENIX, 9 May 2011
- Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines, no. MSR-TR-2011-55, May 2011
- Weiwei Xiong and Aman Kansal, Energy Efficient Data Intensive Distributed Computing, in IEEE Data Engineering (Special Issue on Energy Aware Big Data Processing), IEEE Computer Society, 31 March 2011
2010
- Christos Kozyrakis, Aman Kansal, Sriram Sankar, and Kushagra Vaid, Server Engineering Insights for Large-Scale Online Services, in IEEE Micro, IEEE, July 2010
- Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, and Bodhi Priyantha, Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda, no. MSR-TR-2010-108, July 2010
- Joshua Reich, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, and Jitu Padhye, Sleepless In Seattle No Longer, in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, 22 June 2010
- Kaisen Lin, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, and Feng Zhao, Energy-Accuracy Trade-off for Continuous Mobile Device Location, in ACM Mobisys, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 15 June 2010
- Aman Kansal, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Nupur Kothari, and Arka Bhattacharya, Virtual Machine Power Metering and Provisioning , in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 10 June 2010
- Ripal Nathuji, Aman Kansal, and Alireza Ghaffarkhah, Q-Clouds: Managing Performance Interference Effects for QoS-Aware Clouds, in Eurosys 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 13 April 2010
- Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, and Suman Nath, On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors, in IPSN 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 12 April 2010
Past Interns
| Name | Project |
|
Andreas Krause (CMU), now faculty at CalTech |
Community Sensing [IPSN 2008] |
| Arka Bhattacharya (IIT Kharagpur), now at UC Berkeley | Virtual Machine Energy Metering [SOCC 2010] |
| Arsalan Tavakoli (Berkeley) | Online Sensing Task Optimization [IPSN 2010] |
| Christina Delimitrou (Stanford), co-mentored with Kushagra Vaid and Sriram Sankar | Storage Workload Modeling and Consolidation |
| Harold Lim (Duke) | Power Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers [USENIX 2011] |
| Jihoon Ryoo (Korea University) | Mobile Context Sensing |
| Kaisen Lin (UCSD) | Energy-Accuracy Aware Mobile Location [Mobisys 2010] |
| Leonardo Oliviera (Unicamp) | Secure Tiny Web Services [IPSN 2009] |
| Nupur Kothari (USC) | Fine-grained Power Modelling [SOCC 2010] |
| Shekhar Srikantaiah (Penn State) | Energy-aware Workload Consolidation [Hotpower 2008] |
| Sriram Govindan, (Penn State), co-mentored with Jie Liu | Virtual Machine Interference [SOCC 2011] |
| Sai-Prashanth Soundaraj (IIT Kharagpur), co-mentored with Suman Nath | Flash Storage |
| Weiwei Xiong (UIUC, UCSD) | Energy Efficient Dryad [IEEE Data Engg] |
Professional Contributions
- TPC member: HotPower 2011 (at SOSP), e-Energy 2011, IPSN 2011, e-Energy 2010, ACM/IEEE ICDSC 2010, 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:
ACM Sensys 2011, PhoneSense 2011, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010, 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
- Edward K Rice Outstanding PhD Award, awarded by UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 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.
